patricklynch

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by patricklynch 7y ago
While we're throwing out book recommendations, I'll mention one by William Poundstone, who's quoted in the article. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Stre
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by patricklynch 8y ago
> favoring foreigners over locals on the basis of being able to pay foreigners less only Hypothetically, if you were a Machiavellian hiring manager: You would also prefer a foreigner on a visa because they would have less freedom to lea
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by patricklynch 9y ago
> perfectly legal Well, not necessarily. If your reflexes are good enough, and your brakes are good enough, and your tires are good enough, that you can safely stop a bike going 20mph on a wet downhill section, then yes; you are still in
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by patricklynch 9y ago
I don't think it works that way. If you add logic that says: "here's group A, who we really want to target, and here's group B, the protected class we want to exclude. throw 10% of all impressions at group B so we'r
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by patricklynch 9y ago
No, because the fact that I'm neither Chinese nor likely to read Chinese Daily News doesn't actually prevent me from seeing your ad. If you posted "Help Wanted" flyers in the middle of a college campus for a part-time ca
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by patricklynch 9y ago
My favorite resources are now all slightly dated; I haven't really kept up with the cutting edge as I've moved away from design and towards development. --- Web: A List Apart, especially the articles section - https://a
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by patricklynch 9y ago
I'll throw in Brian Lonsdorf's "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming" https://drboolean.gitbooks.io/mostly-adequate-guide/content/ And the related video serie
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by patricklynch 10y ago
Same situation for me. I disable notifications for everything but direct messages. Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable to help teammates.
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by patricklynch 10y ago
I'm going to guess that you don't spend many hours 9-5 Monday through Friday at a beach or on a golf course. If you're in the right places, you'll definitely see people who value free time over money and prestige.
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by patricklynch 10y ago
The fact that his response rate when from < 5% for "applying the right way" to 22% for "maybe you upset a hiring manager" suggests his new approach, in spite of your reservations, is better for cases where you don&#x2
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by patricklynch 10y ago
Sarah Federman - http://sarah.codes/ Sarah Drasner - http://sarahdrasnerdesign.com/ Assume whoever looks at your portfolio is going to scroll from top to bottom first, get a first impression, then _maybe_ c
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by patricklynch 10y ago
Because then you can curry/partially apply functions independent of your data. It's _not_ because it's convention everywhere else. (I realize that only really makes sense if you know why it makes sense, so this video gives a
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by patricklynch 11y ago
But if you clicked through to that point and were served ads, they kind of already won. At least short term.
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by patricklynch 11y ago
The most recent version of the course - http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs2322/ They'll probably rewrite the CS department site eventually, but until then, it's a repository of all the i
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by patricklynch 11y ago
Just about. Same time in a year and a half?
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by patricklynch 11y ago
The hardest part of J is revisiting old code and trying to figure out what you were thinking when you wrote it. The cognitive cost of writing the same program in J versus your current favorite functional language (let's assume Scheme)
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by patricklynch 12y ago
I think you overestimate the difficulty. The Python programmers can probably step through R source code and figure out what's going on without too much trouble. The other statisticians probably already know and use R. The non-programme
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by patricklynch 13y ago
I like it; it makes it easier to read in a web browser. But if you want a full copy: 1. DownThemAll to pull down all of the .pdf links, 2. pdftk to merge them all into one file
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by patricklynch 14y ago
If you have a digital scale and some time to read supplement labels, even the measuring/mixing doesn't seem that bad. The whey protein and olive oil you can get anywhere. The maltodextrin means picking up a giant bag from a brewery supply s
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by patricklynch 14y ago
"Hey, This college sounds familiar." Dr. Lewis' book is listed on Amazon as having a publication date of October 30, 2012. [edit: The author himself will tell you; If you're already familiar with programming basics, and just want to learn S
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by patricklynch 14y ago
Two things: Which of these points do you take issue with, specifically?: [1]. Intelligent people are more likely to be homosexual., [2]. Humans are evolutionarily designed to reproduce heterosexually., or [3]. The causal relat
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by patricklynch 14y ago
Not to mention how relatively easy Macs and iThings are to use. This is subjective, but I think Apple's better than anyone at making computers that "non computer people" can figure out.
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by patricklynch 14y ago
That would be cool. Video games are the only reason I even have a Windows partition.
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by patricklynch 14y ago
Well, there goes my ability to trust Yelp reviews as impartial. But if I don't trust the reviews, Yelp effectively degrades into a complicated remix of Google Maps.
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by patricklynch 14y ago
Yes it is. The SLA is 99.9% uptime until you do something against their terms of service, but even then you'll still have somebody call and complain to. Also, I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it's standard to set it up on your own doma
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by patricklynch 14y ago
That's not what I meant by legitimate criticism. Go write a compelling, well-cited account of all the things he's done to upset you or--even better--all the ways he's discriminated against women. Publish it somewhere. On a blog, in a munici
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by patricklynch 14y ago
If you have any legitimate criticisms of Peter Thiel, or the essay mentioned in that gawker article ( http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-educa... ), please consider elaborating on them in a new post. I'm sure many here
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by patricklynch 14y ago
"for the same reasons listed in the sleepmemo article" Do you have a link to this article? I couldn't find it on either of those blogs. EDIT: parent must mean this: http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyphasic2010.htm
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by patricklynch 14y ago
"Nobody advocates running barefoot on asphalt." Here's a Harvard professor who advocates running barefoot on asphalt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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by patricklynch 14y ago
"Not even tablets will run on top of browsers." Have you seen Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' project?

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