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by frig 18y ago
I've done some digging, this is actually an interesting case. Here's from a few weeks back: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/17/dc-bar-fight... It's worth reading for details. Bystander verdict: - there's almost no conceivable
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by frig 18y ago
5¢
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by frig 18y ago
Thanks for this. Lenat's probably the best-positioned guy out there to back-infer some of alpha's design and limitations from a two-hour demo; this is the most informative summary I've seen.
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by frig 18y ago
But now we come full circle: The underlying data: not proprietary (do you really think membership in the DC Bar, of all things, is "proprietary"?). The presentation of said data on the DC Bar website: presentation is proprietary, data is st
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by frig 18y ago
Try to read faster than your knee can jerk. quoted from page 2 of the article: The Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland, the state's legal licensing body, provides Avvo with information for 34,000 lawyers, including the name, addre
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by frig 18y ago
Yeah, it's the rule, and it's relevant but not in the obvious way (like: you wake up at night and the SEC has kicked down your door and shot your dog b/c you're not an accredited investor but have investments that they think you need to be
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by frig 18y ago
There's a problem with being litigious: it closes doors for you, and you'll probably never even know what doors they were...if someone does their due diligence, sees you're litigious, and decides not to contact you, it's quite unlikely they
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by frig 18y ago
Oh certainly, Java's missing a heck of a lot more kinds of expressiveness than just literals; I was just trying to show, mutatis mutandis , what a Java-with-decent-literal-syntax would be like, as compared to the current state of affairs.
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by frig 18y ago
Eh, don't read more into an argument than is really called for. The crux of the above argument is usually something like: In most nontrivial programs you'll wind up with a lot of "sophisticated" code that performs some task but has a ton of
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by frig 18y ago
Why do you group two points into (c)? The difference between (b) and the second half of (c) seems unclear: what's the difference between (b) (the decider) declining to invest marginal resources and (c.ii) deciding that the sides-in-question
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by frig 18y ago
Did you really just say human lifespans have been growing exponentially?
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by frig 18y ago
This is cocoa-specific, though some of it generalizes. I'm not a huge fan of the Hillegrass book for actual beginners, but sadly there's not a better book out, yet; it's almost easiest to learn some other, better-documented GUI application
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by frig 18y ago
If you peruse my posting history here you'll find I'm constructive and respectful where it's warranted. Here's the exact quote I was responding to: "That doesn't seem to apply here at all. If education can really make a difference, teachers
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by frig 18y ago
This is hilariously bad logic, and I assume it's tongue in cheek. Your first point, the VC scenario: are you actually serious? Here's what I mean by "serious": you actually think that the transaction you're sketching: - group of good teache
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by frig 18y ago
Sorry not to be more specific, but someone did almost exactly what you're sketching. I'll get back to you once I've found the paper, or if I've not found it again. At first pass this might be it, but it looks different from what I remember:
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by frig 18y ago
There's a difference between "an operating system as a platform for developing applications" and "an operating system as a system-level REPL". As a platform for developing apps: not sure about plan9. As a hypothetically richer system-level
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by frig 18y ago
Sure, I was just enumerating obviously-wrong implementation ideas, not suggesting that's what I thought you were doing. What I was getting at is thinking of a structure editor as a text editor + extras might be a dead end, but I don't have
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by frig 18y ago
I'm pretty sure "a text editor that bitches at you and won't let you type incorrect stuff" isn't the answer and I'm pretty sure "a text editor in which clippy pops up and is like "you seem to have forgotten a parentheses. Can I help you fig
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by frig 18y ago
This is old hat, to a point. Names are escaping me but from time to time there've been structure-editing "text editors" that have you work at the correct "syntax" layer, instead of the level of raw text. What I'm thinking of are various "ed
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by frig 18y ago
That doesn't work. If I'm paid a flat fee to manage money, the people handing me money to manage are still going to look for the manager with the highest returns (that's human nature). So, I still have an incentive to chase riskier short-te
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by frig 18y ago
Quantrix is already a better excel and look how well they're doing for themselves (or not). But seriously: take a gander at quantrix, rip off its features, slap yourself on the back for innovating, and go home. Edit: the above is perhaps a
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by frig 18y ago
I checked, and I was a bit off on the numbers. My basic assumption is that there's a minimal amount of smarts you'd need to have to be capable of being an effective teacher. I then looked @ people I know who I think have at least that minim
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by frig 18y ago
If I were you I'd avoid anything overly complicated. A lot of potential customers are going to balk if they have to put any work into figuring out how much your service is going to cost (eg: if it was based on some formula involving the tab
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by frig 18y ago
"we focus on the "? You left something out. A better approach to figuring out how to charge for this is: "what workflow do I anticipate my likely customers will have, and how would this product integrate into that workflow?" You should also
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by frig 18y ago
If anything, it's almost obvious that almost all American public schools are, in general, "underfunded". Part of having a free market in labor (such as we have) means that, if you're trying to attract people to take on a particular position
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by frig 18y ago
Objective-C, the language: it's a nice, thin object-oriented layer on top of vanilla C. It's super-easy to use to make object-oriented wrappers around vanilla-C libraries, compared to C++, and b/c Objective-C is conceptually simpler than C+
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by frig 18y ago
Apple's enterprise "goal": be able to sell a compelling "smart enterprise" toolkit that "just works", and is a near- complete top-to-bottom solution. What this would wind up looking like: all employees have company-issued iphones (or iphone
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by frig 18y ago
Payoneer.com is maybe a better way to go.
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by frig 18y ago
3d isn't how to think about the interface outlined there. Basically, apple is investigating making multitouch part of the "normal" os x interface. A touch interface has to overcome the fact that fingers aren't good for precise pointing, and