sadga

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by sadga 14y ago
AWS Spot Instances are incredible. They make you a liquidity provider, and reward you for it. Paying list price for any load that isn't mission-critical and needed immediately is insane.
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by sadga 14y ago
A team at McGill made a "game" to find patterns in I think protein-folding or genome data, to leverage humans to identify patterns that their algorithms could not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylo_(video_game)
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by sadga 14y ago
TC W13 folks: http://wwpgd.com/?q=dinner > Organic Startup Ideas
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by sadga 14y ago
Fire crews have bolt cutters to handle the common case of a door with a small lock of any sort.
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by sadga 14y ago
Are these photos artificially curved / lens-angled (perhaps intentionally deceptive?), making the Earth appear more curved and the altitude appear higher than it would to a human observer at the camera's position? http://www.extremetech.co
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by sadga 14y ago
AirBnB owes its multi-multi-milliondollar growth to an email campaign that used fake women's names as the sender.
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by sadga 14y ago
This is why you care about the lower bound: If I say something is O(n^n)), you may come back and say "I wonder if it is O(n^2) If you say Omega(n^2), I know not to bother.
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by sadga 14y ago
Fraud, mostly.
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by sadga 14y ago
> the idea of creating a new church that would take everything all the other religions said you could not do and made it OK. detailed in Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land Also, Unitarian Universalism (a religion formed because Un
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by sadga 14y ago
Selection sort is simpler than Insertion sort.
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by sadga 14y ago
Game mechanics are not copyrightable. A concrete expression of the rules is copyrightable (you can't copy-paste Monopoly's rule book), as is artwork. "Play-alike" games are in the clear. "Look-alike" games are not. I wouldn't say "play mono
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by sadga 14y ago
So, Native Client?
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by sadga 14y ago
> the starting permutations are different for different contestants, This seems silly, why? Because they don't solve simultaneously so there is a risk of information leakage?
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by sadga 14y ago
> - Every Tuesday and Friday: Move trash kerbside. Oh crap, I forgot to do this yesterday!
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by sadga 14y ago
I'm sure the vendor was deeply offended, and would have much preferred the backpacker walk on by without spending any money or trying to communicate.
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by sadga 14y ago
Huh. What other was is there to describe it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors
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by sadga 14y ago
I think an intuitive guide should have more diagrams of affine transformations. Don't just visualize the matrix, visualize the transformation.
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by sadga 14y ago
more accurate results, or more plausible-looking random results?
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by sadga 14y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw > Intro: I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "
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by sadga 14y ago
FWIW, he could have rented an apartment and showered at home, and the cost would have been to delay retirement by maybe 10% of his tenure.
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by sadga 14y ago
Let's suppose, for the sake or argument, that 40% of the population of the "Badlands" are truly evil murderous thieves, who have no compunction firing a pistol into your car as you drive by, and suppose further that every day each one of th
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by sadga 14y ago
Why?
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by sadga 14y ago
the hubbub over "scanning" here is silly. Obviously Facebook's systems scan your everything. The issue is that FB considers a "private mention" as a "Like", but it's old news that a "Facebook Like" is not an "English like"
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by sadga 14y ago
Just "deaf" here. "deaf" people who aren't part of "Deaf cultre" are just as unable to hear as "Deaf people". In fact, the average "Deaf" person may be more likely to be able to hear, since "Deaf" is cultural (can be opted-into) and "deaf"
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by sadga 14y ago
Seems the solution hear is Google Voice or some client software that receives the phone call on behalf of the user, and sets up the relay. Relay should be a "hook-in" feature of my phone, not a concern of the caller.
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by sadga 14y ago
That's extreme. You spend over half your life at work. It is personal. The most popular employers make an effort to contribute to employee's personal lives.
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by sadga 14y ago
> That's pretty unfairly tilted in favor of the company. You seem to be assuming that the company's goal is to find a reason to reject someone. That's not correct. If anything, it's tilted in favor of candidates that have the same hobbi
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by sadga 14y ago
> most profiles are inactive Beautiful euphemism for "died before the Internet was invented"
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by sadga 14y ago
> The above I can understand. MSFT claims ownership of any modifications you make to its software. Be aware. MSFT claims a non-exclusive right to use your modifications.
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by sadga 14y ago
cough http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

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