samcodes

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   by samcodes 9y ago

   This is great! I've looked for exactly this in the past.
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   by samcodes 9y ago

   I TAed at a Cal State and worked in the math tutoring center. If the tests were like other standardized tests I encountered there, they probably were not a very good measurement of anything. And the remedial courses, best I could tell, did
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   by samcodes 9y ago

   Looking ahead 10-20 years, I don't see how anyone born from 2015 onwards has any solid concept of reality the way I feel I know it. Between things like this and AR, I feel like "real" vs "simulated" will seem to the
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   by samcodes 9y ago

   I hope OP listens to this. Spend 80% of your time in SF/Oakland/Berkeley and 20% at most in SV. The former is one of the most interesting, beautiful metropolitan areas in the world.; The later is a fairly mundane suburb. When I&#x
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   by samcodes 9y ago

   Thanks so much for this introduction! For anyone interested, here is a link to Lamport's video introduction to TLA+, which I found really helpful and interesting http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/video/videos.html
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   by samcodes 9y ago

   Browsers catching up won't be the end of transpilers. If you want to write modern JS and have it support old Android phones or safari, you're stuck transpiling. And, browsers well never catch up, there will always be new features
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   by samcodes 10y ago

   What western military doesn't pay service members? Pretty sure you mean "a job, that rarely, but sometimes involves killing." There are many jobs like that: policing, security, and depending on your moral framework, murdering
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   by samcodes 10y ago

   Given the incredibly low toxicity of cannabis, "more cannabis" should be a working strategy here. 2x, 5x, 20x the dose until you get past the new threshold caused by NSAIDs?
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   by samcodes 10y ago

   Other services and projects: There are hosted services like API.ai, wit.ai and Microsoft LUIS. Init.ai has NLP built into their bot building platform. Rasa NLU is an open source NLP project that is very interesting.
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    I think you would have to do some processing on those, I'm pretty sure the input format has sentences classified by intent.
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    Well, this might be cheating, but I would apply a bunch of different filters for things like edge-detection, etc. Then I would come up with a statistical model that, for each feature, gave the likelihood that there image under consideration
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    I am an engineer, not an economist or policy wonk, but I feel like I got a lot of insight on issues like this (and a lot of other modern, political/economic issues) from reading "Connectivity" by Parag Khanna
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    This was what I came to comment on; when introducing ES6 features, this always trips people up. Thanks for "constant pointer to a list, not pointer to a constant list", I will use that next time I explain this. This also means tha
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    Be at the whims of activist shareholders who demand short-term profits over long-term strategy, and in exchange you get "discipline and oversight." Oooh where do I sign up?
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    I've looked into it and I'm pretty sure you need to have the policy for two years for them to pay out for suicide. So, you may as well get on meds for that time, and who knows, they might help a lot. They did for me. I was on Proz
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    by samcodes 10y ago

    If you want to build a bot that does exactly what you are talking about, I just wrote an article [1] on how to do that! It uses an API with 1000 free calls per month, and is easy to host on your own servers or Heroku. [1] https:/&#x2F
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    I agree. I don't understand why community colleges can't provide something like this. It seems like an opportunity for them to be something other than a pre-4-year college.
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    This is a really interesting point. I think another factor is that if you have a huge amount of users, you need robust server code. But front end code only has one user at a time. And it's much more tied to design, so it gets "sta
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    I have learned so much from comments on Hacker News. Every time one of these articles gets posted I hope that I will get to see some thoughtful commentary on why the ecosystem looks like this: is it the enormous influx of new talent? Is it
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    It took me a while, but I'm now a big fan of React, Webpack, Babel, etc. That said, I had to make a little project yesterday, and I through 5 script tags on it, on of which was jQuery, and everything was fine. All of these new tools do
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    Thank you; this is the comment I was looking for. Someone who uses and appreciates Snapchat and can explain to an outsider what the value is. Am I wrong in saying that you like that it feels more authentic?
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    I don't want to sound insensitive... But aren't phobias a "strong weakness" by definition? Not that a job should treat you badly as a result - I just mean, everyone has weaknesses, and some people's involve mental i
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    by samcodes 11y ago

    Thank you so much for teaching me the term "proles."