sunstone

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1411.
by sunstone 12y ago
Having read Flash Boys it's pretty clear that HFT is just legalized theft. The vested interests can keep it going for a while but it's not viable in the long term.
1412.
by sunstone 12y ago
How bad can it get? Several years ago I had a Russian team lead at a software company who ate code for breakfast (clearly the top guy amongst over 100 coders) and had excellent leadership qualities. Later, when the financial crisis hit he
1413.
by sunstone 12y ago
"Consilience" by EO Wilson is a challenging and rewarding book, especially considering it is thin, uses small words and short sentences. And has no math whatsoever. My recollection is I could only read a couple of pages at time w
1414.
by sunstone 12y ago
What you are suggesting is a false dichotomy. The Romans had dozens of Gods as did the Greeks, not to mention the Gods of the Sumerians, the Phoenicians and the Celts among others too numerous to mention. Thinking deeply and honestly start
1415.
by sunstone 12y ago
The most common artistic medium in times past would have been a stick and sand. Unfortunately almost all of those drawings have been lost over the millennia.
1416.
by sunstone 12y ago
Mathematics is the first truly global language. This could be second though.
1417.
by sunstone 12y ago
If I recall correctly Buffet studies Economics at the University of Chicago. His knowledge of math may be much deeper than you expect.
1418.
by sunstone 12y ago
Consilience by E.O. Wilson is excellent.
1419.
by sunstone 12y ago
You've got it half right. Aereo could pivot to selling "the little antennas" just as they are. Aereo could then charge the antenna owners a "storage fee". And continue on as usual. Surely their lawyers will have
1420.
by sunstone 12y ago
I to would like to offer my appreciation for the hard work that goes into HN but, since I was hell banned after a few days... I guess it will fall on deaf ears.
1421.
by sunstone 15y ago
Well if G+ is where the men are I expect you'll see a lot of women from Vancouver sign on pretty fast. Vancouver has way more single women than men.
1422.
by sunstone 15y ago
To state the obvious, many MBA's also have engineering degrees. What should be done with these guys?
1423.
by sunstone 15y ago
Seems like these two companies have found a true soulmate in each other. It makes you want to cry.
1424.
by sunstone 15y ago
I have a site up using Django-nonrel on GAE and it's working fine ( but not many users yet ). Because it abstracts the Google datastore django works the same as always. Getting this to work took much left effort than I expected.
1425.
by sunstone 15y ago
Everything old is new again. :)
1426.
by sunstone 15y ago
Who is this guy trying to fool? It's always the case that linux on the desktop takes a little longer to catch up with the latest technology. While the latest windows always works on the new stuff -- but older windows probably doesn't. Th
1427.
by sunstone 15y ago
I wonder if the cost of this, for a business, would be 100% deductible whereas a bought laptop would have to be depreciated for three years or so?
1428.
by sunstone 15y ago
Another way to look at this question is: If it didn't exist should we create it?
1429.
by sunstone 15y ago
This guy got really lucky and he's hoping no one will notice.
1430.
by sunstone 15y ago
Because you're not a blathering imbecile with an IQ under 60.
1431.
by sunstone 15y ago
Yes I'm wondering about that too. Apparently eBay didn't even know that they didn't own the underlying part until they went to sell it :P Bet somebody go their knuckles rapped for that.
1432.
by sunstone 16y ago
This brings to a head the interesting situation of the modern tech company. Unlike companies in almost all other industries, the average developer at Google (and a lot of other companies) needs to be much smarter to do the job than the man
1433.
by sunstone 16y ago
This is true. And Nokia just bought WP7 for 0$. The question that remains is... How are they going to split the revenue from mobile search.