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by gaika 18y ago
They had this amazing technology for 10+ years, for some reason few people know or use it. 8 years ago we tried it with java, everybody was so exited, until managment shut it down because they guessed nobody else would use it. Hopefully Rub
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MagLev is Gemstone/S for Ruby: 6x-60x faster VM, OODB, and more...(blog.obiefernandez.com)
33 points by gaika 18y ago|9 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Wonder what their Myers-Briggs personality types would be :)
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by gaika 18y ago
Not just philosophical, very practical. PG's "lies we tell kids" is just scratching the problem that Gandhi dedicated his whole life: can you live in a society and always tell the truth and only truth?
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by gaika 18y ago
whitespace is part of design, I'd quit using an app if design is seriously broken.
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by gaika 18y ago
double numbers on the left are confusing
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by gaika 18y ago
Erlang is terrible for distributed computations, it is even slower than ruby for math :( Network servers is probably the only thing that is worth doing in erlang.
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by gaika 18y ago
What's wrong with http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page ?
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by gaika 18y ago
about 10% of the sites have javascript that forces the page to break out of the frame.
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by gaika 18y ago
Ok, so you're saying that in the business of making money buying and selling stocks (short or long term doesn't matter) they have distinct competitive advantage that is not going away. So what would be their advantage that holds for so long
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by gaika 18y ago
These are really nice measures, but I think they still do not address the most important problem - people who have more time on their hands have disproportionate effect on the site. I guess #6. vote weighting will be required soon.
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm trying to make a point about their overall strategy: It is easy to have low returns with low volatility - just buy bonds. It is easy to have hight returns with high volatility - just buy penny stocks or emergent markets. Their Medallion
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by gaika 18y ago
Here's another one - from April this year: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a6eS...
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by gaika 18y ago
Have you read the post? You missed the most important 3 paragraphs in the middle about repeating the mistakes of slashdot, digg, reddit. Tell me, what is news.YC doing to not repeat the same mistakes?
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by gaika 18y ago
You're right, it was RIEF down for the year, but even Medallion suffered losses in August, here's his letter to investors explaining it: http://www.dealbreaker.com/2007/08/simons_warns_about_august...
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm talking about Renaissance. Medallion is closed and manages money only for Renaissance employees.
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by gaika 18y ago
My startup is not making this mistake, but does anyone care? People seem to prefer trolls and fun social noise to high signal streams that demand your attention.
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Giles Bowkett: Summon Monsters? Open The Door? Heal? Or Die?(gilesbowkett.blogspot.com)
53 points by gaika 18y ago|63 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
His fund suffered loses recently, making it all suspicious that the math was just good old "sweeping the risk under the rug" kind: You buy a decent assets that give you 7% return, but have a 2% chance of default. You borrow at 5% and levera
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Bug in Moody's Program Issues Erroneous AAAs(nakedcapitalism.com)
4 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
transactions and db joins are easy with activerecord/rails, you do not have to know sql to get it to work. background tasks are easy, you can use activerecord outside of rails in your data warehouse scripts. image upload with thumbnails is
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by gaika 18y ago
Remember how in "a Fire upon the Deep" a ship carrying countermeasure that was taken out by the Blight? Latest openssl / debian fiasco and bugs like this show just how trivial it must be for a powerful adversary.
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by gaika 18y ago
google apps for domains will do the trick, you can set up wild card email address and forward everything to your own server.
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by gaika 18y ago
This is so wrong! RCU lists are in linux kernel everywhere: http://lwn.net/Articles/262464/
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by gaika 18y ago
Microblogging is more like IM and email, so people who are talking about caching and databases and scaling twitter like a traditional web site all miss the point. This is rare exception, too bad the author abandoned his own attempt at doing
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by gaika 18y ago
And the biggest reason not to: javascript is required. It causes really bad problems in IE: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/23/what-happened-to...
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by gaika 18y ago
Trading your time for money is stupid, but you're not gaining anything if you outsource your life either. Treat time as your most precious resource and set clear goals, everything else follows.
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by gaika 18y ago
Good observation, wrong conclusion. Too many words never stopped people from reading a book. Same thing applies to a web page: you quickly scan a page, but read it if it's worth it.
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by gaika 18y ago
Anybody working on a decentralized open source version of it? I'm starting a twitter-like project (with erlang / ejabberd) that can work with existing IM clients, contact me if you're interested.
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by gaika 18y ago
It has to be gradual, there has to be some easy way to get pulled into it. Right now there's too much upfront investment of your time with almost no feedback for too long. And it will get only worse, as more blogs will compete for your atte

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