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HN comments are often argumentative. Commonly the top comment on a submission attacks an incidental error in it, ignoring the point of the submission. This may be partly due to startups being scrappy . Or maybe because it's on the internet
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I think it's likely to be a combination of people, as Warren Buffett plans. You know who would be awesome as one of them? Ed Catmull [pixar]
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Multithreaded toolkits: A "failed dream"? (2004)(weblogs.java.net)
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Cool concept, marking-up documents is big business. Legal depts we negotiated licenses with would always do it by emailing a Word doc, with its diff/review feature that looks very nice, and comments. My book publisher also used it for rev
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Maybe he's getting at the idea that you need to have inspiration - in other words, you first need to have something to say, rather than to speak in order to have something to say. I love this writer's saying: inspiration strikes he who is
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Warren Buffett has said many times that being so large (and eg able to buy billion dolar companies) actually makes it more difficult for them to make money - because there aren't many companies large enough to make a difference, and everyb
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Great explanation, thank you. Now that you say it, it reminds me of how a law school lecturer explained that often litigation was exactly as you describe: there wasn't a breakdown of relations, but it was due to a bankruptcy/death, and insu
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One advantage of busy is that it can distract you from stressful or upsetting thoughts. An alternative distraction is mindfulness - to not be busy, but to concentrate totally on whatever you are doing, as if it were a meditation. This o
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de beers + venter + toxo = bacteria designed to modify your buying behaviour.
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Wait! According to that it was on the very first Apple II (as Bill said)! > [The Apple II] also came with Microsoft's Basic interpreter, dubbed "Applesoft Basic", on cassette tape. BTW: Sculley seems villainous in that, too. Then again,
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Hmmm, you seem to be right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series#Apple_II_Plus I guess there's not much difference between the Apple II and the Apple II Plus, except that it's not the "very first Apple II". And also, the emphasis
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He said, "I wrote a BASIC for the very first Apple II computer".
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Thanks for replying. I think you did the best to rectify the problem you created. And I agree that your error doesn't excuse others' errors. You're both wrong (although the initiator is generally seen as being more in the wrong, "who star
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Thinking on this further, HN could have flagged the submission , instead of being drawn into attacking it. There are so many interesting articles on the web, why give their space to an abusive one? If HN has civil standards, shouldn't we i
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I read you as saying that insults are unfortunate, but that insults + actual arguments are better than insults alone. Did you not mean that? I was saying that insults + actual arguments are worse than insults alone.
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I think that insults combined with actual arguments are worse than plain insults, because the latter are easy to ignore. The only trolls that ever got to me were the ones that combined them. Also, the guidelines are quite clear on shorteni
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1. If you are writing self-admittedly inflammatory material, and you get inflammatory responses, you should try stopping doing that and see what happens before suggesting changes in HN. People are mirrors. 2. You can flag inappropriate co
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> I thought if I stayed with Apple I was going to wind up the richest man in the cemetery. Maybe he's right. If you're the type to worry - and everyone has that to some extent - it is very stressful. I think you need to get to the point
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Different motivation. The reason you give differs from "staying ahead of the curve".
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> Jobs: Adobe had a chance to get Flash on their devices, but came up short. > Jobs: this removal of Flash was simply the latest in a series of moves Apple has always taken to stay ahead of the curve. Seems inconsistent.
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So Apple is being unfair, but there's no alternative? Sounds like a good investment, according to Scott Adams http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383843
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New technologies often get started in a niche. Because server rooms already have multiple computers, and standard infrastructure for handling them, it is a natural fit for many-core chips (though bandwidth to RAM/disk may be a problem). Onc
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Kludgey is right; and it won't always be accurate: numbers might happen to agree on a too-small sample; or diverge on a large-enough sample. But I think it's a very simple, concrete and credible demonstration to users. And if they observe s
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Sounds like post-modernism, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Last... I agree the future isn't what it used to be. I think it's that technology fundamentally changed our social structure, and while it was assimila
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The best chefs always leave something out of the recipe they teach (is this true?) - but they are still teaching valuable cooking skills, just not their signature dishes. When my business was starting out, I read that the best way to get
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How many apps did the iPhone have, 2 months in? I guess also that because today the iPhone is a bigger market, and its apps also run on the iPad, it makes more sense to target the iPhone. Plus, the uncertainty of whether the iPad would real
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The reasoning reminds me of the Carol Dweck stuff (kids praised for their talent are disempowered; those praised for their efforts are empowered), where she was talking about the specific subset of luck that is natural talent.
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The Humble Programmer (Dijkstra's Turing Award lecture) http://userweb.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD... IMHO, factors influencing programming intelligence (PQ?) include things like short-term memory capacity, and experie
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Assuming your home has 3G coverage, you could just have 3G. For some people, this is already cheaper (especially with pre-paid options). This is situation only going to get better. [I'm going by Australian prices] Is 3G less reliable than f
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heheh my initial version also explicitly added the 0, and then I also found a way to do it in the loop. Seems a common evolution. But your final solution is clearer than mine. While it uses an extra variable (register), it avoids looking up

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