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by SlyShy 17y ago
Impressive how close the performance got to Nginx for large files after the buffer memory pointer problem was fixed. The API changes are going to be interesting.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
That's a very odd and circuitous way of doing something that is already built-in, I've got to say.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I think those were USB ports I saw in the back.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Not to be a downer or anything, but do you think this would encourage voting cabals? If I noticed every post my friends added, I'd probably end up upvoting them quite a bit more, and perhaps quite artificially.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Except that's even easier, because it's just Shift-F.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Hitting T and then typing into the address bar isn't fast enough? How could that even be sped up?
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by SlyShy 17y ago
They could take a hint from Hacker News. Creating a successful community is all about pre-seeding it. Of course, the problem is this can't be scaled. Making enough friends to found a domain specific website with a good group of them isn't e
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by SlyShy 17y ago
There are also options like Erlang and Node.js where hot code-swapping is possible. Although having a second database is useful as a slave, of course, I don't think it is necessary to run two copies of the database just to redeploy. Github
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I can't wait for the iFad to be over.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
As far as I know, it does. http://synthesis.sbecker.net/articles/2010/03/21/asset-packa...
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Yes and no. I've tried this sort of thing before, and obviously the machine can't know when you are actually reading a paragraph slowly or when you've just been distracted. It would have to be clever about weighting an overall average with
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought many of the popular iPad applications were silly. The Average Reading Time idea is intriguing, however, I don't expect it to be of much use. Reading time varies vastly depending on the material. Nobody
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Displaying them all in a column like that emphasizes the value variations. Which is the point, of course. It's just that there is a segment of the population that always acts shocked to discover that the three colors they picked look differ
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Nice tool, although the way the colors are displayed can distort perception. Always remember to test and pick colors in context. If you are using a white background, don't pick colors in a black app, and vice versa.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Awesome. Google has already been moving into visual search for quite a while, and I can't wait for it to be more useful.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I don't think it has to do with PG anymore specifically. But rather, if you were to mention HN in a cover letter as the way you heard about a job opportunity, then your Hacker News profile would likely be checked out. I've had it happen 2 o
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by SlyShy 17y ago
You could look at it another way and derive an opposite conclusion. A lot of people have a feeling that what they do on Hacker News "matters" in that other people are watching their behavior, and might choose to hire them or co-found with t
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Definitely. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was an exploration of how society could be structured to incentivize moral behavior. Schools should be structured to incentivize education.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Not to hate, but these are vague ideas overall. Those are the kind that are a dime a dozen. ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I like this. Looks and feels like Ruby, but it receiver patterns, instead of method_missing wonkiness. The arrow expression is cool as well. http://wiki.github.com/marianoguerra/efene/languagereference
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by SlyShy 17y ago
It hasn't aged well.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Interesting that the major problems with the JooJoo can be fixed by a better linux, whereas the major problems with the iPad... can be fixed by a better linux. ;)
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Honestly, nothing I've seen about the operating system leads me to think it is actually very custom (insofar as you would call the EeePC's Linux "custom"). It probably just ships with a kernel compiled with the touchscreen drivers, and othe
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by SlyShy 17y ago
This doesn't sound like anything boutique advertising networks like The DECK ( http://decknetwork.net/ ) haven't already done.
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GUPC — A parallel C implementation for GCC(gcc.gnu.org)
1 points by SlyShy 17y ago|0 comments
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Schneier on Security: The Effectiveness of Air Marshals(schneier.com)
23 points by SlyShy 17y ago|8 comments
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Where by "animals" they mean multi-cellular organisms.
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by SlyShy 17y ago
I can't believe Smashing Magazine is writing this article. They soundly missed April Fool's Day. If there is a single thing I've seen Smashing Magazine promote, it is imitation and mindless copying. Their analysis of design is consistentl
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by SlyShy 17y ago
Well, as a non-profit start-up it seems like simply asking for money would be easier than for an average start-up. Presumably people are willing to donate, if it's a good cause, and you can base your appeal on the good you'll do, rather tha
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by SlyShy 17y ago
This is awesome to hear.

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