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by gills 18y ago
There are some good things you can do to learn on your own (like SICP), but some CS grad courses or even high level undergrad courses will be more effective if you are interested in theory.
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by gills 18y ago
No, I can't say, because it wasn't necessary. We're all looking at Paulson's right hand waving about conservatorship, but missing his left hand; his left hand is bailing out the foreign central banks who bought agency paper and later threa
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by gills 18y ago
Not an indictment of capitalism, but an indictment of the fraud that has been overlooked for too long.
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by gills 18y ago
The prospectus for every bond issued by these agencies explicitly states that it is not guaranteed by the United States. The housing market does not need Fannie and Freddie. What it needs is a stable provider of liquidity (a broker for the
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by gills 18y ago
Somewhere around here I have an old paper comic book that was an ad for the TRS-80. More retro than innovative.
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by gills 18y ago
www.tickerforum.org
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by gills 18y ago
Your rule is a good one, mattmaroon. I agree with it. Unfortunately, you've tripped on Paul Buchheit's rule. You are overgeneralizing from your own risk profile. There may be some real cowboys on HN who are optimizing for different value
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by gills 18y ago
You know you're in trouble when the thugs are in the street waving their arms proclaiming vice is virtue, and a system of selective enforcement by a ruling class is a practical and acceptable solution.
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by gills 18y ago
This would be more informative if it were layered with some other data; some metric for geopolitical instability, trade deficit, local currency valued in $, oil production in barrels, similarity of votes in the U.N....etc. You know, anythin
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by gills 18y ago
To paraphrase: "in the future, we will be able to consume more than we produce." The physics and engineering are fuzzy because nobody with the requisite knowledge would proclaim such a thing.
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by gills 18y ago
"If it's your first night at fight club, you have to fight." ???
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by gills 18y ago
Dev at a large company for the next week, then I'm off to see the wizard. It's going to be a hard transition, trading very cool projects for independence.
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by gills 18y ago
You know how, sometimes, you read an article and some startup is doing the thing you thought would be cool and would displace an entire industry? But you were lazy and didn't write it down and ask for funding? Doh...
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by gills 18y ago
Creation. Transforming thought into action with a few keystrokes (or a few million...but who's counting?). I enjoy creating other things as well; programming has such amazingly instant feedback, and the results generally do interesting thi
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by gills 18y ago
Wow, that's pretty harsh. I'm currently reading that book for the first time, and I don't agree with you. Quite the opposite, actually. Despite the repeated and annoying misuse of the past-tense form of 'light', and the obviously strained
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by gills 18y ago
paint.
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by gills 18y ago
I agree with the editor's note at the bottom, this sort of incompetence needs to be prosecuted in a court of law. It's downright dangerous, and any other individual perpetrating the same act would be sent to Cuba as a terror suspect. I gue
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by gills 18y ago
"millions." "semi-literate." haha...you made my day.
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by gills 18y ago
typedef std::list<std::string> StrList;
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by gills 18y ago
Not better, just jaded. If you suck at math, you feel better by blaming the problem on the people who are good at math ("they didn't teach me well enough!"). So, self-loathing rather than coming to grips with one's mediocrity and doing som
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by gills 18y ago
I think that you should take your position to it's logical conclusion. You may find a contradiction.
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by gills 18y ago
This is a self-solving problem one way or another. The employers that use low-information predictors of productivity will go out of business and whatever system the remaining businesses are using will drive the educational system. Either th
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by gills 18y ago
awesome :)
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by gills 18y ago
In other news, startup founder arrested for using his garage in an attempt to displace an entrenched competitor.
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by gills 18y ago
So do it. Nobody is preventing you from putting your money where your mouth is and placing your ideas or technologies for energy efficiency on the market. I, for one, am sick of reading this noise of "we should X" or "if only we did Y" (I
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by gills 18y ago
While I agree with you, evading taxation is not exactly the way to change the system. I feel like I've been harping on this lately...but VOTE to fix the tax system, don't break the law. Every time someone avoids paying a tax, big brother
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by gills 18y ago
I agree. Why should electronic transactions be taxed any differently than traditional transactions? "Because the internet is special?" Give me a break.
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by gills 18y ago
Rather than running away, why don't you try voting or running for a public office? Do something about your situation, don't try to get others to fix it for you (and yes, running to some 'better' country is exactly that).
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by gills 18y ago
I wonder if PG will incorporate the dataflow portions of his dissertation in a future Arc compiler?
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by gills 18y ago
While not a Ruby hacker, I've enjoyed reading your posts as well. I hope that, when you do pursue something dangerous, you will write about that as well.

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