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901.
by 10ren 17y ago
It was a risk though, because I had to trust that I understood the problem domain well enough to invest a lot of time in the parser/interpreter. - First comment on blog http://www.moserware.com/2008/04/towards-moores-law-software... Sol
902.
by 10ren 17y ago
"The democratic theory of truth" is a joke.
903.
by 10ren 17y ago
"Look at your comment score, looks like I'm right." is an appeal to the democratic theory of truth. The use of pejorative language obscures your content. Like "fuck that". Also consider pg's comment recently about "bogus" research, and ho
904.
by 10ren 17y ago
indent with two spaces for HN (works for submissions too). e.g. while(1) { if(1) { do(x); } }
905.
by 10ren 17y ago
Same problem when upvoting the story on its comment page (e.g. here). It seems to be the javascript: the score is increased if you reload the page.
906.
by 10ren 17y ago
Cool feature I discovered today, for multi-file project navigation: :tag yourMethodNameHere Tab-completion works, so typing ":tag yourM", and pressing tab repeatedly cycles through all the tags with that prefix (you need to have crea
907.
by 10ren 17y ago
http://news.google.com/news?q=Apologist Of the first 10, most are as you say, 2 are about actual apologies, and 1 is a "CIA apologist", which is in line with the above dictionary meaning. It does tend to have the connotation you mention,
908.
by 10ren 17y ago
oblig. challenge: twitter bot in 140 chars... BTW: great twitter API, and demo of bash as a JSON webservice server implementation language. It repays careful study. Also "bash" has got to be the best name for a hacker's language.
909.
by 10ren 17y ago
From Seth's blog that launched brands in public: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/launching-br... Over the last few months, we've seen big brands (like Amazon and Maytag) get caught in a twitterstorm.
910.
by 10ren 17y ago
You might think this means that someone who actually did the work and tried to calculate expected profits would clean up, taking money from all the people playing musical chairs. Warren Buffett made his money like this. He's the most succ
911.
by 10ren 17y ago
A quick command-line check: curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD --silent "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom" | perl -ne 'print "\t" if /<name>/; print "$2\n" if /<(title|name)>(.*)<\/\1>/;'
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Neurocinema Aims to Change the Way Movies are Made(wired.com)
6 points by 10ren 17y ago|1 comments
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by 10ren 17y ago
Great opportunity, poor execution. Big companies are concerned about their image. The net does change how PR is done, and no-one yet knows how to do it. So making that problem managable is an important contribution. Let's be clear: for a
914.
by 10ren 17y ago
> With the code that I spent the most time designing (assuming I eventually came up with a good design), the more the requirements change Your use of " assuming " is interesting. Sometimes it's hard to know if it really was a "good de
915.
by 10ren 17y ago
I am charming; you are respectful; he is ingratiating . It's a loaded term, not a neutral one befitting the dispassionate pursuit of truth, aka discovery . I found the second example of unions (the "ingratiating" one) easier to understa
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by 10ren 17y ago
I wonder if there is an entirely different way to reason about computation, other than mutable state, which coincides with our intuitions based on everyday experience of the physical world; and immutable state, which coincides with the powe
917.
by 10ren 17y ago
Do you mean that a substantial number of the respondent entrepreneurs founded companies that are not "startups" (i.e. aren't small)?
918.
by 10ren 17y ago
It does provide liquidity.
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by 10ren 17y ago
The name recognition of "Intuit" or "Mint"? The former stands for a desktop version; the latter is probably known only by a small minority of the total mass-market (it's still a barrier though, I agree)
920.
by 10ren 17y ago
It's about priorities. pg talks about the priorities for HN in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830035
921.
by 10ren 17y ago
I totally agree; it's just the incongruity. The epic feature request thread seems vestigial: you often responded there 800-900 days ago but haven't for 428 days, I'd guess because HN has outgrown it.
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by 10ren 17y ago
If jasonfried is right that Intuit will ruin Mint ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=829502 ), it opens an opportunity for a Mint copycat to use the same Yodlee back-end to fill the gap created.
923.
by 10ren 17y ago
It's a little ironic that HN is not particularly responsive to feature requests from the community... in contrast to how YC recommends startups be run. There's that idea that appropriate profit motives are an important way to make things h
924.
by 10ren 17y ago
The article has more on this issue than I have quoted. I don't know exactly what those individuals meant by "absolutely not", however I'm not seeing a conflict between individuals, but between attitudes (which also exists within an individu
925.
by 10ren 17y ago
When people say "absolutely not", as here, theory attempts to exclude experiment. It's quite common. I agree both are necessary for healthy science.
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by 10ren 17y ago
> "I went out and asked all my neuroscientist friends, 'If I do this in an adult monkey, will this give them color vision?' " Neitz says. "And everyone said, 'Absolutely not.' " > Neitz and his team tried the experiment anyway. Doin
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by 10ren 17y ago
Impossible is an opinion. Empiricism 1, Rationalism 0
928.
by 10ren 17y ago
Wow. Every single layer is another chance for things to go wrong.
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by 10ren 17y ago
Is the oscillation at the end of the first video due to back-blast? It looked like it was increasing, as if in positive feedback.
930.
by 10ren 17y ago
In your interview at a rope pyrochronography factory, they ask you how to time 45 minutes given two ropes that each take an hour to burn. (The ropes burn uneveningly and unequally. That is, half a rope won't necessarily burn in half an hour

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