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901.
by aston 19y ago
Every time Yegge makes some comment about needing to be more terse in an essay longer than The Iliad, you have to chuckle a little.
902.
Chris Sacca: Big Company, Small Company(whatisleft.org)
41 points by aston 19y ago|5 comments
903.
by aston 19y ago
I'm a huge Scheme fan, and I still think Lisp people are overly smug.
904.
by aston 19y ago
Cool stuff. Quick gripe: On the main page, you show sites sans subdomain, but you seem to be tracking money based on subdomain, so for example techcrunch.com has two entries.
905.
by aston 19y ago
Funny that no one's asked "to whom?". I have a guess, though.
906.
by aston 19y ago
Nah. Everyone can see two blue eyes.
907.
by aston 19y ago
Hmm. I'm getting too tired to think really clearly about this. I could be way off here, but " B does not know whether C can see anybody with blue eyes. " - that's not true. C can see A. And for the four person case, the same is true. If the
908.
by aston 19y ago
Also, this problem isn't solved by induction. It's solved by recognizing the pattern. You don't need to establish the base case via the outside observer. All you need to know is that the day-based formula works for any number of islanders.
909.
by aston 19y ago
Sure it can. Take the 100 brown, 100 blue problem xkcd states. If they all kept their eyes closed and then starting today opened them, the end result would be what you claim the foreigner would've instigated: people remove themselves when t
910.
by aston 19y ago
The math is wrong and ultimately not even related to the point. Why include it? I would've preferred a post consisted of the 3rd and 2nd to last paragraphs.
911.
by aston 19y ago
Too bad the cookies don't make it across. Yay for relative links, PG.
912.
by aston 19y ago
Well, the problem is fundamentally that the people should've been playing the game before anyone said anything, so there's some confusion as to why the game only starts when the guru mentions a fact that's already self-evident. That's a pro
913.
by aston 19y ago
If Yahoo! does reject the offer, their stock price should, were the market completely rational, fall a lot. Back to what it was before Microsoft made the offer in the first place. Yahoo's the same company it was two weeks ago; the stock w
914.
by aston 19y ago
Requires cash :(
915.
by aston 19y ago
You don't have to be the #1 player in a market to make tons of money from it. If Microsoft's advertising wing made a tenth of what Google makes, they'd be pretty happy.
916.
by aston 19y ago
You misunderstand Microsoft. They listen to their customers probably more than any other software company I know. Unfortunately, they have way more customers than any other software company I know. Hence the feature creep. They'll pretty mu
917.
Microsoft’s $80 billion (and growing) Yahoo Headache(techcrunch.com)
7 points by aston 19y ago|0 comments
918.
by aston 19y ago
Did you just complain about the default font size in a word processing app? Really, you can dig deeper than that next time you want to criticize Microsoft.
919.
by aston 19y ago
Dude, that's too impressive. Prolly the best looking Appjet app I've seen to date.
920.
by aston 19y ago
Cal Newport's not a bad guy either.
921.
by aston 19y ago
More like scales to FAIL, m i rite?
922.
by aston 19y ago
Not just pointless, but also sometimes wrong.
923.
by aston 19y ago
pg's server-side closures are just a variation on the session theme, except that the data being stored is a procedure. You've just listed a bunch of flaws evident on this very forum . Any link with fnid as a parameter is pointing to a serve
924.
by aston 19y ago
Hint: many web stacks suppport server-side sessions. Via cookies.
925.
by aston 19y ago
Yeah, but change out "internship" for "full-time position," and it's another story entirely.
926.
by aston 19y ago
Assuming you're pretty sure you're going to do the YC thing either way, the right answer is: renege on the summer offer. It's at-will employment, and your will is not to work there. Apologize nicely, and tell them you hope for future opport
927.
by aston 19y ago
I assume the technique involves betting on whoever's losing, and inversely so based on how much they're losing by assuming that the numbers will come to 50/50 in the end?
928.
by aston 19y ago
A fan of Microsoft fonts, eh? You should move to Constantia, the new hotness in serifery.
929.
by aston 19y ago
What's the basis for the claim "the sum of your points across submissions and comments does not equal karma"? Pretty sure karma = 1 + every point beyond 1 point for any comment or submission.
930.
by aston 19y ago
Were the code savings due to the change of language or the rewrite itself? My experience with PHP and Ruby leads me to believe that basically anything Rails does can be done on the LAMP stack assuming you have the discipline.

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