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by dgreensp 14y ago
What's so phony about dressing up for investors? VCs live in suit land, so they certainly wouldn't get far with a visceral reaction to a dress shirt. I suppose a hoodie and sandals would show off how unique and eccentric you are? If anyth
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by dgreensp 14y ago
PG's well-known definition is "a company designed for growth". http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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Great work guys! ;)
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The answer is in the term "data warehousing" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_warehouse -- which has implication that you're going to be doing data mining on vast amounts of data, often historical data like logs or transaction histori
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by dgreensp 14y ago
The specific problems the author describes don't seem to be present today; perhaps they were fixed. That's not to say this conversions aren't a source of issues, just that I don't see any show-stopper problems currently in Node, V8, or Jav
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I played Glitch for a couple hours once and it's pretty obvious to me why it didn't work. After all the pre-launch hype about changing the face of gaming forever, the game was dreadfully boring -- you basically walk around and click on thin
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Wow, I wasn't expecting my email to Jeff to end up as a front-page blog post! The point here is that Markdown doesn't have a spec, nor do any of its variants to my knowledge, so I was proposing to come up with some Markdown-like language th
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Thank you, mind blown! Downloaded "Golly" ( http://golly.sourceforge.net/ ) and ran HashLife/metapixel. Life simulating life, and it runs in real time.
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In the abstract, a just-in-time compiler will beat an ahead-of-time compiler because it has more information, including statistics about control flow (which branches tend to be taken, etc.) and what exact instruction set is being targeted.
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Great article. Note that if you achieve everything in this article with respect to your work, you may actually become the person the author sets up a contrast with at the beginning: So, here is the thing right at the start: I’ve always be
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I agree. I took the headline as a hypothetical question. The system described is the most pragmatic of natural language processing systems, a lovely term that just means the input is natural language and there is some processing. I'm opti
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Careful, you can't legally serve these fonts with your app, you can only link to them. Am I the only one who finds this a big deal? It means you can't control the uptime of your fonts, and it seems like it would complicate development whe
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by dgreensp 14y ago
We are absolutely about to see it all pay off. Let's not discount universal access to information, first of all. I'm 28 and when I was in high school 10 years ago, it was right about the time you could now find the quadratic formula by sea
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I don't take serious offense, I just disagree with the article. Taken at face value it seems to be warning makers not to feel to good about themselves. As a personal belief system about making, it sounds like a negative, unhealthy one. T
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Also, making is sexy.
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I'm a maker and I don't agree with the moral judgment against sexiness, ambition, and creating freely without guilt. I've met very few "entitled" or "narcissistic" people, but I've heard the term thrown around a lot, usually to refer to peo
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I think by "open" we are not talking about hours here, but the fact that a non-MIT student can walk in off the street, wander the halls, use the libraries, and study in a classroom.
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You're drawing a valid but subtle distinction, and I think it's the same one I dug into by asking whether we feel Apple should have some expectation of patent protection for this sort of innovation, of all kinds. Superficially, promoting i
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I don't know enough to truly defend Apple's actions, but given that they started working on the iPad 10 years ago, and even when it was announced no one could figure out why it was a good idea until they used one... Apple has likely poured
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Are you offering? :)
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I'm surprised by the number of comments like this. jQuery has to parse the selector and figure out that it's of the form "#id". This requires running a regular expression. A lot more is happening. The whole jQuery call from start to finis
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Poor technology productized as DRM. Thanks for making my morning a little more sad, OP.
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"Food is simply too good to waste," the report says. "Given all the resources demanded for food production, it is critical to make sure that the least amount possible is needlessly squandered on its journey to our plates." Is this some ki
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by dgreensp 14y ago
That's just the point, neither imperfection nor simplicity leads to viability, but taking less time and delivering something more appropriate does. You can make something simpler by stopping too soon or thinking too long; make something im
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Yes, I also agree with the advice but not the conclusion. I suspect the only people in their 30s who can honestly say they spent their entire 20s in full-time pursuit of a career in their passion and got nowhere are PhD graduates. This
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Yes, a great explanation, especially the wrap-up at the end. You can see how people with too narrow a view of technical design would misconstrue this point. If you're hell-bent on (shallow) perfectionism, you perceive the dichotomy as perf
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by dgreensp 14y ago
"F_p" means the field of integers modulo p. Fields have addition and multiplication. If p is prime, the integers mod p have nice properties, like every one has an inverse. For example, F_7 is the finite field of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6. You can ad
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Yeah, it's definitely the kind of solution that makes you twitch a bit. The reason we wrote it is because we needed it now for meteor.com, and it wasn't too much engineering work (I think Nick wrote the first version over a weekend, and th
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by dgreensp 14y ago
I hope this Adobe-like visual branding strategy of "we have so many properties/products, let's just make a rainbow period table" dies a slow and horrible death. See: http://thoughts.shawncheris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/c...
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by dgreensp 14y ago
Indeed, every person is different, and every job is different. Corporations already create a huge diversity of jobs that can't be equated across companies. I can hire 100 programmers and say "your job description is to do whatever you wan

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