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by TY 16y ago
I have a recent Thinkpad X201 (got in May) and it required some tweaking to get any kind of graphics (even for the OS installer itself) to work with Lucid Lynx. Some features still don't work as well as they do under Windows 7 on the same m
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by TY 16y ago
You might want to check out this book, available as free PDF download: http://www.thelightsinthetunnel.com/ Quote: Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead? Is it possible that accelerating comp
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Build An Optimal Scientist, Then Retire(hplusmagazine.com)
30 points by TY 16y ago|4 comments
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by TY 16y ago
$5/20 GB = 25c/GB - that's more than 15c/GB at Amazon. Are you dreaming about price increases? :-)
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by TY 16y ago
I bought 4 books all at different prices using this promo. Got 50% off each one.
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by TY 17y ago
Here's what Joel has to say about picking the right software company to work for: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html It's an old article that has generated a lot of discussions on the Web and is also known as "Joel'
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by TY 17y ago
Great article! It's been posted and discussed here several times before though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212
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by TY 17y ago
Thanks all for the replies! I'm leaning towards using GAE at this point, with a contingency plan to switch to a third party (most likely AWS) if needed. I do hope that the wall that separates App Engine team is high enough and Google has in
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Ask HN: Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine
16 points by TY 17y ago|19 comments
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by TY 17y ago
Agree on Gunnars - ever since I started using them (about 2 months ago) my eyes are not nearly as much tired at the end of the day as they used to be. Also, no more headaches. I was also very skeptical about them, however something had to b
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by TY 17y ago
This certainly does qualify as disturbance in the Force :-) On the other note, I do hope that Hollywood would embrace this as an opportunity not as a problem. However, if anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything,
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by TY 17y ago
This is a fantastic story, it deserves its own HN thread! I doubt that this would be possible in today's Apple though... If FSJ commented on this, he would probably mention dispatching Moshe in a time travel machine :-)
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by TY 17y ago
Oracle does not own EMC
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by TY 17y ago
I do the same thing on that site all the time: copy all text and read it in the text editor. I hope that someone from InfoQ is reading HN - can you please rethink the design of the site? You have great content, but usability could use some
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by TY 17y ago
Mirai used to be one of the high-end 3D animation and modeling tools. If my memory does not deceive me, it was written in a Lisp dialect. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_%28software%29 ) tells me that it "traces its linea
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by TY 17y ago
I'm in the same boat - if I don't make myself work, I'll end up reading all the time with zero to show for it. Only one thing makes me deliver: deadline Without deadlines, nothing gets done in my world, as I always get these ideas of how to
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by TY 17y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=F%23%20better%20performance%2...
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by TY 17y ago
It's only $18.19 for the eBook version and contains in depth interviews with very interesting people. I'm half-way through the chapter with Jamie Zawinski - it's a blast to read. There are interviews with Knuth, Norvig, Steele, Ingalls and
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Coders At Work available for purchase(apress.com)
1 points by TY 17y ago|1 comments
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by TY 17y ago
As I never heard of FizBuzz test mentioned in the article, I followed the link to Jeff Atwood's site ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000781.html ). FizzBuzz turned out to be an extremely simple problem (description in the post).
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by TY 17y ago
Try Xobni search plugin - it's fast and free for the basic version. It will certainly alleviate your search pains with Outlook 2003.
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by TY 17y ago
I love this comment by BubbaBrown on the original site: Good flash. I heard all the same things when I quit my job. Still an unemployed computer scientist, but sometimes you just got to escape. A professor once told me to be wary of the "g
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Joe Marshall's take on Guido Van Rossum's post on tail recursion(funcall.blogspot.com)
74 points by TY 17y ago|35 comments
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Battlestar Galactica is a subject of a panel discussion in the UN(nytimes.com)
4 points by TY 18y ago|0 comments
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by TY 18y ago
Have a look here - there is a whole interview with the CEO of ClickBank (the company that specializes) on this subject that might be useful to you: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516821 The value of services such as ClickBank is that
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by TY 18y ago
There is a Montreal based company called Gamerizon that is currently developing a Scheme based game called QuantZ. Check out their website for the demo video and screenshots of the game: http://www.gamerizon.com/ Btw, they are now hiring.
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by TY 18y ago
Here is another take on targeting a narrow niche from an interview by Andrew Warner (also about selling to bird lovers - an interesting coincidence): "When Bob Dunlap of ClickBank told me that one of his clients made $500,000 last year sell
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by TY 18y ago
GoDaddy has the most horrible and confusing site design that causes me to waste a lot of time doing something as simple as trying to lookup which hosting plan I'm on. However, I'm still a customer for all of my .ca (Canada) sites and hostin
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by TY 18y ago
In my experience, wrapping all data manipulation operations in a set of stored procedures usually provides abstraction layer powerful enough to address the issues raised by the author. In this approach, no application can change data in the
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by TY 18y ago
This is precisely why I quit my corporate job - so that I can work on my application and not worry about them owning intellectual rights to the product when it is done. Eventually, you'll get over the burn out phase. I took me 2 months to s

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