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by earl 18y ago
Why should it be done clientside? Far better to do it on the server; something like the latex to svg projects that already exist is probably ideal.
842.
by earl 18y ago
Ah, cool -- it's just that my servers don't run X. Or really have enough ram to spare to add 30 copies of X, mozilla, and other associated stuff. I really just need a relatively compact parsing engine.
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by earl 18y ago
Sorry, yes -- I definitely don't want a running mozilla process. Plus it's not at all clear that it's possible to run mozilla headless, though I didn't look that hard.
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by earl 18y ago
I briefly looked into doing this. The answer is pretty damn difficult, at least in the case of mozilla.
845.
by earl 18y ago
Well... or email me. It's in the profile.
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by earl 18y ago
Disrespectful? So what -- Joel's comments sound accurate, particularly after reading the letter. The phrase "architecture astronaut" ran through my head over and over while reading the email. Along with arrogant ass. In particular, this
847.
by earl 18y ago
Wow, both a journalist and lawyer were too stupid to figure out how the tax code works? This really isn't rocket science. Every time journalists and newspapers whine and carry on about going out of business... they need this quoted to them
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by earl 18y ago
Love it. Please oh please oh please oh please let more web devs do this.
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by earl 18y ago
Why is it be surprising? We just witnessed these banks lose hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars of shareholder wealth, probably hundreds of billions of dollars of bondholder wealth... and bonuses fell by half.
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by earl 18y ago
The big buyers will people who don't want to spend $1.5K on a macbook. Particularly once you start seeing these w/ built-in EVDO / whatever cards, I think they'll be everywhere. Consider most people on the internet -- do they use it for m
851.
by earl 18y ago
Says the dude named yummyfajitas -- that's a great username. But seriously, that was my favorite bit of that movie: Pippin: But what about breakfast? Aragorn: You've already had it. Pippin: We've had one, yes. But what about second breakfas
852.
by earl 18y ago
Does the license even permit this? I'm not going to do the legwork for you, but I'd examine this very carefully with the help of a lawyer who has worked on these sorts of issues before. This may mirror the driver issue in the linux kernel
853.
by earl 18y ago
Take a nap, feel better, then triage. Do things in priority order and don't stop working on item #1 until it's finished or you're blocked. In your spare time, read Getting Things Done. Even if you don't like the book, it's decent advice.
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by earl 18y ago
I'd bet that if you changed your site a bit you could get decent ecpms -- maybe even in the $6-$8 range. Also, links to amazon / whoever sells the software. If you want to talk more, hit me up over email.
855.
by earl 18y ago
I strongly disagree. Russia made major purchases to support the Ruble. Viz January '09: Russia spends $30B in a week http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aalw... $40B sold in Oct, keeping ruble in desired band http:/
856.
by earl 18y ago
I hope not too -- Russians seem to keep getting the short end of the stick. Nonetheless, Putin has burned through something like 1/3 of the foreign currency reserves in 6 months, trying to defend the ruble and rescue the stock market. Fur
857.
by earl 18y ago
To be fair, one point at least seems accurate -- falling oil prices will probably doom Russia's government. This has happened before: see this very interesting book by economist and former Russian PM Yegor Gaidar: Collapse of an Empire. I
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by earl 18y ago
Well, his only example was this, so when the shoe fits... Tierney frankly conflates political agendas with making your best guesses about the future given current knowledge and resource constraints. He's a global warming denier version 2.0
859.
by earl 18y ago
Short summary: the author of this opinion column disparages Obama's science nominees because when they weigh in on global warming and CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, they don't treat ignoring the problem now and removing CO2 from the at
860.
by earl 18y ago
Well, even if it can be done, why? There are perfectly fine languages that don't fight you every step of the way. This, btw, is the content of the front page since the site is hosed. [quote] Functional Java is an open source library that a
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by earl 18y ago
Out of curiosity, where / what do you do? Feel free to email in profile if you don't want it public. I'm always curious about what people are using R for professionally.
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by earl 18y ago
That's a pretty remarkable price elasticity of demand, and it kind of makes me wonder about the rationality of the purchasers. If a game costs $50, a 25% cut merely saves you $12.50 -- that is enough to more than double revenue? Odd.
863.
by earl 18y ago
Well, lots of porn / porn-ish stuff has ecpms well below $1. I'd bet that includes /b/, the image board, the rapidshare links, the torrent board, etc. Further, I can't imagine many ad companies are jumping up and down to serve ads on boar
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by earl 18y ago
well, yodle and reachlocal, amongst others, are trying to answer that question In general, though, it's hard to do well. Problems include the fact that many people don't turn to google first thing for pizza, that google still doesn't do a
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by earl 18y ago
Yeah, the blog author manages to bring the stupid. Perhaps he should go take a look at alexa, and note how every site not owned by Microsoft uses so-called cult operating systems?
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by earl 18y ago
Here are a set of links: http://www.vetta.org/recommended-reading/ I'd second the recommendation of Bishop if you can hack the math, and also Elements of Statistical Learning, though I wouldn't attempt to learn techniques from the latter
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by earl 18y ago
Don't be histrionic -- Obama isn't discussing changing bankruptcy law every month. This is a single change. Further, it resolves some nasty agency issues where securitized mortgages that can't be reasonably modified -- the servicing agenc
868.
by earl 18y ago
Oh please. Contracts get modified in bankruptcy all the time -- in fact, the inability to modify mortgages is the exception. In a standard business reorganization all contracts are capable of being modified by the judge or by consensus of
869.
by earl 18y ago
Sigh... this is why you can never trust a Republican. Putting people who don't want government to work in charge of making government work has lead pretty directly to the financial disaster in which we find ourselves. The Democrats are no
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by earl 18y ago
I'll quit my startup and work as one of these execs too -- I have no experience at all running a large financial firm, which means that I have a chance of getting it right while every current financial executive has a strong track record of

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