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by arohner 16y ago
Not entirely. It's a scale, that goes from "expensive" to "mind boggling expensive". There's just plain expensive (The V-22 Osprey program), and then there's really expensive (The total expenditure of the Social Security program, from inc
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by arohner 16y ago
Ultimate Frisbee. It's real good exercise (which hackers need), and there's something peaceful about throwing a frisbee. Plus "reading" the disc (figuring out where it's going to land) is interesting because a disc has a few more degrees of
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by arohner 16y ago
How do we know that there aren't optimizations left to be done on the engine? This is two days after launch on a new backend. Surely there is room left to grow.
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by arohner 16y ago
And in Clojure, all commas everywhere are whitespace. You can use them, or not use them, even on single line expressions. (list a b c) == (list a, b, c) == (list a b, c)
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by arohner 16y ago
Why dual boot? Why not 'just' make the iPhone OS an App on OSX? I hate rebooting on my MBP so much that I'll download Software Updates and then not reboot for weeks at a time.
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by arohner 16y ago
Emacs or vi. Can't be too much work after porting the terminal over (which is already done, right?)
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by arohner 16y ago
I noticed Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake invested in Stack Overflow. They're the founders of Hunch. Is that different because they're playing with their own money?
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Ask HN: VC funding competitors?
3 points by arohner 16y ago|6 comments
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by arohner 16y ago
Not really. The human brain is more or less a computer, and it does speech recognition in hardware. We have empirical proof that a discrete amount of hardware (1 brain), is enough to solve the problem.
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by arohner 16y ago
I don't think the calculation for "economic freedom" works the same for HN-ers. All of the places above the US have either significant political problems (China, Singapore) or are much worse for startups. I would gladly move out of the US,
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by arohner 16y ago
Yes, with emphasis on reliable, cleaned . That data is worthwhile because it is actionable. The value-add in FlightCaster or Fair Isaac is that it converts unactionable to actionable information.
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by arohner 16y ago
Exactly. Though I would go even farther than that. Similar to "People don't pay for drills, they pay for holes", "People don't pay for data, they pay for decisions". Data without actionable decisions are worthless.
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by arohner 16y ago
A microcosm of nerds: The male's face has smiley's and frowns to represent his emotions, but the female does not, causing surprise when the RST arrives.
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by arohner 17y ago
Libraries are heavily influenced by the semantics of the language they're written in / designed for. It's quite easy to see this in the Clojure community today, by Java libraries are good from the clojure perspective. The goodness of a
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by arohner 17y ago
Ugh. I have to say, that's one of my least favorite features of blocks. In Clojure (which has no blocks or return statement), I would write that code as (defn outer [] (first (filter close? something_or_other)) What advanta
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by arohner 17y ago
You also have to remember they suffer from selection bias. Someone has to make the conscious effort to leak to WikiLeaks. Those people leak because they find the leaked material odious. WikiLeaks only gets the negative stuff, because ha
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by arohner 17y ago
What have they acquired and not published?
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by arohner 17y ago
That line stuck out for me as well. I just finished the new Wheel of Time book the other day; It's much better than the last 5 or so for precisely this reason. An object lesson.
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by arohner 17y ago
And They have an obligation to do what's in the best interest of the citizens of this country. Classification is useful only so far as it improves our well-being. Nuclear launch codes and radio frequencies fall under this. Keeping somet
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by arohner 17y ago
Actually, I had a harder time reading your comment, while my eyes re-adjusted to a more "normal" color scheme.
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by arohner 17y ago
I recommend #3. Hang out on IRC & the groups, open source the non-secret-sauce from your startup. Build a brand around yourself as a badass Clojure programmer. Best case scenario, you have a successful startup. Worst case, you're a well
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by arohner 17y ago
And coincidentally, leiningen is having problems downloading an unrelated project from google code. Surely HN didn't overload google code?
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by arohner 17y ago
The Zune is criticised for it’s poor market share and is regarded as a failure. It’s important to remember that it took three years for the iPod to get market dominance, and it’ll take a lot longer than that for anyone to make inroads into
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by arohner 17y ago
The art I taught / studied worked in all the major areas, striking, wrestling / judo, ground, etc. What I found is there is an exchange rate between skill and physical ability, and the rate is different for each major skill. Imagine one sma
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by arohner 17y ago
Remember that your body's reaction to sugar is not simple. Eating refined sugar causes a spike and then crash in your blood sugar, while eating complex carbs and "healthy stuff" generally releases energy slower, and doesn't cause your body
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by arohner 17y ago
I think we're in "violent agreement". I absolutely agree the suggestion is a bad idea, and this will make it worse. My original comment was intended to bolster your argument. I can't find the link right now, but a story claimed that the to
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by arohner 17y ago
And it's probably not effective anyway. If there's an official security software, or even a small list of them, it creates an easy target for the bad guys to work around. They'll build their attack code with the knowledge of what they need
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by arohner 17y ago
It means embedding GTK widgets into Emacs. For a while, people have been threatening to do this. Among other things, it allows you to plug in a browser control into emacs, which would be pretty awesome. Much better than dealing with w3m and
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by arohner 17y ago
What does this do that you can't do by calling native java code from JRuby? All Clojure code can be called from Java by doing (pseudo-code): Var my_fn = Var.find("str-utils/join"); my_fn.invoke("a","b");
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by arohner 17y ago
I use clojure not just because it's a practical lisp (it is), but because Rich Hickey is a genius, and is stirring up programming language design in ways we haven't seen in a long time. If you haven't, go read his slides from the "Are We Th

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