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by nikete 14y ago
"using a small, elegant language called perl" - The Economist.
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by nikete 14y ago
The mean YC startup about a year ago [1] $22.4 million, let us assume 3 founds on average and 3 years of work, and that they hold 1/3 of the value, and you get an average return well north of 500k a year per founder. [1] http://ycombinator.
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by nikete 15y ago
The global currency post market turnover is ~1.4 trillion according to the BIS, note this includes many currency pairs that dont involve USD; a trillon a day is an upper bound on the daily USD market. China effectively traded around 0.2 tri
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Whose Tweets matter most? A startup measuring influence.(technologyreview.com)
2 points by nikete 16y ago|1 comments
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by nikete 16y ago
It is worth to point out that one is a stock (debt) and one is a flow (GDP), and the right way of comparing them would be by taking the net present value of the flow, or comparing the cost of servicing the debt per year to GDP (so debt serv
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by nikete 16y ago
Velupillai's book is awesome. An exercise of his that I love is looking at how much of general equilibrium theory one can prove using only constructive math. A nice blog on a similar vein seems to have been started recentely on http://aiec
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by nikete 17y ago
Argh. Got a premium subscription just so I could use this, installed it on an ipod touch, and it crashes as soon as I open it (no user input, just opening the app makes it crash).
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by nikete 18y ago
So thats your objective function.
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by nikete 18y ago
94k hits, seems to be about what any 3 random words will bring up, for example: http://www.google.com/search?q=kangaroo+fries+blue
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by nikete 18y ago
"It's enough of a phenomenon that there are bloggers who've blogged about laptop etiquette." This is a joke, right?
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by nikete 18y ago
I am not sure the slashdot author understand the paper he read, he says:"the best often rise to the top, the very worst rarely do," yet the paper says: "In general, the 'best' songs never do very badly, and the 'worst' songs never do extrem
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by nikete 18y ago
You tell reporters stuff about yourself off the record? Because that, not off the record generally which Dan spends a whole paragraph defending, is the relevant bit.
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by nikete 18y ago
The book (Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference) to which this is the epilogue is excellent, I cant recommend it strongly enough.
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by nikete 19y ago
You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack! http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...
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by nikete 19y ago
Are you for real with the "unlimited" part of the pro accounts? I.e. I will definitely get one if I am allowed to interact with my account programatically (ie I am free to write a script to add urls to monitor I?) this is functionally I hav
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Ask YC:your opml files, please.
1 points by nikete 19y ago|1 comments