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by terra_t 16y ago
"Brush your teeth" never worked me. I'd get hungry and eat anyway. Two servings of whey protein powder a day, on the other hand, completely nukes my interest in snacks. As for HN and such, I find my interest waxes and wanes. I definit
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by terra_t 16y ago
This is why I'm likely to use Facebook Connect. Sure, some people hate Facebook (maybe I lose 20% of sign-ups) but giving people 30 million choices causes them to freeze up (lose 80% of sign-ups)
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Google: Now With More Google In Your Google(seobook.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
I was talking with a professor about my work on the bus last night and mentioned that having faith in what I'm doing is what makes me possible to do it. He shared that he's a born-again Christian and he's thought about faith is important in
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by terra_t 16y ago
Why not conduct your business in Canada or, alternatively, try hiring a few of the millions of U.S. citizens that are out of work?
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by terra_t 16y ago
There's some truth in that (creative destruction and all) but we've also seen an incredible concentration of wealth from about 1980 onward. Much of this has gone to people working in just a few industries, such as finance and law. What we
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by terra_t 16y ago
From a systemantic perspective, the "purpose of a system is what it does" not what it says it does. A large number of people are chasing a small (and decreasing) number of good opportunities so a major function of education is to weed peop
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by terra_t 16y ago
The best physics class that I've seen (and that I've taught) is the Physics 101 autotutorial class. Students get three chances to take each test, but they need to get a passing grade on each unit before they move on to the next. This is
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by terra_t 16y ago
There is no "typical entrepreneur". If you look at wall street traders, Fortune 500 CEO's and other populations that have been through intense selection processes you'll find very homogeneous populations. If you look at entrepreneurs, you
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by terra_t 16y ago
It depends on where you go. Jon Kleinberg's class on algorithms (and classes based on his book) is great. I don't think every CS student gets access to that quality of construction As for database design, OO-design or concurrency, my ex
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by terra_t 16y ago
One root of the economic crisis in my mind is something like the way the game monopoly terminates -- at some point all of the money winds up in one person's hands. Some economic inequality is advantageous over no inequality (there's got to
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've worked for a series of employers whose motto is "be as little as you can be". For instance, one place was a relatively young job shop that spent freely on cheap praise, pizza, junk food, cookies and such, but didn't want to inves
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by terra_t 16y ago
The guy's a dumbass. If you're making money off your site, it's a business, just that simple. It does cost a few 100$ every year, but if you get income from anything other than W-2 jobs, you'd better have an accountant. I've defini
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by terra_t 16y ago
Rand, your post is repeating the same garbage about job training that's been universal for the past 30 years (See "The Job Training Charade" by Gordon Lafer,) with a little dash of age discrimination just so you'll fit in with the hacker
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by terra_t 16y ago
It's not 100 trips for the same resource, it's 100 round trips for 100 ~different~ resources that are required to construct a page. Cacheing won't help, and in fact, http caching is one of the #1 obstacles in AJAX programming. People w
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by terra_t 16y ago
You read the article? The first thing he does is call POX "level 0" and "the swamp". Generally, real http APIs from companies like Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, etc. are POX-RPC APIs, the idea is that you're exposing operations, not data
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by terra_t 16y ago
Let's put it this way. If people wanted something naturally, the government and industry wouldn't have to run ads incessantly promoting it. Personally, I've made the discovery that breakfast is the only meal of the day I can skip. By the
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by terra_t 16y ago
And if you do that you're really writing POX, with any true-REST features being fifth, sixth, and seventh wheels. Other than systems that post documents that describe state transitions, REST is all about having an inappropriate coupling
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by terra_t 16y ago
Sure, there was a time he spent a lot of time building OO systems. I don't know how much time he's actually spent building ~distributed~ systems.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I saw a nice example that covered the classic "bank account transfer" case. The answer was that you POST something that's like a deposit slip. Some systems, like the Kuali accounting system, use a document-centric approach to business so
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by terra_t 16y ago
I know who Martin Fowler is. I love his "Refactoring" book. On the other hand, once you get famous, you can go around and get big $ telling people what they want to hear and you can lose your edge. If this is representative of his work t
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by terra_t 16y ago
I find it hard to believe that he's built real systems that work. Yes, "decomposing services into multiple components" works well when everything is living in the same address space, but if you want to build fast and reliable systems, mi
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by terra_t 16y ago
It's just not interesting and informative enough.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Why do we always hear about non-technical cofounders looking for technical co-founders, rather than the other way around? Is this like some singles bar where 80% of the people are male? I for one would like to find a hustler who really kno
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by terra_t 16y ago
I don't see the problem is that there are gaps, it's that it's just too much stuff. The reason it seems spammy to me is that it's a big dump of stuff that isn't well categorized. To really get on top of all that stuff is a huge project,
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by terra_t 16y ago
I'm just astonished at how much blatant link bait is getting voted up on HN these days. It's starting to look like Digg.
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"Don't tell me that you don't have any good ideas"(feedproxy.google.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
Does this guy have a voting ring? Speaking as a physics PhD, this is really on the edge of blogspam.
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Russian LIDAR can detect alcohol fumes in moving vehicles(thetruthaboutcars.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
uhhhh... i can't believe so much blogspam is getting in here

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