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What's important in 11th grade?(xkcd.com)
7 points by erik 18y ago|2 comments
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by erik 18y ago
In the second tab I opened there is a car that makes it past the point that causes most cars to flip. The run currently times out at the top of the next hill, but the distance is still slowly improving.
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by erik 18y ago
I don't expect wikipedia to be a reliable source of information on this topic, but there is an entry that claims that hedge funds already do this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_trading
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by erik 18y ago
When slashdot ran this story, the readers commented that the results seem suspicious. Misconfigured power saving settings are likely the cause of the speed difference. http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1008879&cid=25...
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by erik 18y ago
Yes, but you have to pay apple, and be approved by them before you receive a developer key. Apple still plays the gatekeeper.
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by erik 18y ago
Can you share any examples of startups that you regret saying no to?
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by erik 18y ago
There is debate about the impact of reward on motivation. Motivation is a complex thing. http://www.physorg.com/news4126.html "George Lucas" I think that George Lucas has very aptly demonstrated that he is not a great artist. He got luc
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Tim Bray: No Venture Capital(tbray.org)
17 points by erik 18y ago|3 comments
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by erik 18y ago
"We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has happened before." I think Apple was being naive if they expected an NDA
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Kevin Kelly: Where ever attention flows, money will follow.(kk.org)
7 points by erik 18y ago|0 comments
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by erik 18y ago
It produced pretty nice results for "linux" but was less impressive when I wanted to learn about the "hmmmv" acronym.
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by erik 18y ago
I found a blog entry with some SunSpider runs: http://web-graphics.com/2008/09/02/scripting-engines-just-go... Unfortunately a TraceMonkey bug prevents direct comparisons.
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by erik 18y ago
I would make craigslist look good. A friend that teaches told me that Kijiji is taking off amongst his coworkers because it is more visually appealing.
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by erik 18y ago
I've read this before. But this is the first time I realized that it is written by Douglas Crockford, the Javascript advocate.
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A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.(canadait.com)
72 points by erik 18y ago|52 comments
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Kevin Kelly: Communal Genius(kk.org)
23 points by erik 18y ago|3 comments
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Vernor Vinge: Signs of the Singularity(spectrum.ieee.org)
14 points by erik 18y ago|19 comments
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by erik 19y ago
I've considered the similar approach of getting a job as a late night security guard on an industrial site. I've heard of the unending hours of doing nothing, and I think of the hacking potential. I wonder if anyone has ever created anythi
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by erik 19y ago
I'm actually taking a class from Schaeffer at the moment. He is perhaps a bit odd, but so far he seems to be a decent professor.
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by erik 19y ago
If they had split the 70 into 30 teams of 2 to 3 people, and each team tried to build their own prototype over the weekend, some interesting results would have been produced. Put the prototypes online, and have the participants select the
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by erik 19y ago
I've always thought reddit had huge potentail here, if only they would fix their broken search feature.
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by erik 19y ago
My first thought is that it sounds like a feature of a calendar application, not a feature of a social networking aplication.
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by erik 20y ago
Paul talks about the YC admission process. "At YCombinator we go through and rank all of the applications, then we take the top 30 for interviews." I bet there are a few people around here who would like to know where they placed in the la
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by erik 20y ago
I would like to see an rss feed of individual user's comments. An rss feed of http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg etc.