10ren

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by 10ren 17y ago
Taking two days off per week, one for rest; one for self-development.
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Haskell Sudoku solver(cs.tufts.edu)
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by 10ren 17y ago
That they purchased his product makes sense, because that's how he heard about it. His product acts like a funnel for such stories. However, I agree it's a little too conveniently self-serving. Although an appealingly elegant coincidence,
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by 10ren 17y ago
TDD improves quality but takes longer this increase in development time is offset by the by the reduced maintenance costs [in future] Seems it's better to forgo TDD if you need something out the door ASAP, but you'll have increased futu
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by 10ren 17y ago
I like your abstractioneering section about slides (though not the title). Makes absolute sense: if your program is intended to communicate something to somebody, think of it in terms of something else you use for communication. I find I
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by 10ren 17y ago
It's the problem of nested DSLs (sed, tr, globing, bash's own control commands etc): you need to quote (escape) each DSL's meta-characters like crazy. It's a scary, horrific nightmare. Sure, you can learn all the intricacies, but what a was
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by 10ren 17y ago
Your library point is technically appealing, but economically it costs Microsoft nothing to include everything (since the code's already written), and adds some value for some people, helping to support a higher price. In fact, Microsoft tr
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by 10ren 17y ago
80% of users use only 20% of software features - but they don't all use the same 20% (according to Linus, anyway).
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by 10ren 17y ago
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=NASDAQ%3AAMZN+market+ca... $1.6 billion sounds like a lot of money, but to put this in context, Amazon's market capitalization is $38.29 billion. That's really pretty good.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Strikes me as an inaccurate exaggeration, but something like that. More like building on a fault-line or flood-plain.
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by 10ren 17y ago
One day I hope Joel eventually realizes this. Programmers who say they don’t have time to write tests are living in the stone age. This kind of attitude really pisses me off. It's so confident in its condescension and name-calling, I have
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by 10ren 17y ago
I thought this was going to be the submissions of a day, sorted by karma, and the top 100 of those. i.e. HN top-100 submissions (sorted by karma) per day I've been hoping for such a list, because it would enable me to catch a day's top
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by 10ren 17y ago
A bit of both. The reinvention is partly very similar to business books, each of them saying the same things, but with a different spin... and not mentioning the others nor their similarities. For software, the rapid creative destructionism
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by 10ren 17y ago
The purpose is to get customers for the businesses. The startup supplies phone calls to the local business (i.e. potential customers). The local business pays for the calls, but they don't have to pay for junk calls. The purpose of recogniz
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by 10ren 17y ago
Let me try to understand this: 1. "pay per action" is paying for a qualified lead, as opposed to a raw lead (which could be anything, e.g. even a wrong number). 2. Doing it with phone calls (as opposed to clicks on online ads, or emails etc
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by 10ren 17y ago
An aside. There's benefit the other way, too: a sense of self-confidence also helps one concentrate despite distractions, and prevents urgent and desperate body language. If you can concentrate, and not be overwhelmed with urgent or despera
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by 10ren 17y ago
"What Colour is Your Parachute" (great book btw) also says this (that most jobs aren't advertised). I've also noticed it in my work places. Sometimes there's a government mandated ad, but they already know who they'd like to hire.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Site is dead, and I've learnt that google cache and wayback machine don't have it. EDIT it's not just me http://isitup.org/muckandbrass.com Mirror anyone?
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by 10ren 17y ago
I went and had a look, but it wasn't running. Apparently, it's usually on between 10am and 3pm (though that's not stated on their website). There was a sample book, and though the cover and binding were great, the printing was a significant
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by 10ren 17y ago
It's been said before: old apps on old hardware are a similar speed to today's apps on today's hardware. Often, they're snappier. Faster hardware makes software slower. Partly it's because they're doing more; partly it's due to inefficiency
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by 10ren 17y ago
Just on the notes: as a student, I found that reading the text ahead of class to be amazingly effective. Just skimming for 15 minutes. You already know the obvious stuff; you have a framework to slot the lecture content into; and are prim
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by 10ren 17y ago
Here's why the founder (and pg) thought it could thrive: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503
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by 10ren 17y ago
I did not know that the founder/inventor of Kodak film committed suicide. “My work is done. Why wait?”
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by 10ren 17y ago
But what do rats use the 5HT1A receptor for? Assuming that we humans do in fact use it for rumination, are they doing the rat equivalent? Do they... ponder?
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by 10ren 17y ago
video of version 1 http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/bookshop/p?Z.ebm video of version 2 http://www.ondemandbooks.com/video2.htm The videos have a boring start but become cool.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Actually, it doesn't sound too promising: This bookstore has an Espresso Book Machine which sometimes works. http://www.librarything.com/venue/34802/Angus-&-Robertso...
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by 10ren 17y ago
When I work on a proof, I worry about whether I've really proven it. How can I prove the proof? Yes, there are automatic theorem verifiers/provers (things like COQ), that guarantee correctness... provided you haven't introduced any other
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by 10ren 17y ago
There's one here in Melbourne already, out of 15 in the world. http://www.ondemandbooks.com/our_ebm_locations.htm We usually get cool stuff last. $US100,000 is a long way from mass-market, but we already have cheap home/office colour lase
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by 10ren 17y ago
The comment was about development, not just "early development"; and it was about development and marketing, not just development. The value of an operating system derives primarily from the applications that run on it, and this is very muc
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by 10ren 17y ago
"but without copyright/patent incentives, X wouldn't exist" as "the Linux-doesn't-exist theory of intellectual property" Linux was based on Unix. Unix was developed and marketed by a company that enforced its intellectual property in it.

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