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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I can't believe I am regularly reading popehat for the blow-by-blow on this. Frankly, it's a soap opera and has little to no bearing on my own life. And yet I can't wait for the next episode.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> It's not that the results are completely invalid Especially if only 11% of them are reproducible, they're only 89% invalid. I'd go so far to say: If the reproducibility rate is 11%, you're not doing science, you're just pursuing fu
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
I agree. They might as well add the start button back in and start calling it an early release of windows 9. We've had exactly zero requests for Win8 on our product. The largest customers that we asked (and who get all the attention, fran
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Because they don't come to us to see how (or not) our system works but to get their problems fixed in time, and by a top quality expert. I notice the word "price" is not present in that testimonial.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> You have the binaries on your machine Then I love this definition of "in the cloud". Even desktop apps are now "cloud" apps!
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> and we will put client testimonials on that prove it. I'll be curious to see which client gives you a testimonial that thinks non-competing contractors is a great idea.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> One benefit may be that contractors won't be in a race to the bottom It's obviously of benefit to the contractors, I meant the other side of the transaction.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> bidding wastes your valuable time. Why does it waste more of my time in this bidding process than any other aspect of the marketplace? It's how you minimize costs, and any smart seller that realizes you're not going through the bid
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> so there is no need for contractors to compete with one another Why would buyers desire this?
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
This article was from the Physics Today memorial issue on Feynman iirc. When I read it at the time, I seem to remember that it was also the weakest article in that issue. (It was before Thinking Machines crashed and burned.)
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
This is idiocy. I know it's a knee jerk reaction to ZOMG-PORN-IN-THE-BLOCKCHAIN!!1!, but c'mon. We can use such steganography all over the net. Do we have to show proof-of-concept by putting porn into the DNS records? How about imgur; Y
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Would love to hear ideas on the best replacement from other HNers.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> and will certainly lead to clicks from people trying to figure out what was really written. raises hand, looks sheepish I couldn't figure out what word was close to "blankets".
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> "Let's not kid ourselves; administrators at the CSU are beginning a process of replacing faculty with cheap online education." Sounds about right. Salaries are the number 1 expense, so it's a great place to cut.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Their ranking has been around (and well-known) since at least the 80s.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
Awsome. Anyone know what the arc structure is at 70GHz? I'm guessing artifact, but would love to know.
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
VCs tend to break investments into two classes: "Better, faster, cheaper" and "Brave New World" The "Brave New World" ideas put 25 year olds on equal/better footing than 50 year olds, since they tend to be everything new. The "Better Faste
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by jpdoctor 13y ago
> Since we know that Ethernet operates at 10Mbps or 10,000,000 bits per second I'm trying to figure out if this essay was written in the late 80s or the early 90s.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I really like how the author ignored the fact that biz people are financially predatory, and often use those skills on their non-biz cofounders. Good work.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Whoops: s/VLSI/VLSI designer/
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Interesting to know how much it would cost to build your own machines only reasonable solution at this time. Finger in the air calculation: $3-4M. Assumes knowledgeable designers, and good ops people with decent offshore assembly
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Fairly well centered on Wilson Sonsini? I'm trying not to confuse correlation with causation here.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The more people get excited about faster ways to hoard bitcoins People seem to be oblivious to the fact that a currency must be available in order to be useful. There is a reason that Gresham's Law has achieved "Law" status. Oddly,
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> 220 btc Holy moly: $27K.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> public transport will still be running by the time you stumble out of the pub again. Not in Boston. But then again, today isn't a bad day to just stay in the pub.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Me neither, I was there from 1982-1996. There was one knifing on Mem Drive during that period.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Ironically NY Post was one of the "news" sources Just as the WSJ published about people in custody, the lesson is clear: Do not bother listening to any Rupert Murdock publication for news. The WSJ should just stick to finance, and
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This is great stuff as long as you like people who breath their own exhaust. As soon as you encounter someone who is not speaking the same language, there will be great confusion. Usually, this means anyone from outside of MBA/Marketing/ o
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> The OED is well-known for its citations backing up its definitions A bit OT, but if you enjoy the sort of info in the OED and are interested in how it was created, this book is an interesting read: http://www.amazon.com/Professor-M
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Along the read, I was worried he might miss it - yet he did find the purpose on the way. I couldn't help but think that he was scamming the reader just as he scams everyone else in the story. By the end, when sitting down to actuall

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