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   by brent 19y ago

   Wait a second! So he donates $28 million to a hospital and you are complaining? You can't be serious. When you donate $28 million to a better cause I'm sure we'll all like to hear about it. Until then, I hope I don't run in to "people li
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   by brent 19y ago

   Also, what is a "...a hybrid between a social networking site and a traditional blob..." ?
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   by brent 19y ago

   I think Huxley had it right. Know something about everything and everything about something. -T.H. Huxley
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   by brent 19y ago

   There's nothing wrong with starting indices at 1 (or n).
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   by brent 19y ago

   Yeah. That's what happens when you have Dan Friedman and Kent Dybvig on staff.
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   by brent 19y ago

   Which is funny as he appears to have gone to cornell.
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   by brent 19y ago

   How is this modded down at all? I've found this is exactly the case.
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   by brent 19y ago

   How do people like this always find something to complain about? Enjoy the brilliant, cheap album and complain about something that matters.
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   by brent 19y ago

   I've seen a lot of instances recently where some of the worst design (at least to my _untrained_ eye) is on sites promoting good design.
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    by brent 19y ago

    I have to agree that CLRS is probably the most thorough, but as a bare introductory book to someone learning on their own (who probably is not currently in a computer science program) I would recommend Introduction to the Design and Analysi
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    by brent 19y ago

    What if it led to being as healthy as a 20 yr old for 85 years.... then we just kill ourselves off! Quality is greater than quantity in that light.
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    by brent 19y ago

    Also, try to narrow it down into 5 lines. I'd be curious what you come up with.
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    by brent 19y ago

    Sure. Most complex ideas can be simplified into succinct, formal mathematical statements, but that doesn't mean I would prefer reading the formalisms in place of prose.
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    by brent 19y ago

    GEB (Godel Escher Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid ) Read it because no matter who you are, what you know, and even whether or not you've read it before it will make you think critically and you will learn something.
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    by brent 19y ago

    Ha! I just re-read it. Good call. I totally misread pg's comment, but still stand by the points I made.
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    by brent 19y ago

    I'm not sure its a bad sign per se. It should just be a wakeup call back to reality (a good thing!). I (temporarily) bailed on the startup world for graduate school because most of it was uninteresting, unproductive, cutesy cruft. It may
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    by brent 19y ago

    That assumes that you aren't reading anything prior to posting. My guess is he blows 30-60 minutes a day.
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    by brent 19y ago

    No, AdSense is a business model in which there is a simple javascript widget interface. The model is money in exchange for advertising across billions(?) of websites. A startup is created and launched when there is a business model that u
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    by brent 19y ago

    This business would be analogous to a lemonade stand. The people in the past would understand it just fine.
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    by brent 19y ago

    There is a long history of artists, musicians, and writers that would completely disagree with that statement.
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    by brent 19y ago

    You ARE getting trolled. This guy managed the development of linebuzz.com (had you heard of it? I hadn't) and knocks advice from a previous program manager of excel (software that is on nearly every computer on the planet) and owner of a s
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    by brent 19y ago

    Maybe an analogy is due. In the car world there are all kinds of people who strap on after market accessories to make their cars faster. These people are in the "fad" part, where as the underlying "advancement" may be decades old.
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    by brent 19y ago

    I'd count them as an advancement as soon as they are added to the body of knowledge. XMLHttpRequest has been around for nearly a decade. A decade ago the "advancement" was there. It took almost 10 years for the fad to build up. If someo
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    by brent 19y ago

    Fads usually come with a fair bit of unsubstantiated hype (like RoR and Ajax) whereas algorithms (and such) are not usually hyped at all in the media (sometimes due to copyrights on their publications [journals] and sometimes due to academi
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    by brent 19y ago

    I don't know what your ultimate goals with news.yc are, but I like the site how it is. Unfortunately, as has been seen at reddit and digg, the bigger the site gets, the lower the quality of the posts and conversations (see: http://en.wiki
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    by brent 19y ago

    I can second the first "high" (sleep dep + pot of coffee). Afterwards I usually crash pretty hard though. I do usually find the time extremely productive. Maybe because the rest of the world stops being interesting from 3-7am.
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    by brent 19y ago

    I aggree with tx and Laurentvw, but (once again) Steve has missed the point. People who follow loads of links on digg and reddit are not high valued readers (maybe gullible enough to click on ads, but mostly college age geeks). He's on th
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    by brent 19y ago

    Although most/all academics are aware of facebook. If they had an interest in this they would be using facebook to do it.
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    by brent 20y ago

    On the contrary. We got an interview and rejected last fall. It was a great experience to meet the four of them. I think we brought a great idea, a plan, and little diversity in our team (I was the only geek in our garage). We were swif
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    by brent 20y ago

    May I ask what grad school you attend? Why has it been one of the best decisions? People? Projects?