Kroem3r

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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Don't know why people would downvote this. It's a pretty good idea of how to measure the value of a company. It's somewhat shy of the true metric which would be along the lines of 'how much better it made the world'. Market cap is appealing
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
I think you missed my point, and that's ok. Maybe also the OP. Well, and also that I was being a little tongue-in-cheek.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
I think the world could have done without this post. The reason being that while the interview question might be anywhere in 2hr-solution space, the answer is always: Make sure you understand the problem, the edge cases and present a viable
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Aside from Goodreads, my list includes: http://www.librarything.com/ http://www.shelfari.com/ http://49thshelf.com/ http://openbooktoronto.com/ http://www.filedbyauthor.com http://www.thecopia.com/home/index.html http://www
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
There are quite a few book sites providing good discoverability combined with community, combined with curated selections, etc. etc. You've added a nice design, but the categorization of the books is weak as is the selection itself. I looke
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Ya, that's some ugly sh*t. Also, that's not a bald eagle. It does look like a vulture.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Nope. I suppose that you're thinking that I would be worried about the harm that my child would do to other people; that I would sympathize sufficiently with a potentially (1-P_fair_percentage) non-existent group of strangers more strongly
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
This is a poor response: Abusive, insulting and makes only a token effort to advance the discussion. Does the fact that it sits at the top of the page mean that it's the most highly rated? And in practical terms, it seems totally theoretica
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
I enjoy following these structures of cludge upon subsidy upon moral bankruptcy. I wonder at what point (in the adoption of this technology) it makes sense to invest in gun silencers.
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
Kind of meh that the HN commentary is 'blah blah nuclear blah blah.' There are, IMHO, other aspects to this that are actually interesting: The effectiveness of subsidy in spurring a tech sector; the importance of cultural values; concrete r
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4022316
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Real journalism on the net(csmonitor.com)
1 points by Kroem3r 14y ago|0 comments
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by Kroem3r 14y ago
A well written article; interesting enough in spite of not having any quotable sources. A more accurate title might have been "Reuters shut-out; Facebook IPO bankers remain mum"
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
There's nothing about the size of the government that limits or enhances it's power to act in the best interest of its citizenry. (You've thrown a red herring in there.) What we clearly see is that government's determination that it's simpl
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
This idea to kill Hollywood is ridiculously misguided. There's nothing terribly wrong with Hollywood; I mean, it has a somewhat facile outlook that goes along with championing the individual over the enterprise - but this isn't the worst bi
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
I don't know why you'd apologize for putting this in a larger context; not doing that risks making the win Pyrrhic. SOPA and PIPA aren't end-game plays, they're simply tactics in the ongoing culture war. Recent events, from Wikileaks to Ano
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
The visualization itself is sort of interesting, but the good part is the story of developing it: A bug via code-reuse; performance issues in Ruby; and fast code in C. Oh, also that Stackato compiled his C on deployment, that, I thought was
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Bike accident visualization in Vancouver on Stackato(activestate.com)
4 points by Kroem3r 15y ago|1 comments
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Really? teaching Nepalis snow safety? That seems amusingly unlikely. Wouldn't that be like teaching Polynesians water safety?
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
He was a good writer, a smart guy and he liked Orwell, but the move to Vanity Fair seemed a change in direction that put some of his values in question. I'm not sure that his run at Mother Theresa was worthwhile, his run at Kissinger probab
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Yes it is. It is one of the best US papers and is read internationally. It doesn't have an agenda, but is a little conservative. In other words, the traditional values of journalism are still held there - like breaking stories and original
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
I highly recommend The Wayfinders by Wade Davis. This might expand your thinking on the topic. http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/search/?keywords=wayfinde...
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Fair opinion. But I found it refreshing; I was resigned to seeing a lot of preemptory 'separation of ethics and business' discussions.
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Is he the only multi-million CEO willing to speak out about this? Or is the protest somehow in his realm that we're hearing about it? Either way, there's little doubt that one $100 million CEO outweighs a lot of scruffy students. And in thi
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Maybe, maybe not. But by starting out clearly infringing (abusing registered marks, etc.) the likelihood that anyone would do business with the dev is greatly reduced. PS. You ad hominem charge that the CBC is technically challenged is wort
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
There is a mixup here of "libertarian" and anarchist.
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
The decision, the process and the background are an embarrassment. It's interesting to me that there isn't even the slightest bit of damage control. What was it Lou Reed said ... Stick a fork in 'em. Turn 'em over. They're done.
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Um, what about DabbleDB? I'm not sure there was anything bad about it. Except that one day it just went away. http://blog.dabbledb.com/ It might be that the lesson pertains here, too.
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
The examples he gave are misleading; they tend to suggest consulting. But his point is right: There are applications that have been written for a small number of clients, but languish because getting that amount of success is something a de
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by Kroem3r 15y ago
Someone whose primary job is catching all the ideas, initiatives and data that otherwise fall to the ground between people: implement them; run them to ground, or tee them up so someone more better suited can execute them. Quiet. Food. Fris

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