13ren

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by 13ren 18y ago
> I think you need to be aware that not everyone who disagrees with you or fails to kiss your ass is trolling. ? EDIT I can't believe I've gotten drawn into this. Your use of loaded terms "bitchiness", "ass", "whining", giving your op
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by 13ren 18y ago
mqt didn't disagree with me, and I didn't say that he did. Those are your thoughts.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I've really got to learn to stop posting anything to HackerNews that in any way can be construed as an admission of weakness or vulnerability. I sensed that was the case here when I was writing, but didn't think it was necessary to hide it.
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by 13ren 18y ago
my shell doesn't have "units": http://www.google.com/search?q=.003+lightseconds+in+miles
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by 13ren 18y ago
There's a famous economics essay about the size of the firm by Ronald Coase (winners of the Nobel prize for economics), in which he discusses why firms (companies, organizations) exist at all (instead of individual contractors), and the fac
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by 13ren 18y ago
FP is the future of programming, and always will be. The argument that many-core will lead to FP adoption used to appeal to me, but then I studied Erlang, and saw that its concurrency power was due to shared-nothing pure-message passing, an
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by 13ren 18y ago
vim can do anything you can imagine, better than you imagined. If only you knew the command... One for me was word completion to match other words in the file (^n, where ^ is control), but based on filenames (^x^f^n).
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by 13ren 18y ago
the minutes: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/hparchives/archiv... By what criterion did they decide if a field looks "good" or not? It matters less what you see than how you see. It looks like market assessment, probably bas
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by 13ren 18y ago
Business model is the question: (1) Trade sale to spreadsheet makers. (2) Sell a plug-in to spreadsheet users. (3) Or... let users lead you to a problem that only you can solve. I don't think it's patentable[1]. It's a cute idea, kind of ob
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sorry, that was a suggestion phrased as a question (i.e. I know what isotopes are). I was suggesting a name that signifies operational properties rather than "the" definition of what it is. If heavy water became commonly available, this wou
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by 13ren 18y ago
Deuterated bonds can be up to 80 times stronger than those containing hydrogen. That seems likely to alter chemical behaviour (as researchers found). I'm not a chemist, but it seems reasonable to consider compounds with such bonds as diff
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by 13ren 18y ago
I have one of these (or had - lost somewhere) and they are fantastic. A real pleasure to use. They fit snugly in hand, and you can drive force into the work. The metal itself somehow feels soft. There's even an integrated component for remo
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by 13ren 18y ago
It wasn't planned, and so not anticipated by users, so therefore no community effect. I think the concept is a little like a departmental morning tea.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Just curious, what are some IT founder or comeback stories that you do find stirring/inspirational? I'm always interested in these.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Google could arrange and track etc the ads quite easily I think. They already have Adwords, and they acquired that huge banner ad company, doubleclick. They also acquired an in-game ad company (which is probably the most similar to this con
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by 13ren 18y ago
So many people knock Jobs, but I find this commencement address really stirring. It's also nice to read a biblical "Job" interpretation into it, for my aspergers-like enjoyment of nominal determinism.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Scout Oath is similar: http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-503a.aspx The "BRAVE" one differs, because the article talks about such confidence and optimism that one doesn't experience fear. Courage requires fear, as the article say
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by 13ren 18y ago
adwords came from overture/goto.com - a separate company. Actually, google stole it, and got their pants sued off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search_Marketing note that "adwords" isn't just the idea of putting ads next to searc
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by 13ren 18y ago
Sounds interesting. Can you elaborate on those results? What sort of things went wrong?
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by 13ren 18y ago
Complex and confusing problems can be tackled by breaking them into modules, with interfaces between. Objects are one way of doing it. Each object wraps up a program. The program's global variables become variables of the object. The progra
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by 13ren 18y ago
St. Germain
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by 13ren 18y ago
"success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" But focusing on the possibility of failure doesn't work as well. One must be fearless, and fail fearlessly; then fail again and again. You get more information
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by 13ren 18y ago
I don't know much about Scouts, but isn't the idea to be useful and effective in serving the community, with an emphasis on initiative, and getting done whatever needs to be done? Isn't that pretty much what a successful entrepreneur does?
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by 13ren 18y ago
The differentiation between inventor and entrepreneur is helpful for me. It's not about technology, but usefulness. Not one brilliant perfect insight, but iteration. Not money, but creation. most entrepreneurs iterate on preexisting ideas
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by 13ren 18y ago
What's your purpose? That is, "better" for what?
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by 13ren 18y ago
Want a decent HTML parser to sanitize HTML documents? Write it by yourself or pay for crappy third-party closed-source component. Sounds like a fantastic platform/market, if you want to write great components and sell them.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure you're right that it's typical paperwork delay - it just doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, this attitude of mine will prevent me from dealing with some large companies (with large cheques). I will think abou
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by 13ren 18y ago
Not new http://zikzak.net/~zik/thesis/thesis.html but not bad.
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by 13ren 18y ago
pg also says that many ycom startups have changed businesses completely as they go along - and for applications, the initial idea isn't really evaluated as itself, but as a measure of your ability to formulate/recognize good ideas.
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by 13ren 18y ago
I have decided to embrace my variations on the idea Yes. It's not the "same" precise idea - maybe, the same concept. And you'll see more as you go along: I find my creativity is very local. I have to be at a new vantage point, to see ne

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