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by phony_identity 19y ago
OK.
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NYU must become a football powerhouse to keep America out of more wars.(isteve.blogspot.com)
1 points by phony_identity 19y ago|2 comments
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by phony_identity 19y ago
No, don't sweat it. You can't do a web application of any kind without violating any number of patents.
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by phony_identity 19y ago
I used to attend meetings of a Lisp / FP users' group. Man, what a lineup of the brilliant unaccomplished. There were maybe one or two guys who were using Common Lisp at their jobs (one was at Amazon) and getting amazing stuff done with i
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by phony_identity 19y ago
It's some indication of the greatness of James Watson that he shows up even in a talk about OO programming. E pur si muove
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by phony_identity 19y ago
20% time is really great. But my God, look at what some of the programmers are doing with it: "Consider the collection of engineers who wanted to promote 'agile programming' inside the company. " How could your soul be so dead that you wa
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Viaweb's PR firm is discussed in the fourth paragraph here: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by phony_identity 19y ago
>> Always. No, rarely. The Second World War was party about resources, in that Hitler wanted lebensraum, and the proximal cause for the USA getting into the war was Imperial Japan's desire for the oil and territory of the Dutch Eas
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Lose. "Paul Graham... argues that... web startups themselves are commodifying." Uh, no. He says they are hugely increasing in number. In fact, I think if anything that will increase the gap between the best and the worst of them. They ar
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Some nitpicking: "Data security is just hard to provide, and thanks to hackers, even harder to protect." Wait, the 'hackers' are the reason it's hard to provide, right? So why the "even harder to protect" part? Later there's the typical f
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Why aren't the nodes labeled?
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by phony_identity 19y ago
A meme of two posts?
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Which meme?
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Nerds: The Unexplored Cornerstone of the Modern World(isteve.com)
9 points by phony_identity 19y ago|0 comments
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Plato is crap: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=57000
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The Unexpected Uselessness of Philosophy, The Unexpected Usefulness of Mathematics(isteve.com)
10 points by phony_identity 19y ago|15 comments
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by phony_identity 19y ago
It's Robert. Trevor doesn't work on news.yc, I don't think.
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by phony_identity 19y ago
It is you who does not understand statistics. If the 'top people' is a population with a higher than average IQ, then that is probably a useful thing to measure when trying to predict if someone is going to be a top person, even if not all
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by phony_identity 19y ago
You couldn't be more wrong. Such tests do exist, (in fact, as you say, the SAT test has a strong correlation with intelligence) but US corporations have been forbidden to use such tests since the 'Griggs vs. Duke Power' case of 1971. So i
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by phony_identity 19y ago
You couldn't be more wrong. Such tests do exist, (in fact, as you say, the SAT test has a strong correlation with intelligence) but US corporations have been forbidden to use such tests since the 'Griggs vs. Duke Power' case of 1971. So i
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by phony_identity 19y ago
let's hope
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Why stop at Ohio? It's a lot cheaper in South Dakota. But why choose S.D. when Poland is such a good deal? And Poland is outragously expensive compared to Jakarta. Although those Jakarta snobs really can get on your nerves... Tunisia is
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Evil?
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Ask YC.news: Adequate, cheap motels near the YC-plex?
2 points by phony_identity 19y ago|4 comments
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by phony_identity 19y ago
"...YC seemed almost like the Medici of Florence... bringing all the great minds together from many fields created an unstoppable momentum of achievement." Wow. That's really a great comparison. Given Paul's experience with Florence and
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by phony_identity 19y ago
These guys are doomed. To repeat what I've said elsewhere: we need a succinct term for non-technical people who think they should be doing startups and just have to find some programmers to realize their visions. You can't call them suits
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by phony_identity 19y ago
Idiot. People, we need a succinct term for non-technical people who think they have a lot to contribute to startups. You can't call them suits or MBAs because most of them didn't go to B-school and don't wear suits. Any thoughts?
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by phony_identity 20y ago
lame
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by phony_identity 20y ago
Because it's much easier to just dump your data to disk as you already have it, rather than translate it to SQL idea of what data is: SQL types, one-to-many relationships, etc. This is not just a Scheme thing. If you use Java you have se
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by phony_identity 20y ago
PLT Scheme + PLT Scheme web server + flat files (actually serialized s-expressions on disk. Which aren't very flat.)

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