hyperbovine

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1. 2011.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   Agree completely re: Newegg, and yet their lack of Prime and CA sales tax mean I never ever ever shop there anymore. The tax thing makes it a really unfair playing field and should be fixed.
2. 2012.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   The solution must be to institute moshing at all live shows, then. Lilith Fair, here I come.
3. 2013.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   You forgot my favorite TeX non-feature: completely uninformative error messages! All kidding aside, I use (La)TeX almost every day and it's bulletproof. It's not going anywhere, so you might as well learn to love it, worts and all.
4. 2014.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   That's ironic because John Conway does a lot of applied math. I think he might have just been explaining why the audience did not know the name. Mathematics is still a relatively small field.
5. 2015.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   > the value of people understanding the former is minuscule in comparison. Do you have any quantitative evidence whatsoever to support such a claim?
6. 2016.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   > But the parser Readability created under the Apache license is being used by Apple and Amazon in millions of devices, neither of which pays a dime in licensing fees to this small startup. Presumably it attained that level of awesomene
7. 2017.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   It's not. Her comment makes no sense, at least to me. Anyways, I am just curious, couldn't you just lie about your sexual orientation at the time of screening? I think it's awful that you should have to, but if your desire is to save lives,
8. 2018.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   I'm not seeing it...
9. 2019.▲
   by hyperbovine 15y ago

   You've just described the business model of a surprisingly large number of consultancies. One man's obvious is the next man's "magic". AFAICT businesses are happy to pay for this sort of thing, so I'm not sure who deserves blame here.
10. 2020.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Here's a paper I read yesterday. Kindly review it for me: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.2875.pdf The scheme you are advocating might have succeeded 200 years ago, when science was happening at a much for fundamental level than it is now. Thes
11. 2021.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    It doesn't matter what they predicted; global oil production likely peaked in the last few years and no amount of wishful thinking is going to make more of it suddenly appear. Almost nobody in the industry seriously believes that production
12. 2022.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    That's because oil is inelastically supplied, and those goods are not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_supply
13. 2023.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Wha? The price of oil is going up because there are billions of new consumers of petroleum on the world stage. Speculation has caused prices to spike in recent years, but you'd be crazy to think that we'll ever see $1 gas again.
14. 2024.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Given Jobs' reaction to e.g. Android, that is, in the Apple parlance, "stunning".
15. 2025.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    .txt files are not paginated to begin with. There is a physical keyboard option available for people who insist on having 35-character passwords.
16. 2026.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Yes, Emacs vs. Notepad would be a little lopsided.
17. 2027.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Amazon has got to be more sensitive to the vicissitudes of the global economy though. I could never stop using Google or Apple products in my day-to-day. Whereas my entire life is pretty much an uphill battle to buy less shit off Amazon. If
18. 2028.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    I mean, somebody got paid to load my 90 yds of Reach onto an airplane in the middle of the night and fly it from Tennessee to California. With virtually no added cost to me, since I have Prime which I share with 5 other people in my family.
19. 2029.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Personally I've never been able to figure out how they manage to make money overnighting me dental floss for $4. (That said, I still own their stock and was glad to scoop up some more of it this morning on the cheap.)
20. 2030.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    If they had they would probably be off running successful companies of their own instead of analyzing.
21. 2031.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    That's totally subjective though. If the masses agree that this video is as good as a $5k pro camera then almost by definition, you could.
22. 2032.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Those cities are the exception, not the rule. Just off the top of my head, Manhattan, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Boston, Dallas, LA, San Diego, Atlanta, D.C., Phoenix are all flat enough for a person in decent shape to get around by bike. I th
23. 2033.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Why would somebody be ashamed of trying to save their own life?
24. 2034.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    One thing to remember is that Facebook's e-mail is an outright flop -- I have never once corresponded with an @facebook.com address -- whereas tons of teens use Gmail on a routine basis. Every Gmail user is now (more or less) a Google+ user
25. 2035.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    The questions are answered in the article. The equivalence is not supposed to be obvious even to other number theorists. Most of the article is devoted to explaining "why" it works since the actual proof is two paragraphs.
26. 2036.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    It's a shame too. Two of the best professors I ever had were SOE: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ddgarcia/ http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ The system makes total sense. Everybody wins.
27. 2037.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    I don't understand what is "eye-moistening" about somebody failing to act like an asshole and doing what any normal person what have done.
28. 2038.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    Agree completely. Yerba Buena Gardens anyone? http://g.co/maps/wy2se The whole thing is contrived and smacks of just the sort of prying, cultish obsession with the private lives of celebrities that Steve Jobs treated with scorn. If it was
29. 2039.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    What if the next person on the list was also using alternative therapy to treat cancer?
30. 2040.▲
    by hyperbovine 15y ago

    We have a cheap and infinite source of electricity, it's called nuke power. The main obstacle to its adoption, as well as the source of its cost, is NIMBYism. That problem goes away once you decouple generation and transmission. Build nuke