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by charlief 16y ago
Regarding: "Adobe's shares rise as much as 17 percent" Just a small detail, but the above bullet exaggerates the indicative reaction of the market. It was up 17 percent for an instant because someone fat fingered and bought it for $30.00 e
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by charlief 16y ago
Understood, but probably would have been better posed as an Ask HN submission.
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by charlief 16y ago
Related post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315819
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Dead Bodies Captured By Brazil’s Google Street View Debut(techcrunch.com)
5 points by charlief 16y ago|4 comments
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It's Easier to Be Brilliant than Right(american.com)
1 points by charlief 16y ago|0 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
Agreed, but I think the best evidence of large sponsorship is in that factory system recognition and parameter modification code. We don't really understand the sophistication until it actually chooses to execute, but access to those kind
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by charlief 16y ago
I've deleted my submission as it was a dupe. It was a link directly to the source code page. http://code.google.com/p/liquid-galaxy/
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Mystery of Disappearing Proprietary Traders(bloomberg.com)
2 points by charlief 16y ago|0 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
A key point missed in the article is the SRP. It will retail for anywhere between $80 and $100. This is a lot for a pretty simple set of functionality. http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26635 iPod Nano 6G manufacturing cost
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What Booze Looks Like Under a Microscope(time.com)
2 points by charlief 16y ago|0 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
jerf was being sarcastic and transitioned to his point with "Ahem". Let us all celebrate the ambiguity of text.
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by charlief 16y ago
While I do agree those principles are useful, I think introducing those topics would diverge the focus of the book. I think the goal was of introductory nature not comprehensiveness.
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by charlief 16y ago
Dupe, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1731380
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Apple clobbers the competition: The carnage of Apple’s spectacular success(marketwatch.com)
4 points by charlief 16y ago|1 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
Google's net income in 2009 was 6,500M 10M/6500M = 0.15% So if you make $100K a year, this is more like giving $150.00 If you gave $150.00 to a homeless person, you deserve props. If you gave $150.00 to Khan Academy, you also deserve prop
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$10 million for Project 10^100 winners(googleblog.blogspot.com)
59 points by charlief 16y ago|19 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg On $100 Million Education Donation(techcrunch.com)
18 points by charlief 16y ago|13 comments
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The Social Network and docudrama dishonesty(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by charlief 16y ago|0 comments
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Relativity comes down to Earth(nature.com)
17 points by charlief 16y ago|3 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
Just curious, what kind of analysis are you thinking of doing?
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by charlief 16y ago
Scala, I've had a lot of fun with it. You can also try generative and meta-programming using emf/gmf/acceleo maybe some xtext as well. Learning exotic frameworks can be useful/fun as well. Maybe try a different domain like physics, finan
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by charlief 16y ago
That is sharespost's estimate of Facebook's worth, not what Facebook is actually worth. Hopefully if this thread was a little less heated, at the basics this is a discussion on estimating the present worth of Facebook. A decent estimate wo
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by charlief 16y ago
Blockbuster Canada is unaffected by the U.S. bankruptcy and is still financially stable http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20100923/bankruptcy-protect... I wonder how the US and Canada businesses diverged, maybe less competition in Canada.
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by charlief 16y ago
Peter Travers (Rolling Stone)' only 4 star rating of the year, 100 on metacritic, which takes a mean-average of critic ratings implying perfect reviews, although sample size is 4 on metacritic, 2 of which are also on rottentomatoes. To not
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by charlief 16y ago
I always thought of swearing as some kind of instinctual or emotional entity, I doubt it was deliberate, but more likely he's been drinking the haterade.
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by charlief 16y ago
You figure he could be a little more professional. I guess a strategy for managing reputation risk is swear like a sailor in response to criticism and always ignore any specific concerns.
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by charlief 16y ago
Impeccable timing, Wallstreet 2 comes out in 2 days
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Censorzilla [2004](jwz.org)
2 points by charlief 16y ago|0 comments
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by charlief 16y ago
but HN is one fine and diversely educational distraction that is sometimes applicable to work. I can't say the same for FarmVille in 99% of the cases.
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by charlief 16y ago
Original report was posted on HN a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1458175 Original Nanex report: http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Intro.html

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