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by paddy_m 18y ago
one big advantage of js/canvas/image based charting as opposed to flash based is that all of the former work on the iphone. chartwidget was running on the iphone a month after it was released, more than a year before the app store was rele
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I wrote a charting program a year/two years ago. http://chartwidget.com I never did much with it.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Its not risk or cost free. Graduate school has a severe opportunity cost. If you can make $60K/year and grad school tuition is $20k a year, you have a $60k opportunity cost and a 20k out of pocket cost.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
there is a reason OHV engines can't perform OHC engines, mass. With OHV engines you need pushrods, which add mass to the valve train, these aren't needed in OHC engines. Generally to get more performance out of a given displacement engine
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by paddy_m 18y ago
or get a monitor arm and lean back. I got one of these http://www.lcdarms.com/products/LCD_Radial_Arms/iLift.html . It has been really nice. I almost have my monitor positioned about like the light at a dentist's office.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I also stumbled upon this yesterday, for making the rest of OS X more like emacs (or VI). OS X already has emacs keybindings for all text areas, but it is missing some functionality (backward|forward-word). OS X has a concept called input
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by paddy_m 18y ago
carbon-emacs. It's my first emacs ( I never used emacs on unix or NT). Carbon-Emacs seemed to keep more with emacs' UI guidelines compared to aquamacs. Note I think I'm running carbon emacs, I run the one with the purple logo. I have the
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Nixon was a keynesian and a statist. I'm not calling him a statist becuase of what he did in watergate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-66 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-76 (moved us off of th
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by paddy_m 18y ago
read this from mysqlperformanceblog http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/08/04/128gb-or-ram-...
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by paddy_m 18y ago
EBS does deltas too. Is anyone else using it? I like the ability to mount a volume or clone a volume almost instantly and mount it on another machine.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I had a 486 Dx4 120 (AMD), eventually with 64MB of ram, it always ran NT4. I remember downloading mp3s in 1997 or 1998. The machine couldn't play the mp3, but I could decode it in bulk to wav files, which it could play.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
DC is for the most part a soul sucking environment. I grew up there and I moved to NYC. One thing that I noticed was, a hacker attitude plays much better in NYC than DC. Being rude and abrupt is tolerated if not respected in NYC (I'm t
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by paddy_m 18y ago
can anyone else not find the link to the actual site. I can't. I tried http://HTFITIP.com what's the url?
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'm surprised more people don't realize how short sighted it is to increase the power of government Even if you think that Obama's ideas will be absolutely brilliant, and think he be able to increase the power of government to cause change
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by paddy_m 18y ago
The thing for me is, I don't just distrust the government, I distrust large organizations in general (government, fortune 500 companies, religions), I find that they are fairly inefficient. I am not interested in replacing one inefficient
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by paddy_m 18y ago
When I mowed lawns I got a lot of work, not by being the best at what I did, not by being the cheapest, but by being a person. I would get most of my customers by going door to door and knocking on doors where I saw people with high grass.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I agree. I'm getting better by leaps and bounds every month ( I have been programming full time for about 3 years). I'm excited by how much I will know in 10 years. It is weird that you don't see a lot of really good programmers in their
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I bought a 30 inch this summer and I love it. I really do like coming home and working. Now I need to setup a tiling window manager because it is an annoyance dragging windows all over the place.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I can't help but read this passage " They also tell you when you're succeeding in fixing them: when cram schools become less popular." and think of campaign finance reform. The way to solve corruption in government isn't to outlaw large con
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Not unreasonable at all. Operating sysstems are nothing without the progarms that run on them . I can see how textmate would be attractive ( I used to run Vim, now I run Carbon Emacs).
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I got an econ degree from Mason (mini Chicago). The econ department was fun, a little ivory tower but fun. I started out as CS and found the department unimpressive, maybe I was just young and not into it, but I didn't meet many hackers t
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Honestly I couldn't tell you for successes of startups who have presented there. I think Sanford would do more to bring the meetup back to a hacker type event, than the other candidates. Sanford is an engineer. So far as hacker event in NY
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Disclaimer, this is probably spam, or might be flagged as such. If the moderators feel that it is not in keeping with hacker news, take it off. Now let me state my case. In New York City, the New York Tech Meetup is THE event for startups
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Its time to elect a new organizer for the New York Tech Meetup, I'm supporting Sanford(meetup.com)
3 points by paddy_m 18y ago|4 comments
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by paddy_m 18y ago
My mother grew up in DC and was around for many inaugurations. They used to make metal parking signs for the inauguration saying "Kennedy Innauguration January 20th 1961". After the inauguration my uncles would go around and take the sign
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Check out parenscript. http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/ It is the only non js way of coding js that ever made sense to me. I saw Vladmir speak at an event and he got js and lisp. I have looked through some of the code for par
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by paddy_m 18y ago
Check out "My Life as a Quant" by Emanuel Derman http://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Quant-Reflections-Physics/dp/0... and this book about Fischer Black's (of Black Scholes) work in finance. http://www.amazon.com/Fischer-Black-Revolutionary-I
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'm the CTO of a startup named QuantRunner Software, where we write backtesting software, (beta coming this month) http://quantrunner.com . I found the article interesting, but it leaves out some important details such as 1. Why did he d
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by paddy_m 18y ago
I'm 26. I started shovelling snow when I was 10, in 1992. When I was 13 I started mowing lawns. My parents never told me to go out and mow lawns. I wanted to. It was the best thing I did for myself in my junior high and highschool years.
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by paddy_m 18y ago
you say that as if taxes aren't huge impediments.

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