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by hugh3 15y ago
Except from the White House's point of view, because they get to harvest your email address.
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by hugh3 15y ago
But millions of people have workbenches and toolboxes in their garages, and are quite capable of building physical objects and devices.
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by hugh3 15y ago
OK, mystery solved. I didn't think he could have possibly read quite that many books by his early twenties, especially given that he was doing a bunch of other stuff at the time. However, yeah, having Mein Kampf on a list entitled "My F
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is that a pre-google list kept up for posterity along with the rest of his Stanford page? Because that's a lot of books for someone that age even to have read , let alone to be his favourite subset of the books he has read. A bunch of 'e
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by hugh3 15y ago
You're right, I am. Comments like yours are a little annoying because you're telling me off for making assumptions without providing alternatives to those assumptions. What else would the end game be? Then we can have a discussion about
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by hugh3 15y ago
Now that's service! :)
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's neither particularly recent nor particularly US-specific.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Indeed. My original comment may have been somewhat over the top, but I would still argue that yes, a bit of ridicule can sometimes do someone good. That's a very long way from saying anything about violence.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I have a feeling one of these sites (Niroka, Skillshare, Codecademy etc...) will be a billion dollar revenue school A billion dollars a year? How are they going to manage that? How many people out there want to learn to program computer
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by hugh3 15y ago
Is there a "see top rated" button I don't see? Because that seems like the most obvious first thing for most viewers to do.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I've been reading HN for years, but I honestly have no idea who Kottke, Gruber, or Winer are. Who cares about this nth-level gossip about people who like to gossip about other people?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Emailing pg and asking nicely seems to be the only solution.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Do high schools in the United States not generally have recess? Classes all morning, then lunch, then classes all afternoon? Aside from anything else, recess is a much-needed coffee break for the teachers.
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by hugh3 15y ago
For the most part, Apple has given away development tools for free, or at very low cost, primarily to cover the overhead of offering them There was no freely available compiler for the mac between System 1 and OSX. My fifteen-year-old sel
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by hugh3 15y ago
Compared to which variety of English? I'm pretty familiar with British, American and Australian English, and I don't think that "hate" is a particularly strong word in any of 'em. Depending on context, of course. A far stronger degree of di
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by hugh3 15y ago
Isn't HN a bigger deal than Techcrunch by now?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I think raganwald's perspective is fine and dandy, as a comment on the original article, which is how he originally left it.
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by hugh3 15y ago
True; I just wish they'd refrained from saying "And here is the rest of the world" while showing five out of six inhabited continents. Or they could have just drawn us on "Asia" and relabelled it "Asia-Pacific".
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by hugh3 15y ago
Isn't this submission a little redundant?
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm sure the idea that there are no jobs out there is exaggerated. A MFE graduate can still find a position somewhere in a bank doing something vaguely related to finance. But the days when anyone vaguely familiar with PDEs could waltz in
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by hugh3 15y ago
And on behalf of Australia, I'd like to say a big "well screw you too" to whoever designed that glassware.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Some folks miss the point. We only make fun of Stallman in an attempt to change his behaviour in a way that benefits both him and others. For instance, rms smells bad. If he could be persuaded to smell less bad, then everybody would benef
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yes and no. Certainly compared to the real world, San Francisco is a place where you need a lot of money to do anything (or rather, to have a place to live) but the psychological factors aren't there. I can easily go into the best restaur
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by hugh3 15y ago
Besides, being the founder (and hence presumably the owner of a significant slice) of $N is much, much better than being merely the guy who manages $N of someone else's money. There's definitely a point here somewhere, though. New York Ci
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by hugh3 15y ago
It sounds like it'd be easier to write your own book than to find an error in Knuth's.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually, on second thoughts I feel the need to contradict myself: Steve Jobs probably could have done a pretty good job of redesigning the user interfaces of these machines. Many devices in the "big fancy machine" category have terrible us
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by hugh3 15y ago
Aw c'mon, I got downmodded to -3 for being cynical yet realistic on HN? I really do think that "massive injections of painkillers is the most likely context in which someone a few hours of dying of cancer is likely to say "oh wow oh wow oh
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by hugh3 15y ago
A distinction I've always thought pretty pointless. There is, after all, no difference in meaning between "my love is like a red red rose" and "my love is a red red rose" (assuming that you're love isn't actually a red red rose in which c
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by hugh3 15y ago
Do I have to be cold-hearted cynic guy again? Fine. He redesigned things around his hospital room because he had a pad and pencil, and he was bored. There's no reason to believe that the X-ray machine he drew was better than the X-ray machi
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by hugh3 15y ago
Mark Joshi's (markjoshi.com) site has a pretty good set of information for aspiring quants (in particular, see the "advice for aspiring quants" bit). The "careers" forum on nuclearphynance.com is also pretty good, and might also shatter som

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