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Usability Heuristics Mnemonic: "Map and Fetch"(wcarss.blogspot.com)
3 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments
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7 Up, Dr Pepper, A&W all by same people: Huge Pop Industry Structure Infographic(msu.edu)
2 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
I have a burning question with regards to memristors: I've read that memristor technology can be used both for memory and for processing; does that imply both? If there is just one fabrication process that builds a "memristor chip", and fpg
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by wcarss 16y ago
I have my finger in at least three project pies at once, and can't choose which would be right to follow. Then, school starts in 3 weeks. I have no money, and many expenses. There's so much that I feel I need to learn before I can do anythi
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by wcarss 16y ago
Well, then, is any decent idea really good enough? We tirelessly shoot holes in our plans, and lose motivation, becoming sure of failure. Should we just run with whatever our hands are on at some certain point?
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by wcarss 16y ago
I made this after reading back through AskHN's to try not to overlap something recent. Then I posted it, and just down the newest list, saw "Ask HN: What stops YOU from starting today?", at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613709 I'm
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Ask HN: Founders, how did you manage to actually get to work?
2 points by wcarss 16y ago|6 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
I've re-read my article several times now, because your comment (particularly its score) has made it clear that I must improve. For that, though, I need more feedback. Do you mean that the logic isn't good, that the language isn't good, or
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The Next Big Thing(wcarss.blogspot.com)
15 points by wcarss 16y ago|7 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
Are the people you're referring to computer science people, or professionals in a different capacity? And do they face manageable debt (10-30k) or a larger (50-150k) sum?
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by wcarss 16y ago
Thanks for the high volume of info - this is exactly the kind of data I was hoping to see. The thread seems split between "<4 years" and "7-10 years", or close to. I am curious whether it's primarily lifestyle choices, income mismatches
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Ask HN: How long did it take you to pay off your student loans?
31 points by wcarss 16y ago|71 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/index.jsp I posted this as a comment on that page, but it's worth showing here too. It's an interactive map of population on earth as a heatmap - basically both of those graphs mashed together, at very
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by wcarss 16y ago
"throw someone off the internet? - is that some surreal metaphysical joke by the Irish, British and French governments" Good read - this would make for some excellent comedy.
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Knowledge Mountaineering(wcarss.ath.cx)
3 points by wcarss 16y ago|0 comments
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by wcarss 16y ago
aha! I interpreted "the second TIAM object" as "the new TIAM object", as opposed to the second of the original objects. Thank you for the clarification :)
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by wcarss 16y ago
just to note, someone else saw this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1597512 not for the purpose of "you shouldn't have posted", but for the purpose of "there is >1 user affected"
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by wcarss 16y ago
I suppose that's an apt generalization. As I understand the dip, it is figuring when a difficulty is conquerable and not going to kill you, then conquering it. If it's not conquerable, then it is more than the dip. This is related closely f
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by wcarss 16y ago
I think your best bet would be to find the intersection of two sets: people who will be excited about what you are making, and people that have well-read blogs or write for good tech outlets. Contact them and, using your best skill of engag
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by wcarss 16y ago
How many false starts did they have? A musician in a successful band might've tried several band combos before finding one that 'hit it big', and many entrepreneurs (I suspect) try a lot of ideas or founding groups before finding one that t
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by wcarss 16y ago
Heh, I've never run into or even thought of this - it seems like a very rare and very hard problem to solve. It's almost a semantic problem of language and meanings as opposed to a technical one -- I guess the solution would be to find some
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by wcarss 16y ago
This is patently false. Duck typing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing Type inference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference Type inference relies upon known, preset interfaces and inheritance from other types. Duck typing
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by wcarss 16y ago
Just to throw in more opinion - I have rarely heard The Art of Programming referred to as a book that should be read. It's a book to have around when you need to solve a problem, but for your sanity, don't sit down and try to read any of th
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by wcarss 16y ago
This is entirely fair -- my intended point is that C# is /not/ yet concise for operations that are sugar-sweet in Ruby, and that's why I don't love to use it.
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by wcarss 16y ago
Your claim that F# or even C# are as concise as a dynamically typed language is the crux of your argument, and is the weakest part of your post. I haven't worked with F#, but I have read a share of C# code. A non-trivial program is likely t
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by wcarss 16y ago
Are you sure? When I think on this, let's say TIAM-A is [1, {a}], and you add [0, {}] that's [card({a})+card({}), ({a}U{})>>1], or [1,{b}] so that can't be the neutral element. I think that there must not be an identity element, bec
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by wcarss 16y ago
The article is dated, but made a good read. Miller's thesis seems to be that the consumer and the gamer are en route to extinction, while the puritan and the luddite shall endure. A key trend that supports his claim is the drastically lower
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by wcarss 16y ago
I am bothered that Rob Pike's name can't carry its own weight, and instead he is referred to just as a "Google Executive". People wouldn't be super surprised to find out one of the members of the UNIX team, a designer of Plan 9 and the auth
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by wcarss 16y ago
the fear for us isn't so much that we have existing plans they'd be overlapping, it's that a year or two from now we could come up with a vaguely similar concept, can't get in touch with them to get their express consent, and then we actual
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by wcarss 16y ago
clickable: http://bit.ly/cwFQZ1

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