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by niggler 13y ago
No amount of words on my part can capture the essence of the message better than this: http://bitsandpieces.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/famous-fa... The words would be something along the lines of "good grades are indicative of discipli
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by niggler 13y ago
I wonder when we'll see "AOL is shutting down TechCrunch"
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by niggler 13y ago
The fact that the other ambiguity references a stackoverflow article suggests that the author may not have actually looked at the spec. TBH the article reads like an elaborate advertisement for Creole.
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by niggler 13y ago
My biggest issue with markdown involves links. Parentheses are allowed in URLs and those confuse most markdown parsers: http://blog.nig.gl/post/48802013022/although-parentheses-are...
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by niggler 13y ago
Shameless plug: I've been working on pure-JS parsers for XLS and XLSX files (from old and newer versions of excel): http://niggler.github.io/js-xlsx/ http://niggler.github.io/js-xls/
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by niggler 13y ago
"JavaScript as the main programming language" Using node (or the v8 shell directly) javascript is competitive with python or perl for most common scripting tasks
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by niggler 13y ago
C (gcc 4.2.1) 2.62 +/- 0.24 1.0x NaCl (x86-32) 3.39 +/- 0.25 1.3x asm.js (Firefox Nightly) 5.12 +/- 0.59 1.9x NaCl is 30% slower, asm.js is 90% slower.
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by niggler 13y ago
Interesting that NaCl is far closer to native performance than asm.js. Can that performance gap be closed?
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by niggler 13y ago
Digg was a brand acquisition (just for the name); Betaworks wasn't interested in the tech
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by niggler 13y ago
It's been more than a year since anybody's purchased an app with zero revenue for $1B. I should clarify that I don't think the bubble is over yet, but the euphoria stage has passed
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by niggler 13y ago
Undoubtedly the best corporate finance book is Brealey and Myers ( http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Corporate-Mcgraw-Hill-Insur... ) -- amazon ranks it at #205890 versus #249565 for your proposal
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by niggler 13y ago
I think most of the easy money in startups has been made (and from here on out the dumb ideas that raised millions of dollars won't see as much money), so people are jumping back to finance. There was never a real exodus of talent. The rea
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by niggler 13y ago
Garbage. Many hedge funds only require a BS from a top school. Others, of course, are only looking for PhDs. These exams and certificates, IMHO, are money-making machines (if you need those certs for your job -- like Series exams -- your
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by niggler 13y ago
Is this due to some projects nearing completion (like what we saw with Activision when they finished Diablo III) or are there deeper problems afoot?
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by niggler 13y ago
I always recommend "Trading and Exchanges" by Larry Harris. If you want a slower mathematical introduction, I recommend the Stochastic Calculus for Finance books by Steven Shreve.
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by niggler 13y ago
This was asked on HN more than a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3177815
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by niggler 13y ago
SSL cert issues (according to chrome for ipad)
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by niggler 13y ago
Copying is all fun and games until Disney comes and "copies" your art in their products. (Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5513535 ) Then we get out the pitchforks. I like the idea of sharing, but unless all the du
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by niggler 13y ago
Why would they acquire him when they could shut him down and replicate the service? It's not like they have much of a reputation to maintain. He doesn't have extremely significant traction (otherwise they would have done something by now)
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by niggler 13y ago
That's not the problem here. The original release must include the license, otherwise the code is not following the terms of the license (in the case of MIT). And as for GPL and Apache, a link to the license must be furnished. This isn'
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by niggler 13y ago
A reference to a license is acceptable if and only if the license being referenced recognizes them. Some licenses (like GPL) do recognize certain types of references while others (like MIT) do not. If you want a C analogy, saying "LICENSE:
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by niggler 13y ago
Updated to reflect that. Relevant part: Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, *provided that the above copyright notice and this permission
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Just saying something is (GPL/MIT/Apache/…) doesn’t make it so(blog.nig.gl)
9 points by niggler 13y ago|7 comments
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by niggler 13y ago
What happens after the Z release (coming up in 5 years)?
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by niggler 13y ago
Best bet is to look at local credit unions and regional banks.
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by niggler 13y ago
It should be noted that pandodaily.com didn't turn down investor money: "I’ve also raised a bunch of cash from some of the people I respect most in the industry. This includes: Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Tony Hsieh, Zach Nelson, Andrew A
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by niggler 13y ago
" starting the Iraq war and ignoring the housing bubble are pretty convincing evidence that he was an idiot in all the ways that count." Not necessarily. Dick Cheney had financial interests in Halliburton, which benefited greatly thanks to
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by niggler 13y ago
degrades to political debate. The content doesn't really lend itself to much interesting startup commentary.
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by niggler 13y ago
Was posted and killed a few hours ago
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by niggler 13y ago
>Participating in "red state" leadership activities among white students such as ROTC have been shown to reduce admissions rates in Ivy league by about 50%. ROTC was only allowed on campus recently: "Yale, Harvard and Columbia all signe

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