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by foonamefoo 18y ago
So the buyer donates to his friend, and his friend donates to him, and effectively no one ends up paying the computer tax.
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by foonamefoo 18y ago
Doesn't that completely validate the way in which I used Chomsky? I wasn't being negative.
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by foonamefoo 18y ago
your humor detection may be broken.
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by foonamefoo 18y ago
That wouldn't matter since we are talking about python, not assembly or C.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
It is impossible to know what is outside of our lightcone.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
The laughter is coming from the size implied by "cedar plank".
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
I would say that you have much more creative freedom as a tenured professor (if getting to that point hasn't completely destroyed your spirit) than as a startup founder. Look at some of the stuff Noam Chomsky has been able to devote almost
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
You also just described the major problem with the government artificially allowing such a thing as a limited liability (I'm talking about legal, not debt) corporation.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
As the slit gets smaller the percentage of photons that are bouncing off of the walls of the slit as compared to the percentage that goes through directly raises.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
I find this interesting because I actually had a friend who worked the night shift there one summer in college (around 4 years ago). He was paid hourly.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
I don't see all the mystery: people no longer beat their kids to the extent that they did 60 years ago. Maybe if they made the request as part of a game instead of as an order from an adult there would be more validity (but you can't go ba
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
gnome-open for gnome users
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Oh I don't know, maybe abstain from having an SEO category right on the front page?
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Since the stake in Facebook was sold as part of a conditional advertising agreement, it shouldn't count as a "closing price".
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
>First, the [...] It has reversed before, why does it seem unlikely now?
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Yawn yawn yawn yawn yawn.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
He was talking about things like the YC summer/winter application forms, not the moderation system.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Lew Rockwell did a lot more to kill attention seeing as he was outed as the ghost-author of the [person we aren't allowed to talk about here]'s controversial newsletters.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Is this Hacker News or Valley Wag?
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
I actually read "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" a while back and all I could think the whole time was "binary search, binary search, huffman tree, something other than linear search please god".
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The Female Eric Schmidt(pbs.org)
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
it is a shame that find . -name "*{js,py,rb,php,html}" | xargs wc -l I guess {} globbing is bash specific?
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
That's where the kidding part came in.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
His performance helping a grade school kid with his population project ? I kid, I kid.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
vote in stupid polls
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
In the very limited field of dinky web calendars and todo lists, maybe, but not in the startup world in general.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
if !(your comment was code): print "that was a complaint" print "by the way this is the new way we apparently have to talk around here"
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Running a myspace/facebook "list of facts/preferences" style profile on your own webserver, that is spidered by someone like Google, and becomes queryable in the same manner as it is on those sites. You could even have a cryptographically
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
If FreeBSD would support Xen I'm sure they would be happy to oblige.
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by foonamefoo 19y ago
Then lets say you packaged that up as a library. Another guy did the same thing, but it worked a little different. Now random code breaks.

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