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by dsrguru 14y ago
Dan Gilbert's TED Talk does a great job demonstrating this ( http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.h... ).
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"Though both the Germans and Americans invented this chrome-plating technology in 1937 and 1950, respectively, it existed in China 2,200 years ago." Assuming all three forms of that technology are identical as the article makes it sound, th
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Broken systems always seem to pop up, as do ways of exploiting them to make money. Steal This Book describes all-expenses-paid vacations to gambling resorts that existed in the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. The condition was you had to buy hun
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by dsrguru 14y ago
I'm not a CL expert, but the existence of multiple implementations of CL doesn't appear to have caused much fragmentation. The language did evolve beyond the standard (e.g. threading and the meta-object protocol), but if I'm not mistaken a
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by dsrguru 14y ago
This really just seems like a matter of definition. Rather than viewing LISP dialects as fragmented forms of one original language, we can view Common Lisp, Racket, and Clojure---the three main forms of LISP seen in "the real world"---as t
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Yes, I set those keyword searches myself. So the difference seems to be that with DDG, you just have to learn which shortcuts exist rather than customizing them yourself. That doesn't really sound like it saves much time, but it sounds li
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Ask HN: Is +1 considered some form of Google intellectual property?
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But how is that different from regular keyword searches? If I want to pull up the Wikipedia article on sushi in Firefox, I enter "w sushi" in the URL bar. If I want to read the Arch Linux wiki article on pacman, I type "arch pacman". If
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Just out of curiosity, what does DuckDuckGo do that conventional keyword searches in Firefox or Chrome don't do?
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Oh that actually makes a lot of sense. Okay, let's have my previous post read "all that's left is to add a feature to sort by location" :)
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Cool concept. It might be a lot more useful if you get as many users as possible as quickly as possible (i.e. no invites), and if you add a feature to sort by location...
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Do realize that homeschooling has its cons as well. It can certainly provide a better academic education than a regular school if you use more efficient teaching methods than schools do, but you'll need to also expose your child to real pe
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First of all, Korean and Japanese are very similar. They're in different language families because they are not believed to have been evolutionarily related (more closely than other languages in other families), but they are in fact incr
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palish, if you have enough knowledge and are willing to invest the time given ~$1M, seriously make a kickstarter project. If this is actually both possible and doable like you say (I don't know anything about oncology), assuming it's pract
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I'm waiting for the NAND or NOR gate...
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Don't forget those Lotus Elises and Exiges.
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Just out of curiosity, what makes the 996 and 997 models a different car from 993 and before?
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That can't be true. If NT-based versions of Windows implemented a system call mechanism that protected the kernel from users, XP wouldn't have been ridden with viruses, and there would have been no purpose in giving Vista and 7 the access
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> This virus spreads from visiting malicious websites or websites with malicious ads. Since not much browsing happens on servers, there is no reason to target them. Servers have a lot more information (thousands of credit cards, email a
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I don't think small market share was ever really a reason that Mac OS X didn't get traditional viruses. UNIX-based servers have always had a huge market share, and since servers are presumably a more desirable target of infection and crack
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by dsrguru 15y ago
A lot of people would argue that a CEO's job is to innovate and that profit is just a means. Starting a company (and making yourself CEO) doesn't mean you have to change your priorities from improving the world to increasing your annual re
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by dsrguru 15y ago
I've always tried to say "sue doo" to be etymologically correct, but it always seems to come out rhyming with pseudo. :)
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Yeah, it's almost always the home page unless the blog is styled to look like a completely separate part of the site. Here, it would be less confusing to go right to your home/about page. I do like that your about page is located at the r
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Here at least there was a link to return to the home page, but it was titled as an about page, and the link that was titled as a home page was actually the blog home page. But yeah, I've definitely seen sites like that where they give you
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Nice post! Just a UI suggestion, you want to make it as easy as possible for readers of your blog to learn what your product is about. Currently, clicking on the big blue "Projector" text only brings you to the blog's home page, not the s
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by dsrguru 15y ago
The point is we have to determine how to define a five-star item, a four-star one, etc. Currently, an Amazon item's star value is the average of the star values of every review. The author is saying that that's a bad way to compute the it
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I've always envied people who could do that. A friend of mine told his mathematics professor a riddle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_permutation_statistics#O... ) that had taken my friend hours to logic out. The professor began tal
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by dsrguru 15y ago
This might not be the best legal advice, but I personally would let it play out as much as possible before hiring a lawyer. It is my understanding that a preponderance of evidence burden (over 50% certainty) in practice really means they h
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by dsrguru 15y ago
Twitter (Scala) and ITA (Common Lisp) come to mind, and I'm sure a number of startups are using Clojure with Ring, Compojure, or Noir. If by "production" you mean application domains of software that startups typically write, the more stati
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That's really cool! UNIX was an answer eight times, but Linux didn't come up at all.

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