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by gregw134 13y ago
I think that's actually his point: that its better to hire an ordinary employee who will work hard at a realistic goal than to hire a flighty genius, whether self-appointed or not. "Does he finish what he starts? Geniuses almost n
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by gregw134 13y ago
Why do they need to know my location?
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by gregw134 13y ago
Do you mind linking to it?
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by gregw134 13y ago
my-ip.heroku.com is a very simple alternative.
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by gregw134 13y ago
You're no fun sir.
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by gregw134 13y ago
Wikipedia says the sum (1 - 1 + 1 -1 ...) diverges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi's_series
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by gregw134 13y ago
I'm going to learn Javascript mainly because every programming interview seems to have Javascript questions.
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Growing a Language, by Guy Steele(youtube.com)
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by gregw134 13y ago
Thanks switch. I agree, I have no idea why everything in Java has to be so stupidly complex. It shouldn't take a month to learn how to make a safe concurrent program. Does the design here seem to make sense to you? I haven't had a
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Show HN: A task-based concurrency framework for Java(github.com)
2 points by gregw134 13y ago|3 comments
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by gregw134 13y ago
Seconded. His imagination of a computer-like workstation, cobbled together from 1940's technology, was the most fascinating thing I've read all year.
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by gregw134 13y ago
The Universal Computer. It's a remarkably readable walkthrough through the lives and ideas of mathematicians whose work indirectly led to the Turing machine: Leibniz, Boole, Russell, Cantor, Godel, and a few others. If anyone else can
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by gregw134 13y ago
Actually you're right, the one person I did talk to about it did think the Americans should leave.
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I thought America's presence in Korea was imperialist until I went to Seoul in April and walked around trying to forget about the missiles that were pointed at my head. All of a sudden I discovered a newfound appreciation for American
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by gregw134 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote ok (based in Indiana). I'm a Junior developer with an enthusiasm for business. At the last startup I worked for I did equal work on the development and business side of operations. Skills: Web: ASP.net/C#, Ja
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by gregw134 13y ago
Interesting post on reweighted score voting. How would that work in practice for sorting comments? Would you have people rank the top-level comments in the order they agree with? The strategy I had in mind for comments was to create a colum
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by gregw134 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point about bribery. Are you talking about bribing groups of people to vote a particular way, or about bribing coercing powerful individuals not to express their opinions? I disagree in practice that all
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by gregw134 13y ago
I agree that there might be some issues with comment limits--you don't want to limit discussion too much. On a different topic, why do you think this system should be anonymous? You can't limit votes unless you can authenticate so
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by gregw134 13y ago
I love the idea, but I don't think people should be allowed to have unlimited up or down votes. That would encourage whimsical opinions, and would make the site reflect the opinions of the most active and opinionated users instead of t
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by gregw134 13y ago
I suggested Mechanical Turk to a homeless guy I had gotten to know briefly, and he seemed legitimately interested in the idea, although he said he didn't have a bank account. I'll bet lots of homeless people would use Mechanical T
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by gregw134 13y ago
The discount says it doesn't apply to cloud sites or managed cloud, but on the signup page I only see options for cloud account or managed cloud. If I select Cloud Account, will the discount still apply?
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From the look of it I think it might be too complicated.
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Ask HN: History project
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Thanks for sharing this. I'm glad to see a secular author who has a real appreciation of religion--he doesn't treat it as something that makes dimwitted people happy, but as a training regimen designed for self-improvement, a str
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by gregw134 13y ago
Oh come off it--he's just using quotation marks to emphasize sarcasm.
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>you most likely have to pay someone who is already collecting said data (Don't know who) or write software yourself and pay people to install it. Yeah that's what I was afraid of :( I'm looking for basic, anonymized browsing history fo
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Ask HN: Where can I find Internet browsing data?
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by gregw134 14y ago
For Intel, debt is currently a less expensive way of capitalizing the company than equity. At 1-4% interest, Intel can borrow money through debt at a very cheap rate, but it is expensive for them to raise money through equity sales since th