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by graycat 13y ago
What if you get a head crash on a boot drive? Can you reinstall from the original DVD? Maybe yes, but will the authentication code process, which needs a Microsoft server over the Internet, still work? What about getting the XP updates f
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by graycat 13y ago
Upgrading from XP is worse than that, much worse than just the money. I'm typing this on XP. For Windows 7, I have a full, retail purchased, on DVD copy of Windows 7 Professional. Okay, but so what? To install Windows 7: (1) Find a
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by graycat 13y ago
Hmm .... He neglected classification of states and asymptotic behavior. His "statistical probabilities" is not good. He omitted the role of conditional independence. Instead read, say, Cinlar, 'Introduction to Stochastic P
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by graycat 13y ago
Calm down and read it, actually read it, see the problem, which is HUGE, and begin to see the importance of the problem and the need for a good solution which is just a short lesson in Technical Writing 101. My first post was short, but app
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by graycat 13y ago
The medicine I am giving you may taste bitter, but a result should be some much better technical writing. So far, 'multi-screen' is just jargon of an in-group, really 'in' because it wasn't clear to me, and my back
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by graycat 13y ago
> a) How is one supposed to know what is clickable on that webpage? And the candidates are, look at the HTML and JS code, write a simulator that can in effect click on each pixel on the page, submit a question to Stack Overflow, click on
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by graycat 13y ago
With the title 'Web Fundamentals', from Google there might be something good there to learn. Butm three points: (1) "Multi-screen" is not in my Funk and Wagnalls and, thus, has a specialized meaning, is a 'term&#x2
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by graycat 13y ago
There may be several people, all anonymous, writing similar material.
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by graycat 13y ago
Sorry, lost the original. I will try to recreate it: The big advantages of TeX are: (1) The purpose of TeX was and is to lower the labor and cost of high quality document preparation of heavily mathematical material and to permit authors t
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by graycat 13y ago
(1) Saving FedEx. The founder of FedEx, F. Smith, was in his corner office for an afternoon to work out a schedule for his fleet of airplanes. At the end of the day he walked out tired and said, "We need a computer.". Someone I
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by graycat 13y ago
> boys who were fidgety and distractible Right: Since it was nearly only the boys and normal girls are not like that, it must be an 'illness'! Whenever boys and girls are not the same, there must be an illness because, as we
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by graycat 13y ago
The comments on this threat about the OP are cruel, so cruel, so critical, I mean, so negative! :-)! I mean; I mean; I mean; just what is the problem with raping, pillaging, exploiting, mining, filtering, drilling and blasting, harvesting,
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by graycat 13y ago
Royden is breathtakingly gorgeous. But, it can be good to skip some parts. The main content is just 'measure theory', and that's just freshman calculus grown up. Why? Because near 1900 it became clear that freshman calculus
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by graycat 13y ago
It shouldn't. It starts off with metric spaces and Euclidean n-space. The main goal is to cover open and closed sets, convergence, and compactness. Why? Because those topics are crucial in continuity and uniform continuity. Why want
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by graycat 13y ago
> It sounds like you have everything figured out, the solution is beyond comprehension for mere mortals, and that you'll have 100s of millions of dollars shortly. That's definitely the plan except for the part about "mere
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by graycat 13y ago
I've already "shown how it's done" in technology many times for US national security, in US business, and in research for US national security and business. The US DoD, DARPA, NSF, and NIH have long shown the world &quo
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by graycat 13y ago
> - I would suggest they're not having trouble handling email...their filtering is working just fine. You would appear to have trouble handling rejection (at least I would infer that) No, I'm just reporting some strong evidence
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by graycat 13y ago
> Since then it could be argued that VCs direction has changed to investing the 3rd party pooled money into businesses that are employing some novel technology or processes. The information technology (IT) VCs are essentially hopeless a
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by graycat 13y ago
> Second, I would suggest that a cold email is probably the worst way to approach ANY VC. Sorry they are having trouble handling e-mail. It's an old technology and relatively easy to work with. E-mail is just simple text, much lik
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by graycat 13y ago
Their version of "pattern recognition" is just hopeless for what they are trying to do. E.g., how to use pattern recognition in the industry of leading edge military aviation to evaluate what Kelly Johnson said about building an a
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by graycat 13y ago
> Are you suggesting that a16z doesn't do this? Yes I am. (1) It appears, really is quite clear, that they have high contempt for initial contacts from entrepreneurs via e-mail. Instead they want to believe that the 'good&#x27
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by graycat 13y ago
This is a very difficult question and, thus, illustrates the transcendent brilliance and astoundingly "deep domain knowledge" of A16Z. An answer is available only on the bleeding edge of the most brilliant insights of research in
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by graycat 13y ago
> industry trends Why? The VC firms never invest in an "industry", i.e., there are no such 'index funds'. Instead, VC firms invest in individual companies, and there what is just crucial is what the company does. If
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by graycat 13y ago
A better way: Actually read and understand the submissions from the entrepreneurs!
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by graycat 13y ago
Looks to me like A16Z is blowing it. If Ben Horowitz prides himself on good management of technical work as suggested by his blog posts, then he didn't work very hard on the project of the OP. Issues: (1) Engineering School. Uh, guys
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by graycat 13y ago
Sam, you're repeatedly making an absolutely huge, gigantic mistake. You are making this mistake every time you say "most", "normally", "usually". Huge. Because the world of ambitious, information technol
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by graycat 13y ago
The main problem with the OP is that it was looking at broad averages while necessarily venture capital and ambitious start ups need to be quite exceptional. The broad averages say next to nothing about the exceptional cases. In particula
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by graycat 13y ago
Hacking is easy and doesn't take a very sharp mind. Computer science research is harder. Math research is harder, still. There are plenty of people well past 50 and, from their research publications, still quite productive. For them,
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by graycat 13y ago
Thanks.
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by graycat 13y ago
When I read the OP, I was tempted to scream about bad writing due to lack of context, undefined terminology, and general lack of explanation, not nearly the first time I was tempted to scream at Microsoft's technical writing abilities.

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