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by diego 12y ago
Scott Adams is wrong. There are angel investors who invest in unproven companies, even at the concept stage. I'm one of them, and I prefer to invest in people. There are people who I'd invest in before even knowing what their comp
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by diego 12y ago
That has nothing to do with static or dynamic typing. -1/3 is a clojure.lang.Ratio. java.lang.Math/abs is an overloaded method that knows nothing about it. If you want that to work, wrap it in a float or use abs from clojure.math.
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by diego 12y ago
Check out https://github.com/sgrove/omchaya
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by diego 12y ago
You do realize that you can play hundreds of poker hands in a night. For your analogy to hold, you'd need to be able to start companies for a million years.
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by diego 12y ago
I could not get out of the pop up in any way, it locked my browser entirely.
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by diego 12y ago
It looks even worse than three years ago when I wrote a similar post: http://diegobasch.com/why-twitters-growth-has-slowed-down-an...
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by diego 12y ago
I tried to navigate away from the page in the middle of the song in Chrome and got a warning popup about leaving the page that was completely uncloseable by clicking on either option. I had to kill Chrome processes one by one until I random
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by diego 12y ago
My first thought in Clojure. (let [+ (partial + 1)]
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by diego 12y ago
"When it invests in its companies, Y Combinator values them at US$1.7 million, of which each founding team owns $1.6 million. This implies that founders must earn substantially more than $100,000 per year" I have no idea how/
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Match only valid roman numerals with a regular expression (2008)(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by diego 12y ago|0 comments
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by diego 12y ago
If you'd like to see interesting solutions to this problem, I recommend solving this 4clojure exercise: http://www.4clojure.com/problem/104 and then looking at solutions by experienced Clojurians. Some are code go
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by diego 12y ago
fn itself is a macro, fn* is a symbol defined at the compiler level: static final Symbol FN = Symbol.intern("fn*");
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by diego 12y ago
Because you're paying a huge price for a small amount of convenience: you are trusting a third party so you don't have to deal with a lightweight server and a few gigabytes of data. It's not like they are providing access to
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by diego 12y ago
If you're serious about building a Bitcoin service, you don't need an extra layer between you and bitcoind (or bitcoinj). If you find it too hard to deal with the blockchain on your own via those apis, you probably should think tw
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by diego 12y ago
You'd have to examine their source code, which should be prominently linked on their page: https://github.com/hivewallet/ Personally, I would not trust a bitcoin wallet that advertises itself as "the fastest,
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by diego 12y ago
|It'd be nice if the java VM was 12k as well. Why would that be nice? You surely know how complex the JVM is, and how different it is from a basic, single-threaded LISP interpreter running on bare metal on proprietary IBM hardw
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by diego 12y ago
There's an unusual amount of bullish articles about Twitter's stock these days, and one must wonder if it's related to the post-IPO lockup expiration coming up next week. http://www.forbes.com/sites/timwo
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by diego 12y ago
Ok, I'll put myself out there. Since I sold my company to LinkedIn (2011), I've been looking for something interesting to do. I found it with cryptocurrencies. I've been playing with Bitcoin and Dogecoin for a while, and writ
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by diego 12y ago
People use throwaway accounts all the time. All you need to do is describe your skills and what you're looking for, as well as a way to contact you.
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by diego 12y ago
|This is ignoring the other side of the equation. For someone to spend bitcoins, |they had to have bought them for cash. This is not true. 3600 coins are mined every day. The people with the most incentive to spend coins are earl
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by diego 12y ago
What's interesting is that kids who started programming in the 70s / 80s did use desktop computers. I was one of them, I started programming in 1983 with a TI99/4A. The computers I used at school had floppy disk drives, so I
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by diego 12y ago
"The sum of these events make it impossible for Ada Initiative to partner with GitHub at this time." Why? It doesn't follow from the description of the events. Have they spoken with someone at Github? Are they being pressured
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by diego 12y ago
This reads like a prejudicial post, based on a biased interpretation of unclear events. Not what I would expect from an organization whose goal is to fight against prejudice.
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by diego 12y ago
What the author does not seem to understand is that some people actually enjoy doing hard things. 35,755 people signed up for the Boston Marathon yesterday, and paid for it. Why pay to run 26 miles when you could be having a lazy Sunday bre
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by diego 13y ago
Looks very cool to me, but it may be a bit daunting for people who know less about cryptocurrencies. The issue at hand for me is that most of us want to get "normal" people involved with cryptocurrencies. I'm very interested
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by diego 13y ago
Thanks, fixed!
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by diego 13y ago
There was no network involved, it was Cryptsy's internal db (just like mine). Also, for blockchain-based cryptocurrencies transactions are seen by most nodes within seconds. When I withdraw from the site to an address that I just made
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by diego 13y ago
BTW, author here. If anyone wants a few dogecoins to see how the site works, email me. I'm dbasch at Google's popular email service.
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by diego 13y ago
I paid for the certificate on StartSSL.com, and it's class-2 valid. I wonder why that's happening to some people.
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Show HN: cointipping.com – send dogecoins easily to anyone
10 points by diego 13y ago|1 comments

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