klochner

29 ms·

1. 301.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   It took me a minute to figure out how facebook gained so much traffic without a commensurate decrease in the other sites. My take-away is that facebook has mostly vacuumed up MySpace traffic (which was conveniently omitted from the chart).
2. 302.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   so by your definition, any leveraged investment is arbitrage.
3. 303.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   No, it's not even close. I was expecting a story about generating profits with arbitrage, and using the profits to fund the company. Though inaccurate, the title was much catchier than: "How credit cards funded my first company"
4. 304.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   prestigeous[sic] 6k/month job?
5. 305.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   I like the idea of an unofficial style guide on github - companies can fork & edit, then new hires can diff against the version they're most familiar with.
6. 306.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   San Francisco, CA - in the Presidio RentMineOnline (SeedCamp '08, FBFund '09) We're profitable, growing, and looking for Rails developers, ideally people who are familiar with as much of the full web stack as possible. Come join our tight
7. 307.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   The biggest problem I've found with the facebook api is their sloppiness in documentation - they often have multiple conflicting versions of api documentation online, with no structured versioning in place. Several times I've seen functiona
8. 308.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   The command line has no affordance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
9. 309.▲
   by klochner 15y ago

   Thanks for the links. Some ruby food for thought . . . > x = nil || 5 #behaviorally equivalent to elvis? > [nil,4,3].compact.map(&:to_s) #null-ignored scope
10. 310.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    andand doesn't seem any different than using try(:method), which is defined in Rails 2.3+ for the Object class: > nil.try(:name) #==> nil > User.first.try(:name) #==>"john doe" >
11. 311.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Here's what homeaway has to say about it: http://community.homeaway.com/docs/DOC-1357
12. 312.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Think I'll wait until this non-blocking issue is cleared up: I created two barebones Rails projects. One with Rails 3.0.7 and the other with 3.1.0.beta1. Both are using Ruby 1.9.2p180 and SQLite for the db. Running this very
13. 313.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    So google has more than 90% RSS reader market share? That seems surprisingly high to me.
14. 314.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Your function isn't close to linear. Here are my benchmarks for 10 iterations of sorting: patio11: 100000 -- 120.469834 10000 -- 1.218803 1000 -- 0.019961 100 -- 0.000958 Array.shuffle: 100000 -- 0.
15. 315.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    history function for ruby console (irb) sessions: def history(num=100) h = Readline::HISTORY.to_a start = [0,h.size-num-1].max h.zip((0..h.size).to_a)[start...h.size].each do |cmd,i| puts " #{(i).to_s.rju
16. 316.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
17. 317.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    San Francisco, CA - RentMineOnline (FBFund '09, SeedCamp '08) We're revolutionizing the marketing industry for apartment communities. Our company is small, growing and profitable. We're hiring back-end and front-end developers. Our stack i
18. 318.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    I'm still pretty excited about turntable, but not because the music is so phenomenal. Turntable is the first web service that gives me the sense of physically hanging out with friends while online. I consider chat rooms or IM to be v1.0 of
19. 319.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Um, seriously? Uber is dropping their fares only for the duration of the taxi strike, ostensibly to make sure "ordinary folks can get around the city while the taxi drivers strike to get a fair deal." During the strike (viz., the 'short ter
20. 320.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    If uber wants to make sure everyone who wants a taxi can get one, they should raise prices, otherwise they're ensuring an uber shortage. simple supply/demand economics.
21. 321.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    "But that's a tautology, of course the chicken wanted to get to the other side if it crossed the road."
22. 322.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Also note the significant 34 y.o. bump from the legendary Jon Skeet [1] [1] http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet
23. 323.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Anyone else wonder how well a random RescueTime user approximates the average google user? My mom uses google, would never use RescueTime, and almost surely didn't try out the guitar. Those projected numbers deserve a big fat asterisk.
24. 324.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    San Francisco, CA - RentMineOnline, social referral marketing, is looking for a junior RoR developer. We're former SeedCamp and FBFund participants, currently profitable and working out of the Presidio with a great view of the Golden Gate B
25. 325.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Those words don't have quite the right connotations, try the following edits: naughty --> mischievous entitled --> relentless and determined
26. 326.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    You can edit the user prompt[1] in most shells as well as the window title[2] in xterm. There's also a command-line editing mode in bash[3]. [1] http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/howtos/Bash-Prompt/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO-2.html [2] http://tld
27. 327.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    get married :)
28. 328.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    You've just learned the dirty secret of financial modeling - it's a lot of math and statistics built on top of on possibly arbitrary guesses of prior probabilities.
29. 329.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    p(e|c) = p(c|e)*p(e)/p(c) = .995*p(e)/p(c) ~ .3/.75 = .4
30. 330.▲
    by klochner 15y ago

    Kudos to Christopher Soghoian[1] for releasing the email[2] instead of accepting the offer for cash + high-profile smear publication. It makes you wonder about the existing op-eds slamming social circles[3,4,5] [1] http://www.dubfire.n