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by wisty 13y ago
> They infer your language from your IP address, and for most cases that IS the right thing to do. If IP and accept-language don't match, why not make a prominent button (in the language they didn't pick) to allow you to quickl
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by wisty 13y ago
You can speed read some things because they are highly redundant and mostly puffery. You can't speed-read an article which cares more about a clear and concise argument than padding itself with lots of fluff. Of course, you're mor
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by wisty 13y ago
Cheaper servers = companies buy more servers = more Windows Server / MSSQL / sharepoint licenses.
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by wisty 13y ago
From your article: > “Rather than speak openly with creditors about mounting debt and shrinking revenue, the defendants began deliberately manipulating the firm’s financial statements,” said Richard Frankel, who heads the FBI’s criminal
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by wisty 13y ago
> "Of course, there is also the chance "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a pseudonym, but that raises the question why someone who wishes to remain anonymous would choose such a distinctive name." Satoshi is the main character fr
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by wisty 13y ago
There's evidence for note taking, as I previously said. The main difference may have been that you had a good grounding in the subject, so taking basic notes would have been a waste of time. As for learning styles being discredited ...
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by wisty 13y ago
> Some people's learning styles might make that less of a problem (i.e. so-called auditory learners might be able to internalize what's being said nearly at the speed it's spoken), but for those of us who need to translate
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by wisty 13y ago
See Feynman's rant on textbooks - http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm which is still valid. Maybe not the corruption angle so much; but special interests. Now every book is designed to not offend the politically
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by wisty 13y ago
> Except that once you hit even basic algebra, you quickly run out of applications a young student can relate to. Algebra is problem solving. You have a formula describing the problem, and want to re-arrange it to find one of the variabl
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by wisty 13y ago
Films are sort of a natural monopoly. The winners will have huge budgets thus "better" films. Instead, indies compete for a niche. Niche customers (at least, the ones you want) aren't bargain hunters, but people who pay for
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by wisty 13y ago
Or you can do this: config = { "version": "1.0", "comment": "JSON has comments too!" }
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by wisty 13y ago
They claim to be a miner. If I made (say) 1m, then lost 250k of it (due to risks which I was aware of when I started playing the game), I'd still be pretty happy. I think they are just chalking it up to a cost of doing business. If the
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by wisty 13y ago
What if more VC money goes into niche social apps designed steal FB users?
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by wisty 13y ago
AJAX was flavour of the month in 2004. JSON has been flavour of the month since ~2006. While that makes it about 10 years younger than Postgres and MySQL, it's still not a flash in the pan.
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by wisty 13y ago
If potential customers tell you there's an issue with your approach, that's extremely valuable too.
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by wisty 13y ago
The author is a very good writer, but they don't actually say why they dropped out of YC. At best, they say "I'm glad I dropped out, because it wasn't much fun". (Yeah, they say that's the reason, but I believe
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by wisty 13y ago
There was a porn version called "Pirates", but porn versions are satire, not mockbusters. And yes, there were a few confused purchases, but it was much higher budget than most mockbuster. I think there actually mockbuster versions
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by wisty 13y ago
These good engineers who are worth their weight in gold spend a lot of hours jumping through hoops to get Matlab to run in an acceptable time frame. And it makes it hard for anyone to figure out what they've done (with weird index tric
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by wisty 13y ago
There's been a study in which role players consistently voted to keep a drug that was killing people on the market, to prop up the company's bottom line: http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article
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by wisty 13y ago
If you start with s-exprs, and then gradually (and thoughtfully) and syntactic sugar, there shouldn't be too much harm.
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by wisty 13y ago
Yes, as long as you don't copy anything that Disney added to it, or infringe on any of Disney's trademarks. There's actually companies who create "Mockbusters" - movies with similar titles to the latest hits, to con
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by wisty 13y ago
So what does a CEO do? They have to make capital allocation decisions, based on the direction the market is taking. An MBA might be able to tell whether China or India needs more marketing dollars, but they won't know whether it's
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by wisty 13y ago
Funny. But it's so old my printout is now illegible due to coffee stains.
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by wisty 13y ago
The Segway was more like a laptop than a phone. It's big. It's bulky. It's expensive. Taking a PC to a pub, so you could tweet is dorky. Taking a phone or glass to a pub to tweet is dorky, but you can pretend it's just a
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by wisty 13y ago
> Whether it's Google Glass or something else, "invasive" wearable tech will be utterly pedestrian in a decade or two. You can wear an iPhone. When's the last time you saw someone photographing their food in a restaur
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by wisty 13y ago
It's still quite unlikely. You could look at the reasoning behind ZFS and git using SHA-256 hashes to de-dupe data. With 256 bits in the sample space, you it takes an unimaginable amount of effort to find any collisions (unless the has
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by wisty 13y ago
When experts give advice, they often forget how little most people know. Contradictory advice probably means they know which cases it applies in, and it should be obvious if you know what you are doing. Ultimately, most of the advice will b
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by wisty 13y ago
> Let's assume instead that it's 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, 10 tails, 10 heads, and 6 tails. The probability of that coming up is exactly the same as 76 heads. How much would you like to bet that this has
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by wisty 13y ago
Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontransitive_dice Warren Buffet had a collection of non-transitive dice (dice with non-standard numbers, with special properties ... basically a paper-scissors-rock set of dice).
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by wisty 13y ago
So, very dark grey pits might be more likely?

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