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I would like to see an interactive loop to fsi. Seems like you could use websockets for this.

I read chapters of it a few years back, too, but forgotten the details. All in all, I was pretty convinced of the soundness of the approach at the time. My recollection is that thi…

I think the original idea of elimination of the collection of all private or personal information by all companies is a bit extreme. From what we have learned, these programs are q…

Lanier sounds like the anti-Kurzweil. Like others, I find his vision of the future too pessimistic and his proposed solution not workable. He rightly raises concerns about how our …

Have to agree with the above. The problem with relational databases isn't the relational model, per se, but the complexity and cost of maintaining a relational database. Typically,…

Interesting take that gets to the heart of the matter but my interpretation is different. Like you say, the genius of Apple and Jobs is an incredible focus on the simplicity and in…

The part that hit home for me was his description of the Prof's frustration with the speed at which he was implementing the enhancement to Klee and the fact that most grad students…

Spencer's comments are generally accurate. I might quibble with some of them or say that they vary from team to team. For instance, I have used R, Python, Java, and Sawzall in my w…

As someone else mentioned, I find the signal to noise ratio to be much higher on G+ than facebook or twitter. I mainly use these tools for two purposes, keeping in touch with frien…

At my last company I had 20 days vacation and about to transition to 25 days. However, work was so busy that I had to plan and request my vacations 3-6 mos in advance. I now have l…

I used the .net stack for 8 years. But, I wouldn't use the platform for a startup or my own projects. I don't want to be locked into the Windows platform. Mainly, because of licens…

I don't believe this is true for doctors, although, I could be wrong but I think HMO's get around the restriction. The bottom line is that lawyers are a protected guild with rules …

My naive understanding is that only lawyers can own and operate a law firm. In other words one can't form the equivalent of an HMO and hire a bunch of lawyers and pay them a salary…

I agree, Diego. I now find a few articles a day on the front page interesting, whereas before this seemed much higher. It seems that hacker news may be getting too popular for it's…

From my point of view there are three basic mathematical skills, logical reasoning, spatial reasoning and visualization, and calculation ability which is related to memory. I agree…