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by dood 17y ago
Mark Liberman at Language Log has doubts: [ http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2227 ]
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Economists and Financial Analysts: Physics Envy May Be Hazardous To Your Wealth(arxiv.org)
2 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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by dood 17y ago
This would make the HN frontpage much more useful to me, and also make me see more new stories. It is pretty frustrating to keep visiting the homepage and 1/3 of it is stuff I know I have no interest in.
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by dood 17y ago
The greatest ally of the programmer: getting off your ass. After a little back pain, I made a few changes which make me feel a whole lot better generally, and make it much easier to get and stay in 'the zone': - take breaks regularly - stan
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by dood 17y ago
I don't think the system needs changing - sometimes submissions just get unlucky and/or have a bad title. Just try again a while later, or hope someone else does. Nothing wrong with that as long as you aren't spamming the post (imo). My hig
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by dood 17y ago
This was not marketing, easy, or common - this was exceptional attention to detail and focus on getting the highest quality experience to the customer, which Cameron should certainly be recognized for (whether you liked the film or not).
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by dood 17y ago
Indeed, the story at the beginning has little to do with the actual point of the article except in the most general sense, and moreover it baselessly seems to imply Steve Jobs doesn't care about data. Weak linkbait.
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by dood 17y ago
This is a great video.
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by dood 17y ago
I also taught myself programming/CS as a teen. Funnily enough, I later ended up teaching my computing classmates because the real teachers were so bad. One teacher was so bad that one of his lessons actually removed my understanding of some
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by dood 17y ago
2+2 = 4. There is nothing to collaborate on or debate in that. There's not time for students to spend hundreds of years going through the process of complete a priori discovery that pioneers in fields of knowledge did. This isn't at all w
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by dood 17y ago
From the FAQ: Why don't I see down arrows? There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
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This is bullshit - we must move past the one-way lecture to collaboration(buzzmachine.com)
13 points by dood 17y ago|12 comments
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by dood 17y ago
They work by sending huge amounts of spam. For them, it's a numbers game.
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by dood 17y ago
Very relevant is the phenomenon of simultaneous invention (which if correct throws serious doubt on the usefulness of patents) discussed in a fascinating Gladwell piece about Intellectual Ventures Laboratories. I'm far from a fan of Gladwel
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Donald Knuth tells his story [video](peoplesarchive.com)
2 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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by dood 17y ago
But once you finish, you can do anything Except walk. Kidding aside, I agree these are great exercises to get the blood going. I need to get back into practice!
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The classic game Snake in 3D using stereograms(hidden-3d.com)
6 points by dood 17y ago|3 comments
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by dood 17y ago
I find the 10 minute limit quite odd. I assume you've thought it through, but it seems to me that the cost of spending a little more time interviewing would likely pay for itself many times over in better decision making. Especially after w
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by dood 17y ago
He explores various strategies for using Betfair other than arbitrage, outlined here [ http://automatingbetfair.blogspot.com/2010/02/four-trading-s... ] He also notes that simple arbitrage opportunities have long been exhausted [ http://aut
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Automating Betfair - a blog about Gambling and Technology(automatingbetfair.blogspot.com)
27 points by dood 17y ago|11 comments
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The Advantages of Being Helpless: Human brains are slow to develop(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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by dood 17y ago
Of course they lie, they are completely open minds designed by nature to experiment with the world in order to survive, and therefore pursue any strategy they find will benefit them. Random fun link: Learning from children: strategy, tactic
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by dood 17y ago
Submission title is bizarre. No talk of failure, let alone "why".
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Creating a toy virtual machine with PyPy(indefinitestudies.org)
3 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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by dood 17y ago
Interesting as this guy seems to follow a similar approach to that suggested in the recent popular post, "How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter" [ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1107828 ]
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Q&A with someone successfully employing the 400 $1-a-day projects approach(reddit.com)
3 points by dood 17y ago|1 comments
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Conversation with Metafilter Founder Matt Haughey(suemedha.wordpress.com)
5 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments
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by dood 17y ago
There is a lot of middle ground.
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by dood 17y ago
It seems we would have much further to fall before genuine survival is imperiled. I quite agree, things have to get a lot worse before most of us here are seriously affected. But I think it is worth being aware of the trends. To quote Gib
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Ask PG: vote weighting or editorial adjustment?
1 points by dood 17y ago|0 comments

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