KevBurnsJr

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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
md5 truncation will not guarantee avoidance collision. This does.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
If you use a prime near 62^n/2, udihash(range(1,10)) would still be unique but it would return a list that clearly has some linearity (V0001, 00002, V0003, 00004, V0005, 00006, V0007, 00008, V0009, 0000A, etc). Using a prime near the golden
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
For shorter 5-6 char strings. Ala tinyurl slugs.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
If I want a string thats 5-6 chars (for, say, a URL shortener), truncating an MD5 is a bad idea since it IS random. These keys are GUARANTEED to be unique. You can run all the way up to 62^n without any key conflicts. If you truncated an MD
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Generating unique Base 62 encoded strings(blog.kevburnsjr.com)
14 points by KevBurnsJr 16y ago|18 comments
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
"we'll make the URLs pretty, but we'll ignore the stuff about statelessness."
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
List view - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/1...
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USGS Map of aftershocks in Japan(earthquake.usgs.gov)
1 points by KevBurnsJr 16y ago|1 comments
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
That quip about Kindle book deletion is rather like Borders saying "We're going to sell you this book, but we reserve the right break into your house and burn it whenever we like."
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
... or a supervolcano right around dinosaur bedtime.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
Drug Wars on the TI-83 is largely responsible for my interest in computers.
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A letter from momtrepreneur(blog.kevburnsjr.com)
10 points by KevBurnsJr 16y ago|0 comments
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
ME TOO DAWG! Sitting at an orange table in the middle of the upstairs room staring at a laptop with a black wool shirt, fingerless gloves and a faux-hawk. Find me.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
When I tell Rubyists I'm a PHP developer, I usually get a missive "oh." like I've just been relegated to the kiddy table. This seemingly brainless blind man pounding away on a keyboard reveling in the glory of the sound it makes is what I i
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
I like to call it being an "Intelligence worker" as opposed to a "Knowledge worker"
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
Google Beatbox? http://translate.google.com/#de|de|pv%20zk%20pv%20pv%20zk%20...
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A years' worth of IRC logs fed into Wordle(blog.kevburnsjr.com)
1 points by KevBurnsJr 16y ago|0 comments
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
Anyone have any connections at HackerDojo?
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
Is there somewhere in Silicon Valley to watch this together in person?
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IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight(jeopardy.com)
245 points by KevBurnsJr 16y ago|143 comments
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
This seems like a pretty huge installation to put into GEO (geosynchronous orbit). Seems like space junk could be a big problem.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
http://www.yellowpages.com/phone/?phone_search_terms=214-748...
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
"[...] money at seed stage has become commoditized." Investors have always waived around their experience and business connections as differentiators. It's still going to be in their best interests to differentiate themselves. More competit
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
The buttons on the site are broken. The click events are all waiting for page load which is taking 20 seconds due to an unrelated request timeout for a javascript resource from a different domain. Probably some sort of analytics. Same thing
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
Will it be free?
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
This is what I assumed all code looked like before I started programming.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
2 minutes of hearing Matt Cutts talk and I understood the problem. 5 minutes of hearing Bing's VP of Search talk and all I hear is distancing, deflection and double speak. Bing does copy Google's results indirectly through click data gather
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
First impression: awesome. Second impression: The animations are a bit contrived. The hit state on the file browser arrows could be larger.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
LOL, Wireshark. Nice.
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by KevBurnsJr 16y ago
This is why you MUST throw away the prototype. Ditching bad code is much easier when there’s less of it. Throwing away the first iteration takes discipline and must be executed cold and ruthlessly. It is not enough to admit the code needs r

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