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601.
by mdemare 19y ago
The point of the article is that there is no good solution, no matter what Microsoft is interested in.
602.
by mdemare 19y ago
The good reason why it'll never work is that it has to be done for bilions of pages.
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by mdemare 19y ago
Stay in the U.S., market to (and develop for) Europe. There's much more unfulfilled demand in Europe than in the U.S. Just browse TechCrunch and realize that almost none of these website are available in French or German.
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Black Swans - unexpected movements in financial markets.(gladwell.com)
35 points by mdemare 19y ago|14 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
Malcolm Gladwell on Taleb's investment strategy: http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm
606.
by mdemare 19y ago
That's such a weird rule. What's to stop them from buying put options?
607.
by mdemare 19y ago
Has there been discussion about anything else?
608.
by mdemare 19y ago
Why isn't it rational to fight wrongs that don't affect you personally?
609.
by mdemare 19y ago
Neelie, go get 'm! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commissioner_for_Compe...
610.
by mdemare 19y ago
Some things are wrong even though they're not illegal. And it's only natural to get angry about such things even if you aren't the one who's affected.
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by mdemare 19y ago
You think of wealth as money. That's the wrong way to look at it. Wealth is value added for people or companies. If you create a web-app that saves a company money, then you've created wealth. The demand that companies have for saving money
612.
by mdemare 19y ago
True, I always choose standard size. I want vertical space much more badly than horizontal, especially for browsing, editing source code and reading PDFs.
613.
by mdemare 19y ago
"Understanding continuations are functions that don't return." I've never heard a clearer explanation of continuations! I remember when I first read a similarly short explanation of Lisp. Suddenly it clicked. It was something like: "All cod
614.
by mdemare 19y ago
Or Redcode?
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by mdemare 19y ago
That would be cool! e.g. at rescuetime my efficiency is at 83%. Yawn. How much cooler would it be if I was a Zen Monk in the Order of Time wielding a Staff of the Moon. With pretty graphics of course (and a widget for on my blog). I mean, p
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by mdemare 19y ago
Hat tip to raganwald: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/03/drive-and-determination-... I used to program in AMOS basic in the early nineties. That was a great experience. Its 2D API and resource management were terrific. Anyway, I was surp
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Slumming With Basic Programmers(prog21.dadgum.com)
5 points by mdemare 19y ago|1 comments
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by mdemare 19y ago
I'm on a Powerbook, and Firefox is almost unusably slow. Safari 3 is nice and snappy, and I'm not even using the Webkit nightlies which are rumored to be 3 times faster. Still using Firefox for Firebug, which is a life-saver.
619.
by mdemare 19y ago
Does it have advanced Inner Join™ Technology?
620.
by mdemare 19y ago
But you can change a will. Can he back out of this?
621.
by mdemare 19y ago
No idea what there is to learn about HTML, it's CSS that's the problem. I've never found a resource that explained CSS well. CSS still surprises me almost daily. I'll be probably fluent in Haskell before I ever get CSS. What would really he
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by mdemare 19y ago
Germany also has high unemployment because of the reunification, so it would be much harder to go down to 5%. Anyway, of course 5% unemployment is better than 12%. On the other hand, Germans have less to fear from unemployment. Not only are
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by mdemare 19y ago
Why not? The unemployed are on generous welfare. If all employees are equal, that means that Germany is running on 88.3% productivity, vs 95% in the U.S. Not a big difference. But since the people who tend to be unemployed are generally muc
624.
by mdemare 19y ago
Name and shame. Heh.
625.
by mdemare 19y ago
It's interesting to consider which US elections would have had a different outcome with approval voting. Certainly the 2000 election. People could have voted both for Nader and Gore, which would have tipped Gore over the edge. How about 199
626.
by mdemare 19y ago
Frankly I thought most were terrible. Very sterile.
627.
by mdemare 19y ago
Before reading if I've already read the article, if it's from a trusted source, if it's a start-up asking for feedback, if it's news that might lead to an interesting discussion or if it's a AskYC discussion that interests me.
628.
by mdemare 19y ago
But have you measured out your life with coffee spoons?
629.
by mdemare 19y ago
In the primaries? That doesn't seem useful... But with multiple selections in the general election we wouldn't need primaries and would get more centrist presidents.
630.
by mdemare 19y ago
Shouldn't "Male and called Steve" be an option? As in: among all programmer populations the number of women is roughly equal to the number of men called Steve.

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