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by steadicat 16y ago
Good point about bonds. I was thinking of splitting that 55%-60% between bonds and something even safer (money market?). I haven't found anything easy to invest in that currently gives returns above inflation. Any suggestions? I do understa
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The Dilbert Black Swan Portfolio: a skeptical/practical guide to investing(attardi.org)
114 points by steadicat 16y ago|90 comments
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by steadicat 16y ago
This is an old article. Looks like the date is wrong, or he republished it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293119
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by steadicat 16y ago
It's satire. In some ways, the reasoning that led Google to drop support for H.264, if taken to extremes, could be used to support the logic of dropping IPv4. I was merely pointing out, in a funny way, the parallel between the two situation
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by steadicat 16y ago
Google: “Though IPv4 plays an important role in the Internet, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the protocol will be removed and our resources directed towards completely new technologies, such as IPv6.”
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by steadicat 16y ago
You forget HTTPS. The SSL handshake adds a significant delay to the connection time.
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by steadicat 16y ago
For me, the fact that it's a conversation — rather than just a one-man talk — makes it more engaging. I tend to tune out a bit when it's just one person talking (remnants of my University years?), but always snap back into focus when the se
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by steadicat 16y ago
The syntax looks amazing. Would be great if you added information about the interpreter (is it implemented in Haskell?) and build instructions for Mac.
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by steadicat 16y ago
Operators typically bring fiber close to homes, while still using DSL for the last mile. True, this requires investments, but not much compared to wiring each home with phone lines, cable, or fiber (all of which have been done before). Note
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by steadicat 16y ago
The whole article is based on the flawed assumption that DSL is reaching its theoretical maximum. 20+ Mbit DSLs are already widely available in many countries ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wikipedia/ITU_G.992.5 ). And 100+ Mbit DSLs are being r
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by steadicat 16y ago
It seems to me that the ideas that you call valuable (ChatRoulette, Million Dollar Homepage), are recipes for shooting stars: they become popular overnight but have little staying power. By contrast, dumb me-too ideas (Google, Apple, Facebo
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by steadicat 16y ago
He complains about using JPEGs yet his PNGs are unreasonably large (60-120KB). I compressed one of his 80KB images into 15KB just by re-saving it.
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by steadicat 16y ago
"Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on governance." Isn't governance what governments are for? Granted, governments are dysfunctional in many ways, but suggesting governments let others govern seems a bit silly. Who else is going to gove
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by steadicat 16y ago
Sadly, I find this extremely common in Italian writing (I am Italian). I wouldn't be lying if I said that this kind of logic (or lack thereof) is one of the main reasons why I left the country.
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by steadicat 16y ago
Count on Google to fight the good fight! Like they did when they gave up Net Neutrality to make a deal with Verizon.
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by steadicat 16y ago
I can't believe I have to say this, but this isn't a spoof, nor is it a silly idea. Paper prototyping is a widely used technique in UX design. There is a well known book about it ( http://www.paperprototyping.com/ ), an article on A List Ap
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by steadicat 16y ago
I had the exact same problem. It is now permanently in my closet. This is what I wrote in my Amazon review: In everyday use, there's a pretty major issue: it won't stay closed. When you fold it and hold it upright like you would any umbrell
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by steadicat 16y ago
I'm surprised nobody has suggested the possibility of people not interpreting the question literally. I.e. "larger" in terms of what? Importance? Population? Perceived size from our point of view? Absolute size is the interpretation that ma
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by steadicat 16y ago
That's one way to do it, but you're falling back to explicitly defining a new function, rather than creating it by combining higher-order functions. Which kinda defeats the point.
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by steadicat 16y ago
That's a good point. However, I find it funny that you should mention another functional library as a way around the issue. Doesn't that defeat the purpose of Underscore? I have a feeling that either the authors of Underscore don't fully ge
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by steadicat 16y ago
Can you do things like var sum = curry(reduce, add); with the OO style? Am I wrong in thinking that this kind of currying is one of the fundamental building blocks of functional programming?
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by steadicat 16y ago
I tweeted this yesterday: Why does Underscore.js get the order of arguments wrong? There’s a reason why it’s map(fn, l), not map(l, fn). And the reason is currying. I find that very annoying for the kind of functional programming I tend to
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by steadicat 16y ago
Not only was the public voting a big factor, it was also greatly affected by preliminary results being published two days before the voting ended. That had a big impact on subsequent voting. The teams on top started getting a lot of "compet
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by steadicat 16y ago
This is on one of the SmartMachines that Joyent donated to the Node Knockout competition. We’ve been very impressed with it. Very easy deployment, and the server's been chugging along smoothly since launch (save the occasional restart due t
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by steadicat 16y ago
That wouldn't take care of a formation not being detected because the pixel responsible for it has very high latency or is disconnecting. I think this kind of false negative is a much bigger issue than the false positives.
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by steadicat 16y ago
I’m actually quite proud of having implemented the scoring client-side. It helps keep the load on the server down. Looking up all possible formations is somewhat computationally intensive. It does create some problems when some clients have
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by steadicat 16y ago
What I find amazing is how much fun people are having with it despite the fact that we had no idea what the game mechanics would be until the last minute. We basically started with a board of pixels, and everything else just evolved through
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by steadicat 16y ago
This is what I do, but it breaks down when legitimate email ends up in the spam folder in account B. You have to periodically log in to both accounts to make sure you don't lose important emails.
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by steadicat 16y ago
All I knew about SF crime was that the Tenderloin felt quite dodgy when I visited. So I opened the map ready to be suprised. Instead it turns out my feelings were right. Looks like the crime rate in SF is an inverse function of the distance
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by steadicat 16y ago
She lost me at 1. A journalist is trained in journalism I'm a designer and I'm trained in design, but I would never define a designer as someone who is "trained in design". There are many ways to learn, and various paths to success.

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