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by 10ren 17y ago
If the demand for programmers keeps growing, no one needs to starve. For most of its life, computer adoption has been growing exponentially - each time they got cheaper, more businesses could afford them. This meant a constantly growing dem
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by 10ren 17y ago
As a programmer, I find it very satisfying - you type in the name, it auto-completes; you change the time on either side, and it maintains the relation. Nice :-) And love the clean simplicity - it's like the google of timezone converters. :
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by 10ren 17y ago
The amazon-for-source is a cool idea that could also be applied to navigating docs. It's a 1st order Markov process (predicting the next link based on the current link), but could be extended to 2nd order (predicting the next link based on
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by 10ren 17y ago
Sheep May Safely Graze http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEXDPzqo2g A modern version of this story could include links to all 12 recordings, so you could follow along at home, as if with your own personal Einstein. It makes me think that th
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by 10ren 17y ago
I didn't mean that mining is causing it, but facilitating it. The mining income feeds the rest of the economy - without it, the larger economy would shrink: when rents increase, people are willing to pay it because they are employed.
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by 10ren 17y ago
I thought house prices in Australia would fall... of course politicians would try to try to prop them up, because falling prices would be fatally unpopular for them. But you can't keep funding housing prices forever... ...unless you have a
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by 10ren 17y ago
To make the line numbers in JS error messages more informative, you could make the line numbers coincide. i.e. by minifying the JS where coffee:js lines are 1:m and adding blanks when m:1, instead of always pretty-printing. It's a trade-off
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by 10ren 17y ago
Not sure if it's laziness , but a lack of courage, confidence, trust and... dare I say it... faith. The unknown is scary.
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by 10ren 17y ago
And where Seth observed, "We need more guy #3s," Sivers called you to action: "When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person to stand up and join in.": http://sivers.org/ff
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by 10ren 17y ago
I find it helpful to think of these three categories as answers, questions, and neither. Being able to articulate your lack of knowledge as a question turns out to be a very powerful way to convert the last category into the first. Question
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by 10ren 17y ago
Thanks, apt-get suggested lua40 and lua50 when I tried plain lua; I've got 5.1 now.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Just installed it, `sudo apt-get install lua50`. It's 352kB - smaller than most unix utilities.
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by 10ren 17y ago
In support of you: your first competitor validates your market space.
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"We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp." - Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec
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by 10ren 17y ago
You could make a filter for it.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Totally agree. But I think that even in hindsight, it's not always obvious which of even just 3 qualities was actually crucial for success. With google search, it was fast, uncluttered, had a patented pagerank algorithm and didn't sell sear
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by 10ren 17y ago
The parachute books suggests that a good proxy for the skills you are good at is the skills you enjoy using . The argument is that you usually don't enjoy something for which you have little ability. But another argument for this is that
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by 10ren 17y ago
As an older gamer, I found that general fitness has a huge impact on reflexes. It's an ironic but effective motivation for making time for exercise. There also seems to be a crying need for tiered online playing. Every other sport has them,
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by 10ren 17y ago
Cute implementation of a "silent" ballot, but loud hummers get a disproportionate vote.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Work amazingly well. Is there a barrier to this being available as an ordinary font? > In contrast, I’ve noticed that Microsoft’s smallest screen fonts are unreadable, whereas their smallest readable screen fonts are way bigger than nec
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by 10ren 17y ago
The experimental group also exercised more, by not relying on walking sticks etc. It's been shown that the deterioration of bone density in the elderly can be reversed by simple strength training: inactivity is partly the cause of infirmity
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by 10ren 17y ago
I recall this translation of Singapore-Chinese slang: scared to lose (ke-ya su, phonetically) Startups are experimentation, and as in science, most experiments are "failures" (quoted, because both positive and negative results of an expe
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by 10ren 17y ago
Your recent average (discarding the two extremes) needs to be above 2. You can check yours here http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flashingpumpkin Your "26 point" comment would be discarded as an extreme. There's also a delay (a day?) t
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by 10ren 17y ago
Your recent average (discarding the two extremes) needs to be above 2. You can check yours here http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=flashingpumpkin
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by 10ren 17y ago
Yes, that's the underlying execution model. The approach of the article "git from the bottom up" is that one needs to understand this in order to use it, rather than being able to understand it in terms of the UI. Taking a lateral step towa
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by 10ren 17y ago
Linus is a hacker, not an academic, so there is no clean high-level abstraction of git; no algebra of git . OTOH, it is ridiculously fast and ridiculously useful (for Linus, and for anyone who goes to the trouble to understand its executio
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by 10ren 17y ago
I agree with this decision. In Australia, although the Federal Court is not the highest court in the land (that's the High Court), it is generally recognized as having particular expertise in IP. Therefore, I think that although the studios
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by 10ren 17y ago
I skimmed down to that part and stopped. If you did, and are still reading, my ploy was successful. Your ploy was not successful. A pity, because judging by the number of comments here, it may have been interesting.
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re: 1. "JSON databases" are starting to displace Relational Databases? Your terms - json databases - do not have enough search volume to show graphs. http://www.google.com.au/trends?q=json+databases OODB were all the rage a decade or
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by 10ren 17y ago
Is this work worth my hourly rate? The question isn't stated accurately - it needs to take into account the overhead of organizing someone else to do it, the risks and hassles of miscommunication and so on. However, he's likely thinking o

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