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by teisman 7y ago
In the Netherlands, there's a difference between universities (which are a form of scientific education, and often set you up for an MSc), and what they call "universities of applied science" (which are more practical in natu
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by teisman 8y ago
But if you apply statistics, you will see that the open rates only differ significantly 5% of the time, if you use a 95% confidence interval.
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by teisman 9y ago
For my website, normally I'd be in favor of allowing users to create multiple accounts with variations of email addresses (e.g. foo@example.com, foo+bar@example.com, f.oo@example.com). I sometimes create multiple accounts like that mys
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Ask HN: What companies are doing “Software on Linux” right?
1 points by teisman 9y ago|0 comments
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by teisman 9y ago
I use Linux, despite the absence of these essential tools. In my ideal world software vendors would start supporting Linux, and this is why I created SoftwareOnLinux.com - to create pressure groups and give vendors insights in the demand fo
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Show HN: SoftwareOnLinux.com(softwareonlinux.com)
3 points by teisman 9y ago|0 comments
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by teisman 10y ago
I found this on namecoin: https://bit.namecoin.info/ Looks interesting.
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by teisman 10y ago
Thinking about GNS and the Sci-Hub issues got me wondering. Isn't there an interesting application for blockchain technology as a DNS "ledger"? Is this a feasible application? Do there already exist projects that do this?
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by teisman 11y ago
> Whether this price is appropriate depends on your confidence in the forecasts and their respective probabilities. Did I miss something or did the authors not mention a discount rate, or Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)? Unless I
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by teisman 11y ago
> ... it's only interesting to such companies in the public markets where you can act on your beliefs by going short. I disagree. As Keynes stated, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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X marks the spot(markshuttleworth.com)
1 points by teisman 11y ago|0 comments
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by teisman 11y ago
Armin isn't the author of requests; that's Kenneth Reitz.
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by teisman 11y ago
It is interesting how this blog-post directly follows the "The Post-YC Slump" post [0]. One can easily make the mistake of considering time spent on financial statements "fake work", fake work being identified as one of
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by teisman 11y ago
Same. And I'm still surprised to see how often this is the case.
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by teisman 11y ago
Could it be that it is slow because localStorage is updated on every keypress?
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by teisman 12y ago
I share your skepticism, but there's one thing you might be overlooking. Canals can act as a buffer in case of heavy rainfall. This requires the canals not to be connected to open water. In anticipation of heavy rainfall you would pump
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by teisman 12y ago
The simulation actually follows a binomial distribution, meaning the standard deviation can be calculated as sqrt(npq), where n is the number of trials, p is the probability of success (pi/4), and q is 1-p. For a simulation of 10.000
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by teisman 12y ago
Using equally spaced points doesn't produce an unbiased estimator, while a monte carlo simulation does.
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by teisman 13y ago
True. And the people objecting against the whole G+ / YouTube integration are probably the early adopters that could lead the herd.
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by teisman 13y ago
Of course, users can also simple adopt a modern browser, rather than updating their system. Additionally, if Microsoft doesn't support modern browsers for old operating systems this may deteriorate the Windows experience, which may lea