Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll" qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234
Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+... Google is the new Microsoft,…
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins…
You don't see the same movie every week either, so...?
> It's away from the teaching environment Interesting choice of words. Office hours are the "teaching environment". The classroom is the (increasingly obsolete) bulk information transfer environment.
In other ways it's also the smartest student possible: It never forgets or misunderstands what you tell it (unless you instruct it to forget something, or you don't say what you actually mean.)
> Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. My high school English teacher mocked Harvard students who used term "very unique". "uniqueness" is a binary (not…
Is the article's bogeyman description of RSUs accurate at all? My understanding was that an RSU was equivalent an option priced at $0. The issue is the exercise date, not option-vs-RSU. Lots of public companies (Amazon,…
Snapjoy doesn't give people freedom, it just takes over from Flickr. Flickr gives people more freedom, by letting users download their files.
Impressive (but not surprising if you know him), that RMS has positive words for RMS with respect to the usage of the word "hacking" (the topic at hand), even while reiterating his opposition to Facebook as a product. A…
Causation is measure of the extent to which they contain different information. Assuming a college wants to admit a student with high "intelligence" or intellectual potential, which cannot be measured directly. If high…
That's not really needed, when the universities proudly proclaim their commitment to diversity and a well-"balanced" class, which of course requires uneven application of objective measures to different subpopulations.
"Waiting for Superman" is a thinly veiled ad for charter schools.
s/radius/arc length/
Pages 3 and 4 in the PDF. The redactions leave some questions, but the avaialble text directly confirms what smokinn and the Techcrunch article wrote.
It's low-end Goldman Sachs market-making. Tinman Sachs, maybe. Not extremenly different from panhandling. It's definitely abusive of the Craigslist community. Blah blah "price discovery is a service in a free market…
"The recent release of the big-budget Dick Tracy movie had been a disappointment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_%281990_film%29 Budget $46 million[1] Box office $162,738,726 (worldwide) $60,611,000 (rentals)…
Not at MIT it wasn't.
Less declasse to mention your degree? http://www.grumblemagazine.com/articles/crack/harvard/index....
> And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>. Choosing a bracket character that resembles a tag, for use in the case when you are definitively trying NOT to…
Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension
The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll" qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234
Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."
I don't know how idiomatic that phrase is, but Schmidt's statement is a direct rip off of Micro-Soft's mission statement https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=microsoft+computer+in+... Google is the new Microsoft,…
There are no "indie" iOS developers, because iOS developers are not independent. There are only "iOS contract developers", paid on a royalty basis, but retained at-will by Apple.
I thought everyone knew that Google had the most incompetent recruiting machine on the planet, just barely propped up by the mountain of money that towers over the recruiters' shoulders, which is what actually wins…
You don't see the same movie every week either, so...?
> It's away from the teaching environment Interesting choice of words. Office hours are the "teaching environment". The classroom is the (increasingly obsolete) bulk information transfer environment.
In other ways it's also the smartest student possible: It never forgets or misunderstands what you tell it (unless you instruct it to forget something, or you don't say what you actually mean.)
> Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. My high school English teacher mocked Harvard students who used term "very unique". "uniqueness" is a binary (not…
Is the article's bogeyman description of RSUs accurate at all? My understanding was that an RSU was equivalent an option priced at $0. The issue is the exercise date, not option-vs-RSU. Lots of public companies (Amazon,…
Snapjoy doesn't give people freedom, it just takes over from Flickr. Flickr gives people more freedom, by letting users download their files.
Impressive (but not surprising if you know him), that RMS has positive words for RMS with respect to the usage of the word "hacking" (the topic at hand), even while reiterating his opposition to Facebook as a product. A…
Causation is measure of the extent to which they contain different information. Assuming a college wants to admit a student with high "intelligence" or intellectual potential, which cannot be measured directly. If high…
That's not really needed, when the universities proudly proclaim their commitment to diversity and a well-"balanced" class, which of course requires uneven application of objective measures to different subpopulations.
"Waiting for Superman" is a thinly veiled ad for charter schools.
s/radius/arc length/
Pages 3 and 4 in the PDF. The redactions leave some questions, but the avaialble text directly confirms what smokinn and the Techcrunch article wrote.
It's low-end Goldman Sachs market-making. Tinman Sachs, maybe. Not extremenly different from panhandling. It's definitely abusive of the Craigslist community. Blah blah "price discovery is a service in a free market…
"The recent release of the big-budget Dick Tracy movie had been a disappointment" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy_%281990_film%29 Budget $46 million[1] Box office $162,738,726 (worldwide) $60,611,000 (rentals)…
Not at MIT it wasn't.
Less declasse to mention your degree? http://www.grumblemagazine.com/articles/crack/harvard/index....
> And I'm always gently disappointed to see URLs delimited by () and not RFC compliant <>. Choosing a bracket character that resembles a tag, for use in the case when you are definitively trying NOT to…