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by chunkbot 16y ago
I don't like Google putting artificial restrictions on what I can do with my data. But I also prefer permissive Apache/BSD/MIT licenses to GNU GPL, so maybe that's just me.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
My brain eliminates tail calls, so it's just an infinite loop :)
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by chunkbot 16y ago
My company, stealth web-scale database company, is developing a web-scale database to help web-scale companies solve their problems with web-scale data... our secret sauce is our web-scale database.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Actually, a social network without 1) growth and 2) preferential attachment is not a scale-free social network.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I think you both mean "objective", not "subjective".
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Does WePay process payments themselves, or do they use a third party payment processor?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
It all comes down to "smaller piece of a bigger pie". http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html
128.
by chunkbot 16y ago
The title isn't a question, it's a statement. I'm pretty sure Mr. Stonebraker's English is better than that.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
GoodNYCApartments.com is available, if anyone wants to start the Five-Star-Yelp equivalent.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
"We wanted closure"; left the mess for Lisp. Indeed, the explicit use of closures is closely associated with Lisp.
131.
by chunkbot 16y ago
They're designing and building fighter jets, not deciding what color to make a website.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The _business model_ makes sense, because the sale of these unlocks are practically all profit, and thus they can sell at multiple price points. It's just not right in a moral sense to prey on uneducated consumers like this.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Can someone explain how they _actually_ collect the data?
134.
by chunkbot 16y ago
If there's a "single page" option, I prefer that to "printable". I don't mind ads, but I hate to click through three pages just to read an article.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
This includes all the large banks and financial services firms (Bank of America, Citi, AIG, etc.), which to me all feel like ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden implementations of half of a bank.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I was being sarcastic.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
"Ponzi Scheme for Traveling" would be pretty cool. Each traveler would send $1, and fund the previous traveler's trip.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Texts from Last Night for Your Mom! Database Abstraction Layer for World of Warcraft! Mobile Ecosystem for Ugly People!
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by chunkbot 16y ago
We're fitting a lot more into a wooden block than we used to.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I am happy to see that CERN uses Oracle extensively, presumably for the data that matters. Our tax dollars should only go to a reliable, proven database solution.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
That's a good choice too. I was just more familiar with the 6310i; Sir Philip Green had bought a lot of them.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I love that here on HN you frequently get comments from the original author or subject of the article.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm a great advocate of startups, but I'm also the first to admit I'm an asshole.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
After selling his company to Yahoo for $5.9 billion in Yahoo stock, Mark Cuban personally architected a hedge of his enormous wealth with synthetic indexes, taking a $20 million cut for six months of protection before he could hedge the act
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Actually, it sounds like a classic Nokia (like the 6310i) might be perfect for you. Works great as a phone. Works great for text messages. Works great for a clock, alarm, calendar, and address book.
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A Chip That Digests Data and Calculates the Odds(nytimes.com)
4 points by chunkbot 16y ago|0 comments
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I believe that homelessness is cheaper to solve than to manage. However, it may be easier to manage (ignore) the problem than to solve.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Then you've never worked in Lower Manhattan.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Why the downvotes? When I see the statement, "it was the additional supply of calories that made the difference - not some magical ingredient of meat", I want to see research. And the phrase "diet Taliban" doesn't belong in this discussion.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
That's a convincing argument that higher population density improves collective intelligence, but says less about the individual.

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