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by herdrick 17y ago
Looking at the comparison chart of growth Very bad use of a chart. His growth is actually about the same, maybe identical. Look at gigaom.com by itself and set period to max.
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by herdrick 17y ago
If they didn't offer to pay it's perfectly fine.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Sorry, I thought you said that they offered to pay you. If they just tried to talk you into it, there's no ethical issue of course.
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by herdrick 17y ago
But the torque applied to both wheels will always be equal in theory, so the spinning only happens because of the 'dynamic friction is often less than static friction' factor. This does mostly solve the problem.
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by herdrick 17y ago
*... has anybody here been approached by writers to post links under their HN username ? [This] has definitely happened to me..." Really? That's awful. Ha - I've been making comments around saying that people shouldn't be outing the inte
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by herdrick 17y ago
Guys, don't. This isn't an adult you're talking about.
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by herdrick 17y ago
...[among investors] I think more and more people in the Bay Area are going, "Wow! It's super competitive down here..." So I'm seeing more Valley firms actually coming up here because they're seeing really good companies forming. Read tha
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by herdrick 17y ago
Thank you for this great post. It and this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063198 have convinced me to switch to git.
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by herdrick 17y ago
This will stash the changes you see using git diff, but not the ones you have staged, so it will leave the code on disk exactly the same as the index. "on disk"... I guess he meant in your working directory of code?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Not for just visualization but for control also. You drag and drop and point and click to branch, merge, etc.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Someone should write a graphical frontend for git where you create and manipulate a graph like that.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Great, great point. I think that's the way to learn anything.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Unlikely. The photos we have already are almost good enough to definitively say if those formations are biological, right? What are the chances that some given biologically formed nodules would be right at that size threshold? Besides,
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by herdrick 17y ago
Actually this is something the search engines can and should do. Offering this on Bing would be a very smart thing for Microsoft to do. They'd have a nice little competitive advantage from their easy access to the bundles of localization
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by herdrick 17y ago
" Secondly, I've realised that when I don't write tests I code too fast. " Excellent inadvertent criticism of TDD. Thanks for the post.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Judea Pearl's Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference . I'm not finished with it yet, though. (It might be superceded by his Causality which I'd also like to read.) It's provided some "aha", sca
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by herdrick 17y ago
Sounds about right.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Isn't that a funny correlation? It's not like that's the easiest way to publish something on the web. I wonder what's going on here.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Stimulants tend to act as appetite suppressors. Reducing likelihood of being overweight would seem to increase lifespan, all else being equal.
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by herdrick 17y ago
He didn't quite say that smoking doesn't damage your lungs, he said that quitting doesn't improve your lifespan. For example he wrote that other forms of cancer apparently are more common among quitters. Of course there are lots of plausi
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by herdrick 17y ago
Oh man, huge congratulations guys!
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by herdrick 17y ago
Very nice. But all those vertical alignments are bothering me. I think if he moved the text bodies of the posts to the left to align with the dates, it'd be better. Also, his posts are short so those titles and dates are dominating the p
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by herdrick 17y ago
Ouch. The original was right. Ignore the oops. This is hilarious.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Unless you're an Arab What? The USA considers Arabs in Italy to be in need of rescue?
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by herdrick 17y ago
I want to blindly accept that argument but I can't. Those who choose to casually break the rules of the language need swiftly to firmly be reprimanded.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Well, Norvig recommends AIMA over PAIP now for machine learning. I guess if what you want is Common Lisp code, then your choice must be PAIP.
447.
by herdrick 17y ago
ServerSpy Firefox plugin shows, on the status line, the server for every site you visit.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Oops. That should have been, "And why did we ever ban something our ancestors were so loyal to for?"
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by herdrick 17y ago
On Lisp is unique. I wouldn't go with PAIP because AIMA has replaced it. But what's covered in On Lisp isn't found anywhere else.
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by herdrick 17y ago
I thought the same thing, but Wikipedia reports that although in Old English some verbs were formed with "to" (I didn't even know that) splitting them was never done.

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