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by mlinsey 18y ago
Excel doesn't work well on very large spreadsheets (I use it on some sheets with over 150,000 rows.) Things are slow to load, and commands like lookups are extremely slow, enough that I think they're doing O(n) lookups for things like the
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This doesn't strike me as a good idea at all. You're deliberately inducing an enormous selection bias in your knowledge. Or put another way, if a successful founder says "doing X is a good idea and made a big difference", but there were t
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I think RTS games are less addictive because they are broken up into discrete games and are much more intense in terms of mental energy and frantic clicking. Whenever I play a good game of StarCraft or WarCraft III, I usually feel really d
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I don't think the iPhone's screen would be good for books, but it sure would be nice to have AmazonMP3 and Amazon Unbox. Doubt that Apple would approve it though.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Number 4 on the list?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
My Outlook 2007 inbox begs to differ, but Google Desktop solves the problem pretty well.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
There is a large group who has argued that online ad growth would be fine in a recession because businesses would shift their ad dollars into more targeted and more measurable and results-oriented mediums. I haven't really believed this ar
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You can call it a magic buzz word, but I think it's common sense. There's a whole existing segment of the offline advertising market that is built around marketing things close to you. Meanwhile, people routinely use their smartphone to lo
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The app does not cost money. I don't know what Loopt's business model is but I would imagine a location-aware mobile ad platform would be pretty valuable.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
When is the push-notification service that Apple talked about coming online? They'd have to go through Apple (and I don't know if they'll be charging), but it could work.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
For those who want to intelligently discuss these sorts of issues with the HN crowd, I highly recommend www.newmogul.com. The site could use more active users and especially commenters. (edit: to be clear, by "these sorts of issues" I mean
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by mlinsey 18y ago
At times I wonder whether some people upvote based on titles alone.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
From the note at the top: Almost two years to the day after this letter was written, Autodesk completed its initial public stock offering; So "shareholders" would have been employees and private investors.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Many people (including Eric Schmidt in a submission that was posted earlier this week, although I've certainly heard it before) argue that the Internet follows more of a Zipf's Law distribution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipfs_law ) tha
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by mlinsey 18y ago
re-post from a link in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349524 Thought this was interesting enough to be its own thread, even though the data is a little under 200 days old.
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Analyzing the Hacker News Users’ Join Dates, Karma, and Profiles(breckyunits.com)
10 points by mlinsey 18y ago|2 comments
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Conservative America also needs to recover its vim Until I read that I had no idea that "vim" was defined as such: vim -noun lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I dig the existentialism in your last paragraph, but I'm not sure that existence has to necessarily be divided into happiness and sadness, for example. Without pain, we probably wouldn't feel the contentment or satisfaction that comes
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I just started the Hacker's Diet 3 weeks ago ( http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ ), which is basically calorie counting. Although I'll obviously hold final judgment until I am able to reach my goal weight and hold it for a long period of t
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Why Venture Firms Tighten the Purse Strings in a Down Market(fiveyearstoolate.wordpress.com)
1 points by mlinsey 18y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 18y ago
You know how people have been talking the past couple months about how Alaska gets more federal money per capita than any other state? That's Stevens. What you call pork, locals call boosting the local economy. It's the same reason why Co
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by mlinsey 18y ago
So in other words you have no problem with "double taxation" per se, your issue is with taxes generally.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I do not understand why people make such a big deal of the "double taxation" argument specifically in the context of capital gains. If I hire an employee, I have to pay payroll taxes on the salary I pay him or her, and then I also have to p
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by mlinsey 18y ago
That's interesting (and partly true), but it's nowhere close to the argument being made in the context of political debate about what capital gains taxes should be. After all, you've presented an argument against all taxes (or at least,
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by mlinsey 18y ago
One of two possibilities: First possibility: Jbert was arguing that the reason students can get away with this is because classroom grading standards are too mechanical (did you fill at least X pages? Did you have a thesis statement? Did
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The worst case scenario for startups, sure. For society as a whole, the first scenario results in the loss of considerable amounts of tax revenue from people whom the law wasn't meant to affect, and that's worse than the status quo.
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As Finance Jobs Fall, Engineering May Rise Again(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by mlinsey 18y ago|0 comments
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Agreed 100% but the fact that these are different directly rebukes a common conception of what probability means. Many people believe that "what is the probability of X?" really means something like "if we were to re-create these exact con
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Veering off-topic, but you do CEDA/NDT style debate too? (aka policy debate in high school) Nice, I don't know any other hacker debaters. Drop me a line (email in my profile), I'd be interested in bouncing some ideas about some debate-rel
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Here's an analysis of machines used for the 2004 election. Some security experts were able to do a thorough review because the source code that Diebold wanted to keep secret from state governments was accidentally made available on a public

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