3dFlatLander

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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I like to think that if things were explained in simple enough terms, judges would understand and it would have to go forward. This feels like a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' quantity of optimism. Still, a guy can dream. Surely the FSF has
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
Any suggestions on a place to store the private key? This is an interesting question, btw.
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
His wiki page indicates he's a "doctoral candidate in Business Administration." Also interesting, it seems he's a godson of Timothy Learys. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joi_Ito#Later_life [2] http://www.leary.com/joiito/
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
> What constitutes a private whois service? For me, the only thing that matters is not having my details out in the open. I had a namecheap whois privacy expire on me before a domain, and within a couple of weeks I had already gotten sn
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I popped a comment in the original post about wanting to see some RMS code. After doing a lot of searching, I still can't find a thing. I don't want to get terribly off topic, but as I said, I'd always heard he was a great programmer and wo
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I'm a wannabe chef, and I use it for all recipes I've created, or adapted from others. Ratios for baked goods are much easier to work with in metric than imperial. Same goes for woodworking, and anything else with smaller distances. Try as
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
When I first started to become computer savvy, Stallman had already moved into the activist stage, and further away from programming. I had always heard that he was a great programmer. But, I've never actually seen any code he's written. Th
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
Small business health insurance that doesn't cost a small fortune would be fantastic. I know this was a goal of the health care bill passed earlier, but I haven't seen anything to indicate something has actually changed.
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I believe so. They referenced TAOCP Vol 3 in the patent. But, they just cited the entire hashing chapter (p. 506-549).
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I followed the link to the patent, and just want to make sure I understand things correctly. I'm not very knowledgeable about legal jargon, or formal CS terminology. >> Performing storage and retrieval that uses the hashing techniqu
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
> Boosting learning velocity/capacity/efficieny should help. Why must we replay histroy when teaching? But maybe we are not doing such a good job at consolidating/compressing knowledge as we used to since there is so much. I think we ar
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
I'm always biased against my code as well. But man.. Software with a million downloads is something to be proud of. That's a lot of people getting use out of something you created.
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
In regards to working from home: Keep a schedule. I know a lot of people say the best part of the freelance life (or any work from home) is the flexible schedule. Speaking from experience, I'm easily twice as productive when I keep a schedu
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
My fear (hope?) would be VirtualBox. Aside from Java, I use that the most.
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
A good number of the domains I search for are godaddy parked pages. There's a link to a service godaddy operates that can buy the domain. Is this the service you're talking about?
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
> 3) Your market may be parents who want their kids to know how to program, especially homeschoolers. I don't know how large that market is, but it's definitely worth exploring. I hadn't even considered that. Kinda puts a new spin on ho
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by 3dFlatLander 15y ago
The product is an ebook and software bundle aimed at technology / computer teachers. The goal of it is to assist in teaching students programming and computer science concepts, whilst subtly mixing in a lot of math and physics (making games
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Ask HN: Selling to educators
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
You can play with the numbers and goals all you want, but until you actually start something and generate revenue, it will all be meaningless. If your project goes like many of the others here, it will generate close to nothing for a while,
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
Yeah, but I don't think many people check the comments for what can be read from the story. It's mostly a way of seeing what other people think about the article before going to read it. The more sensationalist the headline, the more import
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
Would it really help with spam though? The rewards for a spammer to make it to the first, second, or even third page are probably worth the risk of negative karma. As for duplicate articles, I'm not even really sure what the problem is. Is
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
I like to think of the startup world as a distributed version of PARC. Not sure how accurate it is--but still a neat thought.
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
PBS did a good Frontline episode on for profit colleges and the federal student loan situation for their students. Available online here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/?utm...
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
> I know the following sentiment will not be popular here, but here I go anyway(bye bye karma). Eesh.. please don't do that. It's not really 'baiting people to downvote you' per the comment guidelines, but baiting the contrarians to upv
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
If you liked it, you may also be interested in the companion reader http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743273982/ -- a collection of the primary source material used for the book.
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
I'm creating an ebook and software combo for computer/technology educators. Hoping to market it to school districts, but individual teachers as well.
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
I signed up for gmail and have a simple account name in the form of {common firstname}{first letter of last name}@gmail.com. The amount of crap that has started to show up in my inbox over the last year is completely ludicrous--and I believ
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
In general. I've got zero experience doing distributed computing, hence my fanboy label. Just felt like sharing a thought. :) However, any starting points you could provide on being able to accomplish such things would be awesome. I'm espec
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
I think I'm a distributed computing fanboy. I'd like to pull a few EC2 (or GPU) instances and see how quick brute forcing different encryption/hashing would take, how big of a prime number one could compute in a few hours, do the same pi/e/
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by 3dFlatLander 16y ago
I'd worry about being lean and frugal there, due to the cost of living. I bet there's some ways to save money (aside from cramming five guys into a studio apartment). Related question: Did NYC ever get any of those miracle residential fiber

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