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by herdrick 14y ago
Yeah, well, I suppose I should admit don't buy the classic liquidity trap theory either. If you put a dollar into T-bills, you drive the interest rate a little lower, which causes, say, 70 cents of other investors' money to leave in disgus
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by herdrick 14y ago
I don't buy it. The world used to let highly interconnected financial institutions fail and we had sharper, nastier recessions (we called them 'panics') but they were over sooner. I think that, much like the reaction to the WTC/Pentagon t
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by herdrick 14y ago
between $8 and $15 trillion... (total deficits + Fed bailouts) I was thinking that we got lucky and TARP ended up not costing much (not counting 2nd order effects pushed into the future). Also, I'm seeing 'only' about $5.3 trillion of ne
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by herdrick 14y ago
Yep, you understood it fine. ('pat' was short for 'pattern'. It was just an example) Wow, that 'autoescaping the commands in parens' syntax is great. But it doesn't seem to be list related. For example: grep pattern (echo "foo.txt") jus
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by herdrick 14y ago
Thanks for the reply and for picking up this project. So far I'm loving the extra interactivity of fish.
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by herdrick 14y ago
And to be clear, what's described in that link doesn't work, at least not on my OS X machine. Thus the code in my blog post.
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by herdrick 14y ago
fish saves its history atomically by writing an entirely new file to disk, and swapping it in That's so you get sync'd histories across one user's logins? Good feature, but I need my history. It's invaluable to me. Still, maybe 250k li
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by herdrick 14y ago
400k lines sounds like less than a lifetime at the terminal. So maybe 200MB would be safer - thanks for the reminder! ;)
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by herdrick 14y ago
Do you really want every command you've typed for the last several years Yes. visible to anyone with physical access to your box Maybe not. That's an auth problem, not a reason to throw away your archives. I keep all my email even thou
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by herdrick 14y ago
You have created a two word combo never seen by Google, "obedient Feynman". http://www.google.com/search?q=obedient+Feynman It sounds like Feynman was suspicious of the Soviet Union.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Is it abuse? It hasn't slowed anything down yet. Also, in the blog post I linked to the link you mention.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Right, but I meant, "Tell me how". I figured it out and dashed off a quick post: http://herdrick.tumblr.com/post/24563032599/display-git-bran...
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by herdrick 14y ago
Can you make this work in fish? http://www.developerzen.com/2011/01/10/show-the-current-git-...
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by herdrick 14y ago
Under the known bugs and issues: History file should apply some kind of maximum history length Fine, but the default needs to be large, like 100MB. Disks are big now. I hope ridiculousfish agrees.
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by herdrick 14y ago
OK, thanks.
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by herdrick 14y ago
Why does xargs under fish not accept {} as a replstr like it does with bash? find . | xargs -I {} grep pat {} On OS X fish this gives "xargs: replstr may not be empty" and on Linux fish I get "xargs: command too long". Using % as t
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by herdrick 14y ago
No, Steve is saying ... material science, sensors, robotics, medical devices, life sciences, etc... VCs whose firms would have looked at these deals or invested in these sectors, are now only interested in whether
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by herdrick 14y ago
There's more to it. See HN's previous discussion, ten days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3832685
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by herdrick 15y ago
What does "We see you haven't installed Word Wars" mean? How is a web app 'installed'?
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by herdrick 15y ago
API question answered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3826814
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by herdrick 15y ago
it helps collaboration of positive activities far more due to social pressure Instead of 'positive' activities, I'd say, 'societally approved'. Social pressure did Galileo no good. A concern is that the internet might enable enforcement
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by herdrick 15y ago
Thanks! We tried both options and liked using one scale for all categories. The idea is that you are comparing influence, or something like it, so that can be visually compared across categories. You do have the downside of having very sm
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by herdrick 15y ago
This is really interesting. I'm surprised you found that startups with higher centrality raised less money. Not sure how to explain that. Your investor graph has edges pointing both from investors to startups and back, right? Anyway, th
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by herdrick 15y ago
Me too.
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by herdrick 15y ago
Unfortunately most of it isn't dated. But yes it'd probably help.
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by herdrick 15y ago
It certainly is susceptible to reporting bias, like most data out there. Perhaps the better word, instead of 'impartial', would be 'disinterested'.
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by herdrick 15y ago
It's impartial. Did you click thru to Wikipedia?
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by herdrick 15y ago
Thanks! We like to keep it clean. In the data source, TechCrunch's Crunchbase, the influence of Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, et al. is captured in YC the company, and Marc Andreessen is split between his personal identity and AH. So y
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by herdrick 15y ago
Paul Graham's credit is mostly subsumed into Y Combinator's rank (#15 among companies). Yahoo has bought a lot of startups. But yeah, there are some things that don't make sense.
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by herdrick 15y ago
Yep, there are a number of surprises. For one thing, this is cumulative, so deals made and competitor relationships from 2005 are as good as from 2012. For another, having a well-flushed out Crunchbase profile makes all the difference. Tr

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