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by abi 16y ago
Check out the source: "This code is not pretty, but it doesn't need to be. It's only been 6 hours, but based on funding patterns I should be able to raise a few million off of this ;). Yours, Banksy The Lucky Stiff" I concur, hard to see h
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by abi 16y ago
It depends on the topic of the book, of course, but some of the best computer science books I've read were written in the 70s and 80s (SICP, Dragon Book, etc.). The C programming language, one of the most popular languages in use today, has
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by abi 16y ago
My statement doesn't imply the converse. ;)
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by abi 16y ago
It's pretty easy to guess with just public information. And I don't see how revealing their name can harm them in any way.
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by abi 16y ago
Like A Little. http://likealittle.com If you aren't in college right now, you probably haven't heard of it. Proof : It launched first at Stanford approximately six weeks ago and http://likealittle.com/about/internships
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Ron Paul: Don't blame Wikileaks (audio)(youtube.com)
3 points by abi 16y ago|0 comments
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by abi 16y ago
That's an interesting point you bring up. Differentiating doctors is even harder than differentiating developers because at the least, developers can show you their work/portfolio. But for doctors, what are the external indicators of goodne
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by abi 16y ago
Nope. But that kind of money is a lot in India so the Indian press will make a big deal out of it. Of course, IIT grads who do their Master's in the US have been getting the same offers for a while but that's not the same as Facebook recr
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by abi 16y ago
It it possible to obtain the data for this somehow? I'd interested in making a different, more straightforward columnar text-only view.
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by abi 16y ago
Yep, this is a really bad way to present the information. Having a collapsible columnar list for each department would be orders of magnitude more useful. Plus it would be in HTML, and you could use ctrl/cmd+f to search for dissertations by
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by abi 16y ago
I like it. One minor suggestion: Put your < link > tags in the head because right now, I'm seeing ugly flashes of unstyled content ( http://www.bluerobot.com/web/css/fouc.asp/ ).
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by abi 16y ago
Pretty sure (but can't find source at the moment) that that number only reflects the cables on the wikileaks website itself. The number of cables released to newspapers is significantly higher but not a quarter million.
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by abi 16y ago
While I agree with you that the content of the last few releases have been fascinating but mostly inconsequential. The reason given for staggering the releases is a good one: if you released it all at the same time, each individual issue w
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by abi 16y ago
Not all of the quarter million cables have been leaked, if I recall correctly.
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by abi 16y ago
Related : are they replaceable?
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by abi 16y ago
Anyone know of good resources to read about evaluation order in Haskell (so we can get better at it)?
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by abi 16y ago
I don't know too much about face detection, can you anyone tell which algorithm the author is using? It doesn't work on a lot of pictures so I was wondering if this is the best face detection algorithm available?
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by abi 16y ago
Except there's no startup ecosystem and the culture is very traditional.
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by abi 16y ago
I wrote a solution for #2, that's exactly like what you guys want! Check it out. http://youconcert.appspot.com The version that's up there was written in a single Caltrain ride but I have a lot more features after coding some more. I'll p
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The Breathtaking Magnitude of Our Technology(blog.abi.sh)
28 points by abi 16y ago|2 comments
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by abi 16y ago
This is a duplicate of another story that's already much higher up on the homepage.
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by abi 16y ago
To get new messages, you could simply use long polling so it becomes push instead of pull. For checking if the user is online (I'm assuming your clients are running in web browsers), you can use the onbeforeunload to send a HTTP request tha
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by abi 16y ago
This sounds cool. Real-time auctions on the web should be a lot of fun. Post a link whenever you're done.
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by abi 16y ago
I'm surprised that was your conclusion. Why do you blame HTTP if the point of failure in your case seems to be the database?
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Ask HN: What's a good tool for private group communication?
2 points by abi 16y ago|2 comments
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by abi 17y ago
Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)
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by abi 17y ago
I started notify.io with Jeff and you're misunderstanding what notify.io is. We have clients not just for the iPhone, but also for the Mac, Windows, Ubuntu and Android. You should check it out before describing it as "telephone clients".
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by abi 17y ago
Check out notify.io and oovertheair.appspot.com. Would love to hear your feedback.
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by abi 17y ago
abii @ stanford.edu
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by abi 17y ago
Thank you! Took a lot of time and work. And the landing page is pure art, serves no purpose whatsoever. Still a lot of fun.

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