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721.
by russell 17y ago
A more reasonable proposal would be for someone to pull a netflix; $1 million or even a $1o million prize for a significant advance in search relevancy. $10 million would be cheap for MS, Yahoo, ASK, a VC, or even DARPA.
722.
by russell 17y ago
My SO has serious medical problems. Shouldnt I be able to leave her the house and some means of support. Most inheritances are fairly modest. Taking them away would only hurt the majority with little benefit to anyone.
723.
by russell 17y ago
I flag occasionally for spam or off-topic HN-wise. I have been tempted for those that hijack other stories without much of anything in the way of commentary, but HN'ers tend to quickly post a link to the original.
724.
by russell 17y ago
I think a "Did you mean this?" flag would be useful. Sometimes I find I make a post that could use a little rewording that would make it clearer or less confrontational. I am prone to calling OP's crap (not comments). Perhaps I should ap
725.
by russell 17y ago
The original is still the best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cmlhfdxuY It's the Powers of 10 documentary made by Ray and Charles Eames.
726.
by russell 17y ago
Layman to layman: it's light that hasn't reached us yet. Light that left alpha centuri last week wont get into the cone of visibility for another 4 years. During the period of inflation after the big bang some parts of the universe got s
727.
by russell 17y ago
It may be that I am working with a small sample size, but giving the full freedom of Java as in jsp's to view writers leads to horrible code. The logic is a tangle and the pages are nearly unreadable, due to the differing layout needs of J
728.
by russell 17y ago
Good luck. I have a too high communications bill that I would love to pare down.
729.
by russell 17y ago
I thought I would try a couple of the suggestions here. What I was looking for was criticisms or alternatives to (Java) exception handling, an interest of mine. ArXiv may have the the paper but their search interface is pretty primitive.
730.
by russell 17y ago
Lame humor.
731.
by russell 17y ago
I agree with you, but designs are often constrained by what the tools expose or consider important. Believe me you dont get consulting jobs by saying Java inheritance is over-rated and that maybe more functional and less OO would be a bett
732.
by russell 17y ago
Well, I figured out the first and third parts. So the the Sieve of Giraffes returns every number. I guess the next step is to include it in the Java library.
733.
by russell 17y ago
What boggles my mind is that people will work for $20/video, $15/article, or 8 cents to proof a headline. OTOH the video guy has shot 40,000 videos. I would like to think that, even with all this crap at the bottom, there will still be ro
734.
by russell 17y ago
Seems like sound advice wherever you are. I have found that I need to start following it.
735.
by russell 17y ago
The only test that counts is whether the project was done as a work for hire. If so his copyright assertion doesnt hold water. You cant copyright work owned by another. The takeaway from this is to always specify that the work of a contra
736.
by russell 17y ago
A variation on a theme ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=992927 ). This one says that the WSJ is getting it wrong because you have to subscribe to read the story because the story or equivalent is widely available. Baron is right in t
737.
by russell 17y ago
Think of it as a reputation builder. Give it away. If it turns out to be a blockbuster, you can always come out with a premium version to sell. Think freemium.
738.
by russell 17y ago
I met my SO on match.com in 2002. I dont need no stinking statistics.
739.
by russell 17y ago
I dont think so. Sure, the signal to noise ratio is declining on the web, but we dont have to depend on Google to deliver things that interest us. I think HN is a reasonable model for a filter. Sturgeon's Law certainly applies here, but
740.
by russell 17y ago
For want of CVS the kingdom was lost.
741.
by russell 17y ago
Every patent application that I have been involved in, I and my co-developers are listed as the inventors, not the company. All inventions are assigned to the company by our employment agreements.
742.
by russell 17y ago
Intelligent Design is a proxy for fundamentalist Christian creation belief. It has no place in rational discussion, certainly not on HN.
743.
by russell 17y ago
I use UltraEdit32 for everything but Java. It's feature rich, highly customizable, and works the way I do. For example it supports cross system editing via ftp or ssh. For Java, I use eclipse. The interface is non-intuitive, but the numbe
744.
by russell 17y ago
"This group of scientists are fighting to establish what is essentially a materialist and dialectical approach to the ideas of time and space and the origin of the universe." Now there is a Marxist Cosmology" The big bang theory is a const
745.
by russell 17y ago
No, hashing is part of the O in O(1). For pathological cases O(n) could be faster than O(1), but fast hashing is fundamental to Python performance, so I expect it to be fast.
746.
by russell 17y ago
I am curious about your experience with less, is it a significant time saver? Are there Java based compilers or others on Linux/Unix?
747.
by russell 17y ago
Agreed. Screencasts are linear at the presenters pace. Documentation can be skimmed or probed randomly. Often I dive deep to see how a particular issue is handled. All too often screencast production qualities are terrible: lighting suck
748.
by russell 17y ago
It would be a good thing too. Sarbanes-Oxley is so onerous that it has killed the IPO market for small firms. IIRC $3-5M in legal and accounting fees for the IPO and yearly 7 figure amounts for compliance.
749.
by russell 17y ago
Consider yourself lucky. You could have been taught ISO-9000 or something from the Software Engineering Institute. The way things go now, three classes and you would have missed a release cycle.
750.
by russell 17y ago
No they can't. They are so anxious to beat their quarterly earnings estimates and get their bonuses that they will invest in anything that pays an extra quarter of a percent. Hence the huge losses in the 70's from investing in South Ameri

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