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541.
by caffeine 17y ago
A tweet for carnivores.
542.
by caffeine 17y ago
Yikes. Potty mouth.
543.
by caffeine 17y ago
OK, a huge one for me is "No serious technical questions in the interview." Seriously - if you don't show me code in the interview (preferably code from your products), then I don't really want to work for you. If we don't have at least o
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by caffeine 17y ago
I'd like to see Gates U. really be "Informal U." Experts in various areas organize little seminars of variable lengths and talk about whatever they want to talk about. Students find people who know what they want to learn, and ask them to
545.
by caffeine 17y ago
Oddly, self-help gurus seem to enjoy the opposite phenomenon (i.e. those who can't, teach self-help seminars). I remember at one point this guy Richard(?) Kiyosaki had a book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad." In it, you basically found out that Kiyosa
546.
by caffeine 17y ago
The author's mind is beyond debugging, and needs a complete rewrite.
547.
by caffeine 17y ago
He's right, though, +34 was way too high ... must've struck a nerve.
548.
by caffeine 17y ago
Does anyone know if this has a Push/Subscribe functionality? Machine-oriented twitterpedia is too good a buzzword not to have an implementation somewhere..
549.
by caffeine 17y ago
I give it six months before he starts whining about how everyone in SF is a "douche" and fuck them because I'm the genius who wrote Lamson... whatever.
550.
by caffeine 17y ago
Ah; sorry. My posted wasn't pointed at you. I didn't mean technical MS employees .. I meant the marketing/propaganda folks, who can certainly be counted upon to attempt to sway popular opinion in Microsoft's favor through targeted post
551.
by caffeine 17y ago
It seems like a bunch of Microsoft employees must've found HN recently. There's been a huge surge in pro-MS articles that are devoid of hacker content.
552.
by caffeine 17y ago
Nobody's mentioned it here, yet: Godel Escher Bach
553.
by caffeine 17y ago
After the water supplies are contaminated, the soil is rendered infertile, most ecosystems implode, and the climate changes ... sure, some humans might survive. But I wouldn't envy their lives of eating cockroaches and moss and delivering
554.
by caffeine 17y ago
Some points about this: (0) There is no maintenance diet. Getting sharper is necessary to be sharp. If you're not getting smarter, you're getting dumber. (1) Reading is NOT the solution. Much as regular masturbation does not much impro
555.
by caffeine 17y ago
Depends on what you want. Option 1: web hacker guy (doesn't take long). Option 2: skillful, reasoned programmer guy (takes way longer). Option 1. Python is not a bad choice, and neither is Ruby. In either of those languages, in a couple
556.
by caffeine 17y ago
Virtual goods paid my rent in Tokyo for a year. I wouldn't buy them, you wouldn't buy them, but ... some people buy them. Enough people.
557.
by caffeine 17y ago
This discussion highlights why these questions are so difficult and frightening: ethics prevents good science. Randomly sample a bunch of kids, hook them all up to monitoring devices, put them in different schools and societies that invol
558.
by caffeine 17y ago
Does this mean I have to change my username?
559.
by caffeine 17y ago
Jeremy Tanner is a somewhat nonsensical dude.
560.
by caffeine 17y ago
Oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly (except for the single-handedly part; many people had a hand in it). But the title of your post says "Mathematical Theory of Claude Shannon." And there's no math. Even though it is relevant and intere
561.
by caffeine 17y ago
What?! There's no math! http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd... That's more like it, no?
562.
by caffeine 17y ago
That would be very interesting (to me, at least). In particular, I'd be curious to know how you test your inferences. I guess you could run it on the NetFlix/GitHub prizes ... but in general, I'm finding that getting reliable data on whi
563.
by caffeine 17y ago
I think you really need to think about what you actually want to do with your time. In other words - if running and growing this company is more fun/exciting than not doing so, then do it and take the associated financial risk. If you'r
564.
by caffeine 17y ago
Wrong. It's not a substitute for data when generalizing about other people. But data is no substitute for life experience when making decisions for oneself.
565.
by caffeine 17y ago
Directed Edge is pretty cool. So far, though, I think we've been hearing a lot about their graph database, and not much about how they're actually going to do recommendations. Personally, I think the latter is the harder problem.
566.
by caffeine 17y ago
It's important to distinguish weight loss from fat loss. We want the latter - the former in itself is not particularly desirable (except perhaps for ice fishing). - When I exercise, I tend to build muscle (and sore legs). - When I eat less
567.
by caffeine 17y ago
I think a fundamental question is "Why does the content rating come with an age attached?" Because that's really what causes stigma. In other words, if NinjaWords was simply required to put a warning on their app that says, "This dictionar
568.
by caffeine 17y ago
So, to become creative .. I should light up a Cohiba, pour some rum, and have kinky oyster-eating tuxedo sex with a bevy of Amex-charging escorts? This sounds curiously like something the Most Interesting Man In The World might do (his bloo
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by caffeine 17y ago
To sum up: "If crushing resistance doesn't require blood, what's to stop an epidemic of resistance-crushing?" Nothing. Already, there's nothing. Resistance has been crushed. On some other thread, they're about to lock a guy in a cage for
570.
by caffeine 17y ago
This is crazy, especially in California, where jails are completely overpopulated (the jail currently holding Hans Reiser is designed for ~1700 people and currently has ~3400). Agree with ujjwalg - sending someone to jail for that is craz

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