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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Great choices... I've seen Jesu and Isis live in the past month or so; they both were great.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place Post-rock is nearly ideal coding music.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
You're talking about automatic parallelization. There's been quite a bit of research done in this area, but the results aren't that great. Some languages (particularly functional ones) are better suited to automatic parallelization than o
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
I dunno... PG's articles don't make the top 10 on Reddit like they used to.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
No, or at least, not yet. It is written using Paul Graham's language Arc, which has not been released yet. Arc has been in development for quite some time and is occasionally the subject of vaporware jokes, but presumably it will become O
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
More signs that "Web 2.0" is the new "Dot Com." This particular company is way crazier than Pets.com and the like. Does anyone seriously think that parents of newborns -- some of the busiest people around -- will really have the time to p
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Interesting. All my friends at MIT absolutely hated Scheme after taking that class; I don't know what the general sentiment there is.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Just nitpicking here, but Citigroup turned a loss this past quarter due to mortgage-backed security writedowns. I think Google actually turned a respectable profit.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Not that I know of, unfortunately. I'd definitely be interested in hearing them.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
The Windows 95 sound (which I rather like) was done by Brian Eno, a noted ambient composer. From an interview Eno gave (found on his Wikipedia page): "The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Eh, I don't really expect the NYT to edit each and every blog posting on their site. Published articles from the print edition, sure -- but I'm willing to cut them some slack on blogs.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Some of those numbers seem extremely inflated. Sure, I can believe that 95% of "all users" watched Internet video in the past three months. But 32% of all users listen to music on their cell phones?! Nearly everyone I know has a cell pho
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Same here. I'm running Vista on my desktop now and I love it. Zero problems.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
I actually think Ning is a clever idea, but I don't see it as anything more than the social networking equivalent of Eve (commercial message board software) or Topica (commercial listserve software). If well-trafficked websites are willing
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
That book was OK, but the later parts (where he talks about CAPM and so forth) are uninformative to anyone who knows about modern mathematical finance. If you're looking for pop-math/finance books that could change how you look at the world
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
This article seemed a little strange to me: it seems almost obvious that getting an MBA is a bad idea for many areas of finance. I interned on a trading desk at a major investment bank last summer and will be starting a full time job there
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
No version for MacOS 10.3 :-/ I've resisted upgrading for so long, since 10.4 never had any particular appeal to me, but it's getting harder and harder to find apps built for 10.3.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Yet another example of how derivatives are transforming financial markets for the better by transferring risk to those best able to handle it. It's also a great example of how mathematical and computer-driven models are helping us understa
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
The woman they're talking about said "everything was suddenly more vivid and memorable." Presumably the event was so important that she remembered trivial details around her that she normally would have forgotten. It happens to everyone.
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
I'm not sure this is a great comparison. Many of the holders of subprime mortgage securities were mutual, hedge, and pension funds that focused on these securities by choice or by law. Even if they wanted to switch their investments to te
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
This seems like a strange statement to make -- for a lot of people, the careers aren't really substitutes for each other. If you like the life of pure research, why would you be interested in a startup? Likewise, if you like the action an
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by ctkrohn 19y ago
Well, how is your model different from my.mp3.com? As you might recall, they did a website where you could upload your own music and play it from any Internet computer, but were sued and eventually settled for $200m. http://en.wikipedia.o