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by gills 18y ago
Maybe there is something to it. All of the great civilizations eventually collapsed.
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by gills 18y ago
I wasn't bashing on virtual communities. The discussions here are more interesting than the ones with my neighbors. I just think it's good to know who lives on my street, and the folks I don't know are the ones who drive in and out of the
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by gills 18y ago
Backspace.
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by gills 18y ago
Now if only we would get out of our SUVs and talk to each other, real communities could form...
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by gills 18y ago
I think it's interesting because most hackers also like math. This article is about people who obviously suck at math and/or are complete liars. Further, most of the folks here are probably above-average in productivity. They should care
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by gills 18y ago
try here: http://pre.plt-scheme.org/docs/html/
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by gills 18y ago
I've been using the pre-release versions for a while now and there are some nice improvements. Some of the syntactic sugar is really nice to use, like the new module and require forms, and the generalized lambda forms (combined lambda, op
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by gills 18y ago
The steam engine and Otto cycle both convert waste heat to kinetic energy. They turned out to be marginally useful. I wasn't suggesting coating objects with an expensive material to collect ambient infrared radiation. I was thinking of so
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by gills 18y ago
The question is about monopoly, not search relevance.
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by gills 18y ago
The mod down arrow has some sort of minimum karma threshold.
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by gills 18y ago
This is cool. Anything that will help us convert light (particularly from the sun) into a more directly usable form of energy should be a good thing.
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by gills 18y ago
Job #2. I don't know about your Big Company specifically, but turning down good opportunities often leads to them not being offered in the future. Besides, performing well may put you in a position to use Erlang with more authority down t
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by gills 18y ago
Some would argue that Microsoft got to the top of the pile due in no small part to maintaining backward compatibility. By doing so they lower the barriers to upgrading for most of their users, who don't want to reinvest in new versions of
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by gills 18y ago
Most abstractions are a little leaky, and we usually need to consider the 'how' when specifying the 'what'. For example, adding numbers in C can be accomplished with the abstraction '+', but the programmer must consider whether the operati
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by gills 18y ago
Hmm...using search dominance to make sure they get all of the paid link business. Sounds similar to using desktop OS dominance to corner the browser business. It smells.
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by gills 18y ago
From the p.p.s: "Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”" Isn't this a recursive statement?
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by gills 18y ago
Good Work. I have to second that what attracts me to Lisp/Scheme/Arc for the web is being able to generate the page as s-expr's which are easily converted to html.
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by gills 18y ago
Can't think of a better reason to go build your startup :)
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by gills 18y ago
Trust yourself while you're building and growing. If you fail: don't spend the rest of your life kicking yourself, walking in circles, and murmuring "they just didn't see the vision" under your breath. Learn and move on. If you succeed: le
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by gills 18y ago
Um...The article was pointing out that those two curves are independent. Isn't that what you're saying too? That even large fluctuations in the highest tax bracket have no material effect on the bottom line. However I agree with you that
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by gills 18y ago
That's interesting. I'm not trying to hijack the thread here, but the non-standard scrolling in Scribd bugs me. When I use two-finger drag on the macbook pro to scroll, scribd just doesn't move like a normal page.
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by gills 18y ago
Maybe. Here is my opinion. The poor need goods and services just like the rest of us. More to the point of the article, they also require credit and some faith in their productivity, to even attempt to rise out of their situation. Theoret
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by gills 18y ago
Why would this be less than relevant to Hacker News? Put the metaphor in a context you care about. Right now: Are you allowed to hack code in your living room? Can your buddies come over and help you out? Can you host your business on a
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by gills 19y ago
sounds like an opportunity for an efficient startup...
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by gills 19y ago
No. First off, only idiots loan money without requiring the borrower to put up some collateral to cover most of the sum in the event of a default. Not even the Federal Reserve. Second, reserve requirements are there to insure the instituti
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by gills 19y ago
Because maybe, just MAYBE, when we realize our robots are fighting their robots and it's really just an expensive video game, we'll quit fighting and actually sit down and talk. That is, if the robots don't join forces and turn on us first.
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by gills 19y ago
What about a more economically-inspired system? Add a karma cost to actions affecting the headlines (submitting and voting on content). Make users think a little more about how they vote, and when submitting make them put some amount of ka
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by gills 19y ago
Does it bother anyone else that the sample scenarios mention home equity as a factor? Maybe college tuition has risen partly for the same reasons as other items during the last few years: because it can. Cheap credit makes for high prices
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by gills 19y ago
nsfw (picture).
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by gills 19y ago
I use a compass and a map when I go backpacking. No batteries/satellites required.

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