neilc

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811.
by neilc 18y ago
I think it's fair to say that Ruby is "quirkier" (less internally consistent, more special cases) than Python.
812.
by neilc 18y ago
less complex languages - i.e, languages that abstract away difficulty That is a very anomalous definition of complexity. In truth, a language that is more complex may or may not be more abstract. For example, Prolog operates at a very hig
813.
by neilc 18y ago
This is interesting, given the rumors that Hawking might be interested in a post at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo: http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/461065
814.
by neilc 18y ago
The point is that entrepreneurship (at any significant scale) is intimately related to the availability of capital. That applies to all sectors of business, but particularly to capital-intensive ones.
815.
by neilc 18y ago
The idea that the economy can be saved by entrepreneurs that never need to raise money is sheer lunacy. I can believe that the funding climate might not be someone's primary consideration when deciding whether to start a company; I can al
816.
by neilc 18y ago
In addition to the supply of capital (which is quite significant!), tax rates also affect the likelihood that the startup is successful. The higher the tax rate, the higher the company's burn rate, and the less time the company has to gain
817.
by neilc 18y ago
When I started my first company I’d never even heard of capital gains taxes Granted, but I guarantee that the limited partners in the VC firms you might consider for funding are very familiar with the tax structure in the US. If you raise
818.
BEE3: Putting the Buzz Back into Computer Architecture(research.microsoft.com)
7 points by neilc 18y ago|1 comments
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Are Virtual Machine Monitors Microkernels Done Right?(usenix.org)
4 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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by neilc 18y ago
Absolutely. Personally, I think there is something mildly offensive about sending out a company-wide email announcing layoffs without bothering to capitalize your sentences. Apparently this is standard practice for Jerry Yang, though.
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by neilc 18y ago
OpenID is a steaming pile, and I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with Hotmail -- I use Gmail personally, but if you're not a heavy email user, Hotmail is perfectly adequate (and integrates better with the rest of the MSN web
822.
by neilc 18y ago
Exactly. The guy is plainly a crackpot. Making 866% return in a single year makes you lucky, not necessarily intelligent or prone to have an intelligent take on the problems of society. His suggestion for government is particularly laughabl
823.
by neilc 18y ago
Absolutely: choosing the right customers is important. Both in terms of finding customers who are good from a revenue-per-effort ratio, and also customers who will help you develop your product in interesting ways (e.g. in ways that might b
824.
by neilc 18y ago
I don't really disagree, but a startup trying to do business with a small number of very large businesses can also cause problems. When your customer knows that the startup is dependent on their business (to some extent), they have a lot of
825.
by neilc 18y ago
IYP? The International Year of the Potato? Internet Yellow Pages?
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Scientists Find Gene That Makes You Good at Halo Also Makes You a Premature Ejaculator(gizmodo.com)
2 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
827.
by neilc 18y ago
Why do you care what products Google uses internally? Without knowing anything about your intended use case, Google are likely facing a pretty different set of requirements, and they probably have a very different set of resources (e.g. the
828.
by neilc 18y ago
Did Paulsen actually force the bankers to sign? There's a quote in the article that it was a "take it or take it offer", but it seems like the bankers eventually agreed to the terms willingly.
829.
by neilc 18y ago
Very cool. Thanks for mentioning that.
830.
by neilc 18y ago
I think the argument is that different domains impose different requirements on the storage engine. The type of data organization I would like to use for a read-mostly web application vs. an OLTP-type transaction processing workload vs. an
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An interview with Chuck Thacker(budiu.info)
3 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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An interview with Leslie Lamport(budiu.info)
2 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
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DryadLINQ: Distributed Data-Parallel Computing Using a High-Level Language(research.microsoft.com)
2 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments
834.
by neilc 18y ago
"This snapshot approach doesn't really predict upcoming regional or national shifts" So I don't think your interpretation is correct.
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Xtc — eXTensible C(cs.nyu.edu)
13 points by neilc 18y ago|1 comments
836.
by neilc 18y ago
It certainly confirms one's intuition, but the degree of correlation is pretty surprising to me, assuming this is real data.
837.
by neilc 18y ago
I meant "long term" in the sense of investors who consistently make a profit in the long term, not those who happen to hold particular equities for a long period of time.
838.
by neilc 18y ago
i can't remember a single year in which he was the best performing manager That would be precisely the wrong metric to look at to see how a good long-term investor is: the absolute best performer in a given year is very likely to be the
839.
by neilc 18y ago
I valued open source contributions highly when I was interviewing candidates: it demonstrates that you're someone who is passionate about programming and enjoys building things in your free time. That's exactly the sort of candidate that I
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The Chronomancer Debugger(code.google.com)
3 points by neilc 18y ago|0 comments

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