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by jmatt 18y ago
Assuming this woman doesn't own a chain of tanning salons as her side gig - it's a good read. An interesting alternative to the current opinions on vitamin D, Autism and low-fat diets. As I read it, I quickly categorized it as an interestin
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by jmatt 18y ago
There are bigger things in the global economy than the opinions of Sequoia. This may not be very popular to say here. It is likely companies like Sequoia got burned worse than many other businesses. Money that funds them comes from investme
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by jmatt 18y ago
"Nobel", "Economics" and "Scientist" When was the last time any of those words were used to describe a great business leader? Someone like Jack Welch, etc ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch ). Maybe the Google founders... but I rar
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by jmatt 18y ago
Not the whole stock market. Berkshire Hathaway is holding up well. http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABRK.A http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ABRK.B
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by jmatt 18y ago
Excellent point. Never. Neither does In-N-Out, another privately owned "openly" christian company. Staying private is one good way to alleviate issues with upset share holders and continuing to passively support the owners beliefs. This is
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by jmatt 18y ago
Netshare being banned from the app store is another. If you were lucky enough to buy Netshare when it was for sale - it still works (yay!). I wonder exactly what this means for future support for products such as Netshare. My guess is adh
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by jmatt 18y ago
Once a problem is described in sufficient detail, its solution is obvious. True more times than I care to admit. Specifically in enterprise and business applications.
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by jmatt 18y ago
The best hackers I know didn't necessarily graduate top in the class. A few did and a few didn't. The ones who didn't were usually contributing in other ways - open source or small businesses (sometimes startups but not necessarily). As you
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by jmatt 18y ago
If you could have any blogspot name that you wanted... what would you choose? While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number - two. I'm not sure I would choose too - soooo many other choices. It's memorable and
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What’s your favorite “programmer” cartoon(stackoverflow.com)
24 points by jmatt 18y ago|11 comments
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Thanks, this is the first reason that I've heard that makes sense. It's part of the world financial infrastructure.
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by jmatt 18y ago
What harm is there in letting a company that made bad decisions go bankrupt? I don't see how it's pragmatic to pass this burden on to tax payers and the general public. I admit that I am idealistic about such things. I don't see how governm
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by jmatt 18y ago
I also disagree with the subsidies... but I thought that was apparent. It's hypocritical to be against regulation and for subsidies. I don't know which subsidies you are referring to though. Since telcos, cable and wireless were/are all sub
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by jmatt 18y ago
Ok I am admittedly one of the many libertarians that use NewsYC. I think ardit33 is being a little bit unfair. Not all libertarians necessarily want 8 year old crack dealers and the right to individually own nuclear weapons. There is someth
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by jmatt 18y ago
Yeah I did a search but failed to find it. The advice is - in that case - to just post it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276660
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Excellent, thanks for the entertaining link.
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BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth(bostondynamics.com)
15 points by jmatt 18y ago|8 comments
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by jmatt 18y ago
Interesting and unfortunate. I wish the Mythbusters didn't face this sort of pressure. Maybe they can still do the segment and then put it on their website. That is less predominate than their TV show. With information like the defcon slide
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by jmatt 18y ago
If I just waited for the "ideal" partner, then it would just take forever As an aside you can compute your best choice for a partner (or many other similar choices.. apartments, puppies, etc). Chapter 13 in this book: Chance: A Guide to G
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by jmatt 18y ago
If it rolls over due to 2s complement then it'll be -32768. What the -1 comment is refering to is a casting problem. Or int into byte, etc. Versus unsigned to signed.
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by jmatt 18y ago
I'd like the ability to tag bookmarked pages. Right now the bookmark tool is too limited to be useful. I'll continue to have to use del.icio.us
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by jmatt 18y ago
Interesting information can be found at the about: page. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
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by jmatt 18y ago
Thanks for this!
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by jmatt 18y ago
I agree very well done. A lot of fun, right from the get go. key press timing seems a little buggy but suppose that's to be expected given it's a beta. I had this same problem. I can actually anticipate the slowdown and the inevitable not
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by jmatt 18y ago
Viewstate may be bad but it works and .NET developers have figured out how to use it safely and efficiently (ok some .NET developers have). As for continuation-base web frameworks being a bad use case. I think they are a bad use case in som
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by jmatt 18y ago
Ya I've read it along with most anyone that has had an interest in programming languages and went to school in the last 20 years. It doesn't make his statement less absurd. I was doing undergraduate research on .NET in 2003 and it was absur
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by jmatt 18y ago
I link to the same paper - different repository in my comment. Excellent quote.
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by jmatt 18y ago
Here is a mostly complete list of .NET languages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_languages For all those Python coders - IronPython is usable in production now. It's stable and the differences between cpython and ironpython are well do
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by jmatt 18y ago
Continuations are absolutely possible. This is absurd that your professor isn't staying up to date. Especially considering he's teaching a PL class. See Section 4.2 for academic "proof" http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/icfp05-pcmkf.pdf
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by jmatt 18y ago
From memory: * -> last program you ran 8 -> the floppy disk. I vaguely remember using different devices with different numbers. 1 -> it's compiled - not BASIC. After a quick Wikipedia stint I found a better definition: In the f

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