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691.
by hvs 15y ago
If I were a betting man, I would guess "build some new proprietary technology", but they may just go back to WebGL now that they are committing to HTML5.
692.
by hvs 15y ago
Looks like a pump-and-dump scam: http://www.beaconequity.com/smw/14546/Raystream-RAYS-Stock-a...
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by hvs 15y ago
As to your second post, I think you are on the right track. I think -- in the U.S. -- when race is brought up in discussions, white people are immediately on guard for a couple things: 1) Being perceived as a racist for something they say,
694.
by hvs 15y ago
This looks like it could be an interesting book, and I'll most likely buy it when it comes out. In the meantime, another great book is "The Non-Designer's Design Book": http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Robin-Willia...
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by hvs 15y ago
I find it disturbing that you thinking bullying is a "meme."
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by hvs 15y ago
Very well said. You outlined everything that I've noticed and discussed with our IT team (who support a large number of Macs). Needless to say, they have come to despise supporting Macs. And, yes, Microsoft Outlook for Mac is a horrid POS.
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by hvs 15y ago
I work in an almost exclusively Mac shop (an agency) and to say that they don't require much IT support is laughable. The worst part is that when they do require support, it is much more involved than with PCs.
698.
by hvs 15y ago
The Gates Foundation isn't your traditional "take money, give money" charity, though. It is actually just the kind of charity that you would expect a successful entrepreneur to create. They require results from the research that they fu
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by hvs 15y ago
Netflix offers $1MM to improve their algorithm by 10% and $50,000 is all that DARPA can offer for a harder problem?
700.
by hvs 15y ago
Fun note, OS/2 Warp 4 support was discontinued on December 31st, 2006; ten years after its release.
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by hvs 15y ago
What about Octave? Other than my use in the Stanford Machine Learning class, I've never really used either, so I don't have any basis for comparison.
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by hvs 15y ago
Right, which is why you don't just remove the onion because you feel like it. In that story, he found out why they used to put the onion in and determined it was no longer necessary. Moral: if you don't understand code, don't change it, u
703.
by hvs 15y ago
That doesn't sound like it's at odds at all. The point of the article is that you should investigate why something was done in the past so that you don't keep repeating the same thing even when it isn't necessary anymore. All of the thing
704.
by hvs 15y ago
You should never remove code that you don't understand. And when isn't it a priority to "not break anything?"
705.
by hvs 15y ago
Many non-crazies also advocate abolishing the Fed. One of them is running for President.
706.
by hvs 15y ago
He would've never been brought to the ICC. The NTC made it clear that they were planning on trying him in Libya if he was captured. And that would almost certainly have ended with an execution anyway.
707.
by hvs 15y ago
I would rather that he had been brought to trial, but I think he was punished accordingly.
708.
by hvs 15y ago
Yes. I'm not speaking against this program, I was simply addressing the point made by hugh3. The larger problem is that we don't just need "investment" we need to avoid "malinvestment." But with economic manipulation, the market doesn't get
709.
by hvs 15y ago
I generally feel (and this is generally due to my Austrian economic leanings) that talking about easier access to capital (through artificially lowering interest rates) is confusing the symptoms with the disease. We need to build up the cap
710.
by hvs 15y ago
I went to a Chicago ACM presentation of Ola's a couple of years ago talking about Ioke. It was really pretty impressive. Seph (on the surface) actually reminds me a lot of Smalltalk.
711.
by hvs 15y ago
The APL-family of languages aren't just short. Those single (and double) characters are each very powerful. APL was not based on the von Neumann style of programming. It is much more comparable to Haskell and the like.
712.
by hvs 15y ago
26 only feels old until you get into your 30's. I'm 35 and feel old when talking to people in their 20's, but otherwise I still feel like I'm a kid (with a little more common sense). I'm assuming that it will be similar when I'm in my 40'
713.
by hvs 15y ago
OK, someone explain this to me because I've never understood: 1) Company says it's going to make $1.00/share 2) "Analysts" says it's going to make $1.10/share 3) Company actually makes $1.05/share 4) OMG sell the stock!!1! it missed some ar
714.
by hvs 15y ago
Understanding the whims of karma change on HN comment are not worth pondering or worrying about, much less commenting about (which usually just ends up making things worse).
715.
by hvs 15y ago
Um, no? Did you read the article? It is talking about a massive reforestation event due to the Native Americans dying off. This is the exact opposite of anthropogenic global warming.
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by hvs 15y ago
I think they made around $100,000 with Kickstarter. That's a lot for a Kickstarter campaign, but it's not a whole lot to run a company. Plus, that was about a year and a half ago.
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The Diaspora* Project Requests Donations to Keep Going(blog.diasporafoundation.org)
8 points by hvs 15y ago|5 comments
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by hvs 15y ago
I have no idea about the answer to your question, but in Norse mythology, the Sun (Sunna) is female and the Moon (Mani) is male.
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by hvs 15y ago
Here in the midwest, "this is awesome" is not commonly heard, but people are generally averse to confrontation. So, they will most likely give a "that's interesting" up to, and past, the midpoint of the normal distribution depicted. If it's
720.
by hvs 15y ago
I'm not sure if it was the same way in the 60's and 70's, but every protest I saw in Chicago since 2003 always attracted a fair share of professional protestors. Your "Free Tibet"ers, environmentalists, and various others always seemed to s

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