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by 10ren 16y ago
Taking you literally. $1,000 pm is $12,000 pa. Let's assume passive income from an index fund of 12% pa (for simple maths, though it's also the long-term return of the Australian stockmarket; bumpy short-term). So you would need $100,000 in
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Append #t=4m43s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgy4PcSpUkI#t=4m43s
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"Writing down the problem" sounds trivial, but it's often the hard part. Once you understand the question, the answer is obvious (as a commenter said). I have to break down complex problems in order to come up with questions that I can unde
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by 10ren 16y ago
It seems very popular, so maybe it's just that I'm not cool enough (not in the target audience/mixing with the right crowd, virally speaking) - but being upfront about what something is and what's great about it, would seem to me to be an
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think this is related to pecking order, in that once someone is elevated to a dominant role in some sense, the tendency is to not question them, day-to-day. A challenge is a dramatic and unusual event. This tendency makes for a more stabl
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by 10ren 16y ago
glad to hear it! btw: keep the paragraph - pimp your stuff by all means - and (eg) a simple bar <hr> would separate it; that's how 37signals and Joel do it (of course, maybe it's just me who was distracted by it). While it is very e
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by 10ren 16y ago
Interesting having a sales pitch in the last paragraph. I think it's a good idea to promote your product with interesting/educational content... though there is nothing to differentiate the pitch from the content here (it's heading towards
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There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. - Alan Turing Douglas Adams' version of Hoare's make it so simple that there are obviously n
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by 10ren 16y ago
Linux: great for developing, terrible for consumption.
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Origin of Consciousness (bicameral mind)(blog.plover.com)
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reality can be inconvenient. Why not accept the challenge of guessing what the author will say (eg. by researching on wikipedia or Porter's competitive advantage )? It's one of the most effective learning strategies - get it right or wrong
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by 10ren 16y ago
And eager to stay tuned for next week's exciting installment!
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real competitive advantages: (1). New technology that you have developed secretly and roadmapped into the future (so that as your previous release is copied, you are ready to release the next one). Of course, those developments must also be
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by 10ren 16y ago
I had to check out that Hugo Boss one: they were one of thousands of manufacturers; they didn't appear to have "designed" the uniforms (they manufactured police and postal uniforms back then). They didn't do suits til the 50's http://www.
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by 10ren 16y ago
The wording comes across as dogmatic; yet the article isn't actually dogmatic - it sincerely acknowledges cases where the functional approach isn't suitable (even including the really cool algorithm of quicksort - BTW you might mention g
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If you upvote it, it appears on your "saved" list: http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=awa
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by 10ren 16y ago
A useful summary (eg. I found my experimental code from last year a lot easier to understand when it used functions rather than procedures) - though I couldn't help laughing when he started saying "mistakes", "correct" and "incorrect".
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Communities evolve language spontaneously. Evidence of this is a school of deaf children (in Brazil IIRC) who were not taught sign language (due to lack of a teacher, due to budget). They developed their own, which became quite complex and
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Cicero, On Invention http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_invention
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I see two aspects of this approach to MVP: (1). it does enable you to test your market with minimal cost, so you can fail-fast (and for it to be accurate, it has to portray the business as existing); (2). it is saying something that isn't t
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's deliberate. I believe pg said it's to stop people effectively giving themselves the top comment on a link. Which is exactly what the submitter is trying to do here. Of course, he's the author of the link so it's fair enough. I guess pg
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by 10ren 16y ago
x86 Pros: (all to do with windows I think. Are these what you were thinking? Did I miss any?) - windows software - windows drivers (probably less important for a netbook, but I sure wish my scanner and laser printer and wifi hotspots all w
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by 10ren 16y ago
I think they were going for "encouraging infringement of a patent". Which publishing certainly does do; though if that was the sole ingredient, the patent office would also be guilty (as you say).
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Your program would infringe my patent. I think Hcho meant that when you draft the patent, you draft it in terms of an algorithm - though I also think he was speaking tongue in cheek. You could draft a patent that was specifically of one
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For typists, 60 words per minute is about 60x6=360 key presses per minute (6 = ave word length of 5 + a space). Watch a guitarist's or pianist's fingers, and it's quite amazing how fast the movements are (even or especially when the fingers
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by 10ren 16y ago
Awesome to see an xterm on such a tiny device - all it needs is a bigger screen and a keyboard, and I can replace my eee PC. Where are the ARM-based 3G netbooks?
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Generally speaking, an "algorithm" can be implemented in many different ways. A "piece of software" is a specific implementation. In patent terminology, a specific implementation is an embodiment of an invention. Implementations can vary in
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Though whining is annoying, publicizing a gap - an unsatisfied need - can encourage someone to fill it. a problem is an opportunity A web framework is still useful, even if many people assess a language purely in terms of it.
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Partly: that doesn't synchronize with others; it doesn't give the watercooler effect.
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I really like the "watercooler" idea floated a while back: switching HN off for most of the day, and only have it on for (say) half an hour every four hours (around the clock, for all-night hacking and overseas users). It would increase sim

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