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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Slightly off-topic, DHH racing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1GG7-1AW3A I've been obsessed with auto racing, so thanks DHH for the illustration. Getting into an LMP is a distant goal, and who knows if that's where I'll end up, so the a
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Government inefficiency is the cause of unreasonable expense of U.S. healthcare.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Honestly, how is this downvoted? wtf?
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Consider the organizational qualities that create successful startups: agility, speed and clear vision. Entrepreneurs live and die by efficiency and effectiveness. This is the exact opposite of what government programs give us. Believing th
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Google's Metagame(blindapeseo.com)
1 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|0 comments
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The J Primer - Why J (APL without the weird symbols)(jsoftware.com)
2 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|0 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Here ya go. http://youtu.be/a9xAKttWgP4?t=6m58s There are actually two lines setting up his initial array, and then one line that runs the game against the array. The entire video is a walk-through of the code.
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Conway's Game Of Life written in one line of APL(youtube.com)
7 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|2 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
First thing I thought of was the Emacs kill-ring. Emacs has been around since the 70's, so it's not like the concept hasn't been out there for awhile.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Why doesn't he at least give a nod to Trello when asked about to-do lists? Give your co-founder a plug!
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
I'm using the Stripe button and loving it. I don't mind promoting the Stripe brand, especially when you guys reach the point of adding value because of already established consumer trust, but I'm glad to hear that I'll be able to change the
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
I didn't even notice the profanity. He's not in a corporate setting or anything, who cares?
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Points 1 and 2 don't make sense to me. How often is the one thing you are most passionate about also going to be a huge market opportunity? B. Wayne Hughes founded Public Storage and is now a billionaire. Was self-service storage units his
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
I have a ton of respect for Armin. Can't wait for this video to be posted.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
How is this down voted? Is it not a valid comment that could lead to a meaningful discussion? Stop being tree-hugging Communists, bros.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
No, they should continue paginating because most readers will just click to the second page and Slate will increase their ad impressions. I'm sure that Slate has tested this and found it to be true. If there was something different they cou
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Just watched this talk. Definitely worth watching. It's cool to see how Hinton worked on solving a ML problem and ended up gaining insight on two problems in biology that seem unrelated to each other, but are perfectly related by his ML sol
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CUFP (Comm Users Funct Prog) 2012 - Yaron Minsky, OCaml(youtube.com)
1 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|0 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Just because something bears a title doesn't make it so. Perhaps his professor _was_ accurately describing how the profession as a whole uses the manual. You can diagnosis pretty much anyone with narcissism.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
I've never used uBot Studio, but a lot of people seem to love it's point and click programming.
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How To Be Productive(pinchyfingers.tumblr.com)
3 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|0 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Emacs has awesome window management built in, just sayin'.
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Richard De Veaux Presents "Data Mining: Fool's Gold? Or the Mother Lode?"(youtube.com)
3 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|0 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
What's up Appsters? I'm reppin Bristol Borough. Not gonna disclose what I'm working on, I'll just say it's marketing related.
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
My thoughts exactly, this was the most exciting link on the front page for about 3 seconds, then it was the most disappointing. The capitalization of 'Misfits' in the title looks like a proper noun. Anyway, to make up for this, I will tribu
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
Your idea is okay, but I think you're describing the earliest stages of developing social skills. Eventually, you don't to walk around with some idea in your head, you want to spontaneously interact with people in an interesting way that wi
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
lol, I'm an idiot.
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Startup Metrics 4 Pirates (Updated July 2012)(500hats.typepad.com)
2 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|2 comments
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by pinchyfingers 14y ago
1. Zig where others zag. 2. Sometimes, think less. - Thinking can prevent you from taking action. 3. Stop talking about yourself and others. 4. Repeat... own... then make new mistakes. - You're not gonna learn from your mistakes the first t
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Jason Nazar - How To Break Out Of The Pack(youtube.com)
3 points by pinchyfingers 14y ago|1 comments

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