ambition

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by ambition 17y ago
What do you mean by "discredited"? People don't really need food, shelter, and self-fulfillment? What has replaced it?
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by ambition 17y ago
I'm interested in exactly the sort of application framework they seem to be talking about. This is really how web apps (or all apps) should be built. The Wikipedia link isn't terribly informative, but there's a ton of more relevant litera
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by ambition 17y ago
My money is on "Put up a cheap site before building anything" customer development.
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by ambition 17y ago
The majority of voters don't think that copyright reform is big enough issue to change a vote over. A minority of voters (you and I included) think copyright should be changed. But we're not big enough to make the change happen. You might t
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by ambition 17y ago
An attack from first principles: Among the various kinds of power, force is special, because force is the only power that involves active harm. As political scientists see things, the fundamental role of government is to maintain a monopo
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by ambition 17y ago
Much inadvertent wisdom in this: If you're a student, you will (usually) learn more from trying to solve a problem and failing than by reading the answer.
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by ambition 17y ago
Exactly. I'm suggesting that there's a rather-important-yet-unaddressed confounding variable in the analysis.
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by ambition 17y ago
Like the slime mold, the model first creates a fine mesh network that goes everywhere, and then continuously refines the network so that the tubes carrying the most cargo grow more robust and redundant tubes are pruned. Hey, that's like h
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by ambition 17y ago
The article doesn't cite a paper, so I can't check these criticisms out in detail, but: - If the people rating the dancers were watching silhouettes, then they were evaluating the attractiveness of the dancers' body-shapes, too. - If Lovatt
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by ambition 17y ago
This is awesome. Having computed a reasonable distance function between users, you should be able to use this distance function as edge weights in a big graph. Rendering this graph with a force-directed layout algorithm like Fruchtermann-Re
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by ambition 17y ago
Scheme->JavaScript isn't that easy, because of tail calls. But Jss handles it.
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by ambition 17y ago
The numerator is equivalent to (x-1.5)*(x-1). Cancel out the (x-1.5) from numerator and denominator, leaving x - 1 > 0. I'm not sure what the point of the post is, or why the discussions here are using so many words I don't understand
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by ambition 17y ago
Ever check your email on a friend's laptop?
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by ambition 17y ago
Instead of focusing on cutting back on "bad" foods, think about eating more good foods. The bad stuff will fall by the wayside naturally.
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by ambition 17y ago
It'd be awesome if someone with great visual communication skills (Amy Hoy-/Dustin Curtis-/Bret Victor-style) teamed up with cperciva's intense summaries of encryption knowledge. That would be a helluva one-two punch.
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by ambition 17y ago
I am intensely curious about your point. Is it that you think reading is a not-terribly-productive use of effort, or do you take issue with the specific books? If it's the latter, which books do you recommend?
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by ambition 17y ago
What? No. The lawyers have a ethical and moral duty as lawyers and human beings to do the right thing. I'm not a lawyer, so I'll make an analogy relevant to my profession. If some guy hires me to make a picture site and then insists on a se
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by ambition 17y ago
http://www.hunch.com/should-i-start-my-own-business/
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by ambition 17y ago
It's generally preferred to submit the print link in the first place when available. So, yes, it's cool here on HN.
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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide(hgbook.red-bean.com)
6 points by ambition 17y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
The entire dance party constituted a tiny minority of the people within eyesight---there were literally thousands of people on that hill who could see him. There were a bunch of people already dancing closer to the stage and all over the
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Comparing the iPhone 3GS, HTC Dream, HTC Magic and Palm Pre(littlecomputerscientist.wordpress.com)
1 points by ambition 17y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
Mostly because he is now smart, wealthy and powerful.
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Ask HN: Trawl for DSL debugging anecdotes
1 points by ambition 17y ago|0 comments
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by ambition 17y ago
Yikes, you're right. That's obscene. I hope non-profits like Kiva are able to help in this area.
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by ambition 17y ago
No, because the 806 number includes compounding.
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by ambition 17y ago
What? CouchDB gets a lot of hype. Naturally people are curious, and they try to use it to solve their problems. Sometimes these problems aren't the problems CouchDB is good for. You can't fault the "software hipsters"--- the CouchDB documen
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by ambition 17y ago
In addition to idioms, libraries and best practices, there are also paradigms to learn. Learning OOP/Functional/Whatever _properly_ takes time and practice. Company hiring is torn between the grand-corporate interest of having good long-ter
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by ambition 17y ago
It's been done and you can read all about it: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1169006
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by ambition 17y ago
Fallacy in the first paragraph. "Rich are getting richer while the poor remain poor" is not supported by the stated evidence of the growing income gap _ratio_. The ratio can increase even if the poor are becoming richer, so long as the rich

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