IsaacL

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I disagree. Complaining about typos and grammatical errors and "distinctions without a difference" is pedantry. But the use of words matters in philosophical subjects, and there's a big difference in implied meaning between "meaning is bett
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Answered by pg here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99092
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Oh, but you can... http://www.pokertableratings.com/buy-hand-histories
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I wrote a pokerbot for my university third year project: https://github.com/IsaacLewis/FYP . I haven't been able to spend any more time on that project since finishing it (though I wanted to), but I still find the space fascinating. Unlike
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General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord? “I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for
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I saw that same quote, and thought about my walk a few years back, across the breadth of the UK (Wales to London). I do feel like I have a better intuitive grasp of the size of it now -- much better than you get from driving or taking the t
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This has to be one of the most fascinating articles I've read in a long time.
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I felt the same way. It's like celebrities who yell "don't you know who I am?!", but instead of being an A-lister, it's just someone with a few thousand Twitter followers.
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Heh, I have the same problem with my Galaxy S1... Count yourself lucky, I'm still stuck on Eclair!
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I'm impressed Trello has managed to succeed in what many had written off as overcrowded space. I think the key to its success is the insight that Joel Spolsky explains in his post here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/01/06.html
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Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha. It's a guide to Vipasanna meditation, the central practice of Burmese buddhism. Two reasons why HN readers might find it interesting: a) The author claims to have gained enlightenment - yes, enlig
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I've gotten one or two leads through Linkedin, though from contacts who knew me fairly well (well enough to vouch for my skills), and who had my email address as well. So the fact they used LinkedIn to make the connection was just for conve
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Great post - I just started freelancing last year and I got some good tips out of it. I'm interested that you mention LinkedIn to network, as the startup I'm working on is aimed precisely at helping freelancers find clients through their so
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I agree - don't get me wrong, I can see the value of stuff like HAML, but my experience of using it is that a lot of the time it saves is outweighed by the extra time spent trying to debug the extra abstraction layer.
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I'm not sure. One first step would be to define whether you're talking about simply revenue models or business models . (I see revenue models as how you make money, wheras business models also incorporate elements like marketing. So "fre
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There's a best practice acronym for creating lists like this - MECE: mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive. I'm not sure this list passes the "mutually exclusive" test - for example, eBay fits into both the "marketplace" and "auction"
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I do think Wordpress, big hairy pile of PHP that it is, is actually a much better way to learn to code than CodeAcademy or equivalent. In fact, it's because working with WP involves so much hacking and kludges that it's such a good way to l
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Pivoting is a random-restart hill climbing algorithm. If you change strategic direction but remain in the same space, that's climbing the hill. If you change to a completely different idea, that's random restart.
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I grew up in a working class town - I'm not working class, but most of my high school friends are, and they mostly work in factories. A lot of them do just that, or listen to mp3s, or whatever. In fact I wondered why one of them posted on F
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I'm missing something - why is he apologising? Was anyone really offended by his calling Stallman "childish"? His last post seemed pretty reasonable, it's not like it was an incoherent rant.
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Looking at, http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/periodic/times/index.php?conten... , it's actually just a "The readers will be aware of the might of the DPRK that is advancing bravely towards world standard, united single-mindedly around <fon
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Comment-driven development(en.wikipedia.org)
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I only briefly worked in a Java dev shop as an intern, but I remember coming across Apache Commons Logging, and seeing the idea of an abstraction framework for logging frameworks an example of the "architecture astronautism" that infests Ja
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You can do the same in Hong Kong - Tsim Sha Tsui is connected underground.
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This idea makes a lot more sense to me.
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I agree. Also, I imagine homeless people aren't short of jackets - cheap clothes are very cheap these days, relatively speaking. (I don't know about the States, but in the UK a cheap jacket in a bargain shop might be <£10. (Then again A
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My startup http://thectonetwork.com/ is aimed at solving exactly this problem! Email contact@thectonetwork.com if you want to talk more.
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I would go further and argue that software is design. I don't know that much about real-world engineering, but I imagine you can plan out a car, or a bridge, or a skyscraper, almost perfectly before you build it. Wheras the only perfect d
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"Until you sign the contract, you have to be the mum of your clients, reassuring him, explaining things, understanding him. Once signed, you are his father : you are here to reminds him the terms of the contract. It means that you have to b
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This. The ebook career.fork() that came out recently had more on this. Basically, you can learn to spot "clients from hell". There are certain traits that are the equivalent of pointy horns and a whiff of brimstone: - excessive cheapness in

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