Animus7

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by Animus7 16y ago
I'm sorry if I come across as crude, but in startups there's no room for sugar-coating. Personally I think that anyone who feels they need this kind of service (e.g. a less-techy manager at a company) almost certainly has some go-to tech gu
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by Animus7 16y ago
So this works by pinging the server? I ask because a lot of downtime is the malfunction of a specific program or component that still keeps ping and http intact. How do you detect this? And if it's a ping thing, why would I pay 15 bucks per
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by Animus7 16y ago
Could he do this without you? Could you do this without him? This is what I ask myself whenever I think of this question.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Regarding the hand-wavy title and explanation: Maybe there's some magic in the bits I'm not seeing, but I see no "tech" here that can't be churned out by a few ramen-eating guys on HN and almost zero expenditure. Even if you've lost it and
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by Animus7 16y ago
Google can mine the data and do whatever they want (and I don't doubt for a second that they run analysis on it), but this guy can't? Facebook wants to have their cake and eat it to. They want free Google publicity but god forbid some dude
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by Animus7 16y ago
> For the binary-math confused: a simple Right-Shift by 1 is /logically/ a *2. Actually, it's a divide. To me this looks like you're just adding a second layer of hashing. This doesn't make the output any more "random", it just makes it
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by Animus7 16y ago
I actually find it makes my hacking about twice as productive. When I tune out all of the other things going on in my head, the only thing left is a brainstem that's quite optimized for the C++ pointer twiddling tedium that fills my nights.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Depends on the project. If it's something common and done to death, it makes sense to expect a timeline and cost. If you're trying to innovate, such estimates are a kiss of death.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Ask not what you can do for Javascript, ask what Javascript can do for you. Stop looking around for ways to get better. Open your editor and make something you think is cool. Rinse, lather, repeat.
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by Animus7 16y ago
> "It's pretty much to clown other noobs and throw errors at them." I find it heartwarming to remember the blissful days when I thought the same thing about function parameters. And I happen to think that we could all learn a great deal
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by Animus7 16y ago
I don't get it. It's a protocol for managing router forwarding rules. Except every provider out there already implements this in the way that suits them best, and that's the kind of capitalist outlook that made the internet as big and usefu
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by Animus7 16y ago
After 5 seconds on the site, I'll share my first impressions before they fade, because I think they could be useful. In my nominal browser view, all I see above the fold is a logo the size of an elephant, a blank field labeled "Submit", and
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by Animus7 16y ago
Mercurial.
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by Animus7 16y ago
In capitalism the only way to go is to hire based on merit. You have to ignore the issue of privelage; that's a separate social problem. Otherwise, things stop making sense: should we be forced by law to hire unqualified employees just beca
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by Animus7 16y ago
Cool, but as a developer I'm having trouble seeing the market fit. Like many devs, I have my preferred IDE and I'm religious about it. And I'm fine with running my own server if it means I don't have to commit to a new proprietary framework
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by Animus7 16y ago
Cute, but I'd rather my users upgrade to IE9 if it means they'll stop using the uglier ones before it.
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by Animus7 16y ago
There seems to be a certain air of pride and vengeance spilling through here. Which is fine, and can certainly be a motivating force, but it's an "attitude" if I ever saw one. I'd know, I was once like this, too. But as has been mentioned c
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by Animus7 16y ago
When I see the picture of a suit-and-tie type next to something about joining the latest tech gravy train, I can't help but smell the burning platform.
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by Animus7 16y ago
View-source: "You looked all the way down here?! Let's hump." While the value proposition is compelling, I think I'll pipe to my abacus instead.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Google found a way to more-or-less reliably process Big Data using commodity hardware and an underpinning of failover logic. Everyone wanted to beat Google. The first step (a fallacy) seemed to be to copy their way of doing things. So start
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by Animus7 16y ago
There's a big difference between an OS and a VM, and they accomplish different things. Go might be feasible, but forcing system-wide GC at random times for the entire system? GC is very hard to make concurrent and a single random-alloc GC'd
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by Animus7 16y ago
{ write it in javascript } In all seriousness, when you have to support hardware controllers whose only interface to the CPU is a memory block or I/O instructions, what other choice do you have besides C? I guess you have C++...
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by Animus7 16y ago
A lot of people would disagree, and hence the koan. Personally, I see closures as objects that the compiler cooks up on your behalf. This coming from a compiler background, where said compiler is usually implemented in C++ :P.
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by Animus7 16y ago
Ray Kurzweil's predictions? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2036575 http://c0068172.cdn2.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/predictio...
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by Animus7 16y ago
I'm sure Job's reality distortion field has won a few million sales, although I do agree that to someone on top of tech, a lot of this evangelism for (often mediocre) products comes off as inane. That's okay, though. Although we at Hacker N
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by Animus7 16y ago
Yet another validation of the long-standing hypothesis that in the age where a kid with a laptop can come up with technology that takes over the internet, pushing tech as a process in a factory is the path to irrelevance.
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by Animus7 16y ago
These days platform choice is irrelevant. All modern platforms have tools available for doing basically anything a software developer will ever do, and doing it well. Unless what you're doing requires some specific feature of some specific
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by Animus7 16y ago
A theory is a suggestion of some truth (in the logical sense). A fact is a theory that has been "proven". How a theory can come to be (or needs to be) "proven" to become a fact is more of a philosophical question than anything else, and if