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by tansey 16y ago
Interesting point about Orkut. I wonder if there is a Google Dating in the works. It seems to fit their mission of organizing and helping people search-- one of the most important search tasks in most people's lives actually. It's also inhe
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by tansey 16y ago
>I don't think anyone disagrees that China will out pace the US in technology at some point within the next two generations I disagree. There is a barrier to go from manufacturing to innovating, and it's one that China is not going to f
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by tansey 16y ago
Presumably it would work so long as vowels appear more frequently than consonants and typically are seen next to consonants. If you want to try a made up language, just create one and feed it into the program.
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by tansey 16y ago
p -> q does not mean q -> p :)
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by tansey 16y ago
And let's not forget mongeese in Hawaii started out as just 8 little critters on a boat 130 years ago. The population is estimated to be in the millions now.
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by tansey 16y ago
Is there a volume control? I couldn't find it.
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Evolutionary Algorithms: The Little Things You'd Never Guess(nashcoding.com)
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by tansey 16y ago
Very cool algorithm. I just implemented and tested it for fun: http://www.nashcoding.com/?p=51 Basically, all it's doing is tracking the letter with maximum frequency and subtracting 2x its occurrences next to every other letter. If there
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by tansey 16y ago
Oh come on. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps if you don't like that. Find a hot new language and play with it in your spare time. Start an open source project with it. Contribute to the community. Then apply to jobs with that knowled
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by tansey 16y ago
What if we could vote up/down changes to the evolving project?
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by tansey 16y ago
I think that's a very good point. I got more done when living in a dorm room than any other time in my life. Even if it's just screwing around with a project idea at a dev house meetup, I get tons more work done (and have a lot more fun) th
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by tansey 16y ago
I sense a bit of irony here: the guy who started HN is telling you not to waste your time by sitting around being unproductive... and you are seeing this article because you are on HN. :)
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by tansey 16y ago
I like it, but I hate your logo. Who takes a bite out of just the bun? Also, by showing a hamburger, you made me think of fast food and I could see conventional restaurants balking at that.
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by tansey 16y ago
Probably would be better to show the category tags beside/below the author/comments subtitle. I like it though. Rather than inclusive filtering like you have on the right hand side, is there any way to filter out the categories I don't care
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by tansey 16y ago
Maybe something like UT or CS, where it's all over in 3 minutes, that's true. I remember being a kid and playing games like Tomb Raider where you would have to really think and work hard to unlock puzzles. Even games that offered you the op
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by tansey 16y ago
How is Apple a research-driven company like what the author was describing? I suppose you could argue they are researching new designs for technologies, but really that's it. They don't tackle new conceptual challenges like Google did with
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by tansey 16y ago
Didn't they do that? Otherwise the individuals would have a LOT more than a few genetic traits in common. Even if they did it though, the buzz-kill question still exists: are the results statistically significant? Is there a link to the act
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by tansey 16y ago
I think the whole point is that some people want to go work for only startups. By creating a site where you know those are the only jobs, you attract that niche. The market for general developer job boards seems very saturated.
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by tansey 16y ago
Out of curiosity, does YC give have a marketing team that helps the startups get this kind of publicity?
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by tansey 16y ago
Your search feature filters out #, so searching for "C#" yielded search results for C.
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by tansey 16y ago
I think that's spot on. He may not have any idea what to do with the money, and he doesn't want to just waste your money and lose your friendship. If we were friends and I came to you and said "Look, I've got $50,000 I'm willing to invest i
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by tansey 16y ago
Maybe from 1950-1999. I do not know of many value investors who returned 10% annual over the last 10 years.
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by tansey 16y ago
Ah, yeah I was assuming he meant this year (0% interest) plus 9 additional years of x% interest. I see now that I should have given him another year. Okay, so he only has to return 10% annually. Still extremely difficult. :)
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by tansey 16y ago
> My timeline is 10 years or less and I could, likely, add 50K a year. Just a quick note here: With 100k in year 1, plus 50k per year after, for a total of 10 years, you need to get about 11.5% annualized return after taxes and fees. Go
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by tansey 16y ago
Except Google won't be interested in nation building. :)
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by tansey 16y ago
Have you ever use Visual Studio or written a production app in C#? VS provides the ability to do all of those things. You can both extend the IDE and create DSLs. And .NET runs on a VM, so it's write-once, run-everywhere (unless you're tryi
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by tansey 16y ago
I don't like the binary view of things. In the real algo trading world, no one is forcing you to take a long or short position-- flat is a viable option.
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by tansey 16y ago
It seems that Andrew is suffering from a form of survivorship bias. They launched The Point with all these different group-power ideas, then struggled until they stepped back and focused on the 1 idea that stuck. >Andrew: ...You’re way
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by tansey 16y ago
Ah... usually the "* HN: *" title indicates showing off something someone made or asking a question. I'll submit it to the site directly. :)
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by tansey 16y ago
Judging by the comments here, it's clear that if you just prefaced this link with "Hi HN, here's my site, it's a little slow right now since it's in beta, but we plan on scaling it up before we launch.", then it may have been more positivel

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