grails4life

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by grails4life 16y ago
Basically, Paul Graham taught nerds how to be rich. So now they are suave.
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by grails4life 16y ago
we could make one?
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by grails4life 16y ago
Yes the twitter dropout only helped Amy gain exposure
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by grails4life 16y ago
I know people who met on AOL instant messenger. Big Deal
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by grails4life 16y ago
I will be using this for my project Here: http://statgadgets.student.iastate.edu/teaching/binomialci/ And here: http://statgadgets.student.iastate.edu/teaching/LeastSquares... Thank you
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by grails4life 16y ago
You mean Justin Kan?
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by grails4life 16y ago
I think Spolsky settled this dichotomy back in 2000: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html
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by grails4life 16y ago
Please give suggestions for the top text.
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Stat Teaching-Confidence intervals-jquery+raphaeljs(statgadgets.student.iastate.edu)
1 points by grails4life 16y ago|1 comments
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by grails4life 16y ago
A better question would have been "what are the big failures of YC" - smaller list to iterate through.
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by grails4life 16y ago
If the reason your not offering someone a job is because they messed up technical questions, I think its a good idea to give them candid feedback on the spot. Its objective. If you are having to choose among several qualified candidates, th
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Ask HN: Any bluetooth hackers out there can help me
2 points by grails4life 16y ago|0 comments
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by grails4life 16y ago
Please have the speaker in the demo SLOW DOWN. It was hard to keep up with her as she showed off the software.
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by grails4life 16y ago
I wish the $101 savings applied to refurbs
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by grails4life 16y ago
The places im interviewing are are the opposite of startups. One was a community college, very rude .. when I asked why I wasnt notified that the position was filled she said "im planning to send out an email". No email to date and this was
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Ask HN: Job interview followup: common courtesy or asking too much?
6 points by grails4life 16y ago|5 comments
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by grails4life 16y ago
Ok, that is awesome. You should put some text explaining that somewhere on the page.
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by grails4life 16y ago
How is this different than scraping the results of a youtube search and embedding a result?
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So You Want a PhD in Political Science(drewconway.com)
2 points by grails4life 16y ago|0 comments
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by grails4life 16y ago
If your business requires TechCrunch noticing you to be successful, then its a bad idea for you, pick something else in your league.
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by grails4life 16y ago
25 is young. Many 25 year olds dont have much work experience. Just make sure when you do go for the PhD, you finish it and dont end up spending 4 years and no degree. 25 + PhD in CS = very employable.
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by grails4life 16y ago
Yes of these strategies "work" for a while by taking advantage of pricing anomalies and multiplying the difference a million times over. The problem is in order to make a decent return with this approach you have to be heavily leveraged, an
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by grails4life 16y ago
These statistical arbitrage trading strategies dont work. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Focus on creating value, and not just swaping it around.
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by grails4life 16y ago
Nathan Myhrvold is also a patent troll: http://www.pcworld.com/article/132174/ubuntu_microsoft_is_pa...
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by grails4life 16y ago
Its hard to differentiate between Wolfram the intellectual and Wolfram the Mathematica peddler.
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by grails4life 16y ago
I recommend learning Blub
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by grails4life 16y ago
Are you calling Arc Lisp slow?
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Ask HN: I recall PG saying "the limit of open source is design", where?
3 points by grails4life 16y ago|0 comments
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by grails4life 16y ago
There is always going to be hype around high variance career paths, because so little is understood about was factors are causal for success. In low variance career paths, things are pretty straightforward so there is little blog about.
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by grails4life 16y ago
I hope this gets ported to OS X and Windows

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