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   by 13ren 18y ago

   Buying Goldman Sachs http://www.businessweek.com/investing/insights/blog/archives...
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   And watch Warren Buffett. Is he buying? Is he tap dancing?
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   A problem is an opportunity. Mr. Market suffers from some rather incurable emotional problems; you see, he is very temperamental. When Mr. Market is overcome by boundless optimism or bottomless pessimism, he will quote you a price that see
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   "Does anybody have a reasonable explanation for why CS enrollment has declined?" There was the dotcom crash... there's the slowing of growth as the market saturates (in the developed world, every person/company who wants a computer has on
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   Look for the counter-intuitive idea and go after it. The hard part is, you have to be right.
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   Erlang with Python-syntax is a great idea. But couldn't see any sample programs (just one-line snippets) EDIT some of Reia is written in itself: http://github.com/tarcieri/reia/tree/master/src/reia/types http://github.com/tarcieri/reia
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   Thanks, that's OK. I'm in Australia. The text loads instantly; but the ratings take 7 seconds (I'm sure it was longer last time), but with no indication that something is missing... In this type of situation, when you think I'm being silly,
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   How to get sales in the first place? Assuming I'm understanding you correctly, that's the whole business problem, isn't it? It's (1). meeting a need (product for a market); (2). people knowing about it (publicity). I won't theorize or expos
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   by 13ren 18y ago

   I'm having exactly this experience, of a lack of feedback, with proofs. It also seems frustratingly ironic to me that you can never be sure that a "proof" of the truth of a theorem is actually true... I'm learning COQ (proof assistant), to
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    ICFP Programming Contest 2008, unofficial ranking(shinh.skr.jp)

    1 points by 13ren 18y ago|0 comments
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    "do you know how to do feature X" Yes, that's it. A couple of times I've imagined a really cool feature that vim could have... and it turned out it already has it ... along with additional features and extensions to that idea that I h
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I agree that they'd use regular Google search, and not game it (there already was user backlash when knol ranking highly when it was announced). I was thinking more for once you go to knol, and search for something there -- or, better, when
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    yes, pagerank works for Knol. But how is pagerank determined? In the usual way, of the aggregate pagerank of incoming links (and other factors that google uses). I was suggesting that there might be a better way to rank knol articles, than
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I thought this was interesting: pricing yourself under the approval threshold gets you in ; and from there you are known, and have a base to reach up above the approval level. My experience is that Economic Buyers find a good deal irresist
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=312025
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    "Rise to the top" implies a ranking; I'm guessing that Knol simply Pagerank for ranking. I don't see any explicit ranking. So, this is the old problem of how to rank ... Maybe social news style voting? But different from reddit/dig/HN, bec
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    done: http://www.reddit.com/r/nonhackernews/ note it's moderated (Matt, you can have this if you want - just a demo).
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    subreddits have moderation But I like slinkset - and its UI is more like oldschool HN than web 2 reddit.
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Guideline-lawyer! :-) I assume that by post , you mean comment . Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. (1). I suggest that the "intention of the guideline" is to reduce cluttering the
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Do you know why this happens, or how they circumvent it? Is it because it is water (i.e. not air-cooled)? Or is it because the temperature differential is too great (i.e. dangerously so, according to the body)? A damp towel might overcome t
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Or hands in cold water. It's surely not as good, but if the effect is so dramatic, it would still have a noticeable impact. Easy to test.
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    If the "system" includes the guidelines, then it's not within the system. Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Tilera is targeting the chips at high-end networking equipment that would otherwise use digital signal processing chips from Texas Instruments. DSP is a special case, where scaling is easier. Anyone have more details on how general their
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Thanks for explaining: your ridicule of newcomers was parody; not your opinion. I disagree with you about the article - I think comparisons and metaphors can shed light and reveal common principles of tools/tasks (without defining them). I
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    I think the inside (fundamentals) vs. surface (UI) is an important way to think about any kind of module - including languages. Lisp is interesting, because one of the strengths of its syntax (that it's as close as possible to the internal
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    authentic: "Do not try to be someone who you are not. Be who you are, and be a good one. " "If the [new management] doesn't "get" what makes product matter to its customers, they're likely to destroy it."
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Well, it's a hard question, because they won't easily come to mind - by definition. If you were 100 years old, this question might be easier. - IBM had a monopoly on electronic computers (mainframes) for a long time. And, hey, it also had o
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    "the community is judgmental and unfriendly to newcomers and thorny and un-inspiring." Brandon's reply agrees with this criticism , because "I have heard this same criticism from other people than you, and at this point I assume it must
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Google beaten! But just like the spectrum auction, even when it loses it wins.
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    by 13ren 18y ago

    Here's the equivalent (of some) in Python: def make_adder (how_much_to_add): return lambda initial_value: initial_value + how_much_to_add print map ( make_adder(10), [1, 7, 3, 9] ) # [11, 17, 13, 19] my_favorite_adder = make_