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by ynd 12y ago
Bitcoin is not susceptible to market control like eBay. eBay is a single entity so it is easy to coordinate self-serving decision. Bitcoin is multiple agents that have to co-operate. That prevents any one agent from making unilateral decisi
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by ynd 12y ago
I think the kickstarter backers are really both investors and customers. They are investors because they do take a risk by paying for a product that doesn't yet exist. This leap of faith from these "customers" allowed Oculus
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by ynd 13y ago
FYI, Einstein was not a bad student. ( http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/12/albert-einst... ). It's just a myth. Having a degree does not magically make you more qualified, it's the work yo
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success (youtube.com)
1 points by ynd 14y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 15y ago
It runs much faster with Chrome and Safari due to their better Javascript VM.
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A machine that can dream (Live demo)(npcontemplation.blogspot.com)
7 points by ynd 15y ago|2 comments
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by ynd 15y ago
The main thing I take away from this is that he is not a professional photographer. Of course an amateur can afford to give away photos for free! However, I'm not sure he even realizes that what he says doesn't make any sense for a professi
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by ynd 15y ago
It's disappointing you have to pay to see the original Science paper.
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by ynd 15y ago
He is a victim here, why blame the victim over the perpetrators? Makes little sense to me. As well as saying "evil flourishes"...
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by ynd 15y ago
It's amazing the authors of the paper didn't realize they were disproving their own conclusion with their results.
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by ynd 15y ago
The doc at http://www.phzbox.com/moka/index.html is pretty complete. The only thing I find is missing is a few words about efficiency. Does calling List(l) copy the list l for example?
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by ynd 15y ago
troll, also assuming roughly uniform paragraph lengths removing every third word is the same as removing every third paragraph. Maybe we're not as smart as you thought.
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by ynd 15y ago
His main point is that Common Lisp is better than Scheme when you need to get things done. Scheme may be more elegant, but it's not developed with a focus on practical utility (i.e. no sort function in the standard).
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by ynd 15y ago
Well I guess one difference between what he's proposing and mysql is that mysql forces you to write data abstractions that can fit into mysql. Same goes for NoSQL DBs. Using his approach you don't have to worry about that. Not sure that jus
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by ynd 15y ago
When you say old-school DB do you mean something like mysql?
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by ynd 15y ago
37signals are known and celebrated for their design style, and I think it's awesome that they are willing to experiment with new ideas and discard old ones. Particularly because the new designs in the post look nothing like their usual styl
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by ynd 16y ago
I disagree with you because in some projects technical correctness is not the first priority. So why should you sacrifice everything in favor of it? In some settings, coding an ad-hoc solution is ugly but better in terms of the constraints
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by ynd 16y ago
For the record, I didn't write this. One of my friends must have played a trick on me.
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by ynd 16y ago
Love it. One minor detail: on the ipad it doesn't automatically switch between songs, you have to press play each time. I don't know if that can be fixed though.
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Motivating Students Via Mental Time Travel(miller-mccune.com)
1 points by ynd 16y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 16y ago
gay
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by ynd 17y ago
Javascript is dramatically faster using Safari 4+.
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Self-Organization and Conway's Game of life (With Interactive Javascript Canvas)(npcontemplation.blogspot.com)
3 points by ynd 17y ago|2 comments
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How the macintosh got it's distintive look(folklore.org)
3 points by ynd 17y ago|1 comments
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by ynd 17y ago
I think that that's a breakthrough, because you are always taught to do as much as you can. Always put checks in. Always look for exceptions. Always handle the most general case. Always give the user the best advice. Always print a meaning
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Ward Cunningham: The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work(artima.com)
32 points by ynd 17y ago|8 comments
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Designing Reusable Classes, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming (1988)(laputan.org)
2 points by ynd 17y ago|0 comments
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by ynd 17y ago
Brilliant! Much better use of space. I can sort out the heap of information easily. If I can get voting on there, I'll use this instead of vanilla HN. Good innovation. He went further than simply displaying a pretty bullet list, like others
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by ynd 18y ago
Down-voters, he is also right. It's common for dynamic languages to embed typing information in pointers as an optimization. For example, CLISP uses at least 2 bits to distinguish between common types. That way fixnum numbers can be recogni
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by ynd 18y ago
I have missed this side of HN. Feels like christmas. HN should have esoteric/alternative articles like that at all times.

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