Elfan

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by Elfan 19y ago
Yes some supports of Ron Paul try to game Digg, Slashdot, Reddit and others. A quick look at ronpaulforums.com will confirm that. However, if they were successful at doing what you describe wouldn't your prediction imply that most Ron Pa
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by Elfan 19y ago
I wonder: a) Where else YC advertised. b) If they stopped after "News from the Front".
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by Elfan 19y ago
The following Google search returns 320 results: site:*.edu "How to design programs" OR "structure and interpretation of computer programs" syllabus
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by Elfan 19y ago
MIT is unusual in that it combines EE and CS into one department. While SICP may be the best intro to CS ever written, that does not mean it is the best possible choice for a combined CS/EE program.
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by Elfan 19y ago
"Lots of folks ask "why doesn't sun just do the JDK for Mac?". The real answer is "because Apple wanted to do it". They've wanted to do all sorts of customization and integration that only they could do - because they own the OS." http://b
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by Elfan 19y ago
Or not? I do not have the expertise to evaluate the disagreement. http://forum.wolframscience.com/showthread.php?s=c34045c0fea... Wolfman responds as well: http://cs.nyu.edu/pipermail/fom/2007-October/012149.html
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by Elfan 19y ago
Orkut was an internal Google project and launched a month before Facebook.
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by Elfan 19y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "serious Linux nerds" in this case? Do you mean someone who uses Linux every day or a system administrator in a former life?
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by Elfan 19y ago
The author didn't specify how large his project was. If it involves a lot of servers then Gentoo's ability to basically "make your own distro" could prove very useful. You can't get much more flexible than that. Since the OP is coming
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by Elfan 19y ago
The Russians use pens now as well. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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by Elfan 19y ago
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group actually ranked Silicon Valley at the bottom of their technology hub list for reasons such as you suggest. The NC Research triangle was first. http://blog.usweb.com/archives/silicon-valley-last-among-te
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by Elfan 19y ago
Will the immune system accept a foreign antibody?
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Ask YC News: What to search for?
2 points by Elfan 19y ago|0 comments
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by Elfan 19y ago
"How to Cook Everything" is the best resource for not only recipies but literally how to cook. It starts off with how to make popcorn and each section always includes information on how to buy and cook the ingredients in the recipies. Thi
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by Elfan 19y ago
dispatch-conf and etc-update are the two config updating tools included with gentoo's portage. dispatch-conf is the newer and preferred tool. Be default dispatch-conf keeps a backup of your config files in /etc/config-archive. Optionally
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by Elfan 19y ago
I presume many of your friends and associates you are referring to made their money from technology startups in MA and CA. Do you have any reason to believe they are a representative sample?
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by Elfan 19y ago
See the "Millionaire Next Door" for an elaboration on this. That or another one of the books in the series has a long chapter on automobile purchasing habits.
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by Elfan 19y ago
Ron Paul was just a poor example for what you were trying to describe, particularly as a reddit specific phenomenon. Ron Paul appears to be "unusually" popular on reddit, digg, slashdot, youtube, myspace, and facebook (where no sockpuppeti
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by Elfan 19y ago
I use both. I have 3 email accounts, two of which have a webmail interface and one that does not. I primarily use Thunderbird but don't delete messages for n days (well never for gmail) so I can also check with various webmail accounts.
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by Elfan 19y ago
My college standardized on Eudora several years ago and it has served them well. It never made much sense for Qualcomm however.
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by Elfan 19y ago
The impression I got when pg gave the talk at Startup School was that it was some kind of "big company buys little company because they were scared of what they were making" situation. But as far as I know that's all they can say.
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by Elfan 19y ago
Does the new rendering code decrease the instances of bug 263160? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263160
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by Elfan 19y ago
Shuttleworth has shot this rumor down as well if it needed repeating: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/20
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by Elfan 19y ago
The breadth of people who read slashdot is still an advantage I have not seen duplicated elsewhere. There are many sites where programming stories will be comented on by programmers. There are not so many where particle physics stories ar
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by Elfan 19y ago
a) Completing a CS degree does not a programmer make. Indeed the author seems to think that CS degree == vocational programming training. I think that's the problem with current CS degree programs.
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by Elfan 19y ago
As I recall from some other people who have compared such things del.icio.us tends to bring a steady stream of traffic compared to a one day torrent. Or at least that was the case for their sites.
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by Elfan 19y ago
The article managed to list most of the thigns I actually still like about Facebook.
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by Elfan 19y ago
"Thanks to Paul Buchheit for writing the Javascript, and Trevor Blackwell for help integrating it."
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by Elfan 19y ago
"FogBugz is written in Wasabi, a very advanced, functional-programming dialect of Basic with closures and lambdas and Rails-like active records that can be compiled down to VBScript, JavaScript, PHP4 or PHP5. Wasabi is a private, in-house l
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by Elfan 19y ago
What is the IP?

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