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by fnbr 12y ago
Not in aggregate. The law of large numbers guarantees that we can come up with a meaningful average cost of ownership. We just need more data.
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by fnbr 12y ago
I disagree. If WhatsApp is worth $19 billion, Tesla's easily worth $75. Think about it: WhatsApp was valuable only because of network effects and the future potential it had to grow. Tesla actually has revolutionary technology and mass
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by fnbr 12y ago
My father works as an engineering consultant for major oil companies, and he has the same deal. He charges the companies for every hour he spends preparing for the presentation, so the actual presentation can be less than 10% of the invoice
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by fnbr 12y ago
Presumably the one by Charles Duhigg [1]. It was very popular last year. [1]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Power-Habit-What-Change/dp/18479...
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by fnbr 12y ago
I think he just means the normal matrix product Av (where A is a n x m dimensional matrix and v a n dimensional vector). Wikipedia covers matrix multiplication in depth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_multiplicatio
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by fnbr 12y ago
What do you mean by SR?
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by fnbr 12y ago
Are there serious startups in London solving challenging technical problems? I live in London [0] and the companies that I've seen at meetups and tech events are either startups with non-technical founders pursuing weak ideas, or finan
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by fnbr 12y ago
What's the name of the case? I'd like to look it up and read it.
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by fnbr 12y ago
Sorry, that's my mistake. I meant inserting it in mdp itself, as I thought mdp was a shell script. As mdp is written in C my suggestion doesn't apply.
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by fnbr 12y ago
How does ParseHub compare to Kimono [1]? I use Kimono daily (scraping government expense docs), and I love how it works on static sites. If you've managed to replicate that on dynamic ones, I'll be a very happy customer. [1]: htt
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by fnbr 12y ago
If that's actually an issue, couldn't you just wrap the output in par [1] ? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(command)
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by fnbr 12y ago
I've read a number of jvns articles on HN [1], and each one impresses me with how she is able to balance technical discussion with readability. I really enjoy her writing, and look forward to her next post. I applied to Hacker School s
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by fnbr 12y ago
How do you hire interns?
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by fnbr 12y ago
Unrelated to Tmux, what did you do to get the cool prompt?
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by fnbr 12y ago
At the same time though, as someone looking for their first dev job, I'm not going to tell the interviewer "don't do that." Given the people I've met in industry, I can't see that ending well- I would expect so
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by fnbr 12y ago
As a junior developer, I find myself confused by your comment. It seems as if a large proportion of the posts on HN claim that, when looking to hire someone, they focus on problem solving abilities and and culture fit. However, in May when
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by fnbr 12y ago
It wouldn't be any easier, because losing money & gaining money are actually the same thing- if you can predict which stocks will decrease, then you can short those equities (essentially buying negative amounts of the stocks), and
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by fnbr 12y ago
The issue I see with same-day delivery is that for it to be possible for a startup to beat FedEx, UPS et. al on price, there has to be some aspect of delivery that the existing companies are doing wrong (or inefficiently), or there has to b
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by fnbr 12y ago
I tried Clojure, and I quite like it as a language (especially the thread-first & thread-last macros [1, 2]). I don't, however, like the ecosystem surrounding it. I find Leiningen (while an excellent tool) far too heavy for the maj
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by fnbr 12y ago
Sorry, should have tested it. I'll edit my comment.
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by fnbr 12y ago
Cool service. It fits a nice niche as I have coworkers who don't have Dropbox (or Drive, Box, etc.) installed, so I can just send them a link to this site instead. I'll test it with them and see how it goes.
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Why I do all of my recruiting through LinkedIn(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by fnbr 12y ago
That's the real issue, IMO. It doesn't matter if Chrome has Dart as long as 2/3rd the market is using different browsers.
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by fnbr 12y ago
I love Dart, I think it's a great language. I hope that Google will start supporting it natively in Chrome.
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by fnbr 12y ago
That makes more sense. Thanks! I'll check out the paper. I was hoping you had some revolutionary new scraping method.
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by fnbr 12y ago
I don't know much about the civil service, but I know that most provincial assemblies have expense disclosures, at least for the elected officials, e.g. [1], [2]. Federal cabinet ministers also have to disclose all of their office expe
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by fnbr 12y ago
Do you discuss pricing anywhere? I'm very hesitant to commit to a free trial when I don't know how much the product will cost afterwards.
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by fnbr 12y ago
How do you use a probabilistic approach to scraping data? Were you able to get a low number of false positives?
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by fnbr 12y ago
I work as a research analyst for a Canadian provincial opposition party. Most government data is in terrible HTML tables, often dynamically generated, and almost none of it is in an easily machine readable format. I spend a lot of time down
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by fnbr 12y ago
I agree 100%. You make a good point regarding suing for detrimental reliance. Also, side note: I really enjoy your writing and read all of your blog posts. Keep it up.

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