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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Interesting point. Blacklisting based on the /64 won't work, due to the potential to deny service to legitimate users, so what will take its place? Also, it's already started: http://mailchannels.com/blog/?p=114 (First IPv6 Spam Message C
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The article mentions that asset sales are rare except in the case of a "fire sale" where immediate liquidation is necessary. I assume this usually means a complete exit, since tech startups usually don't often have limbs that can be chopped
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Thanks! This looks like an excellent way to ground the concepts in more concrete terms.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The author has rightfully directed his words at those considering becoming math majors. Consequently, he makes it clear that most basic math education is inadequate to really understand math and its practicality, but leaves as the only solu
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I don't think these issues go so much to the point of needing a "startup lawyer" with a presence in the Valley, but more to getting high quality service, which probably means paying $$. A first year associate knows next to nothing about pra
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The article is written by a Ph.d. That probably means he's got a vested interest in people staying in school...
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I think the answer to the question is "the right one." Arbitrary classifications of sophisticated skillsets attempt to reduce the decision to a rule of thumb. That's just not really possible. Beyond that, I think the classifications are pre
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
"The diary also had her indicate emotions she was feeling from a list of 50 items. Her average score of fear was 0 percent, while for other emotions she showed normal functioning." Far apart from the brain structure involved, what amazed me
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
One thing I found useful as a self-taught programmer was getting outside of the dominant programming paradigms. Though I'd like to disassociate myself with the over-the-top PG fanboyism that sometimes goes on here, I must admit that his lis
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I noticed this recently, developed a concept that I thought might be a good substitute for some prolific higher ed software and pitched it. The result: "Great idea! But we've got no funding? We'd love to use it though... maybe you could sel
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Productivity and display size: Are netbooks the answer?(alexwestholm.com)
1 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I found it very useful to look at a few other Webmachine examples to understand this. http://bitbucket.org/justin/webmachine/wiki/Home
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
"After which, obviously, he will become president of the United Nations, train a flock of African gray parrots to perform free colonoscopies in the developing world, and launch himself into space in order to explain the human heart to alien
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Liu Xiaobo: I Have No Enemies(npr.org)
35 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|5 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I can't really remember a time when the hacker community wasn't trying to distance itself from script kids. It seems like a moot point among the tech savvy, but an uphill battle with the general public. I guess the layman's concept is focus
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
One issue that seems to pop out: If early adopters are different in some way than the majority of the population, how does this difference bear on the outcome of their input in shaping the product? I guess that means answering "What is the
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience." I hope it's unrelated to their choice of data store! Edit: back up and running. However, I'll note that the Tea
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
As someone who made very decent money writing code at 18, and consequently did the 7 year plan for undergrad (several "I make big money, why be in school?" moments), I'd wholeheartedly recommend finishing a degree. It's absolutely not neces
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
The article references some great modules for those actually writing perl code. For those that never learn to write full apps in perl, there are still a few gem 1-liners that are worth tucking away. For instance, perl -pi.bak -e 's/somethin
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
They seem to have omitted Erlang. Awesome, freely available book on the subject: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
This is exactly why smart people can sometimes be surpassed by their intellectual inferiors in fields that they don't care about.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
But there are many problems that information sharing just can't solve. Let's take African village X, imbue the population with a shared desire to break free of their government bondage, and give them a very poor infrastructure. Once they st
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
That may be true in some portions of the developed world (where I assume you are probably located), but I assure you that areas where resources are tight and there's a high degree of stratification in society, that's just not the case. Look
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
World peace is a pretty unrealistic goal at this point. The population of the world has grown too large, concentrated and different (ie, between cultures) for fair apportionment of the resources available to it. Therefor, there will always
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
For those that might actually want to write an assembler: http://homepage.mac.com/randyhyde/webster.cs.ucr.edu/RollYou... Pretty interesting stuff, actually. Particularly when you see what's possible, e.g.: http://homepage.mac.com/randyh
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I think ownership and time are the major impediments. As an investor in a company, you're going to invest more than the small amounts that change hands on kickstarter, which will probably mean you want some degree of assurance in return for
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BeeBole: Why we chose Erlang over Python, Ruby, PHP family for our back-end(beebole.com)
3 points by alexwestholm 16y ago|0 comments
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
When I saw the title, I imagined several hackers sitting around with a handle of vodka and all eyes on a terminal running tcpdump.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
I forwarded this to my girlfriend. Thanks for providing an SO's perspective so that I can make the point that it's part of the game, and not just me.
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by alexwestholm 16y ago
Single page link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/business/19entre.html?page...

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