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by bachback 13y ago
I don't think so. It really depends on the leverage that the sole founder has. If he can bootstrap and has very high Return on Equity, he doesn't need capital. I think the point is really that there is very little reason not to gi
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by bachback 13y ago
Solo founders are rare for a reason. If you just hire people to do a job, why would the most talented people work for you? Doesn't make much sense in most cases if the founder has not already a lot of capital. I would say increasing th
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by bachback 13y ago
yes, they should be much lower. Essentially the reason is the lack of competition. MtGox charges so much, because they can. Simple. And big players are not entering the market. B24 charged 0.00% per trade (the exchange was taken down though
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by bachback 13y ago
Interesting. This is actually close to the original idea of hypertext (Ted Nelson's vision: "documents - side by side"). I would really turn down the tone. Let the reader decide how important he thinks the idea is.
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by bachback 13y ago
interesting. the anti-grammar of graphics.
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by bachback 13y ago
as of today Khanacademy had 294,329,180 views on youtube. I think that is a little more than a "half-baked initial version".
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by bachback 13y ago
the Khan format doesn't work for everything and the spectrum is probably much too wide, but the appeal is exactly that it is one guy explaining writing. that way the students experience the thought process, which is what most teachers
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by bachback 13y ago
thanks hackernews for deleting my post. I linked to the original source in the article and the post gets delted - what the...?
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by bachback 13y ago
Ah, Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer - Über Lärm und Geräusch http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Ueber_Lerm_und_Ger%C3%A4usch Interestingly enough his main ideas were influenced by Hinduism, but there was little known about Buddh
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by bachback 13y ago
AFAIK there is not a free lib which approach the commercial pdf generators. page-layouting can be complex.
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by bachback 13y ago
Interestingly enough this notion, that there is only this one type of probability was debated before Kolmogorov by people like Ramsey and Keynes. Now the subjective interpretation of probability is called Bayesian statistics, which is not a
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Personal Computing: Historic Beginnings (Alan Kay) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by bachback 13y ago|0 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
the very point of this is to lose some the old painful browsers (IE6/7/8) to make code much better. almost all work in cross-browser stuff is IE6-8. think of jQuery mainly as a bugfix for old IE's.
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by bachback 13y ago
great idea. there is so much in jquery, which we can lose. having thin layers on top of the standards is the way to go. what about events?
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by bachback 13y ago
The problem is not ==, but == for rationals.
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by bachback 13y ago
this guy is all about talking - compare that with Udacity or Khan.
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by bachback 13y ago
the problems I have had with numpy are endless. Usually I'll just prefer to write my own, because it's quicker. if you have tried to get numpy running on a cloud machine you'll know what I'm talking about. basically you
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by bachback 13y ago
This is what I don't understand at all. Imagine somebody in a different area of computing would say: oh, we solved that 30 years ago and now there is no room for improvement at all? why can't this be done at least in C?
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by bachback 13y ago
Nice proposal. I think the problem is numpy itself. If you could just do pip install numeric_package then nobody can complain. I don't quite understand why a package has to depend on LINPACK. I will probably switch to julia-lang, becau
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by bachback 13y ago
yes, I'm looking frameworks which have a more SPA approach and don't have the look and feel of a website. Two examples: https://gomockingbird.com is built with cappuccino, http://pixlr.com/ is built wi
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by bachback 13y ago
Thanks for the post. I'm mainly looking for advanced tables and window layouts. I will have to take a closer look. Any thoughts on the emerging standards like XBL and shadow dom in relation to YUI?
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by bachback 13y ago
these primarily deal with bindings, templating, etc. For RIA one needs complex even propagation. The difference in my mind is that RIA are much more like a workbench than a horizontal website. In a workbench you have toolbars, menus and pan
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Ask HN: killer JS framework for RIA
6 points by bachback 13y ago|10 comments
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by bachback 13y ago
I like the idea and might contribute to the source. I have the feeling the response to keystrokes is somewhat delayed? Type "asdf" for example and you will set it takes perhaps 1.5x more than it should and its not even.
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by bachback 13y ago
@InclinedPlane: I would suggest to you to ask yourself one question: what is the difference between a programmer and a user? if I code in language XY I'm already a consumer of a library called XY (and the operating system and the globa
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by bachback 13y ago
@ibdknox. I've started programming Clojure in LightTable the other day. How does programming differ from editing text? Can we use gestures to navigate and produce code? I'm working on visual languages which work well in certain do
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by bachback 13y ago
he is not allowed to talk about his ipad / Apple stuff. did TBL ship the W3C? protocols are the perfect example of shipping by design.
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by bachback 13y ago
A seriously bad article. I don't know the company in question, but there are always companies in industries that either a) are very profitable, b) not profitable yet, because they invest in growth (profit = sales - (marketing) - R&
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by bachback 13y ago
I like Rich talks and his main point for his invention seems to be: to get concurrency right. Clojure Concurrency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw
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by bachback 13y ago
how lame is that? " I do not profess to know what the startup-stage version of the Facebook equivalent is for cryptocurrencies but there are plenty of possibilities. To name a few with interesting prospects: YACoin, Litecoin, PPCoin, F

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