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by nandemo 14y ago
I'm not claiming grandparent's number is correct, but it's at least plausible: > A 2000 poll held by the Russian Public Opinion Fund found that 28% of those surveyed did not believe that American astronauts landed on the Moon, and this
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by nandemo 14y ago
Besides, we live in a global society. Americans enjoy a lot of products made in China, ignoring the jobs created elsewhere is a non-starter.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Google is making the (completely wrong) assumption that those people cannot type google.co.jp instead of google.com and make their own choices. You're making the completely unsupported assumption that the average internet user underst
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by nandemo 14y ago
OP also mentions $12k worth of rent subsidy. Not bad, I think. I believe there's an implicit "keep up with the Jones" factor here. Surely there are plenty of non-programmers living with less than $70k in San Francisco. In Japanese companie
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by nandemo 14y ago
That's true but it's not the only reason. Note that there's still a social cost to firing people. I believe another major reason is that software companies in the US are in average more profitable and more productive than in other countries
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by nandemo 14y ago
I follow the guidelines quoted below. I use an old electric kettle: not very fancy, you just plug it in and it boils the water. There's no temperature control settings, but there's no need: the water comes out about 92C, which is just righ
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by nandemo 14y ago
> I agree with phkamp that it is weird that you can't think of any. We can think of many but the point is to make sure we're on the same page. It's not like all software projects in the world are neatly divided into "bazaar" and "cathed
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by nandemo 14y ago
If you're interested in quantitative finance (e.g. how to price an option), browse one of the introductory books listed under General here: http://quantlib.org/books.shtml And then if you find a topic that interests you, follow up with mo
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by nandemo 14y ago
> he wouldn't have spent the rest of the opening paragraph name-dropping extremely successful people who he claims read all his articles. I'm surprised that anyone would take that part seriously. He's obviously being facetious.
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Eventually every community needs one or more managers, or gardeners ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/ ) -- people who have been around a long time, who embody the "spirit" of the site, and who have, not ab
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by nandemo 14y ago
Visa is huge in Brazil. However, OP is not exactly in the credit card processing market (cf. eduardordm's comments in this thread).
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by nandemo 14y ago
Think about it. Nintendo 64 was released around 15 years ago. Its CPU was somewhat slower than the CPUs that typically run modern browsers.
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by nandemo 14y ago
Thanks for the tip. 100 yen per book is pretty cheap.
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by nandemo 14y ago
The latter.
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by nandemo 14y ago
To be fair, he did write a book on programming languages and he knows a lot about the subject. He might troll a little but IMO it's always enlightened trolling. In this case, he points out a corner case that the Haskell community already
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by nandemo 14y ago
FPComplete was founded by Aaron Contorer. Bartosz joined later. I believe he joined as an employee, not co-founder.
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by nandemo 14y ago
The passengers have nothing to do with it. If a kid is seating next to me in an airplane, I won't engage in conversation with her. How would I even know whether she's accompanied or not? A normal assumption would be that her parents were si
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by nandemo 14y ago
FWIW, Trevor (tlb) made a comment in a previous DoubleRobotics thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4376471
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by nandemo 14y ago
Relevant: (?) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366002
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by nandemo 14y ago
> In the land of computers being acquired tends to mean the acquired co. shutters their business Not really, e.g. Oracle acquiring Sun or Vmware acquiring Nicira, not to mention all the $100M+ but "unfashionable" acquires that don't eve
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by nandemo 14y ago
You cannot talk about asymptotic behavior ("as n grows to infinity") and "regardless if n is small" at the same time. If you're talking asymptotic, you should ignore the constant. If you're talking about small n, then you can't ignore the c
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by nandemo 14y ago
NASA is part of the military-industrial complex. See the first link joering2 posted. If you look at the top 10 defense contractors you'll find that several of them are also Nasa contractors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NASA_contra
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by nandemo 14y ago
The argument is not that "charity improves healthcare" (though in some specific cases it does, locally), it's that since birth rates tend to fall, the claim that "saving a child will only increase the number of starving people in the future
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by nandemo 14y ago
I basically agree with you but: > I expect to see Yegge's ridiculous viral meme of "liberal vs. conservative" spread and repeated by inexperienced developers indefinitely. It's worse than that. Just look at this thread. I'd say most HNe
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by nandemo 14y ago
> Where as topics like elisp (1200) are almost neglected. Not sure what is your complaint here. Of course there are few elisp questions compared to Java questions: there are so many fewer elisp programmers! And from what I see most of
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by nandemo 14y ago
Impressive. I suppose if you iterate a thousand times (only 30 working days!) you're bound to generate a big hit. :-)
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by nandemo 14y ago
Yurikamome is just a driverless train.
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by nandemo 14y ago
I'm curious, did you just happen to have a domain name containing the word "step"? Or that was done after the initial 15 minutes?
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by nandemo 14y ago
Out of curiosity I looked up some of the earliest HN stories on Square, posted about 2 years ago: Square http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970565 (0 comments) Square Worth $40 Million Before Launch http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9
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by nandemo 14y ago
State of Haskell, 2011: http://blog.johantibell.com/2011/08/results-from-state-of-ha...

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