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by earl 17y ago
You have to respect John for seeing what type of company, within the bounds of feasibility, would make him happiest and pursuing that instead of going for as much money as possible. Very 37 signals ish. Of course, it helped that John had
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by earl 17y ago
I used to agree with you, but I think that both people and companies have an interest in preserving the conversation. Not every, or even most, conversations, but certainly some.
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by earl 17y ago
While 301works might not be just a bit.ly stunt, it certainly was disproportionately important to bitly not to have a glaring example of the negative effects of URL shorteners staring people in the face -- they encourage link rot and offer
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by earl 17y ago
You have heard of, say, the EU, Singapore, Canada, Japan, etc? No?
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by earl 17y ago
Scribd is hiring in SF/soma http://www.scribd.com/jobs or email directly to me, either way {rails|flash} engineers
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by earl 17y ago
Um, who are you, what are you doing, and why do you want to see a startup office? Here's pics of one of them: http://blog.earlh.com/index.php/2009/07/building-a-zip-line-...
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by earl 17y ago
Thank god there's another of us :) Also, you don't have to go straight to YC -- pick an alumnus.
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by earl 17y ago
Do you have js disabled? Will try to test on ff / ubuntu
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by earl 17y ago
In what browser does your scroll wheel not work? It works for me in firefox and safari.
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by earl 17y ago
You can change the layout -- click More -> View Mode -> List Mode will do vertical scrolling, not book style L/R scrolling.
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by earl 17y ago
They're in deep trouble, the second I can count on our website visitors having a HTML5 enabled browser.
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by earl 17y ago
All of the election polls that I'd seen predicting a 2-1 win also had 40-60 percent of the respondents not responding. That they all broke for Ahmadinejad seems... unlikely.
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by earl 17y ago
I would say no: Because if the tests are independent, then something is well and truly broken! Your bernoulli CDF is for independent draws. Further, consider a hypothesis test. You feed it a desired chance of type I error -- say 0.05 -- a
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by earl 17y ago
You are, frankly, speaking nonsense. As you pointed out, the tests will assuredly not be independent of each other. Second, what you have calculated is... I don't know. You are calculating the cumulative distribution function for a binomi
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by earl 17y ago
Since I recently did something similar in R: d <- read.csv(file='~/stuff/earlh/Iran_2009.csv', header=T, sep=',') lastDigit <- function(v){ v - 10*floor(v/10) } digits <- lastDigit( c(d$Ahmadinejad, d$Karr
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by earl 17y ago
Wow -- incanter looks terrible. All that code to run a chi2 test and a plot?
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by earl 17y ago
Oh thanks! I suck for missing that... Code for above: d <- read.csv(file='~/stuff/earlh/Iran_2009.csv', header=T, sep=',') lastDigit <- function(v){ v - 10*floor(v/10) } digits <- lastDigit( c(d$Ahmadi
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by earl 17y ago
You can go straight to their website, but here is an alternate analysis. My apologies for not having time to do both their analyses, I'll try when I get home, but I have to run. Grab their data: Iran_2009.csv Then: (apparently I can't embe
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by earl 17y ago
It's not unreasonable to expect that the last two digits of the voting counts should be distributed uniformly. Given that we also know that the wiring in human brains keeps us from properly sampling a uniform distribution by hand, the artic
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by earl 17y ago
If Grant doesn't see how an "'orgasm simulator', which showed a female face working through 4 or 5 expressions up to orgasm as he moved the mouse up and down. It was crude, and didn't really have anything much to do with his theme, but it w
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by earl 17y ago
FYI: the person uploading a document for sale is allowed to choose from {website only, website + pdf download, website + adobe drm download}.
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by earl 17y ago
Um, no it isn't impossible at all. It's called statistics and all sorts of government organizations collect a bunch of them. While it is impossible to finely estimate, it is nothing like impossible to come up with pretty good estimates. A
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by earl 17y ago
Profits normally (an economist would say always, but they often forget monopoly and rent seeking via government) move out of commodized services and into noncommodities. Hence you should expect to see such behavior.
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by earl 17y ago
I can't recommend "High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles Ferguson highly enough. He basically had the idea for the internet then, after Netscape launched just as he was creating a st
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by earl 17y ago
Gah. People who think that the poor are lazy and shiftless are scum. Some of the poor maybe be lazy and shiftless, but having middle class / wealthy parents doesn't just give you money and education and health -- it also gives you the very
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by earl 17y ago
Yeah. That reality is a major reason for my progressive politics. Plus the fact that my parents both grew up poor, obviously through no fault of their own, and I think a rich nation should do more to help it's poorest.
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Everyone should read this link by John Scalzi, as well, as a companion to this article. Being Poor: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
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by earl 17y ago
Yes, but it's not just living expenses -- I was thinking along the lines of can your parents float you $25K for startup costs such as equipment and working capital? How about $100K? Is it a big deal if they don't get it back, ie is this t
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by earl 17y ago
There seem to be 4 routes: 1 have rich parents (not kidding) 2 work part time until you can get angel investment 3 a pre-angel incubator ala YC 4 live somewhere really cheap and use savings In the two startups I've worked for, I personally
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by earl 17y ago
Most of Scribd reads HN. Oh, and I hope this isn't too forward, but if anybody out there would really like to be working on a startup and you're good at rails / flash / web dev, hit up me or us.

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