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by swolchok 17y ago
A Beautiful Mind covers this issue from a slightly different angle. It's a decent flick. I'm marginally surprised neither it nor Nash was mentioned in the article.
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by swolchok 17y ago
For at least "conventional" blue-chip stocks, if the market fails to represent the present value of all future dividends, discounted back to the present, trading based on that metric should be a dominant strategy, since it is a method of ex
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by swolchok 17y ago
Looks like a heavily stylized letter "a".
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by swolchok 17y ago
OT: was this that crazy dorm at Cornell?
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by swolchok 17y ago
It is likely not in the economic interest of these groups to say anything negative about YC, even if they have moved on.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I believe it's customary to tag old articles with the year (e.g., "(2006)").
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by swolchok 17y ago
s/per-say/per se/ </petpeeve>
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by swolchok 17y ago
I think core CS needs to be brought back into the picture. This Omega character is posited to be able to determine a Rice property about rational agents. As these agents are presumably Turing-equivalent or BETTER, this supposition contradic
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by swolchok 17y ago
The entity definition files are the data. Higher-order code is code that operates on code. I need a slightly more concrete example from you to get any more concrete here, but I'm imagining that the C# code generator has a set of rules for m
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Ask HN: DEFCON?
3 points by swolchok 17y ago|2 comments
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by swolchok 17y ago
Assuming your post is meant to be sardonic: There is an established school of thought that says that that sort of thing has a high likelihood of impressing women.
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by swolchok 17y ago
IIRC, Melinda was a PM at Microsoft and that's how they met. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3428721.stm : "He met his wife in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan. She was working for the company and later became one of t
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by swolchok 17y ago
You can start by moving things into Dropbox and symlinking them back to their original locations. Can't help you if you're on Windows.
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by swolchok 17y ago
reminder: "hackers" and "gay people" are not disjoint sets, so mentioning a boyfriend doesn't imply femininity (not gay; recently made a public mistake of this nature).
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by swolchok 17y ago
Looks like not just geeks, but young people in general, use Firefox. As hoped, Chrome tends to take market share from IE, not Firefox.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I was a bit surprised that the article took so long to mention that everyone dies eventually. Lots of the rhetoric around this issue (e.g., "saving lives", "sentencing him to death") ignores that everyone is born with a death sentence. (Sor
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by swolchok 17y ago
This just in: "surprisingly" unpleasant jobs pay much more than "surprisingly" pleasant jobs. Coincidence? I doubt it.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Raw speed can certainly pose a safety problem! Your vision distance is a constant. Therefore, the faster you are going, the less time you have to react to sudden obstacles (e.g., deer, lane closing, merging vehicle, debris in the roadway, e
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by swolchok 17y ago
Headline: s/It's/Its/
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by swolchok 17y ago
Furthermore, wouldn't you rather achieve a small system?
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by swolchok 17y ago
>With statically typed languages you can easily build an exhaustive list of all uses of something, where as dynamic/functional is much harder. This makes changes and refactoring easier IMO. This is not guaranteed in Java and C# -- someo
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by swolchok 17y ago
Only because alcohol problems were mentioned: I drink one beer at a time (ok, sometimes two), so "5 bottles at home" is "5 nights at home that include a bottle of beer".
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by swolchok 17y ago
I find that marginal costs/benefits for low-priced items are best contemplated multiplicatively, not additively. A $4-5 pint at the bar? Only a couple bucks of markup, but replaceable with 3-5 bottles of beer at home. Out to lunch for $6? t
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by swolchok 17y ago
You need to round the intermediate values down like they seem to be doing.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Seeing if Hex-Rays' decompiler plugin ( http://www.hex-rays.com/decompiler.shtml ) for IDA Pro ( http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro ) can be reimplemented in Python with little work for much benefit, following the Pareto Principle. Not really c
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by swolchok 17y ago
I thought I used TLS because I didn't want my sensitive data going over the wire in plaintext.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Many useful libraries are in languages other than C.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Pithy and sounds good, but totally discounts network effects. Programming languages are subject to network effects -- users create libraries in the language, increasing the usefulness of the language. Of course, interoperation between langu
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yes. Nobody I know or am in contact with through the Ann Arbor tech scene uses Lua.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Worse is Better -- being a better product can't make up for a lack of momentum.

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