13ren

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   by 13ren 18y ago

   By compressing the dull but necessary task of making a living into the smallest possible time, you show respect for life, and there is something grand about that. - last line of http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html PG's article
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   the tabs, buttons, and address bars fall away and the Web app looks pretty much like a desktop app. Welcome to the cloud era. and also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292159
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   I found this story really inspiring. Through technology, doing something great.
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   http://www.peterkburian.com/-/peterkburian/gallery.asp?cat=1...
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292159
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   This is a competitor in the AIR / silverlight / JavaFX space Javascript can be enormously faster: compare ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0, which are implementations of ECMAscript (which Javascript is also) in Adobe's Flash. If Google can basicall
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   I can recommend Joe's book (I bought the pdf). He has an endearing self-depreciating tone, despite being Erlang's (key) developer. He also sprinkles in the actual reason for certain features. I'd also recommend Joe's "A History of Erlang" (
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   I think pg's solution is to ignore what you don't like: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html He's talking about "inappropriate for the site"
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   [downmodding things I don't like] is getting emotionally invested in them. I have this experience too, even for comments. On reddit, where downmodding a comment makes its down-arrow blue, it increases my attachment to it (partly because i
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    [not criticizing but curious]: what's your competitive advantage with respect to Google? Google's blog search doesn't search blog comments , and doesn't (explicitly) search on comment author. But google could add these things easily. What
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    ah, Z-80, another great* technology that didn't win. * ==I liked
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Right price is key. e.g. clearly it's not convenience per se, but convenience for 99 cents. But I'm puzzled at 37signals: their products were developed quickly (as they boast), but there are no well-known competitors. What's going on here?
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    http://hackit.slinkset.com/
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Tim Bray's evaluation of the predictive power of 9 factors of technology success 1. Management Approval - all over the map 2. Standardization - another signpost pointing nowhere 3. Return on Investment - apparent ROI has no predict
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Thanks. That makes sense, like learning a language. Can you recommend a source of theorems/proofs that are interesting/inspiring to work through?
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    It was so humble and visceral and honest. here was a Nobel laureate telling me that he didn’t really understand it either Analogies that were meant to “help understand” reality had in fact supplanted it ... ts entire aim was to pretend
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    break. One usecase: you have loops nested 3 deep, and you want to end it all when you find something. You label the outermost loop "exit", and then say "break exit;" I think continue can use labels, too. ( EDITED )
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I think you've really got something there! And now for the criticism :-) "real advice from real people" sounds a bit too much like hard-hitting investigative reporting to me. How about "Should I break up with him?". If it resonates directly
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Coq, a proof assistant ( http://coq.inria.fr/ ); lectures: http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/cis500-f07/schedule.html
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Can anyone suggest a way to develop an intuitive grasp of theorem proving? Especially inductive proofs for regular expressions. I'm having a great deal of difficulty. It's as if I'm missing some key skills, as discussed in the article (I'm
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I needed to hear this today: Make a little progress every day - Try stuff - Ignore schmexperts
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    You can quantify by saying "say when", by pointing at stuff, by physically bunching items together. It was children. I assume their parents sent them away; because they were picking up bad habits (like counting). I don't think they really
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Amazing. This reads like a contrived science fiction story, but it's true (maybe it's just that the science fiction I've read is based on "alien" cultures on Earth - like the gaits in "walking with dinosaurs" made me think that birds walk l
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    How did they fund it? (I guess grants)
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I think that's a good idea, but wow too expensive! Why not have a laser for each voxel in 1000x1000x1000 space? :-) Seriously, that may be the kind of breakthrough needed for this research to be commercially viable.
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I hope it's back soon. I have inane jokes to make and trolls to dispute.
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Wouldn't your success push the price up?
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I cycle my timezone. It takes a few weeks for each cycle.
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    Deprogramming From the Academic Cult(chronicle.com)

    9 points by 13ren 18y ago|5 comments
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Help me, Hacker-News; you're my only hope Q. Does "scanning" have the same meaning as in "raster scanning", where you cover the area (volume) in a set pattern? If so, I would have thought a vector approach would work better here... Q. Wha