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by dmoney 18y ago
Glad I could help.
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by dmoney 18y ago
Apparently there's been some research into this topic: http://xkcd.com/323/
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Love, Internet Style(youtube.com)
242 points by dmoney 18y ago|43 comments
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by dmoney 18y ago
I'll scam you for only $59.
515.
by dmoney 18y ago
...but have so far found the transaction costs of alternative compensation structures to be too expensive and or risky. From an employer's or employee's perspective?
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by dmoney 18y ago
Seems like it would make more sense as a per-user option. If you make it mandatory, you could still make the hours configurable. Personally, I'd find some other way to procrastinate at a given moment.
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by dmoney 18y ago
Just my idle speculation.
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by dmoney 18y ago
I don't think focusing on search will save Yahoo. If it wants to stay independent and survive, Yahoo needs to redefine itself. Basically it needs a Steve Jobs.
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by dmoney 18y ago
> An interesting side question is just how do people parse natural language in real time so accurately. We have hardware support for massive neural nets:) I would guess that as we read/listen we speculatively build several different pa
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by dmoney 18y ago
It was $20m[1], which seems large to me, but I seem to remember the argument being made that it was likely too small a return to get their investors to agree to it. [1] http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/xobni-walks-away-from-a...
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by dmoney 18y ago
How did you get to that point? Are there programming-specific typing practice tools or exercises?
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by dmoney 18y ago
Touche. Still, tanstaafl.
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by dmoney 18y ago
Ingenious way to get free clothes.
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by dmoney 18y ago
If you believe it takes 10,000 hours to become Fucking Awesome, it will take 10,000 hours to become Fucking Awesome. Of course it must take many hours of practice at a given activity, but 10,000 is just a number (and Fucking Awesome is vag
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by dmoney 18y ago
"The user interface on search hasn't changed for six years. You still get the same dull, boring ten blue links for God's sake. Can't we do any better than that?" No, this is the perfect UI for search. What results are found could be better
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by dmoney 18y ago
A grammar nazi, complaining about your using "being" as an action verb.
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by dmoney 18y ago
This must be like in the Princess Bride, where they each pretend to be left-handed, so the other will underestimate them.
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by dmoney 18y ago
What do other countries use instead of checks?
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by dmoney 18y ago
Free as in beer, or free as in paid for by taxes?
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by dmoney 18y ago
You should learn American. Dynamic typing makes it much easier to use.
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by dmoney 18y ago
That annoys me as well. I was born in May '81, so I'm voting you up instead of one of the poll options.
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by dmoney 18y ago
In the programming world, there is a healthy ecosystem of bloggers. If Steve Yegge switches to Twitter, I quit. One great thing about the web is that you can structure your content however you want.
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by dmoney 18y ago
Perhaps Greenspun's Tenth Rule ("any sufficiently complex C program contains an.. implementation of half of Common Lisp") applies as well to Java programs containing JavaScript. The question is whether Lisp and JavaScript contain each othe
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How Silicon Valley joined the superstitious fringe as the enemy of open inquiry.(discovermagazine.com)
8 points by dmoney 18y ago|5 comments
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by dmoney 18y ago
Your comment makes the page scroll horizontally. It's bad Feng Shui.
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by dmoney 18y ago
Finding all the places you've used your e-mail address that you forgot about: $15 Deleting your profiles from these places: Priceless
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by dmoney 18y ago
http://www.harveycartel.org/metanet/corporate/letter16072004...
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by dmoney 18y ago
I agree with what several others have said: I don't like the huge text in the search box, and I need to see more results on a page. Search results were relevant when I tried "how to make a damascus blade". When I tried to find a story I've
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Names and Signs for Logical Lonnectives(flickr.com)
7 points by dmoney 18y ago|2 comments
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The Secret to Raising Smart Kids(sciam.com)
51 points by dmoney 18y ago|22 comments

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