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by gord 18y ago
There does seem to be about 40% of HN articles also listed on programming.reddit, I guess the 2 communities do overlap... maybe its time for tag-based filters on HN, and an automated onreddit tag?
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by gord 18y ago
There does seem to be a high correlation between people who cannot get stuff done but love talking about it, and those having an MBA. I also get the impression that universities regard MBAs as an easy way to make money - ie. a repackaged an
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by gord 18y ago
ROTFFLMFTO! If only it was a bit longer down the page, it would have been the ultimate parody of the extended centered-text funnelling salespitch. enjoyable.
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by gord 18y ago
Beautiful Bridge Photos. This guys writing is really good, check out his other articles eg. "Most Startups Fail" about getting to v1.0 Thanks for the post.
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by gord 18y ago
Big it up for the Kiwis.
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by gord 18y ago
Some Melburnians listed on this page.
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by gord 18y ago
me also and am looking for a startup co-founder. Hacking in scheme on a web- data- related prototype as outlined on quantblog.wordpress.com.
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by gord 18y ago
Well, I haven't seen a lot of ruby code that uses } instead of end, have you? So using }, although legal, might not be within standard ruby practice. The fact that it _allows_ 'end' would be enough to turn me off :] I guess 'end' wasn't th
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by gord 18y ago
I'm thinking the real answer is "Do whatever it is that your so fired up about, it makes you get up at 5am."
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by gord 18y ago
for n/2 weeks, right? If you happen to be in Thailand, try the street food - satay skewers, spicy soup, deep fried fish cakes... [ The crispy grasshopper beer snacks are mainly there to shock ] geek culinary bliss on a budget
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by gord 18y ago
The article sounds like... "Rails has too much momentum, so well go with the hurd." In my own case were building something framework-like, so Id be fighting the code if I used another framework - its more like systems programming than app p
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by gord 18y ago
Google muscling in is a good thing, it means theres money to be made there. Why not say "Were simply going to kill google, they are way too big and way too slow. People will appreciate the extra depth of our offering and our nimbleness, al
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by gord 18y ago
your absolutely right. I'm trying to avoid the temptation to play with language too much, while I build my startup app. Theres so much cool stuff there.. Being interested in the language makes for much more pleasant hacking / prototyping ex
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by gord 18y ago
yep. well I don't avoid recursion per se, it can sometimes be very clean. But I sure did notice the power of map-, fold-, reduce- style programming from playing with KDB+/K/Q [an apl derived terse language for handling stream/column data] a
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by gord 18y ago
I now think lisp variants like scheme, CL and arc allow you to write code that reflects how you think about the problem at hand, with much less boilerplate than C, C++ or Java. Performance is good enough, and the repl is a very effective RA
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by gord 18y ago
I remember being somewhat underwhelmed when interviewing at a Hedge Fund where they had leather seats decorating a beautiful inlaid wooden table, and not a white board on the whole floor - reminded me of Feynmans comparison of Princeton ver
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by gord 18y ago
I can parse justified text, although I prefer left side only... But, centered? thats completely unjustified!
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by gord 18y ago
Excellent article and blog from a programmer entrepreneur whose been there. Some other points he makes include - - Startups should be optimized to learn [product and customer are being discovered] - Sales metrics are a good thing [start sma
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Random math Art in scheme - pics under nifty art(wisdomandwonder.com)
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by gord 18y ago
Before its replaced, can we guarantee it was not responsible for page-rank?
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by gord 18y ago
A short concise description of Erlang would be welcome, given the Erlang tweet storm on HN. I know nothing about Erlang, except for the hype :O offtopic.. is there much activity around the arc lisp dialect [if you'll forgive me calling it t
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by gord 18y ago
Its an excellent retrospective, given the emotion one must have invested in seeing a startup through to the Ramen profitable phase.
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by gord 18y ago
The classic counterexample is not using 'i' in for loops, vis - for(int nInnerLoopCounter; nInnerLoopCounter<nMaxInterations; nInnerLoopCounter++) ... Seriously, had this in a formal coding standard, you never want to work in those plac
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by gord 18y ago
Thats a lot of text. The few patents Ive read strike me as quite verbose. I was quite amazed at what was patentable, and how loosely described {ephemeral!} the descriptions were. I'm not suggesting all legal text is as sparse in informat
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by gord 18y ago
I love the title. Its refreshing. We should continue to self censor the F-word.. but not for the reasons you think. It simply becomes less effective/refreshing/honest/direct/entertaining the more you use it.. its such an important and nice
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by gord 18y ago
I confess I just didn't read this - 'core competencies' came up on my watch list as almost surely spam. And if typing speed is more relevant than thinking depth then I probably made the right decision in that Gladwell blink moment. In anoth
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by gord 18y ago
thanks for the write up.. interesting to see how things develop in the real world outside your own domain. I'm surprised the big G hasn't just paid some money to get that data, given their plan to scan all the worlds books. I wonder what pe
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by gord 18y ago
@micks56 - re your legal search using natural language - Are you able to compare, say, Wests results to those of a pure google text search on the keyword terms? [ To do that you'd need some example of large legal texts fully online and thu
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by gord 18y ago
It reads too much like a paid advertisement for LinkedIn - Quote - "What follows is THE POINT of this article! Do yourself a favor and upgrade to a premium LinkedIn BusinessPlus Account, ... "
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by gord 18y ago
I think I just said what you just said.. but then I read your post. Is this something you'd enjoy hacking on?

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