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by herdrick 17y ago
De veras.
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by herdrick 17y ago
That was so great. That article opened my eyes to visual design - or started the process. (And the Bezos thing shocked me - how could such a smart and accomplished guy be such conspiracy theorist? Weird.)
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by herdrick 17y ago
I think the bigger problem is that it looks like a minivan. Steve Jobs was right - no sex.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Paul, your second footnote is a surprising idea with huge consequences. How about you expand it into an essay?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Right. I'd like to believe the people you really want reading your stuff aren't so suggestible. But I think is research for commercial sites.
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by herdrick 17y ago
We'll be waiting! Thanks for the great interview, Brandon.
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by herdrick 17y ago
If you're not married, why not? What better way to expend yourself, to spend your life? Do you have another bachelor's degree? If so, you might be able to get credit towards the masters (though perhaps credits are moot if the degree is ca
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by herdrick 17y ago
True. But I think the smarter thing would be to build this using weak references than to hope someone puts this into their GC or to write your own. At least your first version should be done so.
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by herdrick 17y ago
You can get everything you want with weak references.
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by herdrick 17y ago
So use brown rice.
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by herdrick 17y ago
with people routinely replaced on a 5-year or so basis to mitigate bureaucracy formation Is that how DARPA works?
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by herdrick 17y ago
“These grants are not silly, but they are only likely to produce incremental progress” "but" -> "therefore"
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by herdrick 17y ago
Hilarious. But this sentence is great: My standard of comparison for any technology will always be everything previously achieved by mankind, rather than what is available on the market today. Exactly the right attitude, except here it s
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by herdrick 17y ago
I can't imagine Knuth would have approved this. It looks bad - the physical book looks great. It doesn't even use the Concrete Roman typeface he designed for the book.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Firefox and Safari and some text editors already have incremental search which is most of what you have here. I do like like the way you change color to indicate already-seen text. I wish I had that in FF and Emacs.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Cush. I know plenty of people working even at big companies who can't spend that much time with their kids and spouse. How did he do it as a founder?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Are you crazy, man? You've got to keep idoh.org .
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by herdrick 17y ago
"... I doubt I've done anything anyone would care about in 100 years." No way. For one thing, I'm convinced that "What You Can't Say" will be read in a hundred years and long beyond. Imagine if someone had written essentially the same ess
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by herdrick 17y ago
Smart. Etherpad is just great. Congrats to Aaron and David on the official change of direction!
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by herdrick 17y ago
This is great. If you've looked at Peter Norvig's spell checker shootout you won't be surprised much. Ex., the story on Common Lisp and Scheme implementations is the same here: MzScheme is the mediocre best of an unimpressive lot. (I want
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by herdrick 17y ago
Clojure is pretty joyous, but I hated the error messages the last time I was using it. They were rarely useful. Has anything changed recently?
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by herdrick 17y ago
Congratulations Immad and Jude!
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by herdrick 17y ago
I've got a copy I can lend you. Somehow I didn't know you were a fan.
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by herdrick 17y ago
But front page voters influence each other. How about doing the same thing for the 'new' page? That's a cleaner test.
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by herdrick 17y ago
Time the trip to go to SHDH.
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by herdrick 17y ago
First, I think you'd have a hard time finding anything good to read if you only stuck with writers who sound wrong when they're wrong. Second, Stein's anti-evolution thing is a religious belief and you'd be wise to forgive someone's appare
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by herdrick 17y ago
Ad hominem. It's a good essay.
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by herdrick 17y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. For one thing, from what I understand Jessica was the main force in starting up YC. No Jessica Livingston, no Y Combinator. Tell Henry Ford and Ray Kroc that there's nothing exceptional about b
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by herdrick 17y ago
Yes, $300. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=465403
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by herdrick 17y ago
Mathematica looks really powerful and practical. The demo was really impressive rrrrrrright up until he had to start using a Java library. Then it was all the creating of client objects and credentials objects, initializing things, marchi

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