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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Glad you like it! You're right - that pagination would be better if the 'next' link behaved better. We'll fix it sometime soonish.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Co-builder of this here. Hope you like it! Don't forget to click on a dot - then you can walk the graph of relationships among startups, people, and financial firms.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   "Really knows" is just a form (perhaps indicating higher confidence) of "only believes", as any good bayesian understands. Like a lot of philosophic thought, this is just playing with the meaning of words. Yet is that so bad? Did such dis
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Amazing to me how highly Spokane ranks on all of these.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Can you point to some great artists and writers who studied art history or literature? I agree that formal study and practice of music (not the same as studying music history btw) has lead to a lot of great music.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Studying art and literature isn't the same as creating it.
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Was that the best Frontline ever or what? Thanks.
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   Clever methods of overfitting(hunch.net)

   14 points by herdrick 15y ago|0 comments
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   by herdrick 15y ago

   Yes. You could expect it to bounce off the walls of the pipe, though.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    thanks!
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    that's it, thanks
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Anyone know how to denote 'log base 2'? This: "log (x)" assumes base 10.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I wonder what the product / prototype was.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Of course not. Most startups avoid TDD. More generally, trust your gut, especially when people start talking about Methodologies. Your instincts are good.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Wow. I was going to disagree with you... then I read the quiz and note. It's worse than a mere error, the quiz writer is willfully throwing away knowledge about the world. They didn't give conditional probabilities but of course we can, a
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I read in the 90s that Microsoft's suppliers appreciated that MS never went the 'net 30' or 'net 90' route like other Fortune 500 corps and just paid as soon as they got the bill.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Where are the news reports of this incident?
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    AWS was pirate operation That's amazing to me. I thought such things were never done in software anymore because: why not leave the company and do the same thing in your own startup? Same hard work, high risk, etc, but with giant upside
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Please don't call people or their work 'moronic' (or the like) here.
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    What was it like to be in the Soviet Union just before it collapsed?(quora.com)

    10 points by herdrick 15y ago|0 comments
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    This was really great. Thanks.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    What is Blackboard?
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I admire Steve deeply. But in this post you see what was probably the worst thing about him: people feared the guy. Maybe that's unavoidable if you have high standards - I'd really like to know. But I don't think this is a case of fearin
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    The key paragraph: "WGU’s answer to the status quo is to offer a degree that is based on competency rather than time. By gathering information from employers, industry experts, and academics, Western Governors formulates a detailed, instit
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I recommend the Readability bookmarklet.
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    The Decline of Unfettered Research (1995)(math.washington.edu)

    4 points by herdrick 15y ago|2 comments
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    When you install for Python you need to make the keyboard shortcut yourself, but I don't see an app to invoke. Is there something installed (in /usr/local/bin ?) that I can execute?
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    I don't think you'd call this a Monte Carlo simulation. It's just an experiment.
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    Thanks for the dissenting opinion. Is this worse than the sort of thing that goes on in the early days of most startups, including our most revered? People around here have a lot of respect for pg, rtm, tlb and their startup Viaweb - go ba
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    by herdrick 15y ago

    You don't need a macro to do that in a lisp. Typically you just use a built in 'partial' function, which just makes a closure that will call the original function. (It's simple, so you can just make your own if you're using a lisp without