seigenblues

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by seigenblues 14y ago
I like him much better after this interview. That last paragraph seems far more damning of the author than of Mason -- they're so disappointed that he doesn't have any obvious status symbols and he's riding off on a moped. Good for him, and
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by seigenblues 14y ago
seconded! I think i changed the wind variable. I remember printing out the whole listing on our dot-matrix printer and unfolding it across the living room. I might've been 9 or 10.
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What we still don't know about our visual cortices(redwood.psych.cornell.edu)
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by seigenblues 14y ago
No problem :) I think you're catching enough flak for your over-50 comments below, so I didn't mention that one ;) BTW, shallow thought wasn't meant as a derogative. It's what we monkeys do best, after all. It'll result in a different pr
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by seigenblues 14y ago
No, it isn't. I was writing a long post about how we think we're really good at detecting "important signals" like if someone's lying, but that we're actually terrible at it. But the new yorker article that was frontpaging yesterday should
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by seigenblues 14y ago
You're completely right. Too funny -- i had written a comment about how there was probably some bullshit MBA phrase for the process of "correctly valuing passionate customers", but deleted it as overly cynical and offensive to the up and c
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by seigenblues 14y ago
This is dead on. It's a mistake to read this and take away some homey homily about how "every customer is a snowflake!" -- the point is that you should correctly value the passionate customer. Your marketing and outreach and customer serv
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by seigenblues 14y ago
yikes. These are impressive (and terrifying). I particularly like the "see if you use my return value and dynamically change my behavior" trick, I bet debugging a library that used that would be fuuuun.
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by seigenblues 14y ago
I think it could probably be called "outbox" instead -- it might make a bit more sense?
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by seigenblues 14y ago
MoGo is not 5d KGS -- there are some bots that are 4d/5d KGS, using the approach given in the article. The two best (that I am aware of) are Zen19 -- closed source -- and pachi -- available here: http://pachi.or.cz/ The author of Pachi h
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by seigenblues 14y ago
is that it? I thought it was about thinking you were going to build something Awesome and World Changing, and ending up ...being a bolted on web-layer on legacy Access databases, and not really liking that.
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by seigenblues 15y ago
I totally agree. He even admits as such that this is the purpose of the question: "Instead the question ... taps something deeper and more closely held. ... If I know what matters to them, I can right away tell if the same things m
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Yep, sounds about right. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, 1% of the US is still ~3,000,000 people!
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Did you just not look at the first graph in the NYT article? It actually shows where the projections came from. And i'm not really clear if you understand the difference between recorded deficits, which are year-to-year losses, vs. the deb
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by seigenblues 15y ago
yes, doing all of the above is best :)
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by seigenblues 15y ago
from speaking to staffers (i live in the DC area). They are generally young 20-somethings whose job it is to answer the phones, tally the e-mails & letters, and report on it to the congresscritters; they are generally unanimous on a fe
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by seigenblues 15y ago
you could be participating in your local elections. You could vote in primaries. You could be concerned about who's going to be your next local county sheriff, local zoning board officer, etc. You can get involved in the local political
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Go is a great mirror; i'm glad it played a role -- even if an antagonistic one ;) -- in such a positive result.
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by seigenblues 15y ago
real question here: Should it be obvious that the carrier controls the OS? Second question: is that acceptable? I mean, that assumption underpins your dismissal of an MITM as "pretty silly", which also seems totally correct. I'm just cur
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by seigenblues 15y ago
He's based his argument on the recruiter's statement, which is a poor choice. On the other hand, other material from the company supports, in fact, a much larger number. I don't think there's any goalpost moving here at all: Hundreds of m
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by seigenblues 15y ago
ah! Finally! Clear evidence of a meritocracy at work! </snark> Actually, in all seriousness, doesn't this suggest there's a real imbalance or opportunity here to be exploited? Companies that hire like this surely must have some o
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by seigenblues 15y ago
It collects measurements from distributed renewable energy installations and uses those measurements to measure & optimize the systems' performance. I suppose you could have engineers drive around with clipboards, but the amount of data
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by seigenblues 15y ago
It amazes me that so much writing on this subject is so reductionist. I read so many of these comments talking about the "return on your degree" and ROIs like they can be measured, and i'm kind of flabbergasted. I have two observations: A
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by seigenblues 15y ago
You're just describing one kind of programming. I write code that does things that literally couldn't be done by people. it's a job where there wasn't one before -- and it helps create other jobs where there weren't any before. I don't w
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by seigenblues 15y ago
Very well. I thought it was suspicious and called it out as such, but I thought i had done it in a reasonable way. My mistake. He's since replied to me and i believe i've replied to him in (what i hope is) a civil manner below. Yes. It
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by seigenblues 15y ago
that's fine, but your "only comment unless something really annoys you" is disingenuous -- this is the only thing that has annoyed you enough to comment on. I'm sorry if my reaction seemed a little strong; you mentioned not being able to un
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by seigenblues 15y ago
I notice your account is ten minutes old. Is this an astroturf? A PR troll? ...Can you really tell me it got easier to share now that it's G+ and not Reader? One man's "community [they were] already involved in" is another man's "disconn
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by seigenblues 15y ago
I'd really love for a social network to correctly anticipate all the people i'd like to share something with, and to automagically categorize stuff like that. It'd be sweet. But it seems like the worst-case scenario if it gets it wrong
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by seigenblues 15y ago
why did this get downvoted? it's a valid point. This is actually the first time i've seen a downvoted comment that i just, really can't understand why it was downvoted. Anyone care to explain?
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by seigenblues 15y ago
I can't give you an exact example for recruiting, but it seems like a very similar process in picking stocks. If you can imagine why lessons there might be applicable, you could look up the criticisms about mutual funds/"actively managed"

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