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magicarp··on Has the ideas machine broken down?
No
magicarp··on God: Scalable in Memory Data Structure Server in Go
Try looking up anything for R
magicarp··on How Google became such a great place to work
In the third paragraph: "Google calls its HR department People Operations"
magicarp··on Try R — A new online course, for free
I'm taking this right now. Can somebody provide some perspective on how thoroughly the course prepares you for using R? Does it give you a good enough grounding in statistics so that you won't shoot yourself in the foot with R?
magicarp··on San Francisco Hacker News meetup happening this Thursday
Psyched to meet some HNers in SF!
magicarp··on Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes
So with this, is Heroku going after Parse?
magicarp··on Ask HN - Your favorite programming font?
Have always stuck with Monaco.
magicarp··on Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook
I'm sure there are ways you could improve upon this.
magicarp··on YC W12 startups' hosting decisions
It would be interesting to see a greater breakdown of Amazon between straight-up AWS, Heroku, AppFog, and other PaaS providers.
magicarp··on The Socialist Republic of Twitter
> "Dear App.net: go free-for-most with a paid tier, and you just might take over the world."

I don't think App.net offering a paid tier would protect them from making the same mistakes as Twitter, Facebook, and Google down the road. If they grow to the size of any of those companies, they'd be susceptible to the same forces and temptations that are driving Twitter down its current path.

magicarp··on At the restaurant of the future, tablets take your order
A lot of conveyor-belt sushi restaurants in Japan have this. If you go to one chain (kappazushi), your sushi gets delivered to you on a bullet train.
magicarp··on UC Berkeley Engineers help paraplegic student walk at graduation
I went to high school with Austin. He usually hung out with the stoner crowd. And while his accident was certainly a lesson in irresponsible teenage drinking/drug use, I'm really glad to see he's found the right people and turned his life around.
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