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by gbhn 14y ago
I'm not sure this is true. It seems to me that people who don't have insider knowledge end up with stuff they like -- they aren't lining up to pay $350k for something they don't like or understand. Ironically, they're probably ending up hap
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by gbhn 14y ago
The patent grant puts the burden of proof on the alleged infringer, on the theory that a granted patent has been pre-vetted for all the right criteria. But when I look at patent litigation, it seems (and perhaps this is a selection bias pro
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by gbhn 14y ago
seconded
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by gbhn 14y ago
Very interesting. You should put this on the SO question.
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by gbhn 14y ago
The books present the development of the Martian economic system as a long struggle culminating in a year-long constitutional convention and followed by all-but-civil-war and subsequent political hostility between opposing parties, with lot
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by gbhn 15y ago
Meanwhile, in five years, Linus had Linux 2.0 Obviously the goals are a bit different, but if this group really has a 100x better software development process, why aren't we using it right now? My own theory is that the distance from "this
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by gbhn 15y ago
Thanks for the article. It seems to me like a missing piece is a discussion of volatility. That is, I get it that HFT drives spreads lower, but spreads are the wrong direction to make money, even in volume. That is, if pre-HFT spread is tha
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by gbhn 15y ago
... or you could adopt a personal policy of just not running such programs. That's the top-level poster's point -- the boundary between statically-analyzable and not is extremely complex, and not coincident with Turing-completeness.
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by gbhn 15y ago
Thanks! I've been a bit frustrated at the difficulty in finding good engaging games for young kids. My son is older and there's quite a bit he enjoys -- puzzles, world-building, etc. For my daughter, who's younger, there seems precious litt
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by gbhn 15y ago
I think he means it the same way: "If everyone wants what you owe them at once, you're hosed." This goes for people buying stocks on margin as well as for the justice system, which in theory owes each defendant a jury trial, but in reality
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by gbhn 15y ago
I can identify with this. Our family got an iPad, and while the kids like using it, I much prefer my MBP for basically everything: reading HN, blogs, news, watching videos. The larger screen, better viewing angles, and keyboard just makes i
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by gbhn 15y ago
My impression is the opposite. Patent cases one hears about seem to start with 137 patents, and the judge throws out all but a few claims of 2. Perhaps this is self-selecting, but the impression is that most of the patents granted are, in f
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by gbhn 15y ago
The cookie protocol already works this way, and has for as long as cookies have existed. The issue is that a website can load content from a third-party domain, and the historical cookie protocol implementation has historically treated thos
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by gbhn 15y ago
Yes, it's theoretically perjury, but getting a prosecutor to go after it seems like a pretty far reach, even though it seems clear some of these notices are an abuse of the law.
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by gbhn 15y ago
crawl facebook?
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by gbhn 15y ago
It almost makes you think creating a successful blog would be easy -- after all, there's so little worth reading. :-) Creating writing that's thoughtful, attractive, linkable, rewarding, and current is, apparently, a hugely challenging acti
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by gbhn 15y ago
I also don't believe in psychics, but I do think that someone skilled in this kind of intuitive stuff can really help you think about your situation from the outside. I mean, that's what psychotherapists do, and many are very good at it. I
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by gbhn 15y ago
Another thing I've learned about smart people is that they're basically always willing to tell you what they know. This is super-encouraging to me as someone who is nowhere near as smart as them. Another way to think about this: the smart p
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by gbhn 15y ago
Right. It seems to me that the despair is that it is very hard, from knowledge like "student checked box B in this test, which was correct" to deduce "student actually understands the concept ". Perhaps a partial solution to this problem c
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by gbhn 15y ago
Isn't that almost word-for-word the interpretation the article actually does in fact make?
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by gbhn 15y ago
A missing ingredient here is that the snippet/update/whatever system needs to be policed by the CEO as the ONLY way such data can be collected. It doesn't work if eight levels of managers across three teams each decide they want the same "j
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by gbhn 15y ago
To an extent, yes, but surely there's no clear line between a small excel macros and monstrously complex excel macro systems that are dreadfully abusing the Turing-completeness of excel macros and should use a better tool. But the latter co
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by gbhn 15y ago
Was an initial goal for Javascript that it be extremely syntactically accepting? It seems like a lot of these oddities are the result of having coercions that, while certainly not crazy when looked at in isolation, make for strangeness when
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by gbhn 15y ago
I've had the same experience. The batteries seem to go bad really really quickly, and the recharge potential degrades extremely rapidly with re-use. After just a few charges, they will hold essentially no charge. I did find a way to get the
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by gbhn 15y ago
I don't think it's any more odd than the cool gadget-themed kickstarter projects, or music, video, etc. Basically you're paying in advance for a product/service, is how they're usually framed. What's wrong with that? It seems like a great w
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by gbhn 15y ago
Good point. While there is such a thing as the "general interest," what it is is contested by definition. Also it is often quite difficult to figure out with enough detail to produce action. So it is unsurprising that special interests, who
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by gbhn 15y ago
Yes. This is called 'protective coloration.' Ten years ago, it would have been all about national security and about how piracy funnels money to terrorists. Now "jobs" are the political flavor of the month, so anything you want is rapidly r
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by gbhn 15y ago
Sure, but nowhere near as profitable as for the bank, which was saved from near-certain collapse. If you are in a negotiating position like that, you work it for a lot more than the USG did. Specifically, you have the moral obligation to ne
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by gbhn 15y ago
Agreed. I think agile, while incorporating some good ideas (testing makes better code! talking with the customers helps you figure out what they want!), ends up in practice looking like a shyster scheme and burning a lot of businesses and p
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by gbhn 15y ago
This is a good article, and the bit about money saved by pirates being pure economic surplus that is spent and stimulates actual jobs is gold. But it is obvious on its face that the publishers' concerns have virtually nothing to do with job

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