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by Jd 15y ago
I had an interesting conversation with Martin van Creveld not long ago about fighter jets. Since he is one of the more famous military historians out there, he often gets asked for advice by senior defense personnel. Lots of European govern
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The String That the Fed Is Pushing On(blog.atimes.net)
2 points by Jd 15y ago|0 comments
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by Jd 15y ago
I don't think anyone has pointed this out in a comment yet... What is better with very expensive but obsolete machinery than to people use their machinery to duke it out. Will things explode and sink "at great cost" ? Well yes, that's sort
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by Jd 15y ago
Right on. I think as long as the quality of YC companies remains high, the presence of imitators will of course increase the value of the original, just as in higher ed. Startup incubators may in some ways be easier to replace than universi
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by Jd 15y ago
Far better than I would have expected, given the various spreadsheets, etc. that I had seen floating around. I was a bit skeptical about YCombinator's growth and the ability to mentor new startups, but with numbers like these (esp. the 34/3
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by Jd 15y ago
How do you output from bash/terminal to text like that?
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Done.
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by Jd 15y ago
FYI, in my usage "Ruby hipsters" ⊂ Rubyists
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by Jd 15y ago
Yet another reason why some of us fear getting too close to the Ruby hipsters.
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by Jd 15y ago
yeah, it sounded like he was interested in doing another YC startup in the future. Might ask him what kind of ideas he has poking around in his head. The long-term vision of Khan academy is also most interesting.
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by Jd 15y ago
I just did a quick compare and it looks like VRBO serves the high-end of the market exclusively, with stuff in Manhattan starting around $180/nt, whereas Airbnb starting at $80/nt. That in and of itself should tell you that probably people
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by Jd 15y ago
I was a willing victim of an Ivy-League humanities education and I learned virtually nothing except that people will spend all kinds of money for connections, since connections combined with frenetic activity is what leads to more power and
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by Jd 15y ago
Looks good, there are a bunch of questions he answered in his reddit interview that you have up there that probably don't need to be there (e.g. Resig knows Alexis and briefly did a YCombinator startup in Cambridge). Reddit link here: http
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by Jd 15y ago
A bit, but so much for me ended up being generic browser usage (I also use a web-based browser) that not all that much was useful. I think it might have been a bug in RescueTime that didn't always capture the information on the site visited
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by Jd 15y ago
Yeah, the being way up in the blue is nice, but it all depends on how you weight the programs.
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by Jd 15y ago
I purchased a year subscription to RescueTime but now think it was a total waste of money and configuration. It is a minor curiosity to see where I spend my time, but gimmicks to keep me from doing things I am otherwise inclined to do (like
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by Jd 15y ago
The article doesn't make its case very well. The core problem people are presumably worried about is safety, and saying it they have a "good safety record" is hardly enough to reassure the senators, etc. who would presumably be responsible
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by Jd 15y ago
This is the right strategy (IMO) not only because of near and long-term returns, but because it produces a better mentality. Trend or fad chasing may also produce substantial returns, but it produces scatter-brained people, often addicted t
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by Jd 15y ago
It is fascinating and somewhat shocking to me that in the large applicant pool that you would be able to recognize a substantial number of applicants on the basis of their HN handles. Does this really happen? My gut tells me in a pool of 40
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by Jd 15y ago
Really? Why? Do judges talk to each other about what companies are time-wasters and base their judgments on related smalltalk? If not (and I assume the answer is no, despite my relative lack of legal knowledge), then what has Samsung or any
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by Jd 15y ago
It is not only shown more prominently, it is listed as a factor considered when evaluating applications. So if evne if you don't care, PG apparently does. I started to. I followed a multi-prong strategy and increased my karma from ~2 / post
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by Jd 15y ago
Thanks for the correction. Totally misunderstood the article. I still find it incredible and hard to believe that 89.60% of Wikipedia articles end up at Modern Philosophy.
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by Jd 15y ago
This isn't useful at all and doesn't even make sense, ironically since "sense" is the first listing. Title is also completely wrong. It isn't 93.4 % of pages, it is 93.4 % of pages in certain categories (primarily dealing w/ philosophy) Bey
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by Jd 15y ago
Original article is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/25/china-prisoners-...
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by Jd 15y ago
Doctors virtually all use lightweight iphone or webapps (e.g. Epocrates) to handle drug information, etc. Like the rest of the world, they no longer memorize massive sets of evolving information, they simply walk around with their Iphone/de
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by Jd 15y ago
I think it is worth the widespread but rarely (for obvious reasons) publicly articulated sentiment that various US groups are actively involved in suppressing German culture and preventing Germany from having its own national defense. Russi
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Ivy-League profs grade differently depending on party affiliation(washingtonmonthly.com)
1 points by Jd 15y ago|1 comments
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Heroku highlighted in Salesforce's two-pronged cloud push(networkworld.com)
1 points by Jd 15y ago|0 comments
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DHH says: "Much more brutal takedown of $CRM than I could ever do."
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Salesforce.com: Putting Lipstick on a Pig(seekingalpha.com)
58 points by Jd 15y ago|17 comments

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