nimble

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by nimble 13y ago
> There is no mental overhead like with Python where you have to use square brackets for lists and curly braces for dictionaries. Seriously?
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by nimble 13y ago
From your link: > The only thing that will be different is that we will have MANY different roads that will compete with each other. LOL
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by nimble 13y ago
What percentage of your motivation for writing this post was a desire to talk about making products for coders in general and what percentage was wanting people to check out your site? http://www.enginehere.com Be honest :)
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by nimble 13y ago
I agree with you that 'designed' is the word he probably ought to use and that 'invented' is pretentious, ... but I don't think it's wrong.
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by nimble 13y ago
> The top score in Juárez Correa’s class was 921. [...] The top score in the entire country was also 921. > Ten got math scores that placed them in the 99.99th percentile. These facts are fishy. These standardized tests are usually p
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by nimble 13y ago
invent: create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of. So invent and design are near synonyms. There are subtle differences, of course. For example, I don't think it would be right to accuse you of de
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by nimble 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_tax
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by nimble 13y ago
Why do you write 'at least'? Isn't this strictly superior to Schneier's light idea?
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by nimble 13y ago
> more wealth than the bottom 40% of the American population combined. Sounds like a statistic designed to rile people who don't understand the difference between wealth and income. You can be living quite comfortably but with no w
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by nimble 13y ago
All true. Now explain why if 5% of bitcoins were destroyed that would result in a 5% increase in the value of the remaining bitcoins.
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by nimble 13y ago
That would be a fun conversation to see. You with your 1.5 billion dollar bitcoin trying to haggle someone down from 0.2 bitcoins to 0.00000002 bitcoins for a pair of pants.
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by nimble 13y ago
Again, flawed reasoning. If all bitcoins were destroyed except for one, how much do you think it would be worth? There is no intrinsic demand for bitcoins, only inertia behind perceived value. And it looks to me that the inertia is mostl
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by nimble 13y ago
This line of reasoning works when you have a fixed number of shares that represent ownership in something real, but I don't see how it works with bitcoins that have no intrinsic value. Bitcoins only hold value by inertia. People thin
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by nimble 13y ago
> Agda and Coq retain inference and decidability by sacrificing Turing completeness. I don't know if I would phrase it that way, but there's a more important slight of hand going on here and I think chongli was right in spirit.
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by nimble 13y ago
That's funny. The first thing that came to my mind was turnips. Maybe there should be a parsnip and a turnips in the logo. Maybe a parsnip pointing down between two turnips, in a T formation.
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by nimble 13y ago
I'd rather see: exact: Who said, "To hair is human?" Quotes are too easy to be used accidentally by laymen.
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by nimble 13y ago
What do you think Google should do with the following search: Who said, "To hair is human?"
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by nimble 13y ago
Just sew the end of time up to the beginning of time and the electrons never need to turn around.
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by nimble 13y ago
Who says the probabilities are going to be accurate? The point is that it's better to guess at probabilities for outcomes and then calculate than it is to blind guess at valuations. Presumably, YC will be in a better position than mo
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by nimble 13y ago
Instructions for playing this game in functional style are included, but you need to order 25 copies of the game. More seriously: I don't think the game is too biased towards imperative style and would be useful foundation for any fut
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by nimble 13y ago
> Therefore, if you believe the company to be of the A type ... That's the problem I have with this line of thinking. An investor doesn't "believe" it to be type A. An investor gambles that it's going to be typ
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by nimble 13y ago
> The basic rules of expected value don't apply to startups If you'd reword that as "the basic rules of expected value are difficult to apply to startups", there'd be some chance it was true :). And yet, difficul
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by nimble 13y ago
What do you mean they don't make money that way? Do you just mean that $100m isn't a hit? If that's all you mean, change that number to $1b or $10b or one hundred... billion dollars (pinky to lip). But I think what you m
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by nimble 13y ago
> Since phase 2 prices vary at most 10x and the big successes generate returns of at least 100x, investors should pick startups entirely based on their estimate of the probability that the company will be a big success and hardly at all