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by Jd 19y ago
Alibaba was founded as an amazon/ebay for manufacturing businesses seeking to find buyers overseas. It is not a Linked-in for businesses.
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by Jd 19y ago
<<Is understanding of design and programming a predictor of good angel-ness?>> Yes, IMO.
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by Jd 19y ago
Although I am very interested to read your comments, I feel that it is disingenuous to put your name on a 'secret' blog. If you want to have a secret blog, make it secret. If you want to be open and honest with your co-workers, be open an
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by Jd 19y ago
Can you tell us more about '[your] work' ? Why and how does it validate the British Empiricists?
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by Jd 19y ago
Russell can be read as a critique of PG. As he says, there is value simply in doing the thought experiments of philosophy even when this does not lead towards any greater knowledge of truth. In theory, this should allow one to greater app
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by Jd 19y ago
I agree high school may be mostly worthless for people who are set on one particular career path. My brother wanted to be a cook - dropped out of HS - and now attends the Culinary Institute of America. Should graduate at 19 w/ a degree &#
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by Jd 19y ago
I suppose the question comes down to what you want to do later in life. If you are happy doing what you are doing what you are doing for the rest of your life, I'd say you've made a great choice. If you say, hit 30 and start wondering abo
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by Jd 19y ago
<<The latter is arbitrary and mostly meaningless>> Although I'm a terrible speller myself, often arbitrary conventions are important for communication w/ both humans and machines. Why does lisp use parens instead of brackets
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by Jd 19y ago
<<until [they are] specialized>> Hate to be a stickler here, but one of the reasons people are encouraged to specialize later rather than earlier is so that they get broader exposure and education in all fundamental fields
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by Jd 19y ago
One guy who wouldn't have paid so much if there weren't other people offering similar amounts. My point is that you can't pick an arbitrary amount ($58 Million) for the valuation - but that this amount is always dependent on other people
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by Jd 19y ago
Something is worth whatever people are willing to pay for it, esp. in the case of internet phenoms.
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by Jd 19y ago
Myself in 1999: 'A life time user of AOL is worth $500 easy. I don't see what is going to get me to leave the platform, ever.'
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by Jd 19y ago
For better or worse, this is incorrect.
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by Jd 19y ago
<<So many things Rails and Ruby can do that PHP can't>> Meta-programming? What else? Do you mean the language or accompanying libraries?
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by Jd 19y ago
INTERVIEWER: What do you mean when you say programming is a religious experience for a lot of people? [GARY] KILDALL: Well, if you talk about programming to a group of programmers who use the same language, they can become almost evangelist
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by Jd 19y ago
FYI, Pythagoras also pre-dates Heraclitus.
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by Jd 19y ago
Doesn't this come back to the problem of ontology? Given the different possibilities, what makes you so sure SVG will come out on top? Can it exist w/o a standards org like W3C to promote its adoption? The Doom clone was why I specified 'u
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by Jd 19y ago
So do you not brush your teeth each day because you are not sure if you will be alive tomorrow? All forms of endeavor involve some form of risk management whether cognized or not. The prospects of a startup with the possiblity of high eq
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by Jd 19y ago
<<I'm very interested in ID and figuring out what God is up to. ID based science will be the next revolution.>> If you believe in God, then doesn't 'figuring out what God is up to' simply mean 'science.' In that case, what
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by Jd 19y ago
Any good examples of people doing useful things with SVG that I can take a look at?
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by Jd 19y ago
Speculating on a causal principle implies that there is causality in the universe. Consequently, order and the possiblity of some degree of understanding are also implied, although the translation from speculation to empirical confirmatio
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by Jd 19y ago
You stated that before Heraclitus 'Greeks thought reality was essentially chaotic and impossible to understand.' Thales is a counter-example who is earlier than Heraclitus. See the IEP http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm or Edward Husse
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by Jd 19y ago
How long do you expect all of this will take? Will we see full SVG support in one year, two years, ten years?
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by Jd 19y ago
You stated that before Heraclitus 'Greeks thought reality was essentially chaotic and impossible to understand.' Thales is a counter-example who is earlier than Heraclitus. See the IEP http://www.iep.utm.edu/g/greekphi.htm or Edward Hus
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"Design Patterns" in Dynamic Languages (Ruby)(memeagora.blogspot.com)
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by Jd 19y ago
Does anything like this exist that you are aware of?
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by Jd 19y ago
Umm scratch that. Just now figured out how it works. Sorry.
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by Jd 19y ago
Subscribed. Thx.
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by Jd 19y ago
<<Over time, you'll see webapps take over more and more markets from the desktop, until there's nothing left.>> Maybe. I think for this to be to be the case there needs to be a better thin client than the web-browser as cur
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by Jd 19y ago
I think you mean before Thales.

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