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by adw 17y ago
Oh man. Nonono. It's huge amounts of glue and connect-this-program-to-that-program-with-a-pile of regexes. Most of the number-crunching's in hand-optimized C or F90... During my PhD, I designed/wrote a transition-state prediction algorithm
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by adw 17y ago
Yep. The Intel F9x compiler smokes everything - at least in part because its versions of LAPACK/BLAS/ATLAS are so aggressively optimized.
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by adw 17y ago
We're talking about the utility function of money. With enough money, it's definitely the case that it goes down, but I think it goes up faster than the apparent value for a bit as well. £20k is more than twice as useful as £10k is more t
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by adw 17y ago
Everything which has a hinterland and ecosystem around it benefits from network effects. If you're going to throw up walls at the web-browser edge, sure, but... Highrise, in particular, benefits from form processors, iPhone apps, analytics
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by adw 17y ago
In business, up to a limit, money has a network effect. More money, especially more revenue, lets you move faster and take more risks. Only true up to a limit, okay, but disposable income is agility.
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by adw 17y ago
Also a good argument for never putting someone's email up directly on the Web - you've got to paraphrase if you think anyone might ever object to it. And, yes, that's depressing.
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by adw 17y ago
New lines in the UK, too: High Speed 1 (the Channel Tunnel Rail Link) has been up and running for a bit, and the discussions about a high-speed replacement for the Midland Main Line are going.
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by adw 17y ago
Much of the web is databases with a thin layer on top, and the whole point of the SW/LD architecture is that different sites don't need to agree on ontology; it just becomes an alternate, aggregatable database view, in a sense. I think a lo
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by adw 17y ago
This probably isn't the right place to have the descriptivism vs prescriptivism debate, is it? But historically, English has been whatever people who write and speak English say it is. There ain't no Academie Francaise here...
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Visa waivers probably complicate this, but on the face of it, it depends on what a "reasonable honorarium" is: '[you must] not receive funding for your work from any United Kingdom source (payments of expenses or reasonable honoraria may be
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by adw 17y ago
There is a rattling great market opportunity here. Assuming Demand Media and friends manage to complete the race to the bottom - and why not, it's happened in every market - there's going to be a prestige knowledge-brokering market springin
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by adw 17y ago
I've got no stake in any of this at all - never applied to YC, doubt I ever will - but something which'd bother me a little: what if a company applied a while back and hasn't seen this HN thread? You can guarantee that at least one set of
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by adw 17y ago
Joel is training people who are about to enter into the workplace, and through hearing about this are self-selected as people likely to be both vocal and interested, to use FogBugz. It's not charity - it's very smart marketing and most like
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by adw 17y ago
Presumably <blockquote>?
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TV and newspapers used to have an advertising monopoly. Possibly the competitive pressure outweighs the better targetting?
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by adw 17y ago
There's a killer point in the comments. If you're going to share the presentation, it's a decent idea to have a deck to present with and a deck to hand out later. If your presentation deck's a good read, that's what half your audience'll wi
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by adw 17y ago
Portishead cut samples of their own playing back to vinyl so they could bring them back in as scratches. Anyone that dedicated is, in the best possible sense, a bit of a nerd.
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by adw 17y ago
Your best bet is probably to try the Creative Commons-licensed music at jamendo.org or ccmixter.org.
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by adw 17y ago
Hello: http://timetric.com/ (and our API's got way friendlier terms.)
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The Spectator's press too - it's more or less Time with a PhD and a serious crush on Thatcherism.
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"Spies" by Michael Frayn, "Words and Music" by Paul Morley.
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by adw 17y ago
The thing I found really interesting was the disparity in size of investment between Europe and the US (with the UK in the middle). Anything like this is going to miss a lot of small angel activity, but the mean European investment is barel
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by adw 17y ago
There's thefunded.com if you like your snark with a side order of nihilism.
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Good news: Venture investment is back(thebln.com)
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by adw 17y ago
How is the answer to this not "working on it"? (Not that any startup idea has one author. It's always a collaboration.)
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by adw 17y ago
You can do the __metaclass__ thing in Python too. We'll find you and tut at you if you do, but you can do it.
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by adw 17y ago
Incidentally, David Mackay's group came up with the Dasher eye-tracking user interface and a bunch of cool machine-learning stuff; and for further HN cred, one of his ex-postdocs is CTO of Songkick. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/
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by adw 17y ago
Patients Know Best are going to be massive.
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My condolences, and my thoughts are with you and yours.
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by adw 17y ago
The guy behind this article (Simon) is the lead author of PuTTY and was the lead author of nasm. Seriously smart dude.

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