jmatt
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)
on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:54PM (#15825703)
I'd just like to encourage people to apply. I work with @cbanek on the LSST EPO team. Working on a large science project is amazing. Every day is interesting. There is a shared goal beyond just making money, similar to a startup with traction. The environment is pseudo-academic, which combines the best of academia and working for a national lab. The portal already has some design work done but is generally greenfield for technology choices. And last but not least Tucson is great and quite affordable.
Re:Hacker News Leaderboard
on Monday September 29, 2014 @12:09PM (#8383516)
I thought the same thing and had to check the wayback machine. He wasn't on the leader boards, at least at that URL.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070302084140/http://news.ycombi...
http://web.archive.org/web/20090722153500/http://news.ycombi...
Re:Hacker News Leaderboard
on Monday September 29, 2014 @10:32AM (#8382981)
An aside, pg isn't on the leaderboards, and never was, since he was always far ahead on points. But, it looks like tptacek has finally passed him.
Re:Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide
on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @02:16PM (#6677386)
Norvig's "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" is also worth reading and covers the higher level problem of bad research and results. Including mentioning bad statistics.
Re:Our interview with Bill Watterson
on Thursday October 17, 2013 @09:21PM (#6569237)
Yeah a mod changed it, thankfully.
Re:Our interview with Bill Watterson
on Thursday October 17, 2013 @07:47PM (#6568933)
The actual interview:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...
It was submitted earlier today but never got to the front page.
Re:Spotify loses $59.1 million on $244.5 million in revenue
on Saturday October 06, 2012 @11:55AM (#4620817)
Re:Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin
on Friday June 08, 2012 @02:03PM (#4085429)
Check out msys/mingw. It's a challenging setup, minimal and supports gcc. Key difference with cygwin: no attempt at posix compliance.
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Re:BitTorrent Is The New Radio, Says Counting Crows Frontman
on Monday May 14, 2012 @03:17PM (#3972677)
Unless they have credit for writing the song, or self publish, the band makes most of their money from touring and merchandise.
BitTorrent isn't a zero sum game. It's difficult to prevent and any action upsets fans. Why not embrace it and get free PR. Meanwhile, the people that will buy it (or request it on a radio station, or listen on Spotify) need to be aware of the music. And both groups end up attending concerts. So it's really a win for the bands. It's the labels that are at risk.
Re:About 33 bits
on Thursday March 01, 2012 @12:20PM (#3653004)
On anonymity and privacy... I always thought this was an interesting fact:
Birthday, Gender and Zipcode is enough to identify someone uniquely approximately 85% of the time.
And a quickly googled source but the meme is older than that: http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/12/uniquely-identifyin...
Re:John McCarthy Has Died
on Monday October 24, 2011 @07:51PM (#3152134)
This is my favorite John McCarthy story.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627
I like how one simple succinct relevant question can say so much about Norvig's claims. It seems appropriate coming from the creator of LISP. And, of course, the mutual respect, professionalism they both had to leave it at that.
STFU & Make Awesome Stuff
Re:Steve Jobs has passed away.
on Thursday October 06, 2011 @02:46AM (#3079303)
This is from the Think Different campaign (1997+): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different
I really shouldn't admit this but /cough circa 1997 I had abandoned Apple. I had a PC and Linux box at home and Unix terminal at school. I remember being impressed by this campaign and hopeful that Jobs would fix Apple. But I couldn't have imagined what Apple and Steve Jobs had in store for the world. What a remarkable recovery. Thanks Steve.
Re:.Net Developer Shortage
on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @02:27PM (#3072173)
I started coding .NET around 1.0. Completely anecdotal but out of the dozen+ people I knew that dove in at the time - zero are still actively involved in .NET.
I rarely take a .NET contract. But what I can say is 1) They always pay my highest rates. 2) Generally it's a bad / scary experience in comparison to python or Clojure (where I do the majority of my work and contracting).
Re:Some Clarification and Musings
on Tuesday August 30, 2011 @04:15AM (#2940562)
I thought the goal was to motivate users and IT organizations to stay current. This frees up Mozilla developers from fixing bugs in N many different old versions of Firefox.
To me, the reasoning behind the change in version is pretty clear. Especially looking at the disaster that was IE6. As soon as there is any support for old versions some IT department somewhere will immediately decide it's time to freeze their version. Moving forward after making a freeze like this becomes very difficult (that has been my experience). This presents two options 1) It's their own problem and move on or 2) Continue to patch old versions. The issue with patching old versions is bad IT decisions end up costing Mozilla time. Meanwhile chrome just continues chugging along at full speed only supporting current.
The current linux distro versioning and support structure seems to map well to this problem. Ubuntu, for instance, has LTS versions that IT can stick with and are patched for X many years.
Windows users update their anti-virus software and definitions in near real-time. Operating Systems update near real-time... why not browsers. I now use chrome most of the time and I am (surprisingly) happy with their versioning. I was a naysayer when they first started too.
Re:Try D3 Now - D3 Visualization Tutorial
on Saturday August 27, 2011 @09:14PM (#2933004)
Cljs-d3: A ClojureScript façade for D3
Re:Apple Awards Tim Cook 1,000,000 Shares of Stock as CEO Bonus to Sta...
on Friday August 26, 2011 @09:36PM (#2930544)
Think Andrew Carnegie.
I know I directly benefited from a Carnegie library as a kid. With philanthropy at this scale there is potential to benefit humanity in a way that may otherwise not happen. Compare this to other paths that wealthy people have taken, such as creating trusts that mostly benefit the family and still exist today (e.g. Rockefellers).
Re:New gaming laptop with innovative UI by Razer
on Friday August 26, 2011 @09:13PM (#2930519)
Buying and owning a gaming laptop or desktop is similar to owning a hot rod.
There are as many different philosophies to how and what to buy as there are gamers. On one end of the spectrum people track pricing trends and chase the best possible value/performance and build it all themselves. On the other end people pay a premium for an innovative case or component or a name brand. This is clearly on the far end of the spectrum, including the expected premium price to get anything Razer.
In the end it's purely for the sport of it. You are right that there are better deals. But there is definitely a segment of people that are more than willing to pay a premium to get an awesome case with a ultra new innovative component like this. Bring a laptop like this to a gaming night at a local coop and everyone will be oogling it and checking it out... That's what it's all about.
Re:HN now comes with HTTPS?
on Sunday August 21, 2011 @06:44PM (#2910555)
Yep. For further explanation:
Re:Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:22AM (#2885908)
There's a 2005 Bentley Continental GT for $29,800. Seems like a good buy. I think someone forgot a zero?
http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?tracktype=usedcc...
Your app made it easy enough to find an exception like this.
HTML5 player is no longer recognised by Chrome
Re:Computable Document Format
on Thursday July 21, 2011 @05:38PM (#2791421)
I thought his comment implied it. In addition his profile has his website which makes it quite clear he works for Wolfram (about and github): http://taliesinb.net/
If someone posts a link in their profile and you don't follow it, they can't be held accountable.
Re:Results of the 2011 State of Clojure survey
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @12:59AM (#2753593)
If you are already familiar with another lisp check out Rich introducing and discussing the language in detail:
http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-1-1...
http://blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-lisp-programmers-part-2-1...
transcript: http://clojure.googlegroups.com/web/clojure-for-lispers-tran...
It's not 30 minutes but it's what pushed me past using it on side projects to using it whenever possible and advocating it.
Re:SearchYC is shutting down
on Monday June 27, 2011 @05:24PM (#2703083)
Yeah I nearly missed it too.
Re:Sergey Brin Guesses That Only 20% Of Googlers Still Use Windows Mac...
on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @04:33PM (#2538308)
What programs do the Windows devs use as a terminal? When I'm using my windows box I use Console 2 - which is great. But still doesn't compare to Mac OS X or Linux terminals.
Of course using a Linux VM or VNCing into one is the easy solution but it's heavy weight in comparison to having a great terminal app :)
Access Industries To Acquire Warner Music Group $3.3B Cash
Re:Hacker News Analysis
on Sunday May 01, 2011 @11:09PM (#2504862)
I'd also be interested if there were any correlation between meta discussion and it's affects on trends. So I'd be curious to see ycombinator (and/or hacker news) in the "mentioned companies" section.