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by adharmad 10y ago
There is an O'Henry short story on this exact theme: "The Cop and the Anthem"
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by adharmad 11y ago
His next book should be titled "The art of shameless self promotion". Feynman, Turing, Steve Jobs, Minsky...at least Wolfram is equal opportunity! In one of his blogs, he went as far as to compare NKOS with the Principia.
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by adharmad 11y ago
Because they did not want to. Because they were doing the same thing themselves, albeit to varying degrees. The same can be said about the 1990s baseball scandal. Suddenly, out of nowhere, there were dozens of players bulking up and hitting
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by adharmad 11y ago
After multiple CEOs in the last few years, it would be interesting to hear an impartial insider's analysis on what went wrong. Marissa Mayer came with decent creds, a sizable runway and support from both the board and employees alike (
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by adharmad 11y ago
Can't be worse than HP board
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by adharmad 11y ago
The Twentieth century motor company
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by adharmad 11y ago
lisp by a mile
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by adharmad 11y ago
There should be a dying unicorn list too..
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by adharmad 11y ago
The problem with this is, how would she know who was abusing the work-from-home facility and who was not? Mayer would have to rely on the dinosaur of Yahoo middle-management, which at best is a self-serving beast. Mayer did not trust them,
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by adharmad 11y ago
Ridicule works too!
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by adharmad 12y ago
Joao Magueijo ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_Magueijo ) has written a biography of Ettore Majorana "A brilliant darkness". An interesting read!
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by adharmad 12y ago
Errors by cyclists and pedestrians can cause vehicle accidents because mostly drivers expect cyclists and pedestrians to follow traffic rules and adhere to common safety guidelines.
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by adharmad 12y ago
Anything that trumps free speech, except for the truly extreme cases (shouting fire in a theatre etc.) is a slippery slope that can erode liberty over a period of time. How long before this moves into "right to not be offended trumps f
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by adharmad 12y ago
Richard Reti was a famous chess grandmaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_R%C3%A9ti
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by adharmad 12y ago
A consequence of providing basic income to everyone could be rise in prices of consumer goods. This already happens in the housing market and the education market, where house prices and college fees increase as cheap money comes in the mar
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by adharmad 12y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted, but this is the exact reason that a couple of my relatives in medical profession gave when asked why their training involved 24-36 hour shifts routinely with very few sleep breaks.
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by adharmad 13y ago
And where will the source for the Guaranteed Income come from? It will surely be taxes - income, sales, other. All taxes in some way or the other depend on the state of the economy. What if the economy goes into a recession or has severe fl
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by adharmad 13y ago
The IGo syntax looks very similar to F# with significant whitespace.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Interestingly, Brian Kerninghan and Christos Papadimitriou have not received the award yet.
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by adharmad 13y ago
And typically such people are also the ones who take the risk and invest in the machines. Every such investment is a risk and there is no saying which turn the economy will take (someone else may make a cheaper/better machine).
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by adharmad 13y ago
Also: What technology stack did the startup use to scale.
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by adharmad 13y ago
> git is extremely powerful and is, buried underneath its abysmal UI, a thoughtful and elegant work of engineering. However, as a product it's incredibly difficult to explain to other people. Until you've invested a thoroughly
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by adharmad 13y ago
Smartdraw (www.smartdraw.com) is very similar. They do not even allow you to download the software you have paid for and force an upgrade for a steep price.
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by adharmad 13y ago
That sounds like the kindergarten definition of "Prize" - which is given to incentivize the person to do something as opposed to after he has actually achieved something of worth.
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by adharmad 13y ago
Big Businesses also have larger overheads, internal bureaucracy and are generally show on the uptake. A small and nimble SMB can surely take advantage of this? After all, most of the tech startups are in some way small businesses and don&#x
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by adharmad 13y ago
Google should buy Wolfram Research. Wolfram Alpha seems to be pretty decent functionality.
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by adharmad 13y ago
How do you solve this for recruiters other than Google? Surely you must be getting a lot of traffic from them too....
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by adharmad 13y ago
> (presuming that they're good shows) That's the crux of it. There will inevitably be good and bad shows, or even good but unpopular shows. The viewers are fickle and Netflix will need to somehow manage keeping their attention
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by adharmad 13y ago
The unfortunate fact is that some of the people protesting have been the originators of the underlying causes via voting and legislation.
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by adharmad 13y ago
McCarthysism involved persecution. I think what the OP is saying is that people who oppose Google are also opposing the rights of landlords and other renters to get into free agreements. The fair market price of apartments in SF has been ke

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