NyxWulf

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by NyxWulf 16y ago
That turns out to be one of the central questions of Micro Economics. If the demand is elastic, they would have sold more than 10 times the amount and would net a profit by decreasing the price. If the demand is inelastic they would have
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I literally keep this book on my night stand. The techniques he recommends are spot on - and more importantly geared toward generating a return. Highly recommended.
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
Well stated. I am of a similar opinion and just submitted a similar meta discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1254135 . I would really like to see this calm down so we can get some interesting news and rational discourse going
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Ask HN: What happened to rational discourse?
20 points by NyxWulf 17y ago|15 comments
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I experienced this issue as well.
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I'm trying out iAnnotate right now. So far it has worked pretty well. I tried loading one into pages and it didn't recognize it. I'll see if iBooks can do it as well. *edit: it doesn't look like you can load PDF files into iBooks
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
My iPad has been running for the last 5 hours. Some videos for my boy, some khan academy for me, syncing books from amazon, loading PDFs for school, browsing the web. My battery is down to 68%. It was at 85% when I pulled it out of the box
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
This is the type of article that really gets my adrenaline pumping. I find it so frustrating to read about these types of things, although the frustration for me is in the fact that people take one person and vastly over generalize to an e
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I think they are connected. Part of the reason people are so comfortable with the iPhone is they really can't screw it up. They can't download any apps that are spyware, or viruses or are going to steal their credit cards. They don't h
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I agree, I don't think it's the panacea for that problem. It's a start though. The toughest things to get over imo, are the meme's that people will never use math and/or that math is not useful in the real world. The KhanAcademy handles
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
For most people, they come out of high school not just poor at math, they come out "Math Broken" as one of my friends puts it. The second you mention anything to do with Math, their eyes glaze over and their brain completely disengages. I
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I tried to make it clear in my previous post that I'm not passing judgment on your choice of living on your money, however your response seems to indicate that you are upset. If I have offended you, I apologize, that was not my intention.
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
One of my favorite quotes comes from the movie Quiz Show, where Charles Van Doren says "You'll forgive me, but anyone who thinks money is ever "just money" couldn't have much of it." I agree with the gist of that statement but in a more ge
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
It's interesting to see that, but not being a follower or a reader of his it's difficult to put that into context. Are his savings dwindling because his business is struggling and he is not making a profit, forcing him to live on his saving
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I wrote this article, and found these strategies to work for me. http://procnew.com/10-cheap-ways-to-get-clients-for-freelanc...
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
As others have noted, this is not "non-reversible", at least in the current incarnation. Part of the problem is that if you type an 'a' you always get the same three color triplet. It seems to me that the simplest fix would be to add somet
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
Because B-Tree indexes perform orders of magnitude better on smaller lookup values, like say an integer, than they do on large (and even worse variable length) strings. There are a number of factors that contribute to this, but two big one
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
I've done the same, and I agree with your post entirely. There are a few tricks to making nested sets perform reasonably well on large data sets. I've tested this model on trees that contain up to 100 million items within the scope of a si
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
Materialized path is a good tool for trees that won't be deeply nested, and for tables that won't grow particularly large. However, because the path is stored in a string, read operations are not particularly efficient. It's a good tool t
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
My comparison of SliceHost to EY is also based on actual experience deploying large scale sites. EY claims to offer all the services in the world, but at the end of the day the technology they delivered was sub par. I understand all of th
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
So first of all the article takes two degenerate cases and stereo types and generalizes them to the extreme. Part of the problem is that if he was dealing with EngineYard, they definitely have some issues with their infrastructure. After h
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by NyxWulf 17y ago
In general not exists is faster than NOT IN because the optimizer will usually eliminate any result set from the sub table. Usually they can handle select *, but I always do select 1 just to make sure. It's been a few years since I tested
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
To be clear - he isn't arguing that month over month data is not important. Specifically the problem is that because the confidence interval is -13.6% to 23% we don't actually know if the the true data is positive or negative at this point
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
Latency is mostly a solved problem though when it comes to high speed connections though. Early when cable was released in my area there was high burst rates but bad latency - so back then I went with a dsl connection that had lower band w
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
It's interesting because there seems to be this ethos among the hacker/tech startup community that if you want to be successful you either need to be young, a college drop out, or an ivy league grad. The Kauffman foundation did a study on e
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
Unfortunately there are many people making predictions about where the market will be. The real question is can someone make a prediction, commit capital, and realize a gain based on those predictions. Only time will tell, and for those o
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
The point is specifically that he doesn't cheat noprocrast. I use the setting as well, and it works for me. Sure I could easily hit the site not being logged in, but it's a subtle reminder that you set for yourself that you are spending t
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
It seems pretty cliche to quote a book in response to an article, but this article was pretty light on details and heavy on opinion. A book I highly recommend to entrepreneurs is the 22 immutable laws of branding. He cites a lot of statist
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
Unlike say...JRuby?
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by NyxWulf 18y ago
Well here are a couple of things: you show 99 records on your excel spreadsheet, with an average of 709 and a standard deviation of 1073. With that large of a standard deviation and that average you can't assume a normal distribution so you

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