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by LargeWu 16y ago
What kind of startup employee will you be when the only professional environment you have known is Microsoft? Good thing he's not going to a startup, he's going to Facebook.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
American courts have ruled that sports statistics are "pure facts", and therefore not copyrightable. In fact, companies like STATS, Inc. rely on the fact that they are public domain. When you pay STATS, what you are buying is the compilati
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by LargeWu 16y ago
Reminds me of the adage: In America, 100 years is a long time. In England, 100 miles is a long distance.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
> But, you raise an interesting question: if Ph.D. students aren't going to challenge the hard problems, then who will? Tenured professors. Because they certainly aren't wasting their time teaching.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
You're probably getting downvoted because you seem to be implying, without real evidence, that California is bankrupt because Arnold was complicit in cheating California out of billions because of shady dealings with Enron. These are the so
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by LargeWu 16y ago
If that's all you took from her philosophy - being an individual is good, working hard is good, etc. - then you missed a lot of the detail. To Rand, the ultimate measure of one's self worth is how much money you are making vs. how much you
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by LargeWu 16y ago
The point of an undergraduate education isn't to learn stuff, it's to learn HOW to learn stuff. Having a knowledge base in a particular field is only a sometimes-useful side effect. If you can't learn that stuff on your own now, then you f
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by LargeWu 16y ago
The difference is that SO is not a forum, it's a question and answer site. A key distinction. I think SO's current design serves its purpose well.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
20% of all small businesses in the US have only one employee. Why wouldn't you consider somebody operating as a contractor or consultant a small business owner? That's precisely what they are, whether they have an office or a storefront, or
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by LargeWu 16y ago
I grew up in North Dakota and was there over the 4th. My parents live in a town of 1300 people, and their house had just been wired with fiber optic for cable and internet. I'm also pretty sure they pay much less than I do in Minneapolis.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
In practice, this doesn't happen nearly as often as you might like to believe. Where I work, we monkey patch occasionally, but never the standard functions. It's usually a 3rd party library that we're editing that we need to bend to suit
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by LargeWu 16y ago
FTA: "But even after borrowing as much as we can from Ruby, it isn’t going to make the gigantic complicated sales management system for a Fortune 500 company be not gigantic and complicated. Hopefully it will be a slightly smaller and more
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by LargeWu 16y ago
Has Foursquare succeeded? From what I've heard, they aren't profitable, yet, which means to me that the jury is still out on them.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
$10? Big deal, I spent that on lunch today and I didn't think twice about it. One of the main features is that Draft is integrated with Campfire, which indicates that it's probably targeted at businesses and other organizations who pay to u
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by LargeWu 16y ago
I think you're missing my point. Having relaxed standards, such as I outlined, will account for nearly all special cases for a target audience that is reasonably homogeneous. Of course if you are designing a global facing application, then
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by LargeWu 16y ago
I think the real lesson here is to to identify those assumptions that may be incorrect for the culture your app is targeted towards and make reasonable accommodations for those cases. The most common ones are probably the easiest to deal
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by LargeWu 16y ago
Fair enough. I only had time to glance at the original analysis, and I definitely saw "test of runs" in there, so that's what I assumed the analysis was based on.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
The problem with the analysis is that it's treating shooting a basketball as a stochastic process, but it isn't. Flipping a coin is random, while shooting a basketball is a skill that requires athletic ability. The analysis treats all sho
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by LargeWu 16y ago
Stuck. I've obviously found the email it is referencing, but none of my answers seem to work.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
This would require them to get into Canada as well. Now instead of breaching one border, they're breaching two borders. Also, think of the states that border most of Canada...Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin.
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by LargeWu 16y ago
Putting in a few long days isn't what the author is talking about. It's doable to be really productive by putting in a ton of hours in a short span of time, like, for a couple of days. But try doing this for weeks or months at a time. I
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by LargeWu 17y ago
Indeed. If you're familiar with Michael Pollan's Food Rules, one of them is 'Avoid anything processed that makes health claims'
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by LargeWu 17y ago
You're right that I don't know that the two would cancel each other out. But even if there is some non-zero effect at work, when you spread it out over all taxpayers, any additional costs/savings are probably trivial. The main factor at wo
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by LargeWu 17y ago
I don't see how it wouldn't. It's not like if you have 10 times as many students then you'll build a school 10 times as big. You'll instead build 10 times as many schools, all operating more or less independently at roughly the same scale
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by LargeWu 17y ago
If it was more profitable, EMI probably wouldn't have fought Pink Floyd's decision to sell their music as complete albums only. My guess is selling individual tracks is more profitable, because a) cost per track is usually higher when purch
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by LargeWu 17y ago
I realize it's a parody, I'm just struggling to figure out what its purpose is, or why it's funny.
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by LargeWu 17y ago
The way to eat healthy is to eat food, which is to say, don't eat a lot of processed stuff that resembles food. There's no salt, high fructose corn syrup, refined carbs, etc. in pretty much all whole foods.
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by LargeWu 17y ago
Indeed. Their service seems to have gotten worse since their move to Rackspace. I mean, I know they were sort of outgrowing EngineYard, and it wasn't the right platform for them technically, but it was still better than its been since the
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by LargeWu 17y ago
If his foundation is run anything like Microsoft, their first move will be to develop a polio vaccine.
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by LargeWu 17y ago
Telling that you use the word bible, as the Holy Bible, to which this is a simile, is usually accepted by its believers based on faith, regardless of how outlandish its claims of truth might be. I'm not saying global climate change isn't re

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