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by spitfire 14y ago
Could you write more about the countries you're looking at, and their benefits and downsides? I'm looking at a similar approach to you, and dubai looks good to me. (warm, tax free, cheaper than where I am now).
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by spitfire 14y ago
Maybe we just need an Erlang week. (or Haskell, which I'd prefer). As people point out, HN may not have changed as much as people think it has. But it certainly wouldn't hurt to set the tone in the right direction in case there's any chance
753.
by spitfire 14y ago
So, like, pinterest for hookups then? I worry, what if google decides to get into the space?
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by spitfire 14y ago
I am genuinely surprised we have not seen any "big data" articles about celebrity gossip rags. That has to be a market you could data-mine the crap out of for fun and profit. I can imagine split testing Tom Cruise vs George Clooney to see
755.
by spitfire 14y ago
Well we know why. I pissed off one of the cool kids. That's crime enough.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Oh, there's almost zero doubt I've annoyed a moderator at some point. There's no list of moderators anywhere is there? I could tick off the ones I haven't annoyed.
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by spitfire 14y ago
It's much faster than HN. No long pauses when loading pages.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Do as I say, not as I do. Ego has this astonishing effect of completely bending[1] the space-time-reality fabric of the universe. 1. Or ripping it apart, depending on how well off you've become and how many sports cars you've bought.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I remember looking it up a while ago, for a processor to "run" Linux cost $28K at the time. Not at all sure how many VM's you cuould support there.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Dijkstra's shortest path. (IE: Pointer chasing). Goertzel's algorithm If you have a simple, straight through algorithm running on a few million datapoints. GPU's are great. If it deviates even a little from there, gpu's start to fumble. Wri
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by spitfire 14y ago
I thought nuance was just a mac based GUI over IBM's dragon speech recognition engine. (IBM bought dragon naturally speaking a few years ago)
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by spitfire 14y ago
firefox used to be the light, zippy alternative to mozilla. Back when it was called Phoenix. When they renamed it, I guess they changed focuses - firefox became the new hulking monster that was mozilla.
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by spitfire 14y ago
So what? So is Patrick McKenzie, people seem to be cool with him.
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by spitfire 14y ago
So lets call it a quantitative marketer then? It describes the role more precisely and it sounds cool.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Looks like it was a site that would crowdsource mutual funds. It's now been folded into the parent company collective2. Which is like a shopping site for automated trading systems - and very cool I should add.
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by spitfire 14y ago
That issue has the worlds best VW ad. Look for it.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I'm sure it's appreciated by many people. An awful lot of people were complaining - seemingly rightfully sow.
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by spitfire 14y ago
I thought this was going to be a bootstrap template for building documentation/help for projects. Someone please make this.
769.
by spitfire 14y ago
Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking... Just a moment! Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking... Just a moment! Corporate accounts payable Nina speaking... Just a moment!
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by spitfire 14y ago
Ahem. Rather than automagic bullshit, could you just do machine learning which handles multiple data-types. That would be a big change for the ML crowd to have to deal with real world, multiple typed, dirty data. Earthshattering, I know. (Y
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by spitfire 14y ago
If you work as a web designer (technician, really) it might be.
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by spitfire 14y ago
"something rather superficial and has no real impact on value of the product." Have you A/B tested that? Cavet: To normal real world folk, bootstrap is shockingly new-high-tech. But you would be surprised how much, say, a dark green backgro
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by spitfire 14y ago
My Favourite forgotten technology is the dialup BBS. It's like facebook, if it wasn't designed by your accountant. There were dozens in any medium sized city, all with different flavours. They hosted ANSI art, message boards, walls(!) and o
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by spitfire 14y ago
Those things got clogged with dust too. The ball would literally lock up. But they were fantastic. I loved them.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Upvoted for the ASCII art alone. That seems to be a lost art, particularly here on HN. Long live the ASCII art diagram!
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by spitfire 14y ago
The sponsored hackathon is the new 40 year old guy throwing on a leather jacket attending indie shows to sign bands. The value of the hackathon is rapidly diminishing. In fact I'd venture to say once they started to be formally organized th
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by spitfire 14y ago
That's a little unfair. Mac's have absolutely fantastic design, so do Thinkpads. Thinkspads have that no-nonsense business aesthetic down pat, no argument about it. But they are an equal footing in the same way a Jaguar E-Type and a Jeep ar
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by spitfire 14y ago
Only soylent green I'm afraid.
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by spitfire 14y ago
Hah! and I was joking too. Given Victoria's demographics. That's awesome. Good luck. The whole maker/3d printing stuff will be coming of age over the next decade. Lots of people will make themselves nice niche markets there.
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by spitfire 14y ago
> As for health startups, it has at least one that I know about (and I'm not talking about genologics). I was thinking more 3D printed walkers, canes and replacement hips... I think the best thing for Victoria to do is be humble (Means

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