RuggeroAltair

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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I guess JavaScript has a pretty bad random number generator. The tool I linked does a good job at showing that. If you post a string here I'd be curious to look at it. In the past computers where using generators that under some particular
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
What are you using to generate the strings?
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How bad are you at generating random numbers?
5 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|8 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that the new UI is not very pretty? It's all (un)balanced to the left (for big enough screens) and the gray frame feels like a cage. Maybe some things work better, but I didn't have a good gut reaction at all se
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Google gives Chrome OS a less alienating interface (news.cnet.com)
2 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|0 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Not sure what you guys mean. For example, I don't think of YC as a way of getting funding, but as a way of getting things done well, thank to the possibly unbeatable amount of white board advice from so many good people that it's very hard
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Although I don't mean that the other ones aren't worth working for, I'd say I'm surprised that you don't think Flutter is an interesting company to work for. It seems like it could be a very exciting playground for an engineer.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I think, and maybe here I'm stating the obvious, that a big problem is how people sometimes think that their idea is the real deal, while the implementation is just a matter of paying somebody. I think that most people don't realize that mo
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Ask HN: which startup from this Demo Day did you like the most?
1 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|0 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I would like to understand why a few people say that the recommendation is so important. If it is, then it means that the application process isn't working very well. I understand that it can help if for some reason the application isn't ve
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
By the way, do they realize that their ask people to apply through their Facebook accounts?
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Maybe they seem ridiculous to you if you don't get that my comparisons were purposely exaggerated. The point is that facebook didn't invent face, didn't invent book, and didn't invent wall (not even in the ACTUAL meaning they are used in fa
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
It would be interesting to know the distribution of submissions versus time.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
There is no need to be afraid of the video. I don't think YC cares at all about how good of a speaker you are, they probably have a million applications and they just want to have a first look at the team. For example, if you live in the sa
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Nope. One thing is defending their website from massive account closing or effectively limiting their usage. Another thing is that if I create a Facebook account then I can't use anymore the words wall, face and book without risking a lawsu
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
... and a little ridiculous. "You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including ... Face, ... Book and Wall)" Like if using a windows machine meant that I can't have any name that involves window, micro, soft, gate, intel(ligence)...
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Good analysis. I think though that we can go a step forward. I agree that we all should look at it much more in a symbolic and metaphorical way than a logical way (there are several points in which the internal logic is severely weak). And
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Apple has too much cash, can't invest it all -- stock buyback, pay dividend(sfgate.com)
1 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|0 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I agree. Probably in the future we'll start more and more to have specific search engines for different things. I think that will be somewhat wiki, somewhat social, and somewhat search engine will eventually take off. But not necessarily in
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Yes. One of the problem with that is unfortunately quite silly. We don't know the exact position of submarines, since the water interferes with the GPS-like systems and makes them unreliable, while neutrino beams need to be highly collimate
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
+1 for irony anyways...
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I use a different definition of natural. The fact that the electrons, negatively charged, were moving wasn't known when they assigned the positive-negative labels. But still, although what you are saying is certainly true in proton/electron
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
What's the kinetic energy of a unit speed, unit mass? What's the potential energy of a unit distance unit spring constant? What's the energy of a unit mole, unit temperature in Boltzmann units? :-)
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Nope. Although they are both conventions, in the electric charge there is really no natural choice. While mathematicians can argue whether or not a factor of 2 is a natural choice for a convention.
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I wouldn't call it nonsense. If the comparisons with the virial theorem and energy isn't enough to consider it at least as a reasonable choice, at least you should consider it as such because John Baez agrees with it. And you don't mess wit
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Is Google fearing pg's call on reinventing search startups?
13 points by RuggeroAltair 15y ago|7 comments
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Not only it isn't proportionally harder, but I think that Google feared your essay when you were indicating search as a possible startup. First, Matt Cutts said "Paul's #1 suggestion is reinventing search. I happily welcome competition in s
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
I like some of the new features but it's nothing that exceptional. I feel like they are afraid of shifting too much from the initial (great) product, to avoid losing the customers that will feel they're losing that sense of almost invisible
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
+1 for randomizing. do you produce the string with the monte carlo choosing within a specific subset? I'm not sure why it wouldn't produce more than 5 combinations and then 5 different combinations... also, if you have-time/like, you can pr
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by RuggeroAltair 15y ago
Bah, it doesn't even randomize the access. I put consTonant consTonant and of the million possibilities it started checking all the bb___ ones... not so useful if they show just 50 and the only thing they allow you to do is to keep going wi

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