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Phil Schiller Exploded On Apple's Ad Agency In An Email(businessinsider.com)
2 points by willchang 13y ago|1 comments
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by willchang 13y ago
A non-cheating solution, 79 points. ^((xx?|xxxx)(\2{7})?)(\1{63})?$
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Snapchat snags $50M in series C funding(news.cnet.com)
3 points by willchang 13y ago|0 comments
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by willchang 13y ago
Peanut gallery comment here, on what is a really handsome font. On the S, the angularity at the two ends of the middle stroke seems at odds with the larger radii almost everywhere else. The slant of the stroke stands out in a pleasing way
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How a journalist tried to save Nokia in 2008(hs.fi)
5 points by willchang 13y ago|0 comments
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Hate Speech on Facebook(nytimes.com)
2 points by willchang 13y ago|0 comments
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The Case against Apple(businessweek.com)
2 points by willchang 14y ago|1 comments
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by willchang 14y ago
Agreed that the copy is cloying, but surely you realize that the point is that some people prefer a smaller device? When I showed my wife this link, she immediately requested one for Christmas. This was surprising, as she had never before
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by willchang 14y ago
This statement is essentially a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. No, it's not. A post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is to assert that X causes Y _solely_ because X and Y co-occur. Philip asserts that doing the Ph.D. caused him to be wis
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An example of not getting it(alfidicapitalblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by willchang 15y ago|0 comments
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by willchang 15y ago
> Anyone who paid attention during introductory statistics will recognize that your probability of survival to age t would follow a Poisson distribution, which means exponential decay (and not super-exponential decay). Small correction:
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by willchang 15y ago
This is something of a trope. In Imperial China the death of an emperor was often ascribed to "積勞成疾", which literally translates to "illness from accumulated labor".
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by willchang 16y ago
There are two other possible explanations. (1) Languages that borrow don't just borrow when they "need" to. For example, most languages have perfectly good ways to communicate "okay", but may borrow it nonetheless. But over time the borro
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by willchang 16y ago
I agree. Until someone runs subjects on a bunch of use scenarios, it's hard to say which is better, and I happen to prefer Bing. Conjecturally speaking, one-pixel outlines come at a cost -- if you don't need them, as when the map colors a
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by willchang 16y ago
Point taken. Hackers are nuanced when it comes to their expertise, so nuance is not really the difference between hackers and intellectuals. If pressed I'd say that the hacking trait is biased toward exploiting knowledge, whereas the inte
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by willchang 16y ago
An 'expert' and an 'intellectual' are different things. As a gathering of experts on startup and tech-related topics, HN is unmatched; people are very nice and volunteer lots of information. This is perhaps the upside of "nerdy" that Matt
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by willchang 16y ago
The number of hops for "Adolf Hitler" should be 0, not 1.
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by willchang 16y ago
You can both be right: A fast lifestyle (1) is caused by expecting poverty and (2) causes poverty; but I think that Unseelie's (and the article's) point is the more significant one. In order to fight poverty, you have to give people a reas
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by willchang 16y ago
The headline is technically correct, but quite misleading. The language in question, Ugaritic, was deciphered in 1932. As it was discovered in 1929, it can hardly be said that the decipherment was an arduous process. The significance of
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by willchang 16y ago
> Who gives a crap? I would agree if 'male' and 'female' were arbitrary labels. But they're not. Gender is far less arbitrary than, say, race. It is reasonable to suppose that even a small shift in power between the sexes might affec
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by willchang 16y ago
The Atlantic would not publish such a thing in 2010 because there has been no obvious inflection point in racial trends. Perhaps I miss your point. Do you mind making it explicitly?
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by willchang 16y ago
I was wondering if here or elsewhere you could relate some of the things that these successful, non-college graduates did to become successful. I'm often in the position of giving career advice to undergrads, and some of them major in thin
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by willchang 16y ago
Great technology, underwhelming choice of a font. g's that look like q's are rather distracting.
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by willchang 17y ago
For a thoughtful critique of language used badly, I've always liked Politics and the English Language ( http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/language.htm... ) Most of the points mentioned in the article misidentify the problem or
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by willchang 17y ago
I've always thought this way too. The fact that car mechanics make more than programmers points to the fact that there is actually a dearth of education leading up to being a capable mechanic, and perhaps a surfeit of education leading up
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by willchang 17y ago
Nostalgia is surely as bad a vice as they come, but I can't help be a little nostalgic that marvelous hacks like these no longer have a place in our world. I've heard there are similar such hacks in the world microbiology, overlapping genes
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by willchang 17y ago
There doesn't seem be any fitting involved. I think he just took the speech spectrogram and used it as a piano score. Thus the acoustic output of the piano is not meant to approximate the acoustics of talking. We hear speech nonetheless
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by willchang 17y ago
This is ridiculous. 27 points cries out for analysis. For example, points 1 and 23 are the same; and points 2 and 24 are contradictory. And none of this relates to hacking or gratifies intellectual curiosity. This is worse than religion
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by willchang 17y ago
If literally everyone were stupid in the sense of the essay, society would crumble very quickly. It is doubtful that anyone sophisticated enough to understand such a definition of stupidity would fail to understand this implication. On the
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by willchang 17y ago
Your making the claim that the above implies _nothing_ about her capacity for domain competence is a bit much. I thought it was a near-perfect diagnostic of her incompetence, and I'd be curious if anyone can sketch the profile of a very co

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