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by hugh 18y ago
Probably not. But hey, I'd support strapping a geiger counter and a hunk of Si-32 onto a rocket and firing it into the sun, just to be sure. (Or away from the sun, but into the sun is quicker and more fun.)
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by hugh 18y ago
I don't know much about Lasik, but I do know about contact lenses. If you're not aware of them you might want to look at getting the new-style night-and-day contact lenses. Unlike the older ones which had to be taken out every night, some o
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by hugh 18y ago
I'm looking forward to this, but it annoys me how many "advance copies" of this book appear to have been floating around for months, and have now been read by (apparently) everybody except me. I understand that they might want to get copies
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by hugh 18y ago
It's true that people tend to be more aggressive about deleting pages about people and companies than they are about deleting random Star Trek crap, but it kinda makes sense. Most of the truly rubbish pages which show up on wikipedia are ra
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by hugh 18y ago
The point is that the main problem can't be solved at the two-guys-in-a-garage level. Two guys in a garage can create a wiki. Two guys in a garage with a million dollar PR budget can create a wiki and get it widely publicised. Two guys in a
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by hugh 18y ago
The articles for prominent VC firms don't have a complete list of their investments. There's 20-something listed for Kleiner Perkins, 30-something for Sequoia, and only 3 for DFJ.
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by hugh 18y ago
Sweet! You should start one of those. I look forward to creating the article "List of random numbers generated by hugh's random number generator on September 18, 2008".
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by hugh 18y ago
It's trivially easy for two smart guys in a garage to create a competitor. It's difficult to persuade hundreds of thousands of people outside said garage to write the actual content.
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by hugh 18y ago
Besides, is it really that hard to stay "indie" developing iPhone apps? I don't see where the need for capital comes in the first place. Especially if you can't even find one person that you want to hire.
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by hugh 18y ago
Well, they should be using the criteria set out in WP:COMPANY -- I don't think they're quite there yet. Some notable companies are unlisted, and some not-yet-notable companies are. Not every company is notable, and certainly not companies
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by hugh 18y ago
The article itself is a bit of a rant/whine (rhine?) but I found the bit of dialogue in the section "The VC mentality" interesting. To some extent I think the VC might actually be right here. I think some people get too caught up in the ide
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by hugh 18y ago
Ah, once again a couple of sentences with actual numbers tells the story far better than a fancy visualisation. And yes, the fact that a half-million-man army deployed to South Vietnam looks, on the map, less significant than twenty embassy
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by hugh 18y ago
Not that impressive, as a visualization. The zooming in and zooming out doesn't work that well. Nor does it, at a glance, seem to much support the political point which I assume they're trying to make -- that US troop levels around the worl
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by hugh 18y ago
If an applicant sees filling out a form to be a major challenge that requires a model to work from, then how is said applicant going to cope with running a company?
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd disagree, just because I think the bar for "passable work" in mathematics is a lot higher than the bar for "passable work" in programming. Passable work, for a mathematician, still means proving something original and nontrivial, wherea
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by hugh 18y ago
Am I the only one who couldn't stand Catcher In The Rye? Who found himself completely unable to empathize with the character of Holden Caulfield -- a whiny teenage loser who thinks (despite all evidence to the contrary) that he's special? I
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by hugh 18y ago
Ten-year-olds doing serious mathematical work? I don't think it's happened since maybe Gauss.
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by hugh 18y ago
These sorts of studies aimed at ranking countries from worst to best are almost always pretty useless, based as they are on a points scale made up of some poorly-chosen metrics of goodness assigned arbitrary weightings. They're even more us
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd add music (performance) to the list, but I can't think of any others.
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by hugh 18y ago
To some extent. The big difference is this: if you leave the academic career path with a PhD in ancient history or medieval basket weaving, you're pretty darn-near unemployable and will probably wind up making $35K editing crummy manuscript
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by hugh 18y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the only good reason for doing a PhD in any subject P is that you're so fascinated by P that you find youself saying: "Holy shit, you mean somebody will actually let me sit around and just do resea
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by hugh 18y ago
"AFL" --> Australian Football League "Footy" --> Football "Nutter" --> Crazy person "Isterling" --> OK, that's just a stupid name.
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by hugh 18y ago
This puzzles me. Why are Mormons so fascinated with genealogy? Aren't they a little concerned that if they keep researching genealogy they might find out that, say, Native Americans are in fact not one of the tribes of Israel magically tr
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by hugh 18y ago
Not necessarily. It wouldn't be all that difficult to construct a robot which could recognize its own reflection, but I don't think that would count as "self-awareness". update: Just read another post in this thread which implies somebody's
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by hugh 18y ago
I'd rather not see any "Top 5" lists unless it's been measurably and quantifiably proven that these are, indeed, the top five funniest hacker/gamer parodies of all time (whatever a hacker/gamer may be).
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by hugh 18y ago
40 flights? Very annoying if you're on one of 'em, but the TSA can't afford to freak out every time 40 flights out of the thousands-per-day that they're responsible are delayed, can they? Viewed from the TSA's perspective, this is a minor s
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by hugh 18y ago
Still doesn't make it the worst idea ever. Hell, you could have an app which depends on the cube of the adoption rate of a vaporware platform.
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by hugh 18y ago
As I understand it, in addition to any other problems there's currently short-term budget problems with many Federal grants. Various spending bills are being held up in Congress while Congress waits to see who the next President is going to
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by hugh 18y ago
My plan, if I were CEO of Blockbuster, would be simple (if undignified): compete on price. A few years ago I lived near a Blockbuster -- I had a card but I hardly ever used it, because with rentals going for something like $6.50 (compared t
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by hugh 18y ago
Whether or not you believe in burning criminals at the stake , the idea that we would change our stance on the matter because it's cold outside today is absurd. (The point being that X in this case is an important issue of policy and Y i

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