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by weel 19y ago
If you want to learn a functional programming language that comes with a friendly on-line community, try Haskell. The people at the Haskell IRC channel and haskell-cafe mailing list will criticize you if you say something that just isn't ri
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by weel 19y ago
There is some famous example to do with classification of simple finite groups where a big theorem had been proved over the course of many papers by various people over the years, and then when somebody tried to write a big monograph about
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by weel 19y ago
Facebook is not technologically primitive. Unlike some earlier, similar services, it scales. This is no accident, but has to do with clever things like Thrift (go google it). Also, I remember the current CTO of Facebook as being extremely s
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by weel 19y ago
Symbolics was advertising their FLAVORS object oriented system in the mid-80s. And Symbolics was, literally, the first dot-com. http://smbx.org/index.php/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=76
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by weel 19y ago
There is a traditional solution to this, in theory. The theory goes that a newspaper will meticulously edit and fact check, because at some point, they are bound to write about something I happen to know a lot about, and then if they are wr
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by weel 19y ago
Thanks! Now at last I understand the source of the current crop of incomprehensible business names ;-)
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by weel 19y ago
You can podcast in OGG, if you insist.
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by weel 19y ago
Maybe the reason that IT Conversations still sticks everything into a single RSS feed is that they are secretly hoping for somebody else to do the fancy classifying and tagging for them...
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by weel 19y ago
As I understand it, traditional search engines already use the feedback of which links people click on (I think they used to mangle the links in order to be able to track this, but it seems that at least Google has now switched to some Java
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by weel 19y ago
But it will be interesting to see if some of the business practices (very low initial budgets, early releases, &c) common in web startups might translate into other fields. At least one YC startup (sproutsys) appears to be doing pretty seri
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by weel 19y ago
I imagine that hiding the screws is probably great for attracting some segments of customers, but it repels others (namely: me). I don't know if there are many people like me, but one of the reasons why I stopped buying Apple computers and
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by weel 19y ago
You can also consider setting up a single proprietorship or an unlimited partnership for the time being. That's a lot cheaper in Holland, and I imagine also in most European countries. The only big problem is that you cannot borrow money wi
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by weel 19y ago
I submitted this post to news.yc because, even though it is phrased as a feature request to an established company, there is a lesson to be drawn for startups. If Google had made it easier for me to enter metadata in bulk, they would have g
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A Google Video feature request (or: how having a better API could have gotten them more content)(usr-share-morlock.blogspot.com)
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by weel 19y ago
Reddit needs to figure out how to create more subreddits without having to overcome critical mass every single time. I'm sure I'm kicking in an open door here, and I believe I read that they were working on it already, but I haven't seen a
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by weel 19y ago
If you are anywhere in the EU you can probably start a British limited company, even if helpful government officials say you should register with the local overpriced companies registry. In The Netherlands there are several law firms that s
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by weel 19y ago
You say that type mismatch errors are orthogonal to testing. This may be the case in languages like Java, which has a strong but not very expressive type system. In strongly typed functional programming languages like ML and Haskell, though
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by weel 19y ago
OCaml is an object oriented language, yet people who do real work in OCaml (and yes, there are such people, and their work is very real) appear to rarely use the object oriented features at all. The reason seems to be that the combination o
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by weel 19y ago
There is, indeed, no such thing as inherent value, but people nonetheless tend to think in terms of inherent value. This is important to realize when you decide on marketing and pricing schemes. For instance, restaurants are more likely to
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by weel 19y ago
Good old Bastiat... That's definitely fairly remote from "mainstream" economics these days, although there is a lot of sense to the proposition that the works of the classical economists are more practically useful than the abstract modelin
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by weel 19y ago
Computer Science is an unusually accessible field of engineering for self-learners. Purveyors of fine computer systems and programming languages market them by writing oodles of documentation, often free. There is an amazing amount to be le
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Dutch transit data locked up (how the EU database directive can thwart innovation) (usr-share-morlock.blogspot.com)
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by weel 19y ago
I once talked to a TicketMaster recruiter at a job fair. When he realized I was getting a little bored, he told me that besides the positions they were advertising, they also needed somebody who could help them speed up their main database
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by weel 19y ago
The list of browsers you can test on includes MSIE 5.0 and 5.5. Do people target these browsers anymore? How old does a browser have to be before you say: I'm satisfied if the layout is a little off, as long as it's legible?
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by weel 19y ago
You're right about that, but at the same time, this is also exactly the problem. If you aren't going to be able to take up the Luxembourg market without paying particular attention to the cultural and linguistic peculiarities of Luxembourg
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by weel 19y ago
Many European countries have minimum capitalization requirements for limited companies, as well as high transaction costs (you've basically got to pay the notaries' cartel their monopoly rent) and background checks. Holland got rid of an EU
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by weel 19y ago
Metaweb (freebase.com) uses (or rather, is) a database, but not a relational one. Those comments that implicitly identify "database" with "RDBMS" may become outdated sooner than their authors expect.