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541.
by spitfire 12y ago
Well, you could always head over to Victoria...
542.
by spitfire 12y ago
I recall a bond from the 1700's in London that isn't being paid off. It had a structure that made it better to simply pay the interest rather than pay out the full bond. Looking it up, I think it was probably a british Consul. A t
543.
by spitfire 12y ago
More than that. Further still, the publicly available tools trend towards only covering the "algorithm" part of the problem - that's what's sexy. Missing out is things like risk management, money management, allocation,
544.
by spitfire 12y ago
The entire bootstrapped startup ecosystem is starting to feel very used car salesman/infomercial to me. Everyone talks about how successful their startup is selling books on how to be successful in startups to hopeful startup founders.
545.
by spitfire 12y ago
Yeah quickcheck (and smart check which minimizes the counterexamples) seem like places where mathematica could shine bright for software debs. I would absolutely adore seeing smart check implemented in Mathematica. Please make it so.
546.
by spitfire 12y ago
I disagree, I think the notebook is one of the best interfaces I've ever found. Just not for "traditional programming". The notebook is a literate programming document. It contains my thoughts and process for creating an algo
547.
by spitfire 12y ago
If you come from a programming background, just treat it as a Lisp with M-expressions rather than S-expressions. It all comes together quite quickly then. At it's core Mathematica is actually a rule rewriting engine. but except for mor
548.
by spitfire 12y ago
Okay. Wow. That actually is pretty cool for the time. It came after I had stopped playing around with palm dev (1999).
549.
by spitfire 12y ago
Wait when did VB5 run on a palm pilot? I used to write apps for palm pilot and it was a hell of resource constrained C.
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by spitfire 12y ago
I disagree. There's a lot of pain that you can solve in everyday peoples' lives that people could create businesses around. Look at patio11. He builds appointment reminders. Can you believe that's a real feed-your-family bus
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The Unexotic Underclass(miter.mit.edu)
461 points by spitfire 12y ago|305 comments
552.
by spitfire 12y ago
They've just validated your product. Congratulations! You say they have a installed base of desktop users. Do they have a smooth transition path to their SaaS app? If not, then it's just as easy to move to your app as it is to sta
553.
by spitfire 12y ago
Thank you for being out in the open about this. The VC's have a lot of money to run their PR machine, but no one ever hears the negatives about them. It's important to a functioning market that the information is out there.
554.
by spitfire 12y ago
We could already diagnose cancer better than a human using decision trees in the 1960's. The breakthrough with computational medicine is actually using it.
555.
by spitfire 12y ago
A cynical viewpoint, but presented for balance. Think of the effect having worked for Google has on those outside the tech industry. Or even outside the top 10% of the tech industry. Do a few years at Google, then The google brand can open
556.
by spitfire 12y ago
Both feature the Barcelona pavilion. It was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion
557.
by spitfire 12y ago
Good approach. To elaborate, bid the lesser of your value or market value. Always. If you feel the least bit of pressure, or feel there's any shenanigans going on, walk away. There'a always another house to come around.
558.
by spitfire 12y ago
easy. Never enter a bidding war. If you show up and there's multiple cars outside, walk. If the sellers realtor says "Bring chequebook with N signed cheques for $X amount" or such, walk away. FWIW Canada is USA circa 2005-200
559.
by spitfire 12y ago
Do you have a way for people to reach you? I'd actually like to talk software in the ARM space. Or you can reach me, email in profile.
560.
by spitfire 12y ago
How long will it take for someone to become a drug mule using this service? "I want these porcelain dolls from this one store in columbia."
561.
by spitfire 12y ago
Flynn is open source heroku.
562.
by spitfire 12y ago
Yup. That's the saving grace here. "Uh. square doesn't integrate with my existing {healthcare|HVAC|puppy mill|spa treatment} platform." will keep him going.
563.
by spitfire 12y ago
So I wonder what ran through patio11's mind when he read that... Though it is an all or nothing proposition - you can't take just the appointment reminding features and leave everything else.
564.
by spitfire 12y ago
Care to talk a bit more about this over email? Details in my profile, or leave an address I could reach you here.
565.
by spitfire 12y ago
thunderbolt and the predecessor firewire both have rdma.
566.
by spitfire 12y ago
Why do I have to provide a contact to start with? I'm not a lawyer, give me a starter contract to work with and help me tweak it from there.
567.
by spitfire 12y ago
Same thing with the Mig-21 radar, and I presume other fighters. If they powered it up on the ground, bird would drop. During WWII, soldiers would stand in front of the radar to keep warm. This was before health and safety.
568.
by spitfire 12y ago
I checked the MD5sum given on the wolfram website (b58c6bb7393f23137355da923f2734fc), they match. Completely removing my previous copy of Mathematica and nuking my ~/Library/Mathematica directory made the documentation formatting
569.
by spitfire 12y ago
Would having an old version installed make a difference? I renamed my current install to "mathematica backup.app" then installed mms 10. It feels like some part of mms has failed without adequately reporting it. Mac OSX 10.9.4 una
570.
by spitfire 12y ago
ZIPCodeData and many other geographic functions are missing and have badly mangled documentation. I assume something went wrong in an automated build process. This is on the Mac OSX release. So far ZIPCodeData[], NeighborhoodData[] and Moun

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