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by cjg 16y ago
The Paul Graham article "How to Do What You Love" has some tips in it that you might find useful. http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
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by cjg 16y ago
This is the most interesting bit: "Select a random number between 0 and 1. Now select another and add it to the first. Keep doing this, piling on random numbers. How many random numbers, on average, do you need to make the total greater tha
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by cjg 16y ago
No IE6 won't be around forever, but if, in 2014, they can directly upgrade to IE10, say, then they will have avoided going IE6->IE8->IE10 and thus have saved the cost of an upgrade. Makes sense to me.
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by cjg 16y ago
The difference in liquidity and fungibility of cash and laptops means that people would behave differently in the two situations. Most people know what to do with $500. Most wouldn't have a clue what to do with a stolen laptop, and wouldn't
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Twisted Torus(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by cjg 16y ago|0 comments
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Patents and the Exponential Growth of Technology(jadeleaf.co.uk)
1 points by cjg 16y ago|1 comments
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by cjg 16y ago
Overcrowding on the train.
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Resolving the Fermi Paradox using quantum mechanics(jadeleaf.co.uk)
2 points by cjg 16y ago|2 comments
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by cjg 16y ago
Survivorship bias explains his results.
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by cjg 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping
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by cjg 16y ago
Thanks for the link to this. Not that I think this book is the best thing for the OP (although he/she may enjoy it), but this is just the kind of book that I would like to read.
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by cjg 16y ago
One thing to consider. Some people will be relatively price-insensitive and will buy the most expensive option regardless just to ensure they get all the features. So, make your top price point higher than you might initially think.
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by cjg 16y ago
I would not pursue your opportunity with Company X. Perhaps they will let you start and then give you notice a week later with some excuse like "poor fit". Perhaps not. If you aren't happy in your current role then see what other companies
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by cjg 17y ago
From the suggestions made so far, it sounds like there are a variety of niches where this might be suitable. Tailor your offer to each niche - for example, you could offer a high speed courier (i.e. motorbike) option for those who are speed
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by cjg 17y ago
This could come in useful for large documents or many copies of a document. It could be significantly cheaper to print 1000 copies of a ten page document on dedicated hardware (and have those copies delivered) rather than try to print that
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A moral framework: evolution defines morality(jadeleaf.co.uk)
1 points by cjg 17y ago|0 comments
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Right Truncatable Primes(primes.utm.edu)
3 points by cjg 17y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 17y ago
I couldn't immediately get the video to play (IO_ERROR), looked around for something else that would tell me what the site did, failed, gave up. My recommendation - add a text based explanation of what your site is for.
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by cjg 17y ago
Of course, it's nonsense because a heart isn't infinite...
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Human heart is a Turing machine(igoro.com)
9 points by cjg 17y ago|4 comments
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Don't hash passwords? I say yes. Hash them And correctly(securecoding.ch)
22 points by cjg 17y ago|29 comments
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Why Apple wants to control apps(techtick.posterous.com)
1 points by cjg 17y ago|0 comments
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by cjg 17y ago
Tone down the colour scheme. My eyes hurt.
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by cjg 17y ago
But at least there is a reasonable reason for the Gomboc's high price: the exacting tolerances on the shape.
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by cjg 17y ago
I think that sampling bias has distorted the results.
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by cjg 17y ago
I would disagree that "more resolution is always better". If the resolution is high enough then, it at least some cases, text and icons are illegible.
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by cjg 17y ago
I use KeePass on a memory stick. When I need a password I can just plug it into whichever computer I happen to be using.
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by cjg 17y ago
Sorry, misread the parent post.
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by cjg 17y ago
According to http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/17x17chart.pdf c would be either 17 or 18.
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Nearest neighbour problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by cjg 17y ago|0 comments

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