relyio

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A Mathematician’s Lament [pdf](maa.org)
1 points by relyio 8y ago|0 comments
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by relyio 8y ago
I've tried the Myo a bunch of times, at hackathons and such. I think it was a good product. It actually worked. The thing is that it wasn't that useful and they never found product-market fit. Yet, it was an avenue worth explori
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by relyio 8y ago
>First, Go and C++ are vastly different languages. Yes, the point isn't to say that they are similar. Quite the contrary in fact, they are different enough that they compliment well. If I have to do latency sensitive systems work I
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by relyio 8y ago
I would wager you simply can't. Levandowski was spearheading the self-driving effort at Google. He was guiding strategy and everything. When a senior employee misbehave it's hard to fire them. When they have a strategic value, it&
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by relyio 8y ago
Thanks for the lead, I didn't know about it!
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by relyio 8y ago
>1. There Wahabi radical islamic movement was largely funded by SA at it's inception. SA continues to be it's largest donor, both in money and security. This movement has brought the world the 9/11 attacks, Al Queda, terro
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by relyio 8y ago
>Wishful thinking. Maybe! Hard to know if that's the extent of your comment. Care to explain why you think so?
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by relyio 8y ago
It's funny how this article views weapons and equipment deals with Saudi Arabia as a service the West is making for SA when in fact, that's just: 1. Securing the supply lines of the West and the stability of the world economy. 2.
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by relyio 8y ago
I wish Google would let me pay to just have 0 ads and maximum privacy. I would pay a lot for that and I would be a happier user since all my pet peeves seem to come from them dumbing down products so they can fit ads. YouTube Red is a good
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by relyio 8y ago
>Saudi government is bombing the hell of out kids in Yemen with bombs that have the US flag painted on em https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#Tab... I don't want to single out the US or giv
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by relyio 8y ago
Some of my friends, who aren't in tech nor are privacy-inclined, were shocked to receive an alert that data on them had been exposed in a data breach. The data had been collected by a third-party without their consent! Not long after,
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by relyio 8y ago
One of the most remarkable thing to me is Nash's proof of the equilibrium. The whole thesis is about 27 pages and the proof itself is 7/8 pages (double spaced) and use basic linear algebra. Even though it extends a previous result
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Reddit Coins(reddit.com)
3 points by relyio 8y ago|0 comments
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by relyio 8y ago
Now I feel silly dropping her course during my second year at Waterloo. Well, to be fair I had a packed schedule that semester...
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SEC Proposal: Asset-backed securities specified in Python (Waterfall) (2010) [pdf](sec.gov)
3 points by relyio 8y ago|0 comments
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by relyio 8y ago
Nice work, it's really neat. Some feedback: the fact that you use integers to identify registers makes it harder to read, at least for me. I like being able to spot immediate values at glance. You could supplement the homepage with a l
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by relyio 8y ago
>On FB, I regularly see photo albums and status updates. I don't disagree with you as much as you think. That's my point, no one in my extended circles of friends actively uses Facebook. I only follow a couple pages but my feed
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by relyio 8y ago
>I saw some usage data in a quartz article, that I can’t find, earlier this week. Facebook was the most popular social media platform across teenagers, millennials, generation x and baby boomers. It's really surprising to me. I don&
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by relyio 8y ago
>'m not sure that Facebook using Instagram as a way to funnel people back to Facebook is a great strategy It's a stupid strategy. All my friends (early 20s) are hardly active on Facebook, if at all and instead prefer the likes
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by relyio 8y ago
What, no.
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by relyio 8y ago
>I've lived in Paris, Berlin, NYC and California. I'll never understand how European founders can keep saying that 40k euro salaries for engineers is a benefit while they watch so many great engineers leave to American companie
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List of historical acts of tax resistance(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by relyio 8y ago|0 comments
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Epigrams on Programming (1982)(cpsc.yale.edu)
2 points by relyio 8y ago|0 comments
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by relyio 8y ago
>This is why you shouldn't be afraid to give out (truthful) compliments folks. That's what I try to do. Sometimes people take it as insincere flattery because I guess they think it is sarcasm at first. But I do mean it, every t
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by relyio 8y ago
You keep telling yourself that while tons of engineers, doctors, and scientists keeps leaving to the states or Canada. It's easy being happy about the taxation regime when you do 35 hours a week. It's not uncommon for a doctor to
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by relyio 8y ago
That's the feedback I have been getting constantly from my friends (young couples most of the time) who are now doctors (cardiologist, gynecologist, etc.). It really sucks for them, I do not envy their situation one bit. It's in F
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by relyio 8y ago
It doesn't result in a cleaner interface, which is what matters the most (arguably).
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by relyio 8y ago
He is a Computer scientist by any reasonable metric.
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by relyio 8y ago
More UCL and Stanford but okay
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by relyio 8y ago
I don't know a single Arch Linux user who doesn't check the PKGBUILD of the packages they get from AUR.

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