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by mlinsey 18y ago
Well, I'm sold. I just ordered the book - would anyone be interested in forming a study group to work through the suggested course plan together? Might be more fun that way. Hit me up at the email address in my profile if you'd be interes
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Exactly right. And remember the other advantage Windows had over over Mac: price. Just like you can't get a supercheap Mac laptop, you can't get a <$100 iPhone, but you almost certainly will be able to get an Android at that price.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Who says the mom would be setting up the device? It would be easy enough for your cell phone carrier to setup and customize their own interface/variant of Android phone.
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I don't doubt they're enjoyable books, but they're more about the social implications of statistics. They aren't good books to teach you statistics, which was the topic of this thread.
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by mlinsey 18y ago
First read up on this: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive and "The Startup Company Bible", a book that is particularly useful on explaining the mechanics of raising VC rounds, should you decide to go that route. As
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by mlinsey 18y ago
A "blubber"?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This might be pedantic, but many people also incorrectly say "hockey stick" when they mean exponential growth. Hockey stick growth would be more like a sudden change between two very different rates of linear growth, which would be equally
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by mlinsey 18y ago
"The issue isn't money, it is supply of medical care as measured in units of doctor-hours" Except it isn't. The cost of the supplies necessary for treatment (drugs, medical equipment) is at least as big of an issue. Also, wages for doctors
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Well, a "business model" to sell companies would be something like an incubator...a company that continuously created new companies and sold them off. Of course, since the talent that was able to execute on these ideas is going to be the
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by mlinsey 18y ago
This sounds good except for when Insurance Companies get so good at determining who exactly is likely to be "medically unlucky" that those people are effectively prevented from getting any healthcare at all. This is a very real problem for
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by mlinsey 18y ago
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Media coverage? I haven't seen anything about Twitter on the New York Times or CNN or any other media outlet targeted at "the average person". Even mainstream-leaning "tech" sites like Wired or CNet haven't been covering the outages/scalin
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Agreed in spirit though I disagree completely with your actual list. What's with all the mediocre mega-chains? How about Paxti's, gyros gyros, Homma's Brown Rice Sushi, the Counter, Vino Locale? A bit of a walk north will take you to Cafe
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Strong AI (the creation of a general intelligence capable of learning new things in the way humans can, as opposed to weak AI which includes programming machines to do specific tasks that are usually considered to require intelligence, such
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Pairing Facebook's closed data with a general search engine is probably a good idea, but what's missing from Scoble's post is why MS would need to buy Yahoo's search engine in order to do this. MS has their own search engine, which isn't a
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Yeah, good point. Scribd should ditch the porn and introduce new features to provide their users actual sex , now that would be a killer app!
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Google Treasure Hunt has begun(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by mlinsey 18y ago
An interesting idea, but the natural result would be for the web being segmented into multiple parts, as no one company will buy off all of the top sites. No one search engine would be clearly better, since each would give you its exclusiv
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Some of those observations were interesting, but I'm not sure how they fit together, and I didn't come away with a clear understanding of the author's arguments for statically typed languages...
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by mlinsey 18y ago
If we subject Hakia to the same (very limited) tests that the other article about PowerSet was using, Hakia often performs even worse. For example, here's Hakia's results for "Who is the President of France?": http://www.hakia.com/search.a
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Right. That's the exact same essay that the linked article was talking about...is there something you wanted to say about it?
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by mlinsey 18y ago
That's even better for the argument being made, which is that Python used to be a good weeder language (since the only people who knew it tended to be real hackers) but it no longer is, because more people have learned it just to do their j
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by mlinsey 18y ago
I'm most interested in the last line of the quote at the top: "They found no relationship between a programmer’s amount of experience and code quality or productivity." Have other studies found this to be the case? Anecdotally, I'd say the
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by mlinsey 18y ago
Would Microsoft really offer something substantially more than $15 Billion? Their last investment never really was a $15 Billion valuation because MS received an advertising deal as well as stock in exchange for their money, but I would thi
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I would have to think that if under-population continues to be an economic problem in Japan, they will relax their strict immigration laws. This is what is happening in many other developed nations where the increase in population is attrib
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No, I wouldn't call that immoral at all. Immoral, to me at least, is when you cause harm to other people. There's absolutely nothing wrong with deciding you don't want to devote enormous amounts of time and effort to something creative. F
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by mlinsey 18y ago
The main benefit, aside from that it's sort of cool, is that you would be able to write for Google App Engine in Ruby. Personally, I think that the similarities between Python and Ruby (particularly their bytecode similarities) makes Ruby
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by mlinsey 19y ago
Why would Apple want to buy Adobe in the first place?
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by mlinsey 19y ago
I'm not sure if creativity can be taught, but it can certainly be practiced.
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by mlinsey 19y ago
The advice is to invest in an index fund, not a mutual fund. Most mutual funds are exactly the wrong things to invest in, because they eat up much more of your investment in management fees and they also have a history of usually not beati

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