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by aristidb 16y ago
Even people with the most superficial interest in Lisp will love to see screenshots, especially if they are described as awesome. If they can.
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by aristidb 16y ago
It WAS supposed to be a rant. And sure, the price movement was a "knee-jerk" reaction, and the price on US open will likely move higher - or lower. An instant drop followed by a flat market pretty much is a textbook example of the stock mar
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by aristidb 16y ago
Wow, your comment made mine go from +7 to +1. Trading on Xetra was quite active yesterday, but certainly less than a typical Nasdaq day. You should not discount that price movement as irrelevant. And Gruber's point on earnings releases was
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by aristidb 16y ago
Another American ignoring the rest of the world: no need to speculate how the news will affect the stock price after the US holiday ends when you can just look how Apple performed in European markets, which were open during the time of the
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by aristidb 16y ago
You can use Google to circumvent the paywall. Just search for the title.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Google is also not really a good retailer. They have no experience at all with directly selling stuff, and I think they messed it up. But I can directly buy phones from HTC or Samsung here (well, of course through retailers), and some peopl
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by aristidb 16y ago
I think a fair number of people have unlocked phones outside the USA because their carrier offers rebates for "phoneless" contracts.
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by aristidb 16y ago
An alternative explanation not involving carriers: Device manufacturers fiercely compete to get people to buy THEIR phones. They get customers by adding custom extensions, and by always having fresh phones in the pipeline. Customers do not
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by aristidb 16y ago
That logic does not apply to unlocked GSM phones (like mine), where no carrier is involved in the purchase. These don't get updates either, despite (or because) the device manufacturer is in control, not the carrier. Maybe in the USA, it is
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by aristidb 16y ago
But still. Delayed updates (or getting none at all) is a huge problem affecting most Android users. I'm writing this from a phone with Android 2.1... And HTC already declared there will be no more updates. Even the update to 2.1 came with 6
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by aristidb 16y ago
It already has lost 6% (around 8% at the low point) in European trading.
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by aristidb 16y ago
See, this study does not claim to know you. It claims statistical properties, correlations. By definition, this paints an incomplete, simplified picture. The title is admittedly rather attention-grabby, but I did not make it up, I copied it
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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? (Study)(ideas.repec.org)
55 points by aristidb 16y ago|28 comments
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by aristidb 16y ago
I hope this means non-Java-based languages (Scala and Clojure would count as Java-based) with C FFI will be easier to use, too.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Buffett with two t. Seriously, 90% get this wrong.
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by aristidb 16y ago
I like your analysis, but this statement is self-contradictory: "it's the most vulnerable, but also has the most momentum behind them". I think that Windows, Office... is the least vulnerable part of Microsoft, but it's also low-growth.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Am I the only one who initially thought this was about Scala, the language? :) "Scalaculation" is a weird word.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Copyright can be simulated using purely private contracts (basically requiring everyone who gets the content to sign an NDA, which may be impractical, but possible). This legitimises copyright somewhat IMO. Also, the damage from copyright i
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by aristidb 16y ago
Maybe they were meant to protect the inventor. But if they cause more harm than benefit, that is no excuse to keep them. Results matter, not intents.
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by aristidb 16y ago
Most people, including myself, cannot actually read patents. Being told that the summary is irrelevant does not help at all. What are we supposed to do, ignore the patent because we don't understand it?
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by aristidb 16y ago
No, he seems to get tripped up by the open world assumption, which is a limitation of Haskell's type system. It allows separate compilation of different modules, for example. But nobody said that Haskell's type system is without limitations
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by aristidb 16y ago
The environment of 1700 seems likely to share more characteristics with 1750 than 1600. Whether these people were famous during or _just before_ the IR does not change my point. Steam engines were invented many times during and before the I
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by aristidb 16y ago
On my German keyboard, -- is actually easier to type than //.
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by aristidb 16y ago
According only to that linked article, there are two separate claims: 1. Bee dances are based on 2-dimensional projections of 6-dimensional flag manifolds. 2. Bees detect quark quantum fields, hypothesized because they can also be described
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by aristidb 16y ago
"The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century [...]" Please excuse my quoting from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution So using 18th century people to illustrate that hereditary factor
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by aristidb 16y ago
I hope the Nexus S will be available in Germany and other countries. :)
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by aristidb 16y ago
They say "Download 1.0.10 for Linux" on the Homepage, and all you get are way outdated packages. If you don't have 1.0.10 for Linux ready for public consumption, don't advertise it. If it is ready for public consumption, don't hide the down
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by aristidb 16y ago
I was just trying to say that it need not say much about the newspaper when some articles are good and some are bad, because they employ many writers (anonymously, of course). So perhaps saying that there is a decline in quality is over-ana
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by aristidb 16y ago
This comment from Youtube is spot on... "WHY CAN'T I STOP WATCHING BOT FLY VIDEOS!?!?!"
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by aristidb 16y ago
Possibly it's just that their writers are of different quality?

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