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by HSO 15y ago
> Technology doesn't pay the bills. [...] Don't lose your idealism about making use of the right tech stack, and where pragmatic, don't miss an opportunity to explain why it's important. [...] generally the guy with the purse strings is
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by HSO 15y ago
Coole Idee, will try to cut my conference short to be there!
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by HSO 16y ago
I like/appreciate your reply a lot (except the first line ;) and would comment more in response if I didn't have to run just now. But let me at least thank you for this: "The primary aim of math class up through calculus is to teach kids to
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by HSO 16y ago
Which is interesting and awesome but so not relevant for general public math education... ;-)
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by HSO 16y ago
I'm really not convinced by this. Sure, math education is far from ideal. But the solution cannot be to make it more "touchy-feely" and make everybody feel good. Courant, in his book "What is mathematics?", says the field historically seems
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by HSO 16y ago
FYI, you are the lead-in to an article at All Things D --> http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20110323/mac-daddy-serlet...
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by HSO 16y ago
I recently watched an old documentary about Warren Buffett. His daughter mentioned that even as a teenager, she thought "securities analyst" meant her father was checking on alarm systems.
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by HSO 16y ago
oops, sorry, meant to upvote, not downvote you! +1
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by HSO 16y ago
your perception of risk may be different from others'. but the market can only express one (money-weighted) average. also, as others have pointed out, your circumstances may differ from others'.
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by HSO 16y ago
> At least you are lucky and your politicians don't flood your country with immigrants making sure that your culture and gene pool stay intact. Erh, I hope I'm misreading this here. I'm sure there are no racists hanging out on HN?
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by HSO 16y ago
i knew his reputation, i knew i'd like this guy when i read "o'reilly in a nutshell" but this is the first time i've actually seen him. very nice interview! content-wise, though, i'm not sure i would discount the many me-too startups merely
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by HSO 16y ago
true, but the juxtaposition should then have been between "insecure" and "secure", not between "insecure" (personality trait) and "excellent" (skill level).
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by HSO 16y ago
... and how I came to write an article about it on slate.com, said mugshot inclusive, to further my own career as writer. Eh?!
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by HSO 16y ago
judging from media reports/biographies, a lot of our "tech heroes" would then have counted as "insecure"?! don't know about that. i've gotten to know some people who i consider brilliant or at least very, very good at what they do and, judg
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by HSO 16y ago
Hmpf, I suppose this is a misunderstanding. I was just "playing" with your last sentence. I did not get that impression and certainly didn't (intend to) put words in your mouth.
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by HSO 16y ago
> It could have been much worse but it is bad. Guess the glass can be half-empty or half-full. FWIW, I'm also sitting in Germany and I'm mighty impressed by the Japanese response. It's bad but it could have been much worse.
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by HSO 16y ago
absolutely. i have no doubt that the japanese people will continue to deal with this in the most admirable way. where attention could make a serious difference now is in libya and the wider region. speaking from germany, libya now gets allo
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by HSO 16y ago
It's not about the money; it's about getting your credit card number hooked up to to an Apple account.
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by HSO 16y ago
Something in your remark just startled me. Some men (I'll speak for myself here) associate marriage/family with risk. Others associate it with security. Could it be that those who perceive the risk are those who (more or less subconsciously
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by HSO 16y ago
from the iOS 4 page: "the built-in dictionaries support over 50 languages and dialects" Hmpf, I just splurged on German-English, French, and Korean dictionaries a few days ago... :-( Still, if this means I can tap a word in any app, say Le
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by HSO 16y ago
thanks to speculators?! try politicians, imposing their priorities on the population. soeculation has about zero relevance to this question. it's a matter of political will.
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Nokia: We depend on uninformed customers, deception(asymco.com)
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by HSO 16y ago
okay, perhaps you and i have different definitions of "scientist". anyway, i don't want to overdo this here, if you want to call her "scientist", fine. i know who she is since i saw beautiful girls and of course leon and she always stood ou
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by HSO 16y ago
Exactly. I have no doubt she is very intelligent and _could_ have been a scientist if she had chosen to. But until she publishes her own peer-reviewed research or gets an advanced science degree, she is "an actress with a BA in psychology",
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by HSO 16y ago
Why is it "depressing"?
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by HSO 16y ago
>> "the American system for unleashing that potential – a system that has worked wonders for over two centuries despite frequent interruptions for recessions and even a Civil War – remains alive and effective" as feel-goody as that
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by HSO 16y ago
I'm with you. On the other hand, considering that I had just bought a top-of-the-line 17'' MBP 3 months ago, the frugal part of me was actually dreading the prospect of an MBA-like MBP sans optical drive, because that's pretty much my dream
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by HSO 16y ago
> Read trashy literature - People, In Touch, Celebrity Rags... these are all written so 10 years olds can read it. Had to laugh in agreement when I read this. I never thought of this before but I guess it's directly related to my little
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by HSO 16y ago
> don't forget there's a currency exchange rate risk associated with shipping your money out to Switzerland Actually, there isn't. You can have accounts denominated in USD, JPY, EUR or any other sufficiently mainstream currency. It's ev
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by HSO 16y ago
Update: Just got a reply to my mail, PG killed the comment in question. Thanks!

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