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by redler 12y ago
We'll know the solution is near at hand when there's a satisfying way to represent a book like "House of Leaves" (colored words, intentionally blank/sideways/mirrored pages, backwards text, and other typographi
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by redler 12y ago
Sounds like trying write software to identify and enhance the most "important" elements of paintings, or to clarify the theme of each stanza of a poem.
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by redler 12y ago
I try to engineer that specific feeling. Working on a very small team, or even alone, I'll intentionally rotate among projects on a timescale of days. When I eventually swing my attention back to a recent project, the additional set of
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by redler 12y ago
With most companies, the center of gravity is obviously on the customer side. The customer, and the market, is ultimately the boss. With the customer lies the product/market fit, the fickle and life-giving revenue stream, the demand th
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by redler 12y ago
That's a clever approach (dust trail). How do you reconcile the undoing of the removal with any new structures built in that same location?
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by redler 12y ago
That's a lovely paragraph, evocative and well written.
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by redler 12y ago
Why, is my question. What's the 'greater good' that everyone sees behind an entire planet of coders? Why not push everyone to be doctors? Push everyone to learn virology? Surely, there's more utility there? Why code? T
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by redler 12y ago
That's a good point, and I agree. The situation I'm thinking of is something like, say, you have an object or type called a "Tire". It has width, diameter, weight, price, tread depth, compound, etc. As you work with Tire
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by redler 12y ago
Well, for me, the latter would masquerade as a trivial expression seen thousands of times, and which now may or may not have unexpected behavior. Every instance of something like a + b must now carry the slight extra cognitive load of poten
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by redler 12y ago
That's a good point. So, perhaps two numbers: percentage who pay, then median for those who do.
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by redler 12y ago
It would be interesting if the app store displayed the median total expenditure for any application that includes IAP. How would buying behavior be affected when suddenly that "free" game includes a note like "$59 median tota
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by redler 12y ago
> In Javascript (which is also dynamically typed) I've had a few times where adding 1 and 0, say, yielded "10" because either the 1 or the 0 originally came from a string. OK, I can live with that, but I find the fact that
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by redler 12y ago
I think it would be particularly useful to include change history and discussion pages. The struggle of how we arrived at this apparent consensus, and the evidence that it was just a snapshot of a (mysteriously and suddenly stilled?) roilin
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by redler 13y ago
You can conservatively play an irrational suppression of Apple's stock price by selling out-of-the-money covered calls against your position. Highly liquid market, immediate income in your pocket. Your worst cases are 1) The stock goes
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by redler 13y ago
Actually, Apple spends remarkably little on R&D, perhaps even to a fault. The third chart on this page from Asymco [1] is interesting, especially considering Apple's R&D is for computers, phones, and whatever other lines they&#
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by redler 13y ago
CPC is just the wrong model for Facebook. It turns into "spray and pray". In this case, nobody is looking for a personal budget app, it just shows up uninvited. Whereas with Google, we know someone is likely looking for it when t
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by redler 13y ago
I don't know anything about Mozilla's structure, but in some corporations it's possible for a single board seat to have more than one vote (e.g., for board seats appointed by a holder of "Class F" (founder) or &quot
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by redler 13y ago
Perhaps that could work, although it goes a bit down the road toward heavier and more explicit mechanics, as at Slashdot and Stack Overflow. In another comment somewhere in this thread, pg mentions that he'd like to keep it as simple a
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by redler 13y ago
This might not work out the way you think. With more money in everyone's pocket, for example, people in subsistence circumstances working minimum-wage second jobs while their children sit alone at home would no longer be compelled as s
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by redler 13y ago
How about allowing unapproved comments, even older ones, to be deleted by the submitter? That seems a simple and fair solution. Users can unclog their own queues if need be.
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by redler 13y ago
One concern is that there's no direct feedback to the endorser, so he or she would have no sense of the relative importance of their endorsement to keeping the discussions rolling along. With visions of the Stack Overflow police, how h
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by redler 13y ago
I like this idea; perhaps it could be a continuous function. There's already some sort of velocity-like calculation, with a time coefficient, so stories have to kick increasingly hard to keep their heads above water. It seems logical t
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by redler 13y ago
"The Code Book", by Simon Singh, would be a good companion read. It covers much of the above, and is both compelling and well-written. Edit: Fixed from "Code" to "The Code Book". Although "Code" (Char
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by redler 13y ago
In 2012, France produced 41.3 million hectoliters of wine, and the US produced 28.4 million hectoliters. 88 percent of US production was from California. So it's true that US wine is primarily from California, and it's true that F
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by redler 13y ago
It doesn't have to be Android to please me, but at least something reasonably open, which lets me work with open data, and regular formats. Is there any car with a built-in system that lets you do these things? And if there were, d
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by redler 13y ago
This is an interesting discussion, but as a side note, I have to say that is the one of the less likely Godwinnings I've seen in some time.
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by redler 13y ago
> The talent and know-how Actually, they state that any sale or spinoff of the de-emphasized products would not include employees.
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by redler 13y ago
I'm sure there will be an extremely detailed postmortem. "Tell HN: We Tweaked our Storage"
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by redler 13y ago
"There's a man outside your building, right now, with this item. Order it within the next 12 minutes, and have it within two."
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by redler 13y ago
Unless one considers the lack of Turing-completeness to be a feature (as Bitcoin apparently does, pointed out in a few other comments here).

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