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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
"Smaller new tools emerge around the fringe of the market every day." Isn't that how all new tools emerge? I'm not going to disagree with the main premise which is that real innovation on the scale of the invention of the transistor are slo
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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
I was working on a CAD program in OCaml a year ago. It was an interesting exercise on what exactly is state, and what needs state and what state isn't (I'll post the program once I salvage my svn repo off the old HDD). In short, I found
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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
We've been through a Great Depression before. Economic and social lines were at least as strong then as they are now. At least we don't have Jim Crow laws now. Now, we have two coasts that are considered urban, not one, so it's actually
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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
He can't back up any of his assumptions (e.g. that oil is going to crash in the timeframe required for a "collapse"), but the last year or so of activity should suggest that something like this will probably happen on a smaller scale. As s
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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
So that got me thinking... an interesting question to ask would be: how do you implement "ship early, ship often" for the software running a car. That mantra has been one of the key facets of open source culture. We ship beta versions,
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by baguasquirrel 18y ago
I respectfully disagree with the other posters here. I feel that you need to judge each and every investments on its merits. The market does not move exactly in lockstep. When Goldman Sachs was at 85, it was an effing steal. I would sti