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Time-Weighted and Money-Weighted Rate of Return for Dummies and Experts Alike(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
3 points by thebear 11y ago|1 comments
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The Brick Wall of C++ Source Code Transformation(scottmeyers.blogspot.com)
3 points by thebear 11y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 11y ago
At the risk of misusing and abusing the term, I find the author's point of view aspergerish: lack of social or emotional reciprocity. He finds it natural that there are things that are interesting and worth reading to him, but not to o
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by thebear 11y ago
I find the statement "Those predictions are optimized so that, for any point in the data set, the model’s error multiplied by itself (squared) is minimized" misleading. What's being minimized is the sum of the squares of th
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by thebear 11y ago
Thanks for the link to your personal favorite. Reminds me of something Woody Allen said in "Annie Hall": There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, t
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by thebear 11y ago
Nice!
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by thebear 11y ago
About Jack Kerouac's and Gary Snyder's climb of Matterhorn Peak, I wrote this in my trip account (see link in my original comment): "No other book has shaped my youth—and much of my adulthood, for that matter—as much as Jack
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by thebear 11y ago
So far, I have done two mountain climbs in the footsteps of literary figures: Nabokov on Lone Peak in the Wasatch, and Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder on Matterhorn Peak in the Sierra Nevada. http://thbecker.net/hiking/in_
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by thebear 11y ago
We should take this opportunity to mention that al-Khwārizmī’s name is the origin of the word "algorithm." So the one word that we probably use more than any other in our field derives from the name of a man who was born in what&#
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Why did Jupiter and Venus appear the way they did in their recent conjunction?(dearworldnews.com)
1 points by thebear 11y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 12y ago
I looked at the first math question: http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/figures/sample_num1.asp First off, the statement describing the graph ("The following graph shows the number of births in the United
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by thebear 12y ago
Case in point: Of the ten most dangerous cities in California, seven are small towns such as Nevada City (pop. ~3,000). The other three are Emeryville, Stockton, and Oakland. http://www.telegraphtoday.com/10-most-dangerous-c
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by thebear 12y ago
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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by thebear 12y ago
OP here. Good point. I was thinking of the recurring "Is Java dead?" kind of post.
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Can you save yourself a lot of time on HN by applying Betteridge's Law?
43 points by thebear 12y ago|5 comments
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by thebear 12y ago
One additional small detail about the recognition that Jackson C. Frank received: he became widely known among fans of folk and acoustic music throughout Europe when his signature song "Blues Run the Game" was included in the 1975
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by thebear 12y ago
The article keeps harping on the claim that humans cannot distinguish between 16 bit/44.1kHz and higher resolution. But the data from the author's experiment suggests the opposite: a good majority of his subjects were able to dist
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Electronic Book Readers vs. Paper and Ink(thbecker.net)
3 points by thebear 12y ago|0 comments
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Measuring Investment Performance: “Time-Weighted” vs. “Money-Weighted”(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
1 points by thebear 12y ago|0 comments
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by thebear 12y ago
I obtained the trademark for my company name in 2013, and the total cost was $275. I did it all online and without a lawyer.
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by thebear 12y ago
In my experience, successful people tend to be nice to those who can be of use to them and ruthless towards those with whom they compete. It seems to me that startup founders would almost always perceive Mr. Graham as someone who can be use
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by thebear 12y ago
Thanks, I checked the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck . It says in the first paragraph: 'He consistently spelt his first name "Alexander" rather than the French &
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by thebear 12y ago
I believe that Grothendieck always insisted on spelling his first name "Alexander" rather than the French "Alexandre." If this is true, as I believe it is, let's make an effort to respect his wish.
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by thebear 12y ago
I like the author's pragmatic approach to evaluating C++ as a programming tool. The question is not, as it is so often posed, "Is C++ too complicated?" (What does that even mean? Too complicated for what?) The question is, &q
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by thebear 12y ago
I hope that this is just a reporter getting carried away with his subject, and not an indication of what our civilization has come to: [...] When Despicable Me 2 came out in theaters last year, Facebook worked up a partnership that let use
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by thebear 12y ago
As Paul Graham points out, it is absurd to think that he or anybody at his firm would be swayed by someone's physical resemblance to Mark Zuckerberg. However, I have the sinking feeling that in this respect, Mr. Graham and his partners
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by thebear 12y ago
I think it was Dave Abrahams who first brought up the issue of destructors with side effects and their implications for move semantics. For example, a destructor may have the side effect of releasing a lock. If I remember correctly, Dave&#x
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by thebear 12y ago
I liked Woody Allen's answer to the question why he was still working in his late seventies: You know in a mental institution they sometimes give a person some clay or some basket weaving? It’s the therapy of moviemaking that has been
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by thebear 12y ago
Thanks, I have updated the blog post accordingly. There is a conspicuous note at the top now saying the problem will be fixed in version 38. I think the blog post still makes sense, as it will be a while for the fix to become effective for
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A Google Chrome 37 Canvas Bug That Affects Certain Flot Charts(blog.greaterthanzero.com)
28 points by thebear 12y ago|10 comments

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