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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I wish Amazon hadn't given up even trying to do RESTful APIs. Nowadays they just shrug and bang it out RPC style (payload is JSON instead of XML, but the song remains the same). e.g. How do you delete a stream? Is it a DELETE request
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Yikes, what is it with 60 Minutes lately? Sunday night they carry water for Amazon or NSA. Right before Monday, the big day. (My presumption: The NSA knew a ruling was coming today. Getting a puff piece on 60 Minutes is positive spin regard
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
It seems like there are a variety of challenges: - Selling costs are high. - Sales cycles can be long. - Harder to MVP and iterate. - Domain expertise required. I think the last one is the biggest challenge. To be successful with any produc
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Gödel believed there could be a complete and consistent set of axioms for government? :)
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Yep, particularly since touching the disk meant a 5-1/4" floppy diskette. But no, the programs weren't toys. They were an order of magnitude more complex than most of today's smart phone apps. And in fact, PCs were the s
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
It depends. For instance, Borland's Turbo Pascal with its one-pass compiler was pretty damn fast. Its edit/compile/run cycle was amazing (an "ECRL" as fast as a REPL). And this with 64KB RAM. Whereas some of today&#
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> more like written languages, and that this would make it easier for the programmer to reason about programs, It's also said that it was intended to help non-programmers: 1. Help managers better understand what the heck their emplo
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> someone who thinks the NYT is a 'transcendental' organization I didn't say "transcendental". And I'm not saying let's worship the NYT like a sparkly unicorn. I said news organizations like the NYT
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Well I also disagree that the New York Times writes trash, either. Yes we're all primates. Yes you can usefully analyze a lot of behavior in terms of tribes and regions, and who is the current or former alpha male, etc. At the same
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Are you saying the New York Times is trash? If so, I disagree. Although I wouldn't put any institution on a pedestal, I would say that the NYT is demonstrably a non-trashy news organization. Demonstrable in part by the fact you don&#x
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I think it's interesting the extent to which lisp is slowly but steadily insinuating itself into people's brains and into new languages. There are the modern, obvious lisps like Racket and Clojure. Then there are things like Honu,
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I meant that you show up at a monastery and say, "Hello, I'm here to be enlightened!" They say, "Yeah, we get that a lot. Well, we can help you with that. Let's start by having you get up early tomorrow morning and
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
A: Chromebooks don't run Microsoft Windows or Office. Next, The Verge asks, "What is 1 + 1?"
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Some people are obsessive seekers. Of riches. Of a calling. Of enlightenment. Of whatever: "If only I had ___, then I'd be happy." My take on Zen Buddhism is that it's engineered to fix that problem. You need X to be
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Harsh Sentences are Killing the Jury Trial(theatlantic.com)
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
IIUC a convertible note better for the investor in less-good outcomes because it's a note -- it's debt, not equity. In a bankruptcy equity holders are S.O.L. Creditors get to divvy up whatever is left. Which may not be much, but i
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, org-mode for Emacs is pretty awesome. http://orgmode.org/
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Oh I see. You mean like, "Here's my experience; I decided to stop participating. But I'm not advising you to. Offer not valid in all areas. Yada yada..."
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although the human drones do work pretty well, flying drones will be able to ring the doorbell and run away much faster. Seriously, I wish all the organizations with a holiday season PR problem would issue one, joint "look at this wa
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
> "Anyways, they did try and get it right, by emailing me an apology as well as responding to my constructive criticism. This blog post, is by no means attempting to discourage people from participating from Prezi’s bug bounty, but
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Although the site looks snazzy, it's annoying that page-down goes one line too far. Page-down. Huh? Oh. Line-up. Ah. Page-down. Huh? Oh. Line-up. Ah. . . . Frustrating reading experience that distracts from the message.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
The grass is greener on the other side of the fire hydrant. I wish I could teach my dog _not_ to slobber his DNA all over everything. If my home were ever a crime scene, CSI would be barking up the wrong tree looking for suspects.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
I don't think he means everyone who lives in Russia is racist. Just the ones of ethnic Russian descent. ^sarcasm
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
"Do as we say, not as we do."
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
The timing couldn't be worse for them, with this publicized at the start of the holiday shopping season. Talk about credit ratings -- their Dun & Bradstreet likely won't look so hot in a couple months. Which I find 100% deligh
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Actually a killer combination is this (or a more-affordable VPS) _plus_ a Chromebook. You can SSH into your Linux desktop to do programming and heavy computing, and use web apps. If you need some GUI, you do a web app on your server and con
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Which sounds like how cable TV works (at least in the US). In the old days when city governments granted these monopolies to cable TV companies, part of the deal was community access channels (Wayne's World!). Even if these benefitted
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Congrats to the bankers pricing the IPO low enough.
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
Give me $1.20 cash. I spend. I make $1.00 of sales. I hero! About -0.20 net? Is accounting detail. Instead, please to look at sales growth. Give me more cash, I grow more sales. I entrepreneur! I meet investment bankers. We go to club. Man
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by 6cxs2hd6 13y ago
This sounds like a step in the right direction. Unfortunately I'm a little skeptical how much it will help given that it's at the Court's discretion to require a bond. It's hard to imagine that happening in East Texas --

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