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by 10ren 16y ago
I hate the way SO only remembers you for a week or two, so when you return, you have to login, going to a separate screen and so on. Why do they have to make it so hard? What's the advantage in forcing frequent logins? Yeah, I know I should
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by 10ren 16y ago
I checked online real estate; the cheapest land I saw was $45,000 for 2 acres - with services available, but not connected, and with road access. I expect an unserviced, with no road, on the "edge of wilderness" bush block would be cheaper,
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by 10ren 16y ago
After coding parsers, my English became a little more refined (or possibly, just my interpretation of my grammatical decisions become a little more refined): I had said "one can reuse code as a platform or library", but realized that that c
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by 10ren 16y ago
> A crude and uneven ability to think from the perspective of another is a pretty good working definition of narcissism. Sounds like a pretty good definition. Of course, the prejudice of the article's title is a loaded question* ; and t
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by 10ren 16y ago
A git commit is a set of diffs, with respect to another commit. Commits are thus arcs+nodes, forming a graph. Each such commit has a unique name, locally and across all distributed copies. [actually a hash whose uniqueness is probabilistica
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by 10ren 16y ago
Oh man, it's such an awesome story. Thanks so much for replying. Good to hear the shack wasn't the first iteration (nor the last). Did it take some experience to be able to build a stable, long-lasting shack (perhaps just woodwork in genera
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by 10ren 16y ago
Logically, book vendors could impose similar restrictions with similar language and achieve the same result viz. circumvent the first sale doctrine. There's a question: would anyone buy such a book? If you were offered identical books, one
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by 10ren 16y ago
ORMS: http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2009/10/orms-and-declarative-s... Visual object-relational mappers allow you to integrate different DB schema and classes/objects, instead of deriving one from the other. What do people think of them? T
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by 10ren 16y ago
This poll contains 327+271 votes, yet has only 59 points. Worth voting in, but not up.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Aside: Is it true that everyone thought the relational model was too slow to be practicable, until the Oracle team put a very fast implementation together (as Larry Ellison claimed in an interview)? EDIT according to the article, Oracle h
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by 10ren 16y ago
Oracle is a pragmatic company. It's likely they'll just merge the easy stuff. If there is insanely great stuff in the intersection you mention, it probably constitutes a research project, which it would make sense to undertake in the backgr
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by 10ren 16y ago
Allow me to answer in terms of integrated vs. modular architectures: they were fast enough when Java's virtual machine became viable, when .Net's virtual machine became viable, when interpreted scripting languages (Javascript, Python, Ruby)
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by 10ren 16y ago
The Innovator's Dilemma guy also talks about integrated vs. modular architectures. By integrated, he means made in one elegant piece, meshing together just so ; by modular he means you can mix-and-match (eg. from different suppliers, or to
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by 10ren 16y ago
followup: there's a great expression "throw it over the fence", for how IBM researchers used to commercialize their research. Here's some tech, whatever, seeya . (the fabled PARC labs seemed and microsoft research seems to be similar). An
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by 10ren 16y ago
Another angle is to try living this ideal life for a month or so. It might be difficult to pretend, because you can't 100% relax into it, but it might alert you to things you need you hadn't realized (eg. social); or, contrariness, give you
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by 10ren 16y ago
Thanks! It makes such a difference speaking to someone who's actually done it. Not theoretical. I guess you must have been relatively near civilization - at least a town. Can I ask how much money it took... and how much you think it would t
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by 10ren 16y ago
Just to be clear: I didn't say online trumps university.
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by 10ren 16y ago
Sounds like you're torn between selflessness and selfishness. But it's not that simple. Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard Aiken I know you're not worried abou
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by 10ren 16y ago
It's unnecessarily convoluted but correct, eg "accept the loner [as] a mentally sound individual" is a legitimate construction and "[K]now man" is a pun. Philosophers tend to write this way. It's just that it's not punchy and to-the-point,
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by 10ren 16y ago
University was great for intellectual stimulation, because there were always interesting people around, and interesting discussions. I haven't seen anything similar in the real world (which excepts online.)
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by 10ren 16y ago
Another option is to resize browser window width, to get about 10-13 words per line; and crtl-+ for larger text.
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by 10ren 16y ago
[Sorry, I deleted without refreshing to check for replies. Here's the original:] Aside: I'm curious if there are any OSI approved open source licenses that exclude server use. I ask, because the current move towards services defeats the pur
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by 10ren 16y ago
Welcome, cool to have you! Did you know you've been featured here? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=905377 If you don't mind, I wanted to ask you: did you own the land for your shack, or rent it? The latter is cheaper, but not independ
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by 10ren 16y ago
Great question. I think more passive income is required for food etc. eg. my rule of thumb $1,000 invested will bring in about $1-2 per week; or, some businesses you own can (theoretically) provide passive income, but in practice it's not t
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by 10ren 16y ago
OnLive sounds cool, but it's a little hard to believe, since latency is a common issue in regular gaming already. Demos are invariably carefully orchestrated. The other thing that gives me pause is that it is such a compelling vision for
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by 10ren 16y ago
Aside: How far off are we from renting our PCs in the cloud, and just having a local terminal? I know it's an old Failed Dream (mainframe-terminal, client-server, settop box etc), but maybe we're getting closer... It seems a bit ridiculous,
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by 10ren 16y ago
Aside: I looked into AWS a couple weeks ago, to play with a simple webapp idea, but the myriad choices, acronyms and signups confused me, and there was [seemed to be] no free options for getting started, and initial traction. It seems focus
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by 10ren 16y ago
I wish there was a way to play with it initially without giving up my email. I hate getting automated 'haven't seen you for a while' app-spam. It's pretty standard though, so maybe it's just me. I'm using App Engine too; seems to be a good
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by 10ren 16y ago
I've only read the first few pages, but this sounds exactly like Steve Blank's 4 steps - ie. fantastic.
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by 10ren 16y ago
So... no Components Off The Shelf for them. Does anyone use COTS anymore, or are the a Failed Dream? Fred Brooks favoured them... Although, I have seen Service Components [Architecture] (SCA) - where you assemble an app by integrating web

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