slpsys

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by slpsys 4y ago
a friend found this thread last night, which is basically a continuation of the analysis you put on your blog a few months ago about tether's crypto assets having made them insolvent, but looking at the way their foreign exchange probl
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by slpsys 9y ago
Default? The two sweetest words in the English language!
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by slpsys 11y ago
There is an objective, but it may not be exactly as you reason about it. There's a great video that made the rounds last year about building a neural net that plays Super Mario World, that may help visualize what's going on - htt
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by slpsys 14y ago
The 200ms is pretty well spelled out in the beginning of the post. It's not that cert checking is taking 200ms by itself, it's that sending any packet cross-country takes 80-100ms, round trip, and so if you have to go cross-country two extr
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by slpsys 16y ago
SciPy, OpenCV bindings, PyML, et al. I've worked more with Ruby than Python (and like the language itself better), but there's no question Python has the more momentum in this space.
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by slpsys 16y ago
I enjoyed how the caption photo changes between sites.
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by slpsys 16y ago
I would look at this article as being about opportunity cost though, not necessarily that each of the bullet points must be extant in a program in order for you to enroll or stay in college. Ask yourself: would I be _more_ likely to meet sm
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by slpsys 16y ago
..ish!
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by slpsys 16y ago
This isn't always evident from the outside, and it may not even be evident from the inside, until you realize you should be advancing along that non-existent career path.
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by slpsys 16y ago
"The actual print production process was quite an adventure—going right to the edge of what was possible." I liked the book a lot, but have a hard time not seeing this as hyperbole. Yes, it's the printing industry..but it's just just diagra
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by slpsys 16y ago
Right, that was my point (which was written from my phone, so it was terse). RSS is just XML, but to my knowledge, no one's _delivering_ RSS over anything but HTTP in a generic way. Indeed, it's a syndication system _for_ the Web. I will ad
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by slpsys 16y ago
"At work you scroll through RSS feeds..." ...is the author of The Long Tail really this ignorant of technology?
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by slpsys 16y ago
No, that's just what you'd need to make it compile
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by slpsys 16y ago
hah. i don't know how i just noticed this now, but i've already been a sonic.net customer for 6 months. it still sucks they're one of the only decent companies in an area so flush with tech.
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by slpsys 16y ago
Yeah, no. Of the dozens of Googlers I've met, their take is that this is just not the case. As others have pointed out, it is _not_ a lottery as to false positives, but it certainly can be for false negatives; Yegge himself points it out wi
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by slpsys 16y ago
Options, warrants, futures, currencies, bonds, ETFs, et al. Check out: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_instrument , but obviously, these are often or the more advanced (with the exception of ETFs, which are traded as stocks, or bo
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by slpsys 16y ago
"Even now in San Francisco, one of the springs of innovation on the net, a standalone DSL line from AT&T costs $35 a month for a top speed of 1.5 Mbps down and 384 up, with reliability that’s simply embarrassing." This is my single bigg
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by slpsys 16y ago
tl;dr. This didn't need to go on beyond, "I'm not interested in jobs where a CS masters is useful." This was just a primer on being a decent software engineer.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Very interesting, though I'll take more of a look later on. The speed test does seem a little contrived, as it's for one case, and it looks [briefly] like some of the gains are due to greater specificity of primitive types.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Hey, mootools. But point well taken.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Disagree. There's 'boilerplate' introduced by the framework/pattern, which may be necessitated when you throw out default assumptions to scale (which I, wooster, the OP, and yourself probably all agree are not so cumbersome after all). Then
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by slpsys 17y ago
Alternately, you must need to learn how to RTFA.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Except that example assumes perfect fungibility. There's no guarantee PayPal would be a huge company if it were founded in England, Ireland, et al.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Exactly. "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." It's not as if wealth can be generated from the void. The top 1% often give so graciously to the universities that made it possible, but complain
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by slpsys 17y ago
it's a term I lifted from steve yegge's [long-winded] software blog (RIP) - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali...
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by slpsys 17y ago
Uh, I still do? The person writing the article seems to think that if you can approximate how many piano tuners there are in New York, you automagically get that Google dream job. They're both tough, but very different, processes. I can onl
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by slpsys 17y ago
No, I don't think. From the messages you get if multiple people edit a wave too quickly, the site seems to be pretty intensive given the resources they're currently running it on. If I had to guess, I'd say they're cultivating the server re
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by slpsys 17y ago
They gave IOUs for refunds, then paid them fairly quickly. I filed mine electronically on April 10th or so, and received my refund within a few weeks--it's not like they just didn't pay. I don't disagree on the whole, though.
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by slpsys 17y ago
Wrong. It can easily be an indicator of a company (or series of companies) that doesn't want to go through the hassle of firing you.
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by slpsys 17y ago
It's in a handful of canonical texts. I first encountered it in the first few pages of Debugging Applications, by John Robbins; the updated .NET version is great, but even the original Win32 edition is full of gems, just like Code Complete.

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