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by yagibear 18y ago
It's just a provisional application so far => not so quick.
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by yagibear 18y ago
How is Father's Day any more relevant to Hackers than it is to the rest of society? If no more relevant (as I suspect), then reminders such as this seem off-topic for HN.
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by yagibear 18y ago
"sicp of networking" is a bit over the top. IMHO it gives undue emphasis to Varghese's research interest in packet classifiers, and is filled with typos.
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by yagibear 18y ago
Too amazing to be biographical; so classified as fiction http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v3=1&DB=loc...
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by yagibear 18y ago
I saw a reasonable TV documentary on this topic some time ago entitled "Survivors Guide to Plane Crashes", which is briefly summarised at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5402342.stm One of the more interesting aspects IMHO was
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by yagibear 18y ago
It depends on which market you are trying to attract: Deliberate errors would only encourage readers who aren't already motivated to find errors. More advanced readers would already be on the lookout for "errors" in case the author has ma
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by yagibear 18y ago
I used to sponsor 3M by keeping a pile of PostIt notes beside me when reading, but paperclips are just as good once you recognise that the smaller inner part of the clip can indicate which side of the page you are marking.
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by yagibear 19y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123879 from 53 days ago
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TED: Yochai Benkler on open-source economics(blog.ted.com)
3 points by yagibear 19y ago|0 comments
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Malwarez: visualization of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code(sq.ro)
1 points by yagibear 19y ago|0 comments
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Why Things Cost $19.95(sciam.com)
55 points by yagibear 19y ago|16 comments
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Joseph Weizenbaum, Famed Programmer, Is Dead at 85(nytimes.com)
2 points by yagibear 19y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 19y ago
Yes, yagibear at gmail dot con
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by yagibear 19y ago
The paragraph at the end of the notes is possibly the most relevant to startups: "After a talk at Harvard, I told them to work for who they admired the most, so they all become self-employed . It’s important to go to work for someone or so
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by yagibear 19y ago
Thanks for the link; I've always been an Asimov fan. The short story format is fine for entertainment, but takes a while to get to the point: Tapes are actually bad. They teach too much; they’re too painless. A man who learns that way doe
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by yagibear 19y ago
Universities seem to be struggling to cope with the depth of knowledge that has accumulated. It is empowering to "know how those things work" from first principles, but as time progresses, the volume of such knowledge grows towards and bey
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by yagibear 19y ago
Link to http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc in the submit page & beside the "add comment" button, as is done with "help" on the profile page. This is claimed in the "Formatting fixes" entry in http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html
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What start-ups can learn from terrorists(anthillonline.com)
1 points by yagibear 19y ago|0 comments
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by yagibear 19y ago
This article focuses on the receptor side (company employing for a trial) and glosses over the donor side (organisation that loses/offers the person for trial). Universities aren't affected by students taking internships over summer breaks
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by yagibear 19y ago
A better link is http://www.vinvesting.com/docs/munger/ which provides his full "Art of Stock Picking" speech in which he gives his opinion on mental models, as well as the UCSB speech & another.
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Humans Evolving More Rapidly Than Ever, Say Scientists(blog.wired.com)
2 points by yagibear 19y ago|0 comments
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How to be productive during boring meetings?
4 points by yagibear 19y ago|14 comments
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The Economic Naturalist(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by yagibear 19y ago|1 comments
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by yagibear 19y ago
I'm intrigued that the stated IQs seem above-average (100): "In the study, Norwegian epidemiologists analyzed ... military records. ... the researchers found that eldest children scored an average of 103.2, about 3 percent higher than seco
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by yagibear 19y ago
Any tips on finding a NON-technical co-founder?
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by yagibear 19y ago
A related issue is timescales: Negotiators may sacrifice a reduced commission through reduced sale price if it means expediting the process and allowing them to get onto other deals. Founders don't have the same rate of turnover and so hav
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Sources of sample business plans?
1 points by yagibear 19y ago|2 comments
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by yagibear 19y ago
And workarounds have been suggested a few times: http://nycs.bigheadlabs.com/ http://ycsearch.com/
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by yagibear 19y ago
Phil Emma of IBM has written in recent issues of IEEE Micro a useful (IMHO) series of 2 page articles about patenting. No-nonsense tips from someone with over 100 IT patents.