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by weel 16y ago
But the other markets are in many cases easier to conquer! The US market has a lot more competition.
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Ask HN: Why are web startups slow to expand abroad?
47 points by weel 16y ago|53 comments
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EconTalk podcast: Duggan on Strategic Intuition(econtalk.org)
1 points by weel 19y ago|0 comments
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EconTalk podcast: Munger on the Nature of the Firm(econtalk.org)
1 points by weel 19y ago|0 comments
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Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: If Markets Are So Great, Why Are There Firms?(econlib.org)
20 points by weel 19y ago|7 comments
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by weel 19y ago
Oh, and in case anyone has things mixed up (I wouldn't expect it in this crowd, but you never know): no, trade deficits and budget deficits are entirely and utterly different things, no matter how often Lou Dobbs mentions them in the same s
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by weel 19y ago
I don't want to spoil the fun too much, but if you are subject to EU law (and don't ask me whether that depends on whether the data is European or on whether you are in Europe; I am not a lawyer) you cannot simply grab data of the net on th
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by weel 19y ago
I agree that computer displays suck for reading. But there is one important, very simple lesson to be learned from this about computer typography: while in print, serif fonts are always easier to read for long stretches of text and sans-ser
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by weel 19y ago
The first time I used vi was in a summer camp while I was in high school. I had accidentally entered "view foo.txt" into a command prompt on a Linux box, and "view" was symlinked to "vi." We couldn't figure out how to fix this, so we asked
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by weel 19y ago
This is an entirely sensible piece. I'm not sure if it is relevant to hacking or to startups, but it is entirely sensible. If A sells to B sells to C sells to A, then they have just created three trade deficits. This is why "the trade defic
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by weel 19y ago
To be entirely honest with y'all, I haven't carefully read all of this article. But I already have my opinion ready! The fact that MapReduce is a step back, in a sense, is true. But it's a step back from a dead-end alleyway, a step away fro
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by weel 19y ago
More generally, somebody should arrange another Lightweight Languages day at MIT no matter what. Or maybe a Lightweight Languages days somewhere else. And wherever "they" organize it, it would be awesome if they could manage to webcast it a
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by weel 19y ago
Jobs does often end up being in the position where he can sell some pretty awesome products, but he's also adept at finding reasons to find things awesome in the first place. If he'd sold OSX by dryly listing its features, you might think "
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by weel 19y ago
The points made are mostly quite sensible, which is why it's funny that the site itself looks a little jumpy...
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by weel 19y ago
The argument about what hiring or training focus is "the best" is a little silly, it seems to me, because different companies so obviously have different requirements. Take Google, as a prototypical high-tech firm, and Getronics, as a proto
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by weel 19y ago
This talk is awesome. (Yes, I'm the same person who thought Danah Boyd's paper was a little wishy-washy. But this talk is awesome, because it has a lot of interesting observations and not nearly as many doubtful conclusions. In the Q&A, she
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Danah Boyd on social networks again, but now in audio(blogs.law.harvard.edu)
1 points by weel 19y ago|2 comments
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by weel 19y ago
"I always try to dress up because of my lower-than-average IQ." I don't really have much to add to that statement, except that I appreciate the man's honesty.
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by weel 19y ago
In particular, you can hide a bounded stack in a State monad, so you could prevent the thing from leaking unbounded memory without any garbage collector magic at all. I guess it would be nice if you could bound the total heap rather than on
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by weel 19y ago
Thanks for the background info! I never studied much sociology; all the social science electives at the college where I took them turned out to be about game theory.
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by weel 19y ago
I understand your point, but mine was that she fluidly goes back and forth between various definitions. I do think that she realizes this, and it is probably inevitable, but it makes it hard for me to wrap my head around exactly what she is
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by weel 19y ago
It is a major problem with reddit, and could possible over time become a problem for news.yc, but it is not necessarily an insurmountable problem. For instance, if you really get a lot of submissions, you could pre-select probably-interesti
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by weel 19y ago
I just posted a comment saying that if, like me, you are skeptical about claims that "Wal-Mart Nation has destroyed many of the opportunities for meaningful working class labor", you should squint a bit and read the article anyway, because
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by weel 19y ago
"as an example, recovering from a failed datacenter that was hosting a petabyte of data over a 10 Gb/sec link will take more than a year" Does it really? What if you load the data onto some physical medium and physically move it from wherev
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by weel 19y ago
"How long before the millions of people who have piled into Facebook stop checking their profiles every day or, for that matter, every week." I think that Mr Evans is underestimating the human appetite for gossip. The reason people like fa
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by weel 19y ago
There's probably some truth to this, but on the other hand, there are some good UI reasons for following conventions. Graphical conventions can make your application easier to use, because people already know them. The world of UI design is
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by weel 19y ago
Whatever you use to automatically determine my location doesn't quite get it right; it thinks that I am in a small town that I vaguely recall as not being that far away from where I now live, so it's not the biggest deal. Also, you may want
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by weel 19y ago
It's on Project Gutenberg, for free.
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by weel 19y ago
Neither finance nor law are of necessity zero sum activities, although both of them may end up dissipating some wealth in some cases. Financial markets are what enables society to direct capital toward its most productive uses, and every ti
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by weel 19y ago
It might be a friendly gesture to suggest a specific paper by Hayek that is to be read. I imagine you must have this one in mind: http://www.econlib.org/Library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

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