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by ky3 14y ago
The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations. The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices. The examples given paint a slightly different story. The gist is that DRM is more a
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by ky3 14y ago
Is this an elaborate form of self-inflicted sour grapes?
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by ky3 14y ago
When you say you'd rather "not go into debt just to advance my life", isn't there an assumption that you'd probably not succeed with a bank loan? Why would funding make that bottomline any different? Input from angels/VCs? The stats against
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by ky3 14y ago
In today's throwaway culture, it makes sense to punt debugging (read: conserve debugging resources) whenever possible. That flaky appliance? Junk it and buy a new one. The explosion of systems complexity have made many debugging tasks harde
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by ky3 14y ago
I think it speaks volumes to how positive peer pressure, in more ways than one, can force people to shape up. So the key takeaway is the positive peer influence, not so much Japan and its whatever-ness. There's a certain dream about playi
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by ky3 14y ago
> Self publishing is stupidly easy and a heck of a lot more profitable. The tradeoff used to be that if you'd go to a publisher they'd do your marketing. Every creative type I know of is not only utterly n00bish when it comes to marketi
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by ky3 14y ago
I don't doubt that those who are familiar with his work won't hesitate in taking out the credit card and thwacking it at the screen. Do you know if it would hurt those sales in any way if he inserts a short bio for those who don't?
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by ky3 14y ago
Agreed. The HN effect only lasts for so long. Once the flash crowd evaporates, prospects need more than such an unvarnished offer before they can act. Cozy up to your prospects. Release some educational content. Give some examples of how yo
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by ky3 14y ago
Amy dramatizes for effect, I'm sure. But you can't deny Spolsky's spin can you? That GitHub isn't quite corporate-oriented because "contributions can come from volunteers all over the Internet, many of whom are happy to fork the code for th
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by ky3 14y ago
Amy: I don't really have a dog in this race. MJR: This isn't very honest considering that you are the one giving Nathan the advice in the article. And he is creating ConvertKit while part of your 30x500 launch class, Correct? Nathan is /not
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by ky3 14y ago
... leads to risk avoidance and increased conformity, at least in UK. Isn't that the intention all along? Who stands to lose most were the boat rocked?
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by ky3 14y ago
Let me second the suggestion to go outdoors and explore nature. Hiking's good. If you're north enough, and if you haven't already, take up x-country skiing. Lessons from a good instructor are awesome! An instant mood makeover is to perform
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Why Functors-as-Containers Doesn’t Work and an Exotic Approach Just Might(atamo.com)
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by ky3 14y ago
The abstract is academia's TLDR.
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by ky3 14y ago
There's only one so far: FP in Scala, run by Odersky himself.
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by ky3 14y ago
Winners don't quit. Quitters don't win.
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by ky3 14y ago
"For inspiration to strike, it has to find you working." -- Author?
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by ky3 14y ago
There's a fairly simple way to protect them, but no utility does it. You mean a faraday cage? Will wrapping it with foil work?
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by ky3 14y ago
Would you care to explain the source of your initial discomfort then?
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On Types, Functional Programming, and Monads(tailcalled.wordpress.com)
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by ky3 14y ago
I think what happens to most people following advice from others is that they are not "dumb enough" to go with it. That or "suckers don't value what they don't pay for" (attributed to PT Barnum).
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by ky3 14y ago
Numbers coming out of America are always revenue. It's a lower bound of value delivered. So with a Million Dollar Consultancy, the value unlocked is upside of a million dollars. All that value goes into a global account called Civilizatio
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by ky3 14y ago
The perfect scam is the self-fulfilling prophecy [1]: Write a book titled "How to make millions writing ebooks." Suppose it goes on to make millions. Done. Now suppose a guy named Jack flew to the moon. He writes a book "How I flew to the m
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by ky3 14y ago
Be strict with what you put out, be lenient with what you meet.
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by ky3 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious how you'd prepare for a multicore and cloud computing future. Using global state is like blowing Gabriel's horn -- everything dies! Ok, so not everything, but the upshot is that global state plays very badly in the fut
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by ky3 14y ago
Don't you want there to be a big warning sign that your references are to bleeding edge academic literature that are NOT implemented in GHC and simply aren't in the works at all?
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Reimagining Matrices(conal.net)
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by ky3 14y ago
Ogilvy's Confessions has a fine line about this, which roughly paraphrased, goes: Those who are most successful in new business are those who show the most sensitive insight into the psychological make-up of the prospective client. (Empha
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by ky3 14y ago
I wish I didn't have to know anything about it, cuz life's complicated enough as it is!
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by ky3 14y ago
RT needs to be seen in the context of reasoning about programs. Suppose we want to define a constant function f such that f x = 0 . Under strict semantics in a total language, you're fine. Under strict semantics in a partial language f

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