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by caffeine 16y ago
I think it's more like publishing. They lease a bunch of space (apartment space, ad space), and they have a bunch of clients who want to use the space (people, ads), and they match them together.
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by caffeine 16y ago
I really like the Mathematica language/environment. You can prototype stuff incredibly quickly, the algorithms are fast, and the viz is really nice. I wish the open-source alternatives weren't crap ... or that I had the time/intelligence t
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by caffeine 16y ago
What he's saying applies to research nowadays too, especially biology-related. People in e.g. my lab (neuroscience) come from EE, Bio, Physics, Medicine, Stats, CS ... It's working, though. Care is getting better than ever. Science i
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by caffeine 16y ago
If you can't hold the territory, then surely it wasn't really "taken" to begin with? More like "visited"? It is probably a symptom of our ill-calibrated tactics that even the lexicon we use to talk about this is illogical.
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by caffeine 16y ago
Maybe http://github.com/preston/ruby-prolog then? Edit: or http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?tiny+prolog+in+ruby (not sure if they're the same..)
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by caffeine 16y ago
Use Prolog.
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by caffeine 16y ago
I recommend http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rocaml
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by caffeine 16y ago
They tested their software on 5 weeks of data from mid-2005, chosen because those weeks have no "atypical" movements. Which means that this algorithm would've been just as cooked as any human being would, no more and no less. The problem i
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by caffeine 16y ago
> In short, how can I become smarter? Work thoughtfully and hard, and take nothing for granted. That's it. > How can build a great foundation where I can understand the concepts intuitively? You're lucky, because you're in college.
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by caffeine 16y ago
Ha! I chuckled because I assumed he was making good-natured meta-humor about the rising levels of PG appreciation going on... I guess what I like about HN is the high expectations it allows us to keep.
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by caffeine 16y ago
I think his best option is to sell TM2, but "Pay me what you think TM2 is worth." This way, he sticks to the letter of the free upgrade promise - one can get it for free - yet benefits from what seems to be a very profitable way to price
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by caffeine 16y ago
I agree with you that Lean & Bootstrapped are just buzzwords that say nothing about the product. But I think MVP does. He's saying the product is simple. It's useful when giving feedback to know the author considers this a minimal prod
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by caffeine 16y ago
Darn ... I'm halfway through writing one of these. I guess I just have to make it better..
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by caffeine 16y ago
"I wouldn't build anything critical on it until at least version 0.2" Ha! It's a brave new world. It used to be you needed a whole version number under your belt before critical stuff could be built..
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by caffeine 16y ago
It doesn't really say much about performance...
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by caffeine 16y ago
Would you mind saying a bit more? They're showing up at my uni. in a couple weeks, would be interested in knowing a bit about them. Specifically, are there opportunities to deploy my elite computational statistics-fu? ;)
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by caffeine 16y ago
Don't get me wrong, "database as a service" seems cool and all, but ... inventing the future? Don't you have to be a rockstar or a ninja to do that?
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by caffeine 16y ago
We share common ancestors with houseflies who have a day to find a mate. We were at one point small furry proto-mammals who mated almost exclusively by smell and aggressiveness. It no longer takes too long to evaluate intelligence. But
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by caffeine 16y ago
They released the video, didn't they? That's the raw info (assuming they haven't doctored it). It is true, however, that they stamped it with their own interpretation, which is that the slaying of a dozen people was indiscriminate. This is
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by caffeine 16y ago
We wouldn't ever have heard of this soldier if it weren't for the WikiLeaks video - and if they hadn't sensationalized it, nobody would ever have seen the video. They did exactly what they were supposed to do: get the raw info out there, so
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by caffeine 17y ago
Any chance there's some way of modifying the buffering in that video? It's excruciating to watch it stutter through every frame, when I know that 10x-ing the buffer size would completely solve my problem. (This is a fundamental issue with F
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by caffeine 17y ago
I think it shows closed-mindedness on his part. They taught him analysis at MIT, but they didn't teach him to think properly. You're a guy with a degree from the top technical school in the world and you've got one of the world's most pres
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by caffeine 17y ago
Geez, I can't BELIEVE that my incredible world-wide communication network containing the knowledge of ALL humanity and powering the future .... has REDUNDANT content! It sucks!
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by caffeine 17y ago
“Well, shit. It’s not SQL. What do I do now?” Fantastic.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Indeed, this is the sort of fiasco Microsoft wishes that money could buy. "I'm a PC ... because Windows DOESN'T wipe all your data without asking first. " But I think your comment is still vast overkill. The fact is, I get really, reall
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by caffeine 17y ago
Yes.
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by caffeine 17y ago
Not to be HN-litist, but I think this post is drawing questionable comments in particular because it's linked in several places from Reddit, from which we are likely receiving a flood of users uninclined to self-moderate.
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by caffeine 17y ago
I want to help them out by writing software, but I live in a CIA-infested country (the UK) and these reports make me genuinely afraid of reaching out. While I greatly admire their courage and respect their cause, I'm not really brave enoug
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by caffeine 17y ago
Indeed .. most people (see roback's dead comment below) have no clue what their mantras even mean.
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by caffeine 17y ago
That is hacking.

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