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by mxh 19y ago
"... detailing a grim, overcrowded future ..." This is one of my pet peeves. BR's future isn't particularly overcrowded; J. F. Sebastian has the whole damn Bradbury building to himself. As he says: "there's plenty of space for everyone".
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by mxh 19y ago
Good catch; I didn't read the PR that carefully. 'Unsubsidized' is indeed promising - it seems to preclude direct kickbacks. It leaves open the possibility that Coal could be made deliberately uneconomic (e.g. C02 caps), and that the GOOG
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by mxh 19y ago
On the one hand: GOOG is trying to build renewable that actually makes economic sense. Good for them. (I assume 'cheaper' means 'cheaper', not "cheaper when you factor in tax credits, gov't incentives, Renewable Portfolio Standards, RGGI
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by mxh 19y ago
"there is not even the feeling that skill is involved" Well, the 'skill' in BJ is pretty thin, it's thinner in craps, almost nonexistent in roulette (if I recall correctly, all bets are equivalent in EV, except for one, which is worse), and
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by mxh 19y ago
Dark brown (grey?) text on black background = w00t! IMO, the most valuable lesson from the article: Don't do that. There might be something better in there, but I literally couldn't read it.
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by mxh 19y ago
From the article: "Entrepreneurs want to work at the hottest place on earth and right now that's Facebook." I see at least two false statements in that sentence.
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by mxh 19y ago
... but, aside from the higher tool cost, slower development time, and more expensive hosting, it's great? I don't think performance is really a reason to pick the MSFT stack; MySpace does use it, proving that it can scale, but there are
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by mxh 19y ago
I agree with this sentiment, and would add a few (somewhat) related reasons. a.) 'Planet Microsoft'. By this, I mean the gravitational pull all MSFT products seem to exert on one another, apparently by design and decree of the marketing de
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by mxh 19y ago
"With this amount of noise in the signal, it's hard to tell good hackers when you meet them. I can't tell, even now. You also can't tell from their resumes. It seems like the only way to judge a hacker is to work with him on something." (Fr
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by mxh 19y ago
Balls to that. I'm armed with a bad attitude and worse math. By my reckoning: On any given day, a given prisoner has a .99 probability of NOT visiting the room. Over a period of N days, a given prisoner has a pow(.99, N) probability of ha
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by mxh 19y ago
Two possibilities: a.) Physics. Always found it interesting, but not into academia as a way to pay the bills. b.) Feeling poor compared to those bastards with 11 figure net worths.
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by mxh 19y ago
Guns. Seriously. Marksmanship is a simple thing that takes a lot of focus. Concentrate on the front sight, mind your breathing, squeeze gently .... it's like meditation, only less sissy. (j/k!)
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by mxh 19y ago
Interesting .... one corner-case I see has to do with mouseover. For instance, some sites ( http://www.newegg.com ) use JS to dynamically expand/contract menus based on mouse travel. I don't think a simple ImageMap would hack it in that c
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by mxh 19y ago
Workforce experience reminds me of the old story about the shoe salesman who goes to look for a job: "I have 20 years experience", he says to his prospective boss. "No you don't.", the interviewer replies. "You've had 6 months of expe
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by mxh 19y ago
"PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME, HOW CAN I GET A JOB AT THE BIGGEST COMPANY ON EARTH?" Just walk into any Wal-Mart[1]; I'm sure they've got applications lying around somewhere. [1] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2007/perfo...
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by mxh 19y ago
Talk to people. Tell them you're starting a company. Lay out an idea. It doesn't have to be good. It's been my experience that this scenario triggers an irresistible impulse in the other person to tell you _their_ ideas. Sooner or late
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by mxh 19y ago
Yeah, '89 was something else. OTOH, it was centered off in the boonies (modulo Los Gatos), whereas this one looks to have been right outside of S.J., so a good ride even at less energy. I'll still take quakes over tornadoes and hurricanes.
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by mxh 19y ago
"...they get excited over revolutionary developments but grow weary at repetitive small tasks." Blast! He's got me. I'm not claiming to be brilliant, but, boy oh boy, do I ever tire of repetitive small tasks. If only there were some way
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by mxh 19y ago
I live in Silicon Valley. My spending is actually down slightly from 2003 - that mostly appears due to minor lifestyle changes (eating out less, turned off cable) but is certainly incompatible with rampant inflation. Cost-of-living looks
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by mxh 19y ago
Those numbers don't pass the smell test; Interest rates (e.g. mortgage rates) are nowhere near 12%, so if those figures are accurate, all sorts of lenders are paying you to take their money. Additionally, and FWIW, I've been obsessively tr
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by mxh 19y ago
"...and a massive stock valuation. They can make acquisitions of key technology and talent without spending much." I don't agree with this. There's no liquidity in the stock, and just because MSFT thinks the company should be valued at $15
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by mxh 19y ago
I have never modded you down; until today, I'd never run across one of your comments mentioning kratom. However, here's why I think people might be modding you down: Frankly, and with respect, you sound like a crank and, on this subject, y
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by mxh 19y ago
To the extent that thought experiments suggest real experiments, they are indeed valuable. I disagree that they can 'reveal ... results', however. For instance, Einstein's thought experiment was designed to 'prove' that QM was wrong. Ob
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by mxh 19y ago
Does the Copenhagen Interpretation strike anyone else as eerily like lazy evaluation? My other thought is that once you're doing 'thought experiments', you've become rather unmoored from science as I understand it: Observation, Hypothesis,
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by mxh 19y ago
Yes, I spent about 3.5yrs in it. I can't really agree with the underpaid/overworked thing; the pay was fair, and the hours not unreasonable. I left the industry because the idea of spending 2+ years on something that may-or-may-not pan out
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Riddles for Programmers(pythonchallenge.com)
4 points by mxh 19y ago|0 comments
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by mxh 19y ago
Certain things in this article indicate that it was not written by a serious man. The confusion between the words 'effected' and 'affected'. The reference to 'capitalists' as an identifiable class of people. The assumption that America
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by mxh 19y ago
A bit o/t, but I hereby nominate 'serial', as applied to 'entrepreneur' and/or 'founder', as the most pointless, irritating, and obnoxious word of 2007. You don't describe someone who works a bunch of jobs as a 'serial employee'. You don't
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by mxh 19y ago
Frankly, even if the improvement is worth the work, I think this is the wrong kind of work. Writing a custom toolbar (that doesn't, according to the article, work the same as all the other toolbars the user is used to seeing) seems like th
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by mxh 19y ago
"Programs developed using this [sic] techniques are significantly easier to write, debug, and maintain than programs written with mutexes, CRITICAL_SECTIONs, or semaphores." No, they damn well aren't. Or, at least, not always. Like most t

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