nandemo

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by nandemo 15y ago
> Mom would LOVE the services of a local cleaning lady for a day. But where can you find an American-made cleaning lady these days?
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by nandemo 15y ago
I suppose it's because the guy is black.
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by nandemo 15y ago
> Lately his focus has shifted to more atonal music, which contrary to what I would've thought has dramatically increased the rate at which people give him money. That's surprising. Maybe it works because the regular, tonal fare tends
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by nandemo 15y ago
I believe "read good code" is already standard advice for improving your coding skills. However, I think there are many differences compared to studying chess by analysing games. One way that it works for programming is doing small exercise
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by nandemo 15y ago
Did he really read only those 2 books? I'm not a chess player, but still I find that incredible. Surely he didn't learn all his openings only by playing and reading one collection of games?
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by nandemo 15y ago
Fair enough. Sorry if my comment came out as negative, I simply meant to elaborate on bellantoni's comment. Minor inaccuracies aside, if your post instills the curiosity of a few programmers out there, it's a good thing. Please keep writing
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by nandemo 15y ago
Anecdotal examples: Brazilians upload lots of pics, have tons of orkut/facebook friends, "chain-like" updates ("blablah, if you agree with this post it on your wall"). are not uncommon, etc. Meanwhile, many of my Japanese facebook-friends d
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm not mocking him. I just said it is amusing. ;-) At first, I wasn't sure if it was serious. It sounds a bit like a parody of "rock-star" consultants. On the other hand, for all I know he could be doing something really valuable and havin
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by nandemo 15y ago
The guy who inspired him is amusing: http://www.tincup.com/2010/07/pricing/ " I’m particular about certain things. For example, I only fly American Airlines (first class) and I only stay at Hilton Hotels. " " My pricing is transparent and
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by nandemo 15y ago
Yeah, the post is mixing essential features of functional languages with incidental points about a specific language's syntax. It's not wrong but somewhat misleading.
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by nandemo 15y ago
That doesn't sound like a bad matching algorithm, it's more like you found a bug on the search form: distance and sex are presumably filters in the query, not input to the matching algorithm. And it sounds like a rare bug too, since if a lo
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by nandemo 15y ago
I'm not big on travel either, but I think you can get something more general out of the post, which is summed up in the last paragraph: > The point of this post isn't some self-aggrandizing narcissistic pontification, but rather to dem
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by nandemo 15y ago
Out of curiosity, why don't you take programming-related classes at your university? I've heard they've done some OS-related stuff there and it was not too shabby.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I still don't know what does the vertical axis represent. Normalized points? At what time?
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by nandemo 15y ago
Surely that's not the only alternative. Another would be "influencing the BSA not to support SOPA", or support alternative legislation that still caters to the interests of BSA. Note also that BSA members fund it proportionally to each mem
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by nandemo 15y ago
I've been in a similar situation. It could be that your boss feels the company has invested time and money into your "training" (even if you didn't receive any formal instruction), so they don't want to replace you and incur that cost again
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by nandemo 15y ago
See the list of top 50 (linked from Tyler Cowen's post): http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/260753_The_network_of_g... Note that "ruling the world" here amounts to "having nominal ownership of stocks in public companies". Consequently,
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by nandemo 15y ago
Presumably because only a small percentage of people on LinkedIn are actively looking for jobs; also, I think you need a premium account on LinkedIn if you want to contact a lot of people who aren't on your network. Besides, U$50 isn't much
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by nandemo 15y ago
I disagree. The formula "We're X for Y" is a very succinct way to start painting a picture of what your company does. It's supposed to be a "hook" for an investor or a tech news writer (or reader) to keep listening to you. So I wouldn't ass
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by nandemo 15y ago
One way of seeing is that OO design and programming is an outgrowth of structured design and programming. So if you've never done it, try and design a large system using only structured techniques. Another way of seeing is that while OO des
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by nandemo 15y ago
Well, I'm basically agreeing with drusenko. Scoble's advice applies to people who want to pitch him, not necessarily to startups in general, and especially not early stage startups.
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by nandemo 15y ago
I don't know, he doesn't sound like he would've given a damn about PageRank if Sergey and Larry had gone to talk to him back then. He might have dismissed the first version of Google because they didn't index as many pages as the leading s
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by nandemo 15y ago
I agree regarding Gruber. And most of the top comments on the Google thread were either positive or "negative" but still informative.
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by nandemo 15y ago
You're right, of course. But I only jumped in after you started it. :-)
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by nandemo 15y ago
Very nice. Care for some unsolicited hlint-like suggestions? Why not simply this: img <- readImage "file.png" -- instead of this? t <- readImage "file.png" let img = t Why not this: map (y!!) x fold
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by nandemo 15y ago
And so was Napster, his first company.
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by nandemo 15y ago
Not even that, since most astronauts don't really travel to space frequently . It would have to be "involves somewhat longish trips" to be a proper understatement. Since the ad is for astronaut candidates , the frequent travel is presu
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by nandemo 15y ago
Paul contrasts two situations, the first exemplified by the "watching TV all day" example, the second by "staying all day at the office doing busywork while not accomplishing much". Playing MMORPGs all day seems rather like the first, not t
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by nandemo 15y ago
The idea is that you post something that minimally works so that people can give you feedback, whether as fellow entrepreneurs or as your early users. Right now there's just a splash page. Why should anyone sign-up? Also, I've skimmed throu
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by nandemo 15y ago
I had the idea to do something like this a while ago. I then googled it and turns out there were already a number of services doing this, though none here in Japan. Unfortunately Twilio is not available here yet. I wonder if there's another

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