lambdasquirrel

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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   Well that's even worse because it means that the artists, writers, etc. have simply moved out of the city.
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   I will say that people are flocking to the suburbs. Many of the artists, yogis and writers I know have chosen to live in places like Oakland and Santa Clara. Not that your usual get-rich hacker would care.
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   So where is Bing?
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   I think that that's a fascinating look at it, and yet, I think that the success of small startups, and the ever-shrinking tech company has been a vilification, of sorts. You look at Facebook, and it has been a much smaller company than Goog
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   It works fine on my iPhone4 too.
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   Have you been to the dojo? Most of the life happens on the first floor. Also, most of the parties happen where there's a giant garage door. It's not like the second floor is lacking in ways down and out of the building. It's also a converte
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   At CMU, we called Humanities and Social Sciences "high school studies." In retrospect, it was kind of immature and shortsighted. Social psych was one of the most valuable classes I took, and I found I was missing the kinds of literature cla
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   Hmm... it may be a little too late to comment on this and still be noticed, but from what I understand, not all forms of recursion are created equal, and you can do most things using total functions, that can be guaranteed to terminate. In
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   by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

   I've wondered about languages that are "hybrid" in the sense that the type system can be turned on and off, because from an intuitive sense, whether the language is meant to be used as a dynamic language has an impact on its design, similar
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    by lambdasquirrel 14y ago

    Maybe YC and pg doesn't have regrets. At least not any regrets like that . I don't think I would.
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    You go to LA and you will see. :)
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    Here they are... 10. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein... 9. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford.html 8. Harald
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    It's propaganda for a realpolitik point of view. They do not really take sides with anyone. My only gripe with them is that, all things being considered, and George Friedman's work having been read, they seem subtly promoting of their reaso
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    "Ron Conway is a successful entrepreneur and one of the most successful angel investors in history. If he were a young person today, he would not get into Y Combinator." "Ron Conway has described Y Combinator as “the Harvard of incubator
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    Well, there were other interesting non-sequiturs, like walkability being important. I honestly do agree there, but as we all know here, there's VC and angels who have all their investments clustered around Castro and Uni in the valley, so t
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    That's not even it though? Shouldn't systems like this be air-gapped?
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    Great article. Can we get the derivation for this stuff?
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    "Conservative" or just gets shit done? Maybe the real reason why we don't get shit done in this country is because we're so preoccupied with these worn-out ideologies. What if Jobs was right? What if it's too damn hard to build factories in
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    If, say, a Motorola or Samsung device garnered such status, I wonder if people would dig up shit on said devices. Lets face it people. If you bought something from China, you are complicit. If you bought something from a country poorer than
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    I read somewhere that the US may actually accidentally come close to its Kyoto targets because of the recession. So yes. Nuclear as your argument may be, you are probably correct. =P
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    Former Ukraine PM Tymoshenko Receives 7 Year Sentence(bbc.co.uk)

    1 points by lambdasquirrel 15y ago|0 comments
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    Well there's subtle but important differences between patents in general, and patents as they have been abused regarding software. There's also copyright and trade secrets. Namely, if someone swipes your code here in the US, and you can pro
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    by lambdasquirrel 15y ago

    I won't rule here on whether corporations are good/bad or if they deserve the profits. I'd just like to posit my analysis of the situation, which is that: 1) It's been well documented in the financial press now that banks and companies are