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Ian McLean posted:Because I can do anything. except get funding for statpedia Ian McLean posted:I actually sent Jeff Dean an email once, and here is what he said: this is adorable, he probably thought you were very well-spoken for a 12 year old boy sending letters to his ~programming idol~
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 13:30 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:14 |
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ian, sometimes on the internet i like to post on the computer joke forum. but in real life, im the president of the united states. and i think it will be good if you do jawn's idea. voters will flock to your site to check out the polls and l@@k @ the polls and start clapping hugely at you and then you can put up your face as the statpedia logo and then the media will project the statpedia page on the whitehouse for all the world to see and everyone in the world is like gasp why is there a giante face on the whitehouse. and then you become famous & u get to be teh next president
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 13:43 |
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Ian McLean posted:I audited a bunch of compsci classes last quarter which helped. I have taken programming courses in the past. I have been working day in and day out on statpedia. too long; did not read
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 13:44 |
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he's going to switch from rolling with punches to puppet master any second now
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:37 |
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quote:I would give you total commitment like a navy seal for programming lol The reason Jawn told you to do that project is because it actually has a goal instead of "work on this till somehow someone somewhere will provide funding for a thing that people may or not use that won't really have monetary returns" and it can fit in well with Statpedia. But sure do your own thing and hope you'll get kickstarted for no reason. Also im a sophomore and I think i may be more prepared for a masters than u...makes u think. CS isn't just programmin man. don't go for a masters if all you want is to "be a better coder"
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:46 |
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Name change to navy seal for programming. ugh def you beat me
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 14:55 |
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i'd honestly expect most programmers to be able to come up with something that shits colored electoral maps in a matter of hours. the graphics is literally the hardest thing, but I guess I assumed someone literally focusing in data visualization wouldn't find that too big of a stumbling block you know that great things don't immediately shoot for 100% complete, right? you build something basic but extensible and slowly iterate and add features (side note go read this it's full of platitudes you think you'll understand) by the end of today, you could have a map that let people just assign a state R or D and show people the electoral totals for that R/D layout. again, for a data visualization specialist this is something they'd punt to an intern and expect it in a few hours but i'll be generous and give your team a day. that's 100% of your visualization, the actual poll data is just fancier data to color states instead of binary in parallel you could have someone working on getting poll results onto statepedia. hooking the two halves up shouldn't be too hard, could probably have it by end of the week here's a pertinent question about statepedia: will you be writing any code that manipulates statistics? or giving users a dynamic toolbox to do it themselves? i can't imagine too many users would actually get into the 'code' side of analysis and the poll idea i'm pushing relies on your team writing a lot of logic to handle the data. but if you've been planning on punting that element entirely to the users which would be more in line with your solution-searching-for-problem mentality, i can see why it'd be a little odious right this second, can statepediea match the computational ability available to me in a single Excel cell?
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 15:46 |
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Ian McLean posted:Because I can do anything. lol try not to pick up any bad habits when you're in the gutter in a couple years Proteus4994 posted:holy poo poo i have friends who went to uci, you're going to be eaten alive lol lol yep
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:42 |
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JawnV6 posted:i like how he's wasting time on kickstarter while the opportunity of a lifetime is just sailing right by Has that Ian guy killed heself yet
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:45 |
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Also who is jeff dean
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:47 |
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-random word capitalization -use of stupid colloquial phrases -just-world fallacy what else am i missing on the idiot detection list
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:49 |
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Blackula69 posted:Also who is jeff dean that guy who made the sausage until he died in a car wreck
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:50 |
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Dr. Honked posted:he's going to switch from rolling with punches to puppet master any second now
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:53 |
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just a butt posted:has somebody made a phases of Dunning-Kruger like there is for grief which step is 'form a plan to buy and recondition a theatre with a conference room projector and soda fountain'
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 16:55 |
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Ian, have you looked into getting interns from UCI? You might be able to get some CS students on a work-study thing to help you code this thing.
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:01 |
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it was probably just some elaborate front to try and get people to help buy him a giant soda machine for his
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:01 |
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soda fountain pop machine
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:02 |
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Ian have you ever explored the teachings of AYn Rand and Objectivism
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:03 |
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649827049/kerfluffles-marshmallows-all-natural-handmade-yumm?ref=live
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:06 |
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Ian McLean posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649827049/kerfluffles-marshmallows-all-natural-handmade-yumm?ref=live now you got it
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:10 |
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Ian McLean posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649827049/kerfluffles-marshmallows-all-natural-handmade-yumm?ref=live Ian, your kickstarter everything is a couple of magnitudes worse than what this house waifu shat out of her 2004 white macbook
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:12 |
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ian you should probably actually go do one thing before claiming you can do anything
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:18 |
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Ian McLean posted:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1649827049/kerfluffles-marshmallows-all-natural-handmade-yumm?ref=live see but she has things your kickstarter has: a working product & process, a predictable result, and actual rewards not a bad kickstarter
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:24 |
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Have you seen this JawnV6? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFy80kMcaRo From that project I posted earlier: https://github.com/petewarden/openheatmap/wiki
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:24 |
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Blackula69 posted:This already exists in dozens of different permutations i haven't seen one that would let you save a model? like say i want to predict ohio at D+5 and fl at R+20 or w/e and be able to come back and pick the poll i want to use for each state plenty of 'make different map' but nothing that would let me plug a whole model together and save out a map without incremental effort
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:24 |
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goddamit get off frameworks if you actually had a shred of passion you'd be charging off to do poo poo your OWN way instead of rubbing yourself raw over something that did a chunk of the work for you and the entire strength i'm proposing is automagically taking in new poll results and making them available as GUI elements that can be easily manipluated and assigned relative weights if you think i've been imagining your user screwing around with a spreadsheet you're daft
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:28 |
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ZYNGA STOCK CRASHER posted:see but she has things your kickstarter has: a working product & process, a predictable result, and actual rewards
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:29 |
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JawnV6 posted:goddamit get off frameworks jawn buddy come on
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:32 |
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Ian McLean posted:My server is not even able to handle much traffic at the momen. We can't just shift our entire focus because you say we NEED POLLING OPTIONS BEFORE ELECTION ZOMG. i tried to send a paypal to your address, but it failed i believbe in statpeida
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:45 |
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Ian McLean posted:Have you seen this JawnV6? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFy80kMcaRo thank you for a thing better than a thing that is different from the thing being recommended as a stepping stone for your thing
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 17:56 |
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http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/post/32333909956/a-shirt-for-dudes-who-think-women-are-vending
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:17 |
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clockwork sundial posted:http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/post/32333909956/a-shirt-for-dudes-who-think-women-are-vending i'm going to petition congress to pass a law making it legal to kill anyone seen wearing this shirt it's for their own good
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:20 |
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Yodzilla posted:i'm going to petition congress to pass a law making it legal to kill anyone seen wearing this shirt but they're already dead inside
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:25 |
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Yodzilla posted:i'm going to petition congress to pass a law making it legal to kill anyone seen wearing this shirt
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:26 |
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look at that shameful buttoning and tie tying job
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:41 |
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:44 |
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install gentoooooooo
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:45 |
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hey ian, how's it going, long time http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3508372&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=58#post407939357 there's a couple customers (one even a programmer willing to make it a reality!!) for the site you can't build cheers
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 18:46 |
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is that a real rms and based on the phrasing, is it actually something where he like stopped some dude's presentation to spew all that sperg cause wow
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# ? Sep 26, 2012 19:04 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 03:14 |
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drat now i want marshmallows
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