CatDancer

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by CatDancer 17y ago
One option: use your entrepreneurship and management training to figure out the answer to this question: what could someone with your skillset, who didn't need to otherwise work to support themselves, and was willing to devote 100% of their
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by CatDancer 17y ago
In his book The Millionaire Course, Marc Allen writes that "Your business goes through the same three stages that all living things go through: infancy, adolescence, and maturity". "When your business is in its infancy, have you to care for
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Very interesting! Would you use this for backtracking?
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by CatDancer 17y ago
I didn't quite follow, perhaps an example to help me? Is there a specific place where the code would become shorter?
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by CatDancer 17y ago
http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9219
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Thank you. I rewrote that paragraph.
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by CatDancer 17y ago
OK, I have a HN etiquette question. I don't post much on HN, and I wasn't the one who posted the link to my thank-you here on HN. I've had a HN account for a while, but I'm still pretty much a newbie to HN. I have a desire to not just sta
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by CatDancer 17y ago
[You came to the wrong Lisp then, as Arc has no libraries compared to all the mainstream lisp dialects] I'm not saying that Arc has better libraries than other Lisps, I'm saying that for me the advantages of Arc outweigh for me the disadv
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Your article doesn't list any of the library features that tipped the scale in favor of Arc. The features of Arc are well described in the Arc tutorial, http://ycombinator.com/arc/tut.txt would you recommend that I include a link to th
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Can you give me an example of a snide remark that could be rewritten? (I appreciate your suggestion to say that I wish another Lisp dialect was more like Arc, but I'm not sure how I'd choose one since I don't really have a favorite aside fr
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by CatDancer 17y ago
For me it's a cost/benefit analysis. Programming in MzScheme or Arc has a cost to me in that the libraries I typically use for my projects are mostly available in other languages, so they are harder to get to. I may decide to program in a
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Hmm, I don't know if I'm going to be able to explain it very well without an example. My general experience was that I'd start with syntax-rules, which would turn out to not be powerful enough for the particular macro I wanted to write, so
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by CatDancer 17y ago
I apologize, it was not my intent to bash Java.
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by CatDancer 17y ago
I have achieved hacking nirvana through Arc because I like Arc more than I like Scheme or Common Lisp.
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Sounds like your catch-22 is that you'd be willing to put in the programming if you knew it would pay off, but you're reluctant to put in the programming if it's not going to pay off. So how about doing an experiment. The purpose of the ex
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by CatDancer 17y ago
I recommend taking a look at a book called The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn. ( http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Liberation-Handbook-School-Edu... ) The assumption of scho
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by CatDancer 17y ago
What would make it worth it to you? I.e., is there some $/month revenue where you'd say, "yup, I wouldn't mind putting in the work if I were getting that"?
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by CatDancer 17y ago
Interestingly, IMVU had the same issue: many of their target customers didn't have a credit card, and apparently they were able to get mobile phone payment to work for them [www.stanford.edu/class/e140/e140a/handouts/IMVU_Case_Draft.pdf] Bu
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by CatDancer 17y ago
200 players at $5/month is $12,000 a year. "it was always our intent to make an experience accessible to anyone interested in politics and strategy gaming, the game is still free" If there is anyone who, seriously, can't afford $5, nothing
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Detecting life on other planets by measuring molecular chirality(eurekalert.org)
16 points by CatDancer 17y ago|5 comments
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by CatDancer 17y ago
It's OK to bail. Now, naturally you may decide not to bail after due reflection, advice, and discussion. And that's OK too. But as long as you're deciding not to stop because of your previous promises, you're going to be trapped. And, like
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by CatDancer 17y ago
That would probably be a good thing to do an A/B test on. Everyone has an opinion (like me: "hey, I like the dollar sign! It's simple, clear, I recognize it instantly, and I hate web sites where when I want to give them money I have to
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Let me ask the question this way: if you have a bug fix or new feature ready to go that would be helpful to your paying customers, why would you delay releasing it?
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Ah yes, I was thinking this morning that the article's interpretation of the study results was leaving out this selection effect. The study, by itself, doesn't tell us whether hiring low digit ratio traders would be more profitable for a fi
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by CatDancer 18y ago
No, I don't want the spreadsheet to "infer" my desire or for it to change my formulas when I enter data. The formula should describe the calculation I want performed and it should continue to work even when I enter new data. For example, i
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I see I wasn't very clear about the point of my rant... I apologize to everyone who has taken the time to thoughtfully offer me solutions of how to get Excel to do this, but I know about that. I should have explained that I know about gett
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Tables as independent objects on the page does sound like what I'm getting at. Of course I'd need to see it to see if they're doing it the way I want ^__^
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Do a field: sum(C2:C11) I.e. leave a blank row at the bottom of my table, and have the sum include that blank row? I actually know about that trick (thanks :)... what I want is a spreadsheet that does what I want without my tricking it.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
I don't have a Mac so I don't have a way to tell if iWork does what I want or not, but note that simply being able to name a range doesn't do it.
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by CatDancer 18y ago
Would that sum the entire column in the spreadsheet? But what if I wanted to have a couple tables on a page (which I often do), or my sum below the numbers?

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