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by 8ren 16y ago
Java is Oracle stack, C# is MS stack, objective-C is Apple stack. Is there an opportunity for an open language with similar VM ease-of-use/performance tradeoffs - or is hardware now fast enough for the ease/speed of dynamic languages to fil
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by 8ren 16y ago
"Do the simplest thing that could possibly work" - then move on to the next thing. This is going to be painful for you to not stay to "perfect" it (it will take some courage) but bear in mind the following: It's surprising how often the ext
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by 8ren 16y ago
1. Try to express the problem as a question (sometimes that's enough to reveal the solution) 2. Google the question exactly as is (surprisingly often this works) 3. Ask your question at http://stackoverflow.com (actually, open an account
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by 8ren 16y ago
aside: odd he didn't mention Hewlett and Packard, Woz and Jobs, Gates and Allen, Warnock and Geschke (Adobe), the intel founders, oracle founders. Most (not all) seem to fall into tech vs. biz roles, with overlapping abilities. I would have
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by 8ren 16y ago
Work in constructed bacteria is revolutionary.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I recall some Google engineers complaining that brute force was so much more effective than their cleverest algorithms. Work data not smarter.
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by 8ren 16y ago
The power consumption argument was also applied to SSDs partly replacing HDDs in the server - anyone know how adoption of that is progressing? Article mentions ARMs in netbooks - but where are they? It seems that MS discounting Windows for
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by 8ren 16y ago
What is a functional disporia? From what my Chinese relatives say, most Chinese businesses are family businesses. Fukuyama's Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity confirms this, and says that it naturally imposes a si
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Careware: the payment for Arachnophilia is to stop whining (vps.arachnoid.com)
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Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe [video](youtube.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Yeah, it's a different idea, but inspired by yours. Good point about scaling: perhaps your whitelist could include selected whitelists of others; you can aggregate whitelists.
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by 8ren 16y ago
You make me think of a way for every user to make their own members only club, by filtering, and they 100% control who is visible in it; others can view through another's filter: 1. every user can config a "whitelist" of users, to personali
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Who spends himself in a worthy cause(techcrunch.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Already implemented, but "hidden": you must be on the link to that comment to see the flag link - eg. to see it on pg's GP comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1852736
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by 8ren 16y ago
Previous insightful submission and discussion, for background: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1057133 (9 months ago)
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by 8ren 16y ago
The marker for high avg. karma that was previous tried for a day. Indicative data: if mean-spirited comments correlate with low avg. karma. EDIT The previous experiment and discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467181 (4 Feb 2
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by 8ren 16y ago
Two sets of scores and arrows: one for agree/disagree, the other for high/low quality. Separating the concepts would emphasize the issues as distinct, and also make them easier to vote on. The high "quality" score would act like the current
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by 8ren 16y ago
pg's quoted comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833255 I've noticed that if you reply to a mean-spirited comment with a straightforward and dispassionate counter-argument, completely ignoring its rudeness and tone, you get massiv
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by 8ren 16y ago
A cheap temporary band-aid solution is to work in cafes sometimes. Just being around people can help; as does the change in environment.
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by 8ren 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver#Regeneration
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by 8ren 16y ago
Write words. Not too many. Mostly verbs.
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by 8ren 16y ago
TIL recuse is a word http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recuse
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by 8ren 16y ago
"A relational model of data for large shared data banks" http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110... He gives criticism of the then existing databases (hierarchical and network), then proposes the relational model and
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by 8ren 16y ago
How much does Google pay for a talent acquisition? (while acquirees can't disclose figures, can someone give an idea?)
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by 8ren 16y ago
If it's just for accepting US currency, you could try http://worldpay.com . It's expensive to setup, and they charge about 4.5% of the transaction, and you have to wait a month after the transaction to get your money... but US customers ca
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by 8ren 16y ago
The "Jedi" idea is related to John Rawls "original position": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Theory_of_Justice#The_.22orig... As for laissez faire, I think every government has already concluded that it doesn't work very well. One might t
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by 8ren 16y ago
Indent with double space, to get this: hello world http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc (this used to be in a help link next to the reply box, but seems to be gone now).
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by 8ren 16y ago
> How do you mend a broken heart? ... You help a friend keep their health insurance from lapsing. http://chucklorre.com/index-2hm.php?p=108 I've never noticed these "vanity cards" in two and a half men - do they cut them for Austral
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by 8ren 16y ago
Yes. There's a strategy of "gradual engagement": http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1128 (HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1774007 ) gives some specific ideas on implementing it - and some impressive results. Basically, don't requi
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by 8ren 16y ago
Agreed, but while the notation's simple, the iterative effect is hard to follow - it's like a spinning rod, angle doubled and length squared each iteration, with a rod of fixed length and angle added to it each iteration (if the spinner is

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