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by jdale27 14y ago
I am not an economist, but it sounds like you're getting at something similar to the diminishing marginal utility of money. I can't find a good source online that explains this, but the basic idea is that the more money someone has, the les
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by jdale27 14y ago
RMS implemented Common Lisp?
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by jdale27 14y ago
A bit of context (the posted link is not the original source): http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKaysReadingList http://www.squeakland.org/resources/books/readingList.jsp
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cat
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by jdale27 14y ago
A bit of Schadenfreude? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude You might want to actually read the first sentence of the article you just linked to. meaty is not experiencing "pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others".
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by jdale27 14y ago
Maybe, he'll be the next Steve or Bill. Perhaps, he'll be the next Gary Mckinnon. Or the next Hans Reiser.
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Pick up the book "Growing a Business", by Paul Hawken.
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http://www.snopes.com/science/nobel.asp
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Rosalind: learning bioinformatics through problem solving(rosalind.info)
1 points by jdale27 14y ago|0 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by jdale27 14y ago
Oops, I missed that. Thanks for the correction.
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by jdale27 14y ago
Free draft: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf (Get it while you can... Publishers often require authors to take down drafts once the book is published.)
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The Path to Jaynes(psnively.github.com)
1 points by jdale27 14y ago|0 comments
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I don't disagree, but what is your point? That one should never say "X is broken" without inventing a Y that is better than X?
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Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see...
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/drop_a_dime ?
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What is OA?
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Let Victor Borge explain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bpIbdZhrzA
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008796
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Details please.
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
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by jdale27 14y ago
If you are charging someone for access, then presumably you are requiring them to log in to access the data. In that case, it should be pretty straightforward to throttle or completely block them if they are doing something (e.g., scraping)
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Open-sourcing your genomic data(gigaom.com)
1 points by jdale27 14y ago|0 comments
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by jdale27 15y ago
Cars and shoes depreciate because they wear out. Computers depreciate for the same reason, and more so for the fact that the price/performance ratio of computing technology improves so rapidly. Neither of those apply to diamonds.
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by jdale27 15y ago
Logo and name, yes. Website design? I see two generic landing pages; they all look alike these days.
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How do I nominate this comment for "Best of HN"?
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The question is too vague. But if I may reinterpret your request as "tell me about some cases where individual software bugs have had significant effects on the world, outside of an isolated computer system", this page is a good place to st
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Lisp in the Cloud - The Next Lisp Machine Will Be Everywhere(slideshare.net)
50 points by jdale27 15y ago|19 comments
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by jdale27 15y ago
This is not a new idea. The Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis ( http://www.jasnh.com/ ) has been around for a while. Nice to see it gaining momentum, though.

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