EricBurnett

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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Hmm, I see. Thanks for pointing that out - I'm still working on getting my intent across properly for this kind of thing. Since it is too late to edit it and add a disclaimer, I guess this thread will do.
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Yes? My point was simply that where he struggled with frustration, I struggled with my ego. Considering he is probably a better programmer than me, I thought this was an interesting contrast to bring up. What is the problem?
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
My first experiences with programming must have been very different than his, with respect to the first section in particular. I always knew that programming was supposed to be hard - I grew up knowing no programmers, teaching myself the es
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
It is interesting to look at the monetary values of Google and Baidu in the two days since this was announced. It seems that after an initial ~2% dip, Google has returned to its pre-announcement value, while the value of Baidu has risen alm
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
While this article is about the value of the word 'Google', it is interesting to look at the monetary value as well. Comparing Google and Baidu, it seems that after an initial ~2% dip, Google has returned to its pre-announcement value, whil
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Indeed you can. Try \\live.sysinternals.com in a Windows Explorer window for an example of it (presumably mounting it in linux would work as well, although I haven't tried).
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
A pen always worked for me.
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
This is a good overview of the issues so far. The inclusion of a link to a Chinese newspaper's reporting of the issue ( http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/13/content_1280408... ) was especially welcome, as it was something I hadn't s
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Google and the ethics of the cloud(roughtype.com)
3 points by EricBurnett 17y ago|0 comments
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
I get nothing on that link. Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil ?
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Also see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048800 for the discussions about this when the news was broken on Google's blog.
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
If this person believes in the value of the Chinese government, it is their right to defend that opinion, just as it is your right to argue against it. Of course, the fact that they have a dissenting opinion by arguing that China should be
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
We definitely need more granular flags. People shouldn't need to be downvoted for expressing a dissenting opinion, but I agree that in the current HN climate it was inevitable.
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
FYI, here and in your other post above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1049046 ), I believe the word you are looking for is 'wary' not 'weary'. But good point nevertheless.
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
It says a lot when Google isn't even willing to store any source code in China. Hard to argue with that decision at this point, though.
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Mr. Tracy's library(roughtype.com)
2 points by EricBurnett 17y ago|0 comments
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
If you need 100% guarantees, then yes, do things in a purely functional way. However, I think the point is that in any sane program you can easily and safely make the assumption that + does not depend on pi in this situation. Yes, anything
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
I can't comment on what definition of blue moon they use, but Google calculator says that ~0.37 occur every year: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=1+year+*+once+in+a+...
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Ask HN: Why doesn't RIM have any direct competitors?
5 points by EricBurnett 17y ago|6 comments
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Up-voting breaks after you sign in in a different page. The situation is this: sometimes I open a number of pages in tabs when I am not signed in, then read and vote on them all. The first time I vote I get the login page and everything wor
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
Ping times will be high for some sites, but I doubt Google will be one of those. As soon as this Lunar Net goes up Google will have a server on the moon faster than you can say 'light-speed delay', so all your favourite Google services and
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Everything you need to know about 'popular culture'(google.ca)
1 points by EricBurnett 17y ago|0 comments
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
I found it surprising how good a job this does with topics you wouldn't normally associate with images. For example, c++: http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/html?query=c%2B%2B . Considering that I had no idea what images to expect for this
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Who can name the bigger number?(scottaaronson.com)
12 points by EricBurnett 17y ago|1 comments
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
I'm sorry, but 7 petabytes for the largest search index in the world? I'm hoping the reporter misquoted the developers here. If we conservatively assume servers with half a terabyte of hard disk space, that's 14,000 servers for the web inde
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by EricBurnett 17y ago
That was a good explanation to calculating the index of a point on the Hilbert curve - I had been wondering how that was done myself. I'm going to have to sit down and implement one of these someday. Other than the quadtree, the Hilbert cur