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by sayrer 18y ago
Eh, lots of software costs that much. Maybe a better question is whether Mathematica can pay for itself. An even better consideration for this site might be whether Mathematica could be useful at a startup.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Something about these Wolfram posts always sounds like a a shady late night infomercial to me. I can't quite put my finger on it.
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Ask YC: S-Corp debts on personal credit report?
4 points by sayrer 18y ago|2 comments
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by sayrer 18y ago
Not knowing a lick of Haskell, these sorts of articles always make me wonder whether it makes Lisp look like Blub.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Yeah, I agree that it's still at the point where people will look down on you for using it in the colloquial manner.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Given the section on colloquial usage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question#Contempora... I'd say that's rather prescriptive, maybe even SNOOTy. http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
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by sayrer 18y ago
That is not the original implementation. The code you see there was an aborted attempt to specify and implement JS2. Brendan Eich wasn't involved, Waldemar is now at Google, and Netscape burned up somewhere in there. The original implementa
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by sayrer 18y ago
so, this guy who founded an ad network is telling you to spend 35k on ads when you first start your business. who voted this up? do you people even know what Y Combinator does?
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by sayrer 18y ago
I think this page has nice technique, although it's a bit different than what your old CSS was going for: http://users.tkk.fi/tkarvine/pre-wrap-css3-mozilla-opera-ie.... P.S. -- disclosure: I work for Mozilla P.P.S. -- I kinda hate CSS
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by sayrer 18y ago
Yes, with all sorts of things. The same can be said of workplace safety regulations, minimum wage laws, child labor, drug safety, environmental laws, and on and on.
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by sayrer 18y ago
He can buy an unlocked developer handset from Android Market without these issues. I still think the Apache2 license will have them claiming closed-source stuff is not part of "Core Android", but it's a step forward.
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by sayrer 18y ago
Does anyone else find the term "leaky abstraction" annoyingly redundant?
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by sayrer 18y ago
1) Can't even spell Merrill 2) Banks wash people out. You think everyone who starts at one ends up on top?
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by sayrer 18y ago
what's your app?
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by sayrer 18y ago
I used the present tense. They say it will be open source at some point, but it's not for now, and the license won't require them to release all of it.
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by sayrer 18y ago
What exactly is open about it? It's not open source.
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by sayrer 18y ago
and produce one device per year.
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by sayrer 18y ago
I don't think this post is a good way to frame the argument. In particular, it's pretty hyperbolic when it comes to the effectiveness of Gates' philanthropic efforts. Like, what kind of madman would oppose the greatest giving campaign the w
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by sayrer 18y ago
It sounds like they just quoted the weekly project meeting, which anyone can dial into. In that context, everyone knows Beltzner meant blocking bugs. So yeah, just sensationalism.
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by sayrer 18y ago
I'll second the holistic approaches mentioned above. For me, almost none of the direct remedies work, but stressing less, relaxing, socializing, enjoying your work, and eating right certainly do. Also, make sure your sleeping habits aren't
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by sayrer 19y ago
I haven't reread the edited version, but the draft is less grating to me than most of these essays (I read every essay). I can see why you deleted much of it, but the draft has some interesting detail that got cut. The essays do have a lot
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by sayrer 19y ago
I usually learn from these essays, but I've always found them somewhat grating. Some perceive the style as confrontational, but I think that's unreasonable intellectual defensiveness that pg so often picks apart. These deletions have helped
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by sayrer 19y ago
Looks like a misguided reaction to their rhetoric, and the related design strategy of not attempting to please everyone.
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by sayrer 19y ago
So what is yc material? Well, I don't know, but I do like submissions that I wouldn't otherwise see. For the submitter, that requires time, research, and perhaps thought. I don't like stuff like this. It's the hacker version of email forwar
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by sayrer 19y ago
Does Arc make JavaScript look really verbose? I'm guessing it does, if conciseness is its primary goal. How much of the delta is due to its macro system?
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by sayrer 19y ago
The Economist has gotten a lot dumber in the past 5-10 years.
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by sayrer 19y ago
I think he is much better than anyone else in the movie. He carries it well at about 0:20-0:25, while the others look like spastic white people.