herdrick

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   by herdrick 16y ago

   Obviously the big win here is in the long tail: high school sports, rec leagues, etc.
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   > no barrier to entry There's a pretty big network effect.
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   Who knows if this is true, or what the full story is, but in general I think this kind of tactic is poisonous to a company. Please read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629201 (I just re-read that. Such an excellent post.)
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   The psychology of human misjudgment (Charlie Munger)(vinvesting.com)

   3 points by herdrick 16y ago|0 comments
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   Bees solve traveling salesman problem(kurzweilai.net)

   2 points by herdrick 16y ago|0 comments
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   That's a really good idea. What's the diagnosis and what is your view on it that you want to get across? (If you don't mind me asking.)
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   I get the impression that this is heavily influenced by everyone else's analysis of Steve Jobs. Disappointing but not surprising.
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   by herdrick 16y ago

   You'll very rarely see the sunset from here though. Let me clarify what smokestack is saying. The weather in the Sunset district is reliably foggy and cool or chilly. Most people don't like it.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    This was announced a year or two ago, right - is there anything new there? EDIT: OK, that was Gliese 581 C. This is the new best hope.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Just advanced searches though?
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Oh, sorry! I transposed the words.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Right, but the initial quote seemed to say that promoting to BigNums would no longer be automatic. But I may have misunderstood.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Really? That'd be fantastic. Did I misunderstand this?
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    2^63 numbers ought to be enough for anyone, huh?
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    That Clojure's target is to replace slow old Ruby (actually that never happens, rather a successful language gains dominance in some niche and spreads from there) is only more evidence that it isn't worth breaking the abstraction called "nu
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    "... most numeric functions in Clojure, will no longer auto-promote values to Big numbers..." Oh no! Clojure is choosing the route of premature opt. What a terrible shame.
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    Techcrunch Disrupt hackathon this weekend(disrupt.techcrunch.com)

    2 points by herdrick 16y ago|0 comments
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Michael Arrington is impressively gung-ho, and I admire him for it, but is this big news? See point #16 here: http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    I don't think you would need IP lawyers to set up and run a data center. And yes I do trust the Icelandic government.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    I've been wondering for a while why Google and others don't put data centers in Iceland. Electricity there is almost free of charge and has zero carbon footprint - in fact zero emissions of any sort. (It's geothermal.) The location is re
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    OK, thanks, I might try that.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Those new versions aren't compatible with any of my installed plugins. (If I can't get Tree Style Tab I'm just going to use Chrome.)
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    Health data hackathon in Palo Alto, Saturday(healthtap.com)

    2 points by herdrick 16y ago|0 comments
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Actually it shouldn't matter to stability whether a recument (or other) bike is front or rear drive. In fact it appears some recuments are front drive. I would think that rear drive is prevalent because that's the wheel carrying most of t
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Some interesting ideas, but: http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue02/features/groeng1.gif
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    I used this as my primary travel site in Australia and really liked it.
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    I have yet to hear a cogent argument on why folks in their late 40s or early 50s are not adequately represented This is a lot simpler than it seems. Highly experienced, working programmers are rare because there were far fewer programme
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    Very cool. That seemed to work better than I'd have expected. The explanation of the 'naive' part of Naive Bayes isn't quite right, though. Throwing out the possibility of the animal being human based on the datapoint "four legs" is ortho
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    by herdrick 16y ago

    I don't understand you. By this I merely meant, "I don't understand what you are saying". Hope that was clear.