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by 1337p337 15y ago
"Obama uses Optimizely. Help him get re-elected by joining Optimizely". It doesn't look very clear to me that this is a YC-sponsored link.
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by 1337p337 15y ago
This is great. Now if only the newer Intel drivers didn't make X segfault! This seems to be a common problem. I had to downgrade to 2.14.0; some bug introduced in 2.14.903 and still present in 2.15.0 break it thoroughly. Fast is nice, but
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by 1337p337 15y ago
This reminds me of Chuck Moore's 144-core, unclocked (!) colorForth CPU: http://greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/GA144.htm I wonder when he'll catch up to 5 million.
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by 1337p337 15y ago
I love Rosetta Code. For common problems, the solutions cover a very long list of languages, sometimes with multiple solutions. It's a great tool when you're learning a language and want to see why the code you've written doesn't feel nat
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by 1337p337 15y ago
I have a work-issued iPhone, but use my personal phone anyway. Not to say that the iPhone is useless, but it irks me if I have to look at my phone to do things with it, like staring at the keyboard (and missing its autocomplete mis-fires)
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by 1337p337 15y ago
It's just two pictures, and it ignores the rest of the Blackberry line-up, which includes touch-only devices and slide-outs. I was expecting some announcement from RIM based on the title, and was disappointed to find this content-free ar
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by 1337p337 15y ago
Google has lots and lots of storage. The TL;DR version: Contacts are more about bandwidth and processing power. Follow my reasoning for a minute if that seems like a leap. One of Google's features is that it attempts to build a social gr
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by 1337p337 15y ago
Per the Wikipedia page it looks interesting, although I've been almost successful with the patch in the past, and know essentially what to expect. I had used the gum (the gratification wasn't quite instant enough) and the "e-cigarettes" (n
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by 1337p337 15y ago
Well, once you're off, the benefits start to pile up quickly. Food tastes better, you don't cough up strangely colored things early in the morning, your lungs don't burn, etc. It's still an incredibly difficult addiction to quit, much mor
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by 1337p337 15y ago
When I am reading HN, it's almost always during time outside the office in the smoking area, or in front of my house, smoking a cigarette, like now. I would certainly agree that nicotine is profoundly addictive, and the cigarette as a deliv
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by 1337p337 15y ago
Then you go back and read the source so you can try to run through the calculation backwards in your head to estimate, relative to the surrounding comments' timestamps, what the score might be based on its position?
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Googling Considered Harmful (PDF, 2006)(rumint.org)
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by 1337p337 15y ago
It is always odd to me that Mac users tend to always call non-Mac computers "PCs", as if all PCs were basically the same, and as if Macs weren't personal computers.
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by 1337p337 15y ago
It looks that way, which is pretty sad. I'm typing this on my beloved N900, which I found far more usable and open than Android (which I kicked when it wouldn't stop screaming "CLOUD! CLOUD!" at me, and Eric Schmidt kept coming into my hou
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I've been doing Ruby for a long time, and back when the mailing list's signal to noise ratio was better, I used to read it daily, so I've been reading Zed's flames for a while. ("The Chainsaw Logger Infanticide Maneuver" was a pretty great
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by 1337p337 16y ago
There certainly are a few (at least) pain points with Facebook, even for "normal" users. Spam, for one. Something that makes it a little more accessible could take off, but a competing browser may not solve the pain points.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Plain-text formats have always been slower for things that are not plain text. But even 30 years ago, when computers were even slower, Unix designers decided plain text was still the way to go, because it was easier to debug and easier for
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Right: 1) Create unfortunate speed hack so browser written by you is faster with servers written by you. 2) Declare it a spec without other existing implementations. 3) ???? 4) PROFIT
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by 1337p337 16y ago
There's also AbsoLUAtion for Lighttpd. Lua's a very nice, convenient language for embedding dynamic/user-configurable bits in otherwise static applications. PowerDNS and nmap use it, too. It seems to have displaced Tcl as the de facto la
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I really like this language. The core libraries have sensibly named functions, getting it to generate or talk to C is trivial, and it's simple to get a GUI or a small script or something going. It has good bindings to SDL, which makes it
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by 1337p337 16y ago
LUSH is still fairly active. It moves a little slowly, but this is good since it's stable and a lot more mature than Clojure. The authors are still using it for real projects, so it's likely to stay around.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
You may have it backwards: Chuck Moore doesn't compute. He tells electrons where to go, and they take orders. Inside every computer built by Chuck Moore, there is only another computer built by Chuck Moore. Chuck Moore once built a zero
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Speaking as just one guy, "log in with $service" is a bigger pain than "Sign up and log in". Sometimes I don't have $service, or I have it but don't like using it, or I have it but I don't want whatever new random thing I'm trying out to ha
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I agree, for reasons that have made me sad since the late 90s, when cookie-cutter FPSs arrived on the scene, clinging to the coattails of iD et al, soon to be followed by cookie-cutter MMOs, and finally, the miniature Dark Ages of the indus
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Most of them do tend to be cleaner. But anyone remember the report a couple of decades back about water usage after the US Navy started letting women on ships? Having ladies around made the guys shower more often. Empirically, I can v
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by 1337p337 16y ago
The site specifies their plan for this. Did you read it before commenting that they don't have a plan? The site outlined what has been wrong with their recent development practices and says what they intend to do to fix it.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Astonishingly few people commenting seemed to have read the whole thing. The reason it will (supposedly/hopefully) be different next time is that management overhead, bureaucracy, and outsourcing are killing their software development. I
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I didn't say that; I said that it's hard to attach attributes to them since they're not a coherent organization, but a number of people claiming the same name.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Some of them are. The Guy Fawkes masks are sort of a good way of describing them: a bunch of completely unrelated people assuming the same identity for a time. Likewise, the "Anonymous" you hear of is usually the "Anonymous" that pulls t
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I think you've just described at least two startups I've worked for.

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