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by T_S_ 16y ago
Complain if you must, but there is a serious point involved. People get invested in technology and they start to adopt certain patterns of argument that stem more from their own investment than anything else. I tried to highlight the patter
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Even better.
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You can. For free. Later this week in Mountain View. From some of the world's best and friendliest Haskell experts. < http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/32992961/Haskell-Hackathon... ; Newbies take special note of the Saturday session.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I know it's fun to rag on Roman numerals, but they were never intended for totaling receipts. They were never designed for quick little sums, they were designed for engraving on massive long lasting objects like buildings and copyright noti
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Or take 2 (filter even [1..]) // take as many as you want
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Or a hacker space. Lots of like minded people to share ideas with, help, and be helped by. My favorite is Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. What's yours?
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Pretty interesting graph. It started growing exponentially in the 90's.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I didn't mean to pick on Patrick. This "honored/humbled" thing has been going on in our culture for a while now.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Why are people always feeling "honored and humbled" these days? I think they must be confused. Just feel honored and get on with your day.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
There's a business opportunity here: Make me look busy. Now somebody tell me its already been done.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Enjoy all the smoke. And don't forget to not get cancer.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Seems crazy that they would need a Superbowl commercial. Makes me think this is more about getting investors' attention than customers.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
It's absurd to say they are "uncontacted". They are humans after all. How can such a smart crowd fall for that headline stuff? Concerns about their public health and inability to defend their property rights (our interpretation of those rig
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Perhaps they have something to teach us as well. We should at least ask for directions to El Dorado, before we convert them to OS X and give them some french fries.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
When a field like apps is so new, the effort required to innovate is low. People bring their expectations about the level of effort from areas where expertise is well developed. Think of databases and algorithms. Eventually novelty apps wi
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Straw man? No. Satire, and freaking hilarious at that. Tim F. doesn't need HNers to help him get across. He knows his game. It's about attention, not reaction or judgement. This is attention at its most attentive.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Ready for linkbait, I read the article and...it's good! If open source figures into you company's strategy, as it does more often these days, you need to do it professionally. Yes, even if it is free .
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by T_S_ 16y ago
The article is a waste of time. Just explains that he charges high fees and makes more when his clients do. Perhaps someone can comment on the positions that paid off.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
"He's young". "He's actually a nice guy". These are the kinds of statements that should only carry weight when you have a personal relationship. A relationship with a company/website/app is no more or less than the sum of your interaction
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I like Gruen's idea. Try this one on: We could have size investors continuously publish their postions. A 10000 investor x 10000 securities matrix would be more than enough. Price vol would drop like a stone.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Good insight here. Q. Do you think it’s harder to succeed while living in Italy, and Sicily in particular? A. If your target is the world, being here is not a big limit for a programmer. Most of the interesting things are going on the inte
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by T_S_ 16y ago
I was describing an equilibrium model like Debreu's (very sweeping by the way), where information is not really explicit. Hayek's opinion about the hopelessness of central planning is more about the role of markets in eliminating the comput
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by T_S_ 16y ago
>do you mean security experts or securities experts? Yes.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Well said. Economic theory show that the price system is a highly efficient way of trading allocations of scarce resources under perfect information. Funny thing about information, any scarcity is largely artificial, especially with today
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Yes. Maybe even more so.
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I agree. I hope that more journals adopt the JMLR model. The university system is already paying for all the editors we need. No need to pay twice now that distribution costs are near zero.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Great community. Membership is $100 per month. Around the corner from YC.
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by T_S_ 16y ago
Journals are priced for institutional libraries. They still don't know how to address the non-affiliated scholar market. While the industry evolves its business model we need to get stuff done. Here's a workaround: use Google Scholar. Look
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The title of this made me think it was the subject of the next Dan Brown novel.
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Once you have board they're your boss. Remember those? Their most distinguishing feature is they can fire you much, much easier than you can fire them. Bob Dylan wrote a song about this. Upvotes for the correct title... As for the other boa

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