koolmoe

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by koolmoe 19y ago
You can do GoogleTalk on iChat as a Jabber account.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I have a 15 mo girl. My wife read lots of books. I read a few. With a few exceptions, the books have been a waste of time and money. So many of the books in this genre have the feel of the Learn Blub in 21 Days line of programming books.
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Wii-Proof Panasonic TV in the Works(blog.wired.com)
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A simple Haskell web server (lstephen.wordpress.com)
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I don't think getting stuck in a local optimum is as important as the speed with which you get there. Techniques for finding a global optimum of a numerical function are expensive, time-consuming, and often find worse solutions before they
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by koolmoe 19y ago
It's interesting to me that Paul lists humility as an (the?) important factor leading to successful product design. It seems like there would be a natural tension between the courage it takes to found a startup and the humility it takes to
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think the point of the Vista comment is to illustrate the theme of patenting fairly obvious programming technology, not to take a shot a the "modern day best and brightest." Microsoft reputedly engages in a fair amount of this kind of ina
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I usually sleep about 7.5 hours. I don't know any hacks for sleeping less. The best hack I know for getting more done in the same amount of time is to exercise intensely for 45 minutes to an hour every other day. It's best for me when my
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think the possibility of failure is a great motivator, so I wonder if I would have the motivation to attempt to succeed if I knew I wouldn't fail. The most interesting things I've ever done started with questions that began "I wonder if..
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by koolmoe 19y ago
It's more like he gave you a scalpel, a tool that's great - even indispensible - for a specific set of cutting tasks, but that might leave you disappointed if you chose to use it for cutting down a tree. Except that scalpels aren't really a
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Sorry but that's like selling someone a car and saying "Oh you want the chassis to be made of metal instead of wood? Well you can change that can't you." Except pg isn't selling anything, he's just letting you see and use what's ostensibl
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Common Lisp will keep chugging right along. You could ask on comp.lang.lisp if you wanted some really well-informed opinions wrt the impact of Arc on CL, but I wouldn't advise it unless your skin is thick and flame-resistant.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
His "challenge" is totally missing the point. Just because it is difficult to identify the owner of a random picture doesn't mean that one couldn't use that picture against the wishes of the owner.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I agree with a lot of what he said, although I don't expect that Clinton would get "swatted" by voters against any of the potential Republican candidates. But mostly I just wanted to say that I thought the postscript was funny: Windows Vis
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by koolmoe 19y ago
A production language should favor reading the code over writing it, and a toy language should do the opposite. Note that I don't mean that the language is a toy, but that it's used to make toys. Yes, Lisp is used to make toy programs lik
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I don't have any experience in a startup, but just thinking on the problem leads me to believe that not releasing early would be a big contributor. Seems to me that if you release early, you'll get more interesting[1] feedback while your ap
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by koolmoe 19y ago
s/had to be rewritten/rewrote itself/ would be funnier.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
The Kinesis keyboard is available on Amazon for $269 from a third party seller: http://www.amazon.com/Kinesis-Advantage-USB-Keyboard-black/d...
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by koolmoe 19y ago
>please don't confuse hard work with anything that happens in college. You can work hard at anything. Playing an instrument isn't something I consider work, but it takes hard work to become one of the top musicians in the world. Consis
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by koolmoe 19y ago
The XFL had a lot of problems, but very few were related to the business structure. The biggest problem was that the best players in the world weren't playing in the XFL. Div I-A college football doesn't have that problem. The lower divis
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think the big difference between CEO's and football coaches is that the coaches' products are more easily subject to scrutiny. The average joe can watch weekly football games and judge for himself whether a team looks disciplined and prep
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by koolmoe 19y ago
If nothing else, the author demonstrated the ability to work hard. Demonstrating to yourself that you can work hard has a lot of value in and of itself, IMO. Of course, there are other outlets for working hard, but for many Americans, high
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think there are certain aspects of Web startups that require iteration - it's not easy to figure out exactly what customers want on the first try. Even the customers might not (usually won't?) know until they've started to use your produ
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by koolmoe 19y ago
re: Web 2.0 being out of style, perhaps some of the trendy things like gradients, etc. may have fallen out of fashion, but, IMO, simple interfaces will never fall out of fashion. For the last ten years, I've programmed user interfaces for f
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Hmmm...cutting your own hair to save time. This, I like. But how do they do it? Flowbee? Clippers?
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by koolmoe 19y ago
"I also assumed that the deep romanticism of some of xkcd's comics meant that he was in a serious relationship of some kind" Funny, I assumed the opposite. A lot of his comics about relationships resonate with the self image I had before I
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I think the Java vs. Flex debate is out of place here. The way Matt's comment re Java fits into the discussion has more to do with the amount of attention that most Fantasy Sports providers are giving to the domain. In that context, I thi
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Here are some alternative sources: http://www.newscentre.bham.ac.uk/press/2007/10/24Oct07Turing... http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071024/full/news.2007.190.ht... The second link is particularly informative.
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by koolmoe 19y ago
I found this part interesting: "I asked him why he'd worked on it. He said he'd seen it as a nice puzzle. That at first he was pretty sure the Turing machine's behavior was simple enough that he could prove that it wasn't universal. But th
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by koolmoe 19y ago
Presumably you, because if you are that good, you will be in no short supply for work. Thus, while the less skilled programmer is still hacking away at the function, you are writing new functionality and earning twice as much while doing s

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