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by 1gor 18y ago
Most often heard explanation is that China had too much cheap labour to be interested in developing labour saving technologies. Fine crafts for the ruling class were quite innovative, but everything else could be done cheaper by employing p
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by 1gor 18y ago
The only true hedging is - you got an asset - you sell it forward. You are hedged. What passes for hedging and 'risk management' today in the financial industry is something different. You measure how one instrument has correlated with anot
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why Twitter, being a glorified IM, is not moving to an IM architecture like http://www.ejabberd.im ? Telecoms have solved their availability issues with Erlang. Why reinvent the wheel?
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by 1gor 18y ago
>Rather than doing the hard work of modeling fat-tailed probability distributions.... or building new financial models with more realistic assumptions... Unfortunately, you are wrong and Taleb is right. The future of a dynamical system
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by 1gor 18y ago
At some point robots will be mainly designed to fight other robots rather than humans. Which is a welcome development, if indeed humans will be allowed only to watch the fight from the sidelines.
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by 1gor 18y ago
If criteria are a) living cost b) climate c) geek friendliness (tech/business culture, infrastructure etc.) then Singapore will probably win. Bonus: you get exposed to booming Asia.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Hm... seems to be an opportunity. What is the best language to learn to take advantage of this market demand? Criteria: 1) manages complexity involving multiple processors 2) has utility libraries (or easy adapters can be written for existi
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by 1gor 18y ago
From TFA: I would like to call for all comment systems to provide a mechanism to clearly indicate to users what rights they have and what rights they are giving out when they write a comment. Next to 'Submit' button (small print):
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by 1gor 18y ago
I was thinking how you define brilliance. The problem with arguing such a complex topic is that in order to make a point you need to understand and take into your system the whole long chain of assumptions and conclusions that your opponent
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by 1gor 18y ago
I think it's a kind of natural selection for kids. Surviving the peer pressure (and authority pressure). That should be OK education for some of them, not for the majority though. Funny, I was exposed to similar bullshit growing up in the c
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by 1gor 18y ago
Oh, now it is clear why any other interpretation of the global warming is met with name calling and personal attacks (mostly trying to engineer some link between the opponent and the oil industry). It's because we are dealing with a religio
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Here comes another bubble...(youtube.com)
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by 1gor 18y ago
fondlr.com is still available...
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by 1gor 18y ago
From the FA: ...should the width of the main column be 60%? 58%? 57%? And so on, until you find something that works. It's like being a toddler trying to bang differently shaped block into the holes of an educational toy. You ban
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by 1gor 18y ago
Your concern is valid, but a bit misplaced. Rentec is actually one of the (very) few funds that seem not to bullshit their investors and have a fully rational investment strategy. Majority of 'hedge' funds are simply volatility sellers in o
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by 1gor 18y ago
I think code maintainability has less to do with the language than with the architecture chosen by the developers. Try to explore (save alone, maintain) a complex Python application like Plone with its multiple inheritance. And then read th
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by 1gor 18y ago
>Python's author, Guido Van Rossum, also made some boneheaded technical blunders early on — none quite as extravagant as Larry's blunders, but a few were real doozies nonetheless. For instance, Python originally had no lexical scoping.
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by 1gor 18y ago
I find it unfair to invoke Steve Yegge too often, since he's just a guy with an opinion. I have read a fair amount of his rants, of varying quality. His language comparative analysis is interesting because it is informed, argumented and ...
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by 1gor 18y ago
My fault, Steve has indeed explicitly said he could not use Python for that project. But I somehow feel I'm not far from the truth, knowing his history of gentle Python bashing. After all, he chose not to make 'Django on Rhino'.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Cheaper than most for such quality.
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by 1gor 18y ago
As to hosting -- try openhosting.com. $20 per month for a virtual server with root access. I've been a happy customer for the past 4 years. By the way, their founder is the guy who wrote 'mod_python'. They know a few things about open sourc
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by 1gor 18y ago
You have two things to consider: Python vs. Ruby and Rails vs. Django. Steve Yegge has made a good write-up on languages: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel . Steve is a top notch programmer with brains and eloquence. He wa
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by 1gor 18y ago
Here is how modern anti-science propaganda works. Just read edit history of linked wiki page on SourceWatch. Arthur B. Robinson, head of Oregon Institute is labeled there "an eccentric scientist who has a long history of controversial entan
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by 1gor 18y ago
Steve Sears, Product Marketing Manager, has just engineered one of biggest product turn-offs of the year.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Ad hominem ad nauseam ... The signatures are results of a nation-wide mail survey first undertaken in 1998. The respondents were selected based on their scientific credentials of publicly accepted quality. All the signatures are done in wr
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by 1gor 18y ago
PhDs were not the point. Geri Halliwell was (or rather wasn't).
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by 1gor 18y ago
Hacking 'nuclear winter' is not hacker news???.. :) You want to bring labelling ('survivalists' = 'red necks') into the discussion because you disagree with what they say? There are Nobel prize winners among this institute's founders, so ob
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by 1gor 18y ago
No, you are lying. Signers "H": http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p342.htm There are 452 PhDs on that page alone. Each of them actually risks something by signing the petition, so this is no joke.
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by 1gor 18y ago
Wow, those scientists have balls to stand up against 'big warming' special interests...
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by 1gor 18y ago
Why panic? AOL tried 'fenced garden' approach in its days and it did not work. Why should Microsoft/Facebook be any different? And AOL then had much larger relative market share than Facebook has today.

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