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by dschobel 16y ago
It's all about perception. I had a friend who used to run a restaurant in NYC. They used to get complaints every once in a while about the serving size for their wine by the glass. The solution? Smaller glasses of course. Complaints dropped
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by dschobel 16y ago
the Washington Post had a fantastic series which tried to get a handle on the complexity of the intelligence services operating in America today: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articl... here's the leader: The top-
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by dschobel 16y ago
His description reads more like an indictment of mediocre enterprise code shops than anything specific to .Net. It seems self-evident that the farther off the beaten path you go with languages and tools the higher the concentration you'll f
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by dschobel 16y ago
They affect where the comment shows/ranks on the page.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I was wondering whether PG invests outside of YC if he likes a team more than his cofounders do.
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by dschobel 16y ago
You have two options-- you can submit great stories or you can complain. Choose wisely.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Atlas Shrugged Mediocre novel, tremendous ideas. The prose is a slog but worth it. http://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Shrugged-Ayn-Rand/dp/0452011876/
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by dschobel 16y ago
Exactly. He just showed that he has minimal foresight or too low a threshold for what he considers "must learn" languages.
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by dschobel 16y ago
1. Learn the Java syntax; go through some hello world tutorials and then some OSS code to guide your way. 2. Read http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/ 3. Recite one of the lessons you learned from #2 and impress the interviewer so th
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by dschobel 16y ago
The same way Zappos just sells shoes? A nice UI, efficient operations and customer service which doesn't actively hate you can make a pretty compelling value proposition.
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by dschobel 16y ago
the article addresses hedge funds near the end.
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by dschobel 16y ago
The fundamental problem is that liberties in the abstract are too hard for people to appreciate. It takes an old fashioned grope-fest at the airport to get anyone to notice anymore. So the people aren't crazy or corrupt, they just have diff
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by dschobel 16y ago
Not sure why research is being trotted out as a negative. My ability to do research as an undergrad alongside phd students and post-docs was the highlight of my academic experience and got me my first job. If you want a school where the pro
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by dschobel 16y ago
It's not athletics; at a large state school those programs bring in a heap more money than they cost to operate.
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by dschobel 16y ago
I agree that as a practical matter it does what you want a majority of the time but generic collections let you mandate that an author has thought about equality for his object at least a little by implementing IEquatable. Particularly sinc
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by dschobel 16y ago
His argument is that the concept of equality will vary by application and a default implementation adds very little. For example, does it make sense to test equality on a filestream? Probably not, but it's there and it purports to have some
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by dschobel 16y ago
not a transcript but some notes of his wishes and complaints for the language. ---------------------------------- wish: static interfaces for use in the context of generic type constraints static interface ISummable<T> {
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by dschobel 16y ago
Precisely. Whether you're getting shot down in dating or "not being accepted" for the <x> slots for YC, at the end of the day it is the same thing-- you / your pitch are coming up short in their opportunity cost calculation. Frankly
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by dschobel 16y ago
Whoa, a recursive comment. Very cool.
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by dschobel 16y ago
You have to think that if the professor really could identify the culprits he'd be limiting the retakes to them. Maybe the real test here is for the students to realize that there is no "forensic analysis" in the world which could identify
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by dschobel 16y ago
Another neat microwave physics experiment if you have kids, measure the speed of light with a microwave + chocolate bar: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/02/leftover-valentines-cho...
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by dschobel 16y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately the Nature article is behind a paywall but the original paper is available on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9908043
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by dschobel 16y ago
If you've gotten to this stage it may be time to get professional help.
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by dschobel 16y ago
You're too generous. The author knows he caught MS red-handed: "What sorts of code does the analysis work on, other than the exact function included in SunSpider ?" (emphasis mine)
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by dschobel 16y ago
Even with the noblest of intentions, I don't know how proper it is to take the hackernews brandname for your own site. At the least I think you ought to consider putting a disclaimer on an 'about' page somewhere stating that you are not aff
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by dschobel 16y ago
Finally, a compelling reason to become wealthy.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Unfortunately not too much info in there beside the fact that he didn't work on project titan.
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by dschobel 16y ago
That wasn't me.
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by dschobel 16y ago
Well according to the story they raised another $5M so some people obviously aren't staying away.
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by dschobel 16y ago
But at Facebook and Twitter the chance to become very wealthy within the next few years is substantially greater than at Google.

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