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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Vanity Fair is a bizarre magazine. One day they'll publish a penetrating article by Michael Lewis on the Irish financial crisis. The next day they'll have a great article about a team of English mountaineers, two of whom died on Mont Blan
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
I'm really not sure how this is different from Last.fm. I use Last.fm for all the purposes mentioned in the article: keeping track of what I listen to, finding new artists, following friends, etc. Am I missing something?
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Actually, Chicago is the font on the original iPods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface)
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
I work with Brian at the Cambridge Coworking Center. His work ethic is absolutely absurd, and he deserves every bit of this success. It's an awesome and inspiring story.
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GreenGoose: A true story of living the entrepreneurial dream(bostinnovation.com)
2 points by ctkrohn 16y ago|1 comments
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Ah, good point on why we should look at employment vs. unemployment. Makes sense. I was tempted to argue that the decline in construction doesn't support the "obsolete jobs" hypothesis, because the jobs were created by an overheated housin
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
This article is unpersuasive. Each of the supposedly anti-IPO changes had a very good reason behind it. These should be seriously considered before reverting to the old way of doing things: #1: This is really a consequence of the other fa
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Which jobs were made obsolete? If unemployment were technologically driven, you would expect IT to have less unemployment relative to other industries. But that's not the case. Paul Krugman had a pretty good post on the topic: http://kr
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Ah yes, forgot about the Alpha port of NT. It's a little-known fact that Windows NT ran on non-Intel architectures: besides the Alpha version, there were MIPS and PowerPC ports.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm in the article, previously tried to create a market in box office futures: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/business/media/08futures.h... Cantor is a brokerage firm at heart -- I dealt with them frequently whe
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
I grew up using a Intel 486-powered DEC workstation. DEC's legendary machines were behind them by that point, but I still have plenty of nostalgia for that computer. 16MB of RAM was a lot of memory in 1993.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Another vote for Square One. They've been extremely helpful and offer great service. They'll be happy to put the money in CDs or in an interest-bearing savings account, and will also be able to advise you on what's common for startups at
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
"So Page—so integral to what makes Google Google that its central PageRank algorithm is named for him—is pushing his way into the CEO job, leaving Schmidt as chairman." Really? I was always under the impression that PageRank got its name b
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
The Amiga had an m68k-series CPU, so Linux will run on it too, just as it will on old Macintoshes. For more info, http://www.linux-m68k.org/
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Doesn't seem like he's calling Facebook a fraud. But Enron had a famously superstar-driven culture. In particular, they had a fairly strict employee ranking system. Every year, each employee would be assigned a quintile based on performa
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
It's encouraging to see that Kasparov framed his famous tournament as "programmer vs. machine" rather than "man vs. machine." In hindsight, it's easy to chalk Deep Blue's victory up to computational inevitability, but there was some seriou
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Don't forget Matplotlib. Great-looking visualizations built on top of the Numpy stack.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
No! Do it! Fork my trivial program and put up your results. The square is a pretty interesting place to start, though, since we already know there's a relationship between quadratic polynomials over the naturals and the distribution of pr
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The Ulam spiral: hidden structure among the prime numbers(bitbucket.org)
118 points by ctkrohn 16y ago|39 comments
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
"Debugging: considered with dread, attempted with reluctance, bragged about with enthusiasm" Not sure what the original source is, or even what the original formulation is, but it rings true to me.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
I actually disagree that people's actions reflect their beliefs more than their arguments. I suppose these are fundamental assumptions that you can't really present much evidence for either way, but I do think that people try to hold thems
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
No, not at all. I certainly agree that piracy is open to debate. I meant to say that everyone agrees hypocrisy is wrong. If that's the most obvious reading of my comment, the downvotes make a little more sense...
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Oh come on. It's easy to call someone a hypocrite -- everyone agrees its wrong, whatever their other moral principles might be. The failures of an individual don't really have much bearing on whether the individual's moral beliefs are rig
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Great answer, thanks.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Many of the comments below talk about potential legal liability from rejecting a candidate in an inappropriate way. Would someone care to clarify the sort of problems that can arise?
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Kind of sounds like my Powerbook G4 from a couple years ago. Pretty remarkable how quickly things change.
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
For what it's worth, Lipton writes an excellent blog. It had very good coverage of the Deolalikar P=NP question, and continues to be interested even to those of us without a theoretical computer science background. Well worth adding to yo
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
I love 90s techno-optimism. Pick up some old issues of Wired for this sort of thinking. The Internet was viewed as a transformative, unstoppable force for freedom. From an engineering point of view, we're closer to that ideal than we eve
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by ctkrohn 16y ago
Building software like we build bridges. There are a lot of things wrong with this analogy, but I think it still encapsulates a nice ideal. We'd like to get it right the first time, and make it last with minimal maintenance. (This is for s
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Zed Shaw: Tir Web Framework Officially Up(sheddingbikes.com)
132 points by ctkrohn 16y ago|68 comments

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