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icky | 17 years ago | on: Forget Rock Stars, Gurus, Ninjas and Zen Masters

Wanted:

Someone who can solve problems and write solid code. If you lie about these qualifications, you must fight our stable of real ninjas, who have never heard of the web, because they are too busy practicing deadly ninja moves.

icky | 17 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you consider "making it"?

"Making it" is a journey of several steps:

1. Realizing you haven't been checking price tags on food or household items for a while now.

2. Making money faster than you can find things worth spending it on.

3. Being well-off without having to work full-time.

4. Being well-off through actively-managed passive income.

5. Being able to sail around the world and come back richer (through passive income, not sea trade nor piracy nor fortune hunting ;).

6. Being able to do what you want, where you want, when you want, without the permission or approval of anybody.

icky | 17 years ago | on: Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit.

I'll do it later...

Edit: I was reading this article while procrastinating taking my sister-in-law to the DMV. Meanwhile, she discovered that she had forgotten to bring her passport (for ID), and couldn't actually go today.

Hooray for procrastination! :D

icky | 17 years ago | on: Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript

> Offtopic : I am frustrated with people ignoring no free lunch theorem and trying to use GAs everywhere.

GAs don't violate No Free Lunch. After all, you're a genetic algorithm...

icky | 17 years ago | on: DNS Drama Exposed (Dramatically)

> What were the odds I'd get to say that twice in one day?

Just don't say it a third time, lest you create an unkillable meme...

icky | 17 years ago | on: Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

I wonder if there's a way around this: instead of an explicit interest or profit, make it a trade-based market:

I'll give you X dollars-today, in exchange for 1.1X dollars-N-months-from-now.

Or I'll give you X dollars-in-a-month in exchange for Y Euros-today.

Does the SEC regulate currency trading markets?

And, if not, why can't dollars-today and dollars-6-months-from-now be traded as separate currencies [taking into account expected inflation/deflation, as well as the time-value of money]?

icky | 17 years ago | on: Prosper.com, P2P Lending Startup, Shut Down by SEC [pdf]

> My loan was one of the success stories: I couldn't have gotten a student loan through a traditional lender ("Your brother is going to cosign this? From Japan? Via fax? Pull the other one, kid, it's got bells on"). My peers, other lenders from the official forums (which were later closed), trusted me after several months of online interaction. I asked them for $5,000, they crowdsourced it in $50 and $80 and $230 increments. They got all their money back and 13% interest besides. Prosper got $50 and 1% APR for providing the platform. My little brother got to register for classes at Notre Dame on time. Everybody won.

William Gibson, eat your heart out...

icky | 17 years ago | on: Ender's Game Review

> Man was that snarky.

Yes. We methane-breathing anti-gourmets are known for our occasional lapses into snarkishness.

icky | 17 years ago | on: Ender's Game Review

> And I don't like reading stuff that's interesting. I mean I do occasionally, but it rarely holds my attention.

I can totally relate: I hate food that tastes good, and breathing oxygen.

icky | 17 years ago | on: Solve the halting problem, $300-$1000

If you look at "sleep"'s response:

Dear Sir, You have found the right person to do the job. I am a representative of a company that has recently completed a large enterprise commercial project related to the development of a HaltLib.NET library that is meant specifically to solve the problem of interest to you, and I am ready to share my experiences and code. Note that our library works for a wide variety of programming languages, including, but not limited to, HTML, XML, PNG, CSV, SQL, BNF, Regular Expressions and even "Field=Value" .property file formats. I guarantee you maximally efficient and clean code on this project.

You'll note that he doesn't list any Turing-complete languages. (The implementation will almost certainly look like yours). :P

icky | 17 years ago | on: Ender's Game Review

Read your Joseph Campbell before categorically dismissing half of all fiction in human history.
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