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by jacobscott 18y ago
I guess there's nothing super-wrong with posting links like this, my surprise was more that it got so many upvotes.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I guess I can now sympathize with everyone who complained about too many econ/politics/non-ruby/xyz posts to HN. Front page story about a suggested change from 'RT' --> '♺' on twitter? If I had less faith in HN I would label this a jump
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This writing in this article reminds me of the science fiction Charles Stross writes. It has lots of interesting points on enterprise IT versus web 2.0, but imho would have been a better read if it was a little bit more straightforward.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
You should run a spell checker on your website: instaniously, algorihtm, even your pricing @ $299.00 (!!) a month all look unprofessional. Will people doing serious semantic analysis be okay with using your service in a black box manner, no
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I remember hearing stories in undergrad about code written on paper and mercilessly reviewed so that it would work perfectly the first time it was compiled. Can't remember the specifics and may have been an urban legend -- but this is the c
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NYT on analytical versus subjective risk management(nytimes.com)
4 points by jacobscott 18y ago|2 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Why post a TechCrunch article syndicated at the Washington Post instead of the original ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/01/the-problem-with-twply-... )? Also, the whole thing seems like a super tempest in a teapot: 1) There's some twitt
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Since no one knows who you and your friends are, you could easily be the NSA, right? It seems to me that when launching a security/privacy service you should make an effort to explain why people should trust you.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
sorry, any relevance to anything?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Also they're getting the dev unlocked version of the phone which is $400, not $180... a lot of subpar reporting on this, giz isn't alone in having the facts wrong.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
It seems to me like you get much better bandwidth talking about books by meeting in person. Do internet book clubs work?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Why did you make a sock puppet account to complain about the stories on HN? Why not just read the FAQ?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
It is not clear to me whether you should date lots of girls, or just know lots of girls who you could date if your current relationship falls apart. I think I agree when it comes to clients and investors, but in terms of major technical (or
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by jacobscott 18y ago
There are some interesting questions about net neutrality that shouldn't be dismissed off the bat, but "google doesn't pay their fair share" isn't one of them. Internet connectivity and bandwidth are now largely commodities, and hence not a
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by jacobscott 18y ago
There are four entries in your startup diary and four submissions to HN -- this ratio seems a little bit off to me.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
What's the advantage over all other digg clones? Don't mean this in a snide way -- couldn't tell in thirty seconds, and I was looking...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
better titles on "This wikipedia page is interesting" posts, please!
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Sorry, I'm meaning to order this from Amazon -- it got a lot of props in an ask.mefi thread. Didn't mean to imply that I had read it. Do you have a better suggestion?
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by jacobscott 18y ago
This is a deep question; I think the answer is a mix of economics and philosophy. Depending on how interested you are, consider maybe "History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
The final not I think is a goal that OCW is working towards. I doubt the first three will ever be goals. * MIT is not the University of Phoenix. You have to attend the school to get an MIT education. * OCW is a project to provide open cour
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by jacobscott 18y ago
had I seen this, I would have flagged it for deletion, the same way I would soething asserting: "If sharks exist, Darwinian evolution tells us to expect intelligent sharks. Killer sharks with head-mounted lasers will be found by marine biol
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by jacobscott 18y ago
From his website: "I'll probably keep working on topological quantum field theory and other wimpy subjects" I would be careful what you tell him to go read...
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by jacobscott 18y ago
What's the technical underpinnings of the stateful stuff? Is it more than multithreading? Ruby specific? Seems neat, but hard to tell if it will really be useful (in possibly the same vein as javascript-based "OS in a browser"s). Can you co
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Your suggestion is open to: a) echo chamber: you'd get a lot more lisp/arc startups funded than you should b) gaming: I'll get all my friends to join so they can vote to give me money I haven't reread "Wisdom of the Crowds" recently, but th
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Baseball statistician tries politics and bats almost one thousand(nytimes.com)
67 points by jacobscott 18y ago|24 comments
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by jacobscott 18y ago
does anyone have experience with windows based HPC? Seems like this is an area where *nix has long dominated.
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Nothing on the front page of the website says beta. It's only when I get to the step of my book being created that I have multiple timeouts and I need to refresh multiple times. In fact, the page even has in bold: "We're having some occasio
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Your blog gets to be whatever you want, but if you want one that is HN submission quality, one thing to consider given that you're just starting out is to have a (or a few) friends edit your writing before you post it. You'll notice that al
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by jacobscott 18y ago
Thesis of the book (article is a book review): "it’s almost impossible to raise academic ability, to turn the below-average into even the slightly less below-average. It’s only “educational romanticism” that makes us think we can." I disagr
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by jacobscott 18y ago
I would be interest in what kind of applicants you get for this kind of ad, especially from your posting HN (assuming evn=twitter.com/ev). Seems like a nice chance to work with senior people, but it seems like it would be a rare hacker who

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