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   by pdog 14y ago

   Nassim Taleb talks about this phenomenon in Fooled by Randomness , in a chapter titled "If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You So Smart?" Namely, we can't judge a person’s intelligence by their wealth. Just because someone is successful now doe
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   by pdog 14y ago

   Full-time programmers can be had for $50 to $100 per hour, but they can create millions of dollars of value, far in excess of what they're paid. Consultants are one of several groups of people who take a share of the difference.
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   by pdog 14y ago

   Fat-free, plain Greek and regular yogurts are actually pretty good.
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   by pdog 14y ago

   If an attacker controls more than 50% of the Bitcoin network's computing power, they can manipulate transactions. Also, an attacker can fill the network with clients controlled by him, which might be helpful in the execution of other attack
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   by pdog 14y ago

   For those wondering what you can actually pay for, here's the store for premium upgrades: http://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/pro-bundle/ -- Here's what you can buy: Pro Bundle (all upgrades in a single purchase) Custom Domains Cu
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   by pdog 14y ago

   Relevant paragraph, in case you're thinking of trying this next year: > The year-over-year growth of TBFA had been extraordinary until this 2012 Black Friday because of a Google penalty. (Yes, I tried removing bad links, uploaded a dis
7. 907.▲
   by pdog 14y ago

   In what way is Java not a first-class project? That "common nonsense" had some of the greatest minds in computing behind it.
8. 908.▲
   by pdog 14y ago

   I understand that for LuaJIT 2.0, the whole VM has been rewritten. What's changed? What's new?
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   by pdog 14y ago

   > The one agency to commission a study on the subject, the California Highway Patrol, found in 1974 that hitchhiking was a factor in 0.63 percent of crimes in the state. Even if crime was a factor in 100% of hitchhiking incidents, thi
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    by pdog 14y ago

    People keep saying "Stripe, come to Europe!" and "Why isn't there something like Stripe in Europe." A competent company with a track record of success finally builds a good approximation of the Stripe experience for Europe, so why should de
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    by pdog 14y ago

    I didn't read it as an attack.
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Palantir[1] will probably get there first. [1] - http://www.palantir.com/
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    by pdog 14y ago

    He writes in the very next sentence: “Unfortunately due to the composition of the board, this outcome has not taken place.”
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Actually, chickens are pretty intelligent and social creatures[1]. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken#Social_behaviour
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    by pdog 14y ago

    I'd be more worried about the impending backlash from God.
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    by pdog 14y ago

    > It really does make a difference. It really doesn't :) Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755470
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Can you clean up your post (if you still have edit capabilities)? It's rather difficult to parse what you're trying to say.
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    by pdog 14y ago

    I think ignorance the main reason designers keep misusing it. I, for one, simply didn't know any better and would always throw one of these in my CSS: -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; /* Fix for webkit rendering */
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    by pdog 14y ago

    I thought Romney was an excellent candidate, but his campaign was rather hamstrung by the Republican party.
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    by pdog 14y ago

    The New Republic is a better source, so I submitted a new discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4751278 Mashable, in this instance, is just rushed and plainly false blog-spam. According to them, FiveThirtyEight "accounted
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    Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the New York Times.(tnr.com)

    8 points by pdog 14y ago|0 comments
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Would you be able to open source any of the code behind your trading system? Maybe not the "secret sauce", but it would be interesting to see how you processed the data feeds, modeled the data, entered orders, etc.
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    by pdog 14y ago

    For learning functional programming languages, Project Euler[1] is a really great resource. [1] - http://projecteuler.net/
24. 924.▲
    by pdog 14y ago

    Is the text searchable and selectable?
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Less than one in twenty people are writers, so...
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727241
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Off-topic, but does anyone know what sneakers Nick D'Aloisio is wearing in the video with Stephen Fry? Looks like they have a slate gray upper, white soles, and a prominent logo on the tongue. Edit: For anyone who's wondering, they're Gourm
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    by pdog 14y ago

    Another "middlebrow dismissal", voted to the top of the thread. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712867 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692794 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4718083 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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    by pdog 14y ago

    I like it! The site works great on the iPad as well. I understand you're sourcing the music from SoundCloud. Is it manually curated? Please share how you built this!
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    by pdog 14y ago

    > Lately I've been focusing on programs that encourage broader use of version control systems, like git. The goal is to harness all the power that's been developed by developers for developers for managing source code, and redirect it