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by berrow 12y ago
What percent of that do you think came from people working working either smarter or harder? I'll tell you. Close to zero percent. One word: Automation. One phrase: 'increasingly capital intensive as opposed to labor intensive&#x2
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by berrow 14y ago
Nice presentation. And it plays into the fact that managers, no matter what they come up with, always seem to think that it should take "about two weeks".
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by berrow 16y ago
I concur with Dave's points. I'm very happy with my Kindle DX. I love to read and I love that it is focused so well on that activity.
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by berrow 16y ago
Formal CS education has many merits, but listening to the interview made me realize that aptitude, motivation and a conducive training environment can go an incredibly long way in producing competent developers. Countries like India have v
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Ask HN: Can Wolfram Alpha be made to calculate time series ratios?
5 points by berrow 16y ago|0 comments
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by berrow 17y ago
Also see http://www.findabetterbank.com This has "Up-to-date checking, savings and money market account information for over 11,000 US cities and towns and over 53,000 branch locations."
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Google's Eric Schmidt on why bankers deserve little sympathy and Obama does(telegraph.co.uk)
32 points by berrow 17y ago|29 comments
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Clojure vs Ruby & Scala -- Transient Newsgroups(bestinclass.dk)
3 points by berrow 17y ago|1 comments
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by berrow 17y ago
Thanks. I think that should be in the FAQ.
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Ask HN: How to search for submissions by keyword?
1 points by berrow 17y ago|3 comments
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Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear?(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by berrow 17y ago|0 comments
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Benchmarking JSR-223: JRuby, Rhino, Groovy and Jython(tiagofernandez.blogspot.com)
1 points by berrow 17y ago|0 comments
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by berrow 17y ago
But it's "Simulated Real-Time". Kind of like "Real, simulated indian jewelry".
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by berrow 17y ago
I have quite a number of those too. Some of the PDF's display better than others. The problem ones have the text bunched in one area and one artifact (a 'cut' mark) in the whitespace area. This stops the DX from zooming up to just the non-w
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by berrow 17y ago
I loaded it in less than a minute through the USB to my Kindle DX. It displays fine. In fact it looks very good!!
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Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure (54 minute video interview)(channel9.msdn.com)
37 points by berrow 17y ago|4 comments
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Decentralization of _why's Projects(whymirror.github.com)
49 points by berrow 17y ago|19 comments
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by berrow 17y ago
I hope it can be resolved soon. I am really missing New Mogul
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by berrow 17y ago
I wondered how internet usage featured in this, so I referred to http://www.bls.gov/tus/ In there it says "Computer or Internet use may be coded as work, education, volunteering, or relaxing, depending on how the respondent identified the
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How Different Groups Spend Their Day
2 points by berrow 17y ago|1 comments
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by berrow 17y ago
Aside from the lack of full transparency, are you saying that generalized second-price auctions are not really auctions or that auctions with reserve prices are not really auctions?
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The huge-scale real-time auctions that power the Google profit machine(wired.com)
46 points by berrow 17y ago|14 comments
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by berrow 18y ago
This sounds like the google algorithm for account termination has some hair-trigger based on chargebacks. It basically means that a disgruntled (or just plain vindictive) customer can take you out on a whim regardless of the truth of the cl
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by berrow 18y ago
Thanks, that works really well
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by berrow 18y ago
You need a login to see the videos from the links shown. Only Harvard students will have that. Unless you go to http://www.cs171.net and choose "2008 Videos on iTunes U" Then (through iTunes) you can get to CSCI E-64 which seems like the