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by owinebarger 17y ago
I don't know about the IRS, but if you were counting on the benefits of liability limitation, you shouldn't. Based on your description it would seem straightforward to "pierce the corporate veil".
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Patents are not a reward for creativity, they are to reward disclosure of an invention that otherwise would be kept a mystery.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You would think so, but in fact the unemployment "insurance" agencies of some (many?) states are overtly hostile to using your time to build a startup rather than unsuccessfully seeking a position as an employee. In Connecticut, for example
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by owinebarger 17y ago
The author conflates usage in situations where conclusions are certain ("It turns out Fermat's Last Theorem is false." * ) with ones that merely express the author's opinion or conclusion: "After a life long quest for the perfect smoked me
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Interesting, but there are significant differences between "software expert", "computer science students", and "software developer".
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Your last paragraph is way off reality. People will use your talent to judge whether you're worth considering for a job. People will use your perceived character to decide whether you are worth doing a favor such as helping you in your ca
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by owinebarger 17y ago
One of the best parts of this story is how crude a model can be and yet yield tremendous value. A dozen metrics on the underlying loans of the security and "most ARMs reset in two years" giving 3 years as the window for the market to fully
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Any con game relies on the greed of the mark.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Actually, they relied on rating agencies that said these were not very dangerous securities. They should have done their own homework, but there are regulations on valuing a pension fund's holdings. The government fell down by not ensurin
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I can only hope you're kidding. Those pension funds and state budgets are in shambles because they were underfunded and relied on the market to tell them the value of their holdings rather than the kind of fundamental analysis performed by
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I can't believe no one's mentioned: Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. -- Edsger Dijkstra Contrary to the beliefs or desires of some, colleges and universities are not vocational trainin
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Tried Doug Crockford's little Javascripter: (define loop (lambda (x) (loop x))) (loop 1) Result in Firefox: "Too much recursion" I'm still surprised I didn't flunk B521 when Dan Friedman put something like this in my Java implementation of
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I posted this response in LTU, but it bears repeating. Orthogonality (or representational independence), not size, is the relevant criteria. Harmonic analysis is the appropriate comparison. While every complete basis can represent any funct
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by owinebarger 17y ago
VBA when employed to do financial modeling.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Just how many decades does it take for a fundamental property of compiler implementation like "a proper tail call = goto + arguments" take to permeate conventional wisdom? It's not like he's saying you need first class continuations - those
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Behavioral interviewing techniques are supposed to be designed to induce stress well above and beyond nervousness when meeting someone new. The stress you feel from a deadline or a critical bug is also social stress. The deadline/bug are
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by owinebarger 17y ago
I'll make a non-mathematical observation about data-mining. Real world data sets are messy. Humans are just not the most reliable data entry machines. Data sets are not always gathered for the purpose you intend to use them. You have to
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Starting on a Shoestring: Building a Business without a Bankroll(generalistmills.blogspot.com)
3 points by owinebarger 17y ago|1 comments
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by owinebarger 17y ago
PG and you draw the wrong conclusion - to the extent hardware is like software it should only be protected as expression. The sad fact about intellectual property law is that the courts have taken the "To promote the Progress of Science and
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by owinebarger 17y ago
In this situation, I would recommend "Essentials of Programming Languages" before something like "Engineering a Compiler".
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Shared processor, multiple memory sequential computation....
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Everyone emails Excel spreadsheets around. The only problem is getting into email jail. I think your problem is Sharepoint solves this problem (emailing spreadsheets) and is pretty standard these days.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
It's the "literature review" that kills.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You're going to the wrong university/program. There are professors out there who exemplify the attitude you mention, though they also think getting it right is part of the fun. I know you can find such professors at Indiana University, Blo
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Despite the purple prose, I generally agree with Aaron's sentiments about great programming ("the best", I can't say, but definitely "great"). He is, however, also very rude, at least in his online persona. Having "a forceful, uncompromis
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by owinebarger 17y ago
It probably goes with being a recently credentialed actuary. It can feel like a job with the government at times, probably because a lot of the work is related to regulatory requirements. Not to say there aren't entrepreneurial professiona
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Hal Abelson's foreword is worth reading, if just for the footnote (about the AP CS exam that used to be based on Pascal): [1] Since Hal wrote this Foreword, they've switched the AP exam to use Java, but the principle is the same.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Quibbling, perhaps, but "entrepreneur" is not a profession. Professions have codes of conduct, organizations that certify members as part of that profession, etc, etc. "Entrepreneur" appears to be on the opposite side of that spectrum.
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by owinebarger 17y ago
Can anyone point me to a paper giving Clojure's formal semantics, if there is one?
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by owinebarger 17y ago
You work for a large company with IT locked down, and this is the one "collaboration platform" available to you. Oh, but no Sharepoint Designer for you, my friend, if you want to make it do real tricks it will be with emacs (assuming you h

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