8ren

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by 8ren 16y ago
I didn't see any ads, probably because of adblock. And given the nature of its conceit, I didn't expect an attribution. I just came across it and thought HN would appreciate it.
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by 8ren 16y ago
vapor, where?
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by 8ren 16y ago
aside: has anyone read a good discussion of Codd's original relational paper? http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98.... Thanks! I'm confused by his five example for "1.2.3. Access Path Dependence" (page.378), where a
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by 8ren 16y ago
No, just referencing a well-known event; but it seems you're right that he's not teaching that course any more http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531490 However, he did say that starting off with python makes an undergraduate’s initial
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by 8ren 16y ago
I don't know if business people do a lot of scripting (if any) in spreadsheets, because it side-steps the ease-of-use GUI of spreadsheet in favour of a programmer's UI...
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by 8ren 16y ago
Is it really true that business people use R directly? Being in Forbes is consistent with it... I recall that SQL was intended to be used by business people... and it probably has been, sometimes; but I don't think it happens much. The days
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by 8ren 16y ago
Language you think in is constraining... unless your language is the best that could ever exist. Of course, if you can only think in it, you couldn't imagine anything better. Mathematical notation might be a better language to think in th
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by 8ren 16y ago
And Sussman switched to python. Religious wars are for followers, not Creators.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I've started trying to narrow the scope of features required for launch, where the minimum set of features is not with respect to the full set I want, nor with what customers might need, nor what will differentiate me from competitors - but
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by 8ren 16y ago
That link suggests "the beginning of the end" is from Shakespeare - do you know which work? I only know it from Churchill, and assumed it was his.
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by 8ren 16y ago
9. prozvonit is to prank , in slang I've heard & used here in Australia. bonus: tingo - "to borrow things from a friend's house, one by one, until there is nothing left" in Pascuense language of Easter Island http://en.wikipedia.o
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by 8ren 16y ago
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! faux-Goethe http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm
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"What are the best Steve Jobs quotations?"(quora.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
I think he covers this in his last paragraph: If you are betting on emerging trends it is better to keep your burn low and runway long.
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by 8ren 16y ago
Yes, the harder I work, the luckier I get. I think of a startup as a game with a 1-in-10 chance - but you can play as often as you like. The odds of failing n times in a row is .9^n - so the odds improve fast . And of course hopefull
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by 8ren 16y ago
We currently have two Zones in Manchester, UK - we plan to launch additional regions in separate geographical locations throughout Europe and the US in due course. http://beta.brightbox.com/beta#faqs
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by 8ren 16y ago
The Innovator's Dilemma is full of inspirational stories of markets discovered retrospectively. An example off the top of my head is honda motorcycles being used as off-road recreational vehicles - this market was discovered by a sales re
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by 8ren 16y ago
I like the idea of Zones on different continents. Not only can this provide faster responses for each continent, but it also enables peak times in one time-zone to be supplemented by resources in off-peak time-zones. Though I guess the latt
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by 8ren 16y ago
IMHO the difficult part is seeing the commonality of those edge cases. That requires firstly knowing about the edge cases, and secondly seeing the problem (the commonality of those cases). The final step is a solution, which is where the ma
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by 8ren 16y ago
Text-only version of cache (Full version also isn't loading) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:16XHnrP...
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by 8ren 16y ago
It is by logic we prove, it is by intuition that we invent. - Henri Poincaré
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by 8ren 16y ago
That makes sense, but people really like to see a future before investing (money or sweat).
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by 8ren 16y ago
Sun's revenue came from workstations, which got disrupted by PCs. Everything else drove that.
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by 8ren 16y ago
Still worth reading the book. The crucial point isn't that it's a technology disruption, but a business disruption, in the sense that (1) customers of the new technology have different needs (or ranking of needs); (2) vendors of the new t
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by 8ren 16y ago
OK... I'll just note that that's not a specific criticism of CatB.
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by 8ren 16y ago
I found CatB extremely useful. I've heard a lot of hate for esr's work, and I'm curious about it. Perhaps it's just backlash, from his previous very high popularity. So, could you elaborate with specific criticisms of CatB?
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Can you afford reusable code?(allankelly.blogspot.com)
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by 8ren 16y ago
Great article! Some asides on MVP, inspired by this line: [Marketing is] everything- product, price, placement, and promotion. Start thinking about these things before you launch, learn from them, and iterate quickly before wasting a lot o
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by 8ren 16y ago
Oracle owns Java. They will attempt to turn it into a profit center. The Google suit is one example. Another way is to make their database/s and products perform better, by integrating them more tightly with Oracle's version of Java (which
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by 8ren 16y ago
Not exactly: many languages are open; my focus was on the ease/speed tradeoff. Haskell and the ml family only have ease-of-use for people who think higher order predicate calculi have ease-of-use - some of whom will vigorously argue that e

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