rgiar

قبل 11 شهرًاdiscuss

Palantir did the same, and did pretty well in the end with that last surge of cash.

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

thanks. i was looking for the pro scores.

here's a search of all (2) MacBookPro17,1 results:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=MacBookPro17%2...

rgiar

قبل 11 سنةdiscuss

For an infinitely more relaxing experience of life in APL, may I recommend: http://youtu.be/a9xAKttWgP4

I've watched it many times but I still expect him to mention happy little trees :)

rgiar

قبل 13 سنةdiscuss

so this is just when a given site was crawled?

  "_id": "b919f02c8f053c41e8ee86311ca9b0f6,
  "url": "https://www.example.com/",
  "host": "www.example.com",
  "root": "example.com",
  "time_spent": [
    {
      "sec": 45,
      "seen_at": ISODate("2013-06-23T00: 41: 44.0Z")
    },
    {
      "sec": 5,
      "seen_at": ISODate("2013-07-01T14: 41: 44.0Z")
    }

rgiar

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

Random sidenote: I haven't downloaded but if this is a community version of Oracle Coherence (nee Tangasol) it might be reasonably badass. As an ex-oracle employee, I've heard the insider view from friends that unlike most oracle in-house or acquired software, Coherence is the real deal, scales as advertised, and except for the $100k per enterprise box price-tag, should have taken the storage world by storm.

rgiar

قبل 15 سنةdiscuss

I think this is an important indicators of whether you should be an entrepreneur or a software developer. The best developers are fascinated by the processes that animate their work; sometimes they can't dig down all the way given time constraints but I find that they (and I) could happily analyze (and ideally rewrite) the entire gordian knot of a complex system.

Entrepreneurs have a totally different profile. Instead of the "how" and "what" of the project, they focus on the "why" and the "who cares". Will this project be valuable? Should I pivot this idea? Who is my first customer and what do they want?

These tendencies don't coexists very well -- they both want to be priority 1 in my mind. While I've been writing code, polishing scripts, reading kernel code, and accumulating my 5000 lines of emacs-lisp hacks, my friends chose different routes and started small businesses or pursued influence and high salaries. Now I'm a super-wonky developer and they're much better at sniffing out the real value in the world. Each of us has our place and on some days I'd rather be them. Somehow though, and somewhat mysteriously, when it comes time to choose I'd rather be rewriting the low level than pursuing meaning at the high-level.

rgiar

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

i wonder if this implies that hn readers are looking to kill more time. procrastinating on the next big startup? :)

rgiar

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

if you can point out another, I'd try it, but I found this: http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de/?p=download&l=1 and it's only in bold. Hard to imagine using it.

rgiar

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

Another nice choice, on the sans-serif side, is an APL font from dyalog (even if you're not an APL programmer). It has a certain old-school charm that pleases me.

http://www.dyalog.com/downloads/fonts/Apl385.ttf

rgiar

قبل 16 سنةdiscuss

very nicely focused on the tech space. attractive, will use :)

rgiar

قبل 17 سنةdiscuss

Sorry, no time to do the legwork to see if this would work, but I wonder if this "wastage" could be crudely measured by taking some aggregate number of patent related lawsuits per year, multiplying by some factor to include those settled out of court, multipy again by a conservative mean cost of a patent action (attack, defense, commonwealth) == $wasted/year.

rgiar

قبل 17 سنةdiscuss

Non Zero: The Logic of Human Destiny The Mating Mind

rgiar

قبل 17 سنةdiscuss

the redundancy idea scales as much as you want it to; this post remixed: http://socialfact.com/reader/seemore-how-much-are-you-willin...

rgiar

قبل 17 سنةdiscuss

very nice, i will come back to the woodworking site when life allows me to put it to use. thx.

rgiar

قبل 17 سنةdiscuss

http://socialfact.com -- collaborative thinking and blogging

rgiar

قبل 18 سنةdiscuss

convergence; when i cease to have to ask myself which competing urgent task i will complete, i will finally have peace of mind. is it too much to ask to lead my own startup and have only one job?

after that, i agree with others that it is nice be able to ignore money -- to me that again speaks to peace of mind.

rgiar

قبل 18 سنةdiscuss

In a word, emacs is responsive -- you realize this as you slowly become familiar with the basic components: buffers and files, the point and region, keymaps, ediff, ffap, running shells inside emacs, tramp, etc. and then, yes, finally emacs lisp. Using these basic tools, you can mix, match and customize until it does what you need for today's project, no matter what language or OS,however many files, script languages, build tools, etc.

At some point it becomes clear that emacs is actually a programming environment for text editing with emacs lisp in the position of universal configuration, scripting and compute language. If you can think of something you want to do with text,files or code (albeit limited to an ascii interface) you can either find it in the extension community or you can quickly bend emacs to do what you want.

My learning curve was approximately two years to feel very competent, five or so to feel like a power user, and then 8 or so to feel make it do most anything.

rgiar

قبل 19 سنةdiscuss

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