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herdrick

2,711 karma · joined February 19, 2007

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Interests: AI/ML, Startups

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herdrick··on Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)
I think it compiled to MzScheme first.
herdrick··on The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator
Good question, but that's the culture that's she's talking about having created. Although no one else has such good radar, everyone is at least paying attention to these matters.
herdrick··on The Social Radar: What I Did at Y Combinator
I enjoyed reading this more than maybe anything ever on HN. Thanks, Jessica.
herdrick··on The Cost of Scalability in Graph Processing
In the article he's dealing with a graph of billions of edges - probably not billions of nodes. That's been my experience, too, with loading a graph in memory on a laptop: billions of edges and hundreds of millions of nodes is fine but getting close to being too much.
herdrick··on C# Autocomplete Demo Using Bing Code Search Engine
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/09/darpa-pliny-coding/
herdrick··on Emojilisp
But the cop emoji should be 'and' not 'or'! It's a guard, after all.
herdrick··on Why age in software is bullshit
Thanks collyw. I laughed.
herdrick··on Why age in software is bullshit
That was satirical.
herdrick··on My startup failed, and this is what it feels like
First, this stuff isn't small potatoes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy

Second, if that kind of thing isn't what you want to work on, fine, don't. No one is trying to push you into that. Knock off the hating.

herdrick··on What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are? (2004)
If competence is, as the article suggests, normally distributed, then there's no natural level at which to draw the cutoff line. But anyway, iirc, studies show no correlation between outcomes and class rank (nor selectiveness of medical school), at least for surgeons.
herdrick··on We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink
No, not in 1997.
herdrick··on We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared
Easier said than done.
herdrick··on We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared
I haven't seen anyone negotiate for unpaid back salary in a situation like that. Have you?
herdrick··on Secret State of North Korea [video]
Actually, this is something else. Those foreigner-only, hard-currency-only ones are sad enough, but this is much worse. There is no store. It's just playacting.
herdrick··on Secret State of North Korea [video]
Trade restrictions? The issue is that NK is grindingly poor.
herdrick··on News is bad for you
I think you guys are missing the point. Most of these effects are caused by ALL news, even high quality sources like The Economist and HN.
herdrick··on People Don’t Actually Like Creativity
>the opportunity for creativity comes >about only because of huge amounts of >practice, in which the endeavor is >developed to a point where it becomes >second nature

Not always. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18i08hEO_xw#t=1m30s

herdrick··on Scott Adams: How to Be Successful
This is great. I just wish he hadn't stopped listing failures.
herdrick··on Doctors Grow Nose on Man's Forehead
In the 80s people paid good money for that nose he's got now.
herdrick··on Looking back on the game 'Myst' on its 20th anniversary
> This article is completely delusional. Myst was not > this huge, influential masterpiece the way it paints.

Did you read it? The big point was that everyone at the time thought it would be influential and widely imitated, but it wasn't.

herdrick··on Mark Zuckerberg Talks With Atlantic Editor James Bennet
How about the 'age' (since registration) of both? And btw why not just do the simple thing and disenfranchise newer users, anyway?
herdrick··on The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is Layer
OK, maybe it's just me. But I tried it on a second browser - same thing.

Thanks!

herdrick··on The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 Is Layer
It doesn't occur to TC that a page with several videos that play upon page load is super annoying? I wanted to watch one of those videos but it was easier to just close the whole thing.
herdrick··on Don Norman teaching online class, "The Design of Everyday Things"
It's on Udacity, which means it's probably going to be very interactive.
herdrick··on Smog over Singapore
What do you mean?
herdrick··on Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults
Exercise doesn't have to be intentional. I think this is probably partly causal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5914630
herdrick··on Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults
It's probably causal as well. Faster gait means walking is more convenient, so the subject does it more, so the subject gets more exercise.
herdrick··on Bright Explosion on the Moon
And even vaporize some of the material, thus an explosion.
herdrick··on San Francisco's Real Startup Secret Sauce
That SF map is bullshit. In general you would never see such an even spacing of startups (or most anything) unless someone were trying distribute them very carefully. And specifically there are a number of super dense hotspots that should stand out in a map like that. Someone just painted those dots according to what might look good.
herdrick··on Why I Develop For The Mac
Everyone I've talked to about it gave up on the iOS Facebook app and just started using the web version.
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