frisco

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901.
Obama retakes oath at White House after mix-up(cnn.com)
11 points by frisco 18y ago|10 comments
902.
Cluttered desktop folders become art(macenstein.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
903.
Virtual worlds raised $594 million in 2008(nytimes.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
904.
New whitehouse.gov Analysis; uses Akamai, jQuery(robert.accettura.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
905.
Steve, Get Well: Drop Steve Jobs a Get Well Note(stevegetwell.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|1 comments
906.
All Souls: The toughest test you’ll ever take(mssv.net)
15 points by frisco 18y ago|16 comments
907.
Credit Card Processor Admits to Breach of 100 Million Records(blog.wired.com)
5 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
908.
Presidential Gatling Gun-Equipped Suburban Badder Than New Cadillac Limo(jalopnik.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
909.
by frisco 18y ago
Of course real money doesn't "mitigate the random process in some way." You're just more likely to switch to real money if you seem to be doing well as opposed to poorly, and I'm saying that the appearance of doing well is misplaced.
910.
by frisco 18y ago
I'm saying that "practice" doesn't affect your preparedness for something that's either intrinsically random (and I mean true-random), or affected by knowledge you don't have but others with tons of capital will. You can fool yourself into
911.
by frisco 18y ago
"Past returns are not an indicator of future performance." It would be very easy to be caught in an upswing in some market you're investing in--be it US technology in 2000 / 2006, or Czech railroads in 2009, or whatever--and be stunned whe
912.
by frisco 18y ago
Avoid individual stocks. Without insider knowledge, an individual is basically gambling when they invest in individual companies. Try finding a fund that provides good returns, and let a professional who has hundreds of millions of dollar
913.
Hello Wrold vs Hello World, in Java(codingforums.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
914.
Swarmbots team up to transport child(newscientist.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
915.
Japanese apple farmer grows apples with Apple, iPod logos(macworld.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
916.
by frisco 18y ago
There is no search. See: searchyc.com
917.
Stupid interview questions: how to (not) write a file copy program(exold.com)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|2 comments
918.
How to become a great coder in 30 years(shazware.com)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|3 comments
919.
Printing "Hello world" using curve fitting techniques (or: The "Hello world" function)(poromenos.org)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
920.
Lisp - The Ducati Of Programming Languages(defmacro.org)
6 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
921.
C-jump: computer programming board game for kids(c-jump.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
922.
by frisco 18y ago
Flagging is much lower; somewhere in the 100s.
923.
by frisco 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
924.
by frisco 18y ago
That's actually available at 0. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3426
925.
by frisco 18y ago
I would have imagined that there'd be more. For instance, I can't downmod overall topics, and that seems like a fairly straightforward thing to unlock for much higher karma levels.
926.
Mind Hacks: Breaking the news of Eliza's creator's death to her(mindhacks.com)
64 points by frisco 18y ago|6 comments
927.
by frisco 18y ago
I just wouldn't even think about it. Get yourself in interesting situations; join a research lab where you're not cleaning glassware, do GSoC, etc., and just not worry about founding a company, especially since you're still in school. Tru
928.
by frisco 18y ago
I'm finding (not that this is a unique observation at all, though) that there are two kinds of founders: engineers who are accidental entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurs who are founders. If you need to think hard to find even a sector to fou
929.
Ask HN: What unlocks with karma, and when?
44 points by frisco 18y ago|59 comments
930.
by frisco 18y ago
I agree. Cuts like that are hard, but doing them honestly and really reevaluating what's necessary at least one per dev cycle is really critical. It reminded me of Spolsky talking about how one of the best things they did on Excel 5 was b

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