apathy

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by apathy 19y ago
Zed, is that you?
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by apathy 19y ago
One of my officemates has the following pinned up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradoxical_Commandments For those of a more mathematical bent, the following summarizes practical ramifications of extremal risk: http://www.fractalpres
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by apathy 19y ago
If we all just keep chipping in without competing, everyone benefits. Maybe. Throughout most of human history, there have been winners and losers, rulers and serfs, leaders and followers. I have trouble believing that any invention, the
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by apathy 19y ago
The central thesis of this article appears to be that Google should assume all of the risks and all of the uptime obligations an entrepreneur might face in hosting their app, but ask nothing in return, and do it for free. I'm not sure this
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by apathy 19y ago
The risk of any given disease 1) occurring and 2) contributing to mortality rises proportionally with age. More generally, age is a risk factor for the majority of diseases. One result of the increasing life expectancy in the general case
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by apathy 19y ago
your brand, and a copyright, if you have any sense If they fuck this up, and lose developers' trust, they're done . I don't think that's the plan. I could be wrong.
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by apathy 19y ago
This is what I was thinking as I played with it last night. I'm definitely going to use it for that. And if I can get away with it, I'm going to try doing some unclever implementations of semi-supervised ML, maybe a few matrix calculations
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by apathy 19y ago
with the users api your users cannot be transferred, they are google users who can use your application, it isnt openid, you cant chuck this on another computer and have remote authentication. I wonder, though -- what if you used somethin
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by apathy 19y ago
But they aren't about to open-source their infrastructure. Wouldn't matter if they did -- you can't open-source a bunch of contracts with trucking companies, nor would any sane company want to open-source their testing routines for the ha
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by apathy 19y ago
fat fucking chance at present. Processes must return data within a few seconds, so unless I can take up an arbitrary amount of CPU-hours in those few seconds, there won't be an awful lot of simulation or analysis going on until the TOS cha
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by apathy 19y ago
I just expect that any "expert" whose intuition I'm supposed to trust will be able to justify their opinion when push comes to shove. Don't expect them to justify it solely on your terms, however. If you're breaking into a new market or
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by apathy 19y ago
some data is better than none, even if it's not fine-grained. Not necessarily. If the features of your small data sample are unrepresentative or poorly analyzed, you run the risk of distorting your priors and making a poorer decision tha
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by apathy 19y ago
Trying to be a really good parent and provide enough for your family are perfectly admirable goals in life. This is equally true for (eg.) the 2 billion people in India and China, many well-educated, many of whom are valiantly striving to
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by apathy 19y ago
Learn something quick and dirty. But, as noted, brass knuckles (or a gun) will not cause you to grow up as a person. The martial arts teach patience and poise, which is almost exactly the opposite of a quick fix. More concretely, Sig Kuf
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by apathy 19y ago
This is amazing. I looked at the underpinnings they used and it's the exact stack of tools I had given up on when Google Maps was released and began expanding in 2005 or so. These guys followed through and the result is amazing. Their rea
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by apathy 19y ago
Over time it may get tiresome, though. Like, say, the first 24 hours, after which your eyeballs fall out of their bleeding sockets. That skin is hideous ! Google puts a good deal of effort into usability, and comparing the existing inte
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by apathy 19y ago
That's like saying Stevie Wonder's claim to fame is "I Just Called To Say I Love You". Forgot to mention yesterday -- this is an awesome analogy -- I hope you don't mind that I will be beating it to death in presentations from now on ;-)
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by apathy 19y ago
Are you familiar with the phrase 'starving artist'? Just because it feels good doesn't always mean you should do it.
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by apathy 19y ago
too many start-ups are in this mode of "Let's see what we can get away with". That is sad. Dude, not to be a dick, but have you watched how ExxonMobil or Altria/PhilipMorris operate? This is how most companies do business -- brinksmanshi
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by apathy 19y ago
That was a very subtle joke over the span of several years if so... I fell for it hook, line, and sinker with all of the easy mathematical notation. It preyed upon my desire for a language that would typeset and parallelize itself, so that
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by apathy 19y ago
yeah, but TechCrunch is practically a gallery of fuckedness.
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by apathy 19y ago
Scribd is just another company leveraging the internet delivering a service to their customers. You mean like Amazon, or eBay, or Google? None of those companies make much of anything either. Good point on responsiveness, my experience is
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by apathy 19y ago
If you hesitate a lot, try climbing or ski mountaineering ;-) Either one is easier than having a kid, though. Don't do that until after you've got a few businesses under your belt, if you can help it. Execution is a habit, IMHO. Hard to
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by apathy 19y ago
Is this an April Fool's joke? What were they programming in before Java? Brainfuck?
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by apathy 19y ago
Guy Steele's "claim to fame" is that he "co-wrote the specification of the Java programming language" actually, I think most people around here would be well advised to look at the author of CLTL and note that instead.
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by apathy 19y ago
I wasn't being facetious, that's really what happened with Ariba. I know -- those guys were friends of mine in the Mission. I wasn't being facetious either; I was there too...
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by apathy 19y ago
Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift ;-) I started out in Emacs, made the leap to XEmacs, learned to write elisp, then one day I discovered that Vim syntax highlighting was pretty damn good too... it was all over. Vim + Screen == Real Ultimate Power
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by apathy 19y ago
Plus it's a brilliant ad for his product. Basically, "here's why I wrote this product, once you get hooked on Vim, come back and I'll sell it to you for your day-to-day work." Genius! This is what Hacker News is all about, conversion rate
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by apathy 19y ago
I'm assuming most students aren't running or writing finite element codes, simulations, and other computationally intensive programs where more cores and more clock speed gives you huge gains That's what quad Opteron servers and screen se
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by apathy 19y ago
Your description is far closer to the truth, as it happens. It's amazing how many times that simple formula was executed in the span of about 24 months while I was living in SF. (Then again, most attempts failed, some quite spectacularly)

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