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Jay-Z and Alan Lomax(ethanhein.com)
4 points by bdr 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdr 15y ago
Agreed, and I didn't say they were.
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by bdr 15y ago
As long as we're talking about Bitcoin, mind clarifying your criticisms? it almost totally fails to achieve its security objectives, that it exploits a misperception about anonymity to handwave away the fact that for most users it is not a
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by bdr 15y ago
It doesn't matter which is more likely, only that there is some positive probability of the second option.
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by bdr 15y ago
This one always gets me. It's such a powerful moment.
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by bdr 15y ago
The right convention is also "obvious" to practitioners of combinatorics. The exponentiation x^y, for integer x and y, is the number of possible strings of length y from a set of letters of cardinality x. (Hence 2 8 possible bytes.) How ma
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by bdr 15y ago
I'd say Codecademy has the potential to create the most value. Lowering the barrier to learning to code will create a lot more coders.
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by bdr 15y ago
FWIW if you come home after midnight again some day, just change your time zone to Hawaii (and then back).
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by bdr 15y ago
See also http://www.youtube.com/startupschool for the 2008 videos. Omnisio's versions had the speakers' slides, but those seem to be lost.
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by bdr 15y ago
Do you find that you're writing a structured piece, or moving aimlessly from topic to topic?
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by bdr 15y ago
I don't think your conclusion about society's values necessarily follows. In a society that valued biomed more, you'd have to pay the same candidate a higher salary to get them to work in advertising.
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by bdr 15y ago
Because there are interesting ideas. Not everything has to be news.
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Deolalikar’s Claim: One Year Later (rjlipton.wordpress.com)
14 points by bdr 15y ago|5 comments
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by bdr 15y ago
In the 'top' family, iotop is extremely useful for identifying bottlenecks. It shows you the I/O rate per process, which wasn't even possible until a recent kernel.
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by bdr 15y ago
Better search, faster to navigate, faster to purchase, keeps me in my browser, and (parity) automatically appears in iTunes when it's done downloading.
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by bdr 15y ago
Is anyone surprised? Will you be surprised when Amazon is bigger than Walmart?
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by bdr 15y ago
Only above a certain mental floor. Calling it a floor in general is oversimplifying, it's a curve (Stephen Hawking, football player).
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After Much Ado, a Google Book Deal in France(nytimes.com)
3 points by bdr 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdr 15y ago
It seems like the mental/physical floor required to get a job is getting higher.
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by bdr 15y ago
I love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, usin
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by bdr 15y ago
Feel free to push back on any parts of the NDA you don't like. I've had success with this. Alternatively, just say "this NDA is too long and aggressive" and make them do the work of getting a friendlier one. Even an aggressive NDA, though,
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What does C++ do better than D?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
25 points by bdr 15y ago|17 comments
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by bdr 15y ago
Was it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barnes ? "For example, the word "photograph" (from Greek light+writing) would become "sun-print" (from Saxon). Other terms include "wortlore" (botany), "welkinfire" (meteor) and "nipperlings" (f
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Why God Hates German Words(techno-anthropology.blogspot.com)
180 points by bdr 15y ago|66 comments
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Multiplying 10-digit numbers using Flickr: The power of recognition memory(people.csail.mit.edu)
10 points by bdr 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdr 15y ago
Why did you have so many batteries?
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by bdr 15y ago
The point is that it would have been clear, had he thought a little harder or had more conviction. This kind of analysis is useful because it can affect future behavior.
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by bdr 15y ago
That's a linear extrapolation from the last two data points on the graph, but it seems to be growing super-linearly.
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by bdr 15y ago
I don't think you should use the accusation of trolling to silence unpopular opinions, or even wrong ones.
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W3C proposes Privacy Interest Group, seeking feedback on charter(lists.w3.org)
12 points by bdr 15y ago|0 comments

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