CharlesMerriam2

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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
The basis of venture capital is the simple statement: "For every buck you give us, we will give at least two bucks back next year." You take this extortion because the benefits are ludicrous. "If we get EBay into every count
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Technology is not always the solution to all problems. 1. You could ameliorate the misery of homelessness by providing a low cost "locker" system where people could store a cubic meter of so of goods while homeless. 2. There are
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Other references for pitchdecks: The statistically recommended pitch deck breakdown: https://docsend.com/view/p8jxsqr The original FaceBook pitch deck, including a keg stand: https://slidebean.com/blo
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Methinks that if 70% of you population is affected, something is effecting them. It's not just "low will power" even if that explanation makes 30% of people smug.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Responsible adults; I approve. Notice we applaud the careful report on a research report in exactly the same way we applaud the post-outage report.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Is there a hacker-news-esque site for programmers? I look at the front page, see 90% articles about world events and trends. Is there a filter already available for "articles with code" or is this a "spend an afternoon"
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
We had to suspend React development. I think one team decided to switch from browser based to a native app, the other team is back on React.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Now I understand why Hacker News allows only text comments. @u82%@582)&^^%
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Congratulations! When money cannot be given, at least kudos can be given. Words to live by.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
I think 'Affordable Housing' is one of the topics where people gloss over the basics. * Affordable Housing returns are always below market-rate housing. * Requiring a percentage of building to be affordable housing is a tax. Buil
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
TL;DR: Some businesses will forego an option to connect with a US supplier rather than try to send a lawyer through customs.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
This appears to be people acting like responsible adults. I heartily approve.
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Reflections on My Facebook Experiment(medium.com)
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
One of things no one talks about: correlations. I have seen several of people lose their careers after become right wing spokespeople. These people work in difficult, ambiguous fields including patent prosecution (IP Law) and network secu
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
This shows the joy of our profession; find a loose thread and pull it.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
The "Lab Notebook" was once an important legal document: it showed the date of invention for US Patents. Several years ago, the United States moved to "First to File" in determining the date of invention, and so much of
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Likely to be applications in ML applied to optimized planning. For example, rapidly changing environments in littoral areas require reasonably efficient route planning of asymmetric routes.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
4. The license causes Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt for those considering our product. We (WordPress) do better by not causing this FUD for our customers.
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Many trumpet the problems with patent infringement cases, particularly in the odd calculations of "damages one would have avoided if the infringement potential were known". Few trumpet the real cases of
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
I think the author misses the basis of innovation of notation: mathematicians are lazy. A simple exercise, often used to teach children, is to start without notation. Do exercises like these (translated from Hungarian way of saying numer
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by CharlesMerriam2 9y ago
Ah. Fear. It's cheap. We used to play a game in high school: "How to destroy the United States for less than $100,000." One obsolete example: destroying the six mammoth machines and two spares that processed all physical
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
One day, developers will rise up and thump the astronomers that create leap seconds, create a new "Astronomy Celestrial Time" zome, and try to forget about the disruptions this causes every couple years.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
TL;DR - RISC-V is an open source instruction set available from GitHub. This post is a two page summary of the instruction set.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
TL;DR - Writing assertion based tests is great.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
Oddly, I fund the promulgation of open science. Too much of cancer research has become regimented and secretive. Experimental data is hard to reproduce or verify and opinions are held as the final truth. Much as the 'cocktails&#x27
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
I take solace in goals and goal settings is what I call "a 2,000 year problem", meaning humans have been grappling with problem for at least 2,000 years without full resolution.
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
It is enjoyable to find the mathematics of randomness. You might find two interesting points more related to computer science: 1. A linear search of memory is O(n^1.5), not O(n). Practical issues of caching lead to this empirical formula.
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Ask HN: Is there a “code” HackerNews filter?
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
To cast a free and fair election, we should run a good election. Perhaps a standard ballot design could be required in all states?
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by CharlesMerriam2 10y ago
Wow! When you want to fix a typo, it can be as little as two hours!

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