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by aggieben 19y ago
This is the crucial thing: Unrated links default to Safe-For-Work. The extension becomes useless if the ratings don't keep up with content (in other words, if some dude posts a nudie picture of his girlfriend, it's got to be rated be
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Ask HN: Metrics for startups?
2 points by aggieben 19y ago|3 comments
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by aggieben 19y ago
In my case, I'm working nights/weekends --- solo --- on a web application. What scares me is if I tell too many people what I'm doing, someone who can put it together faster than I can (smarter, more people, more time, whatever) and leave
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by aggieben 19y ago
My hypothesis has nothing to do with Lisp itself, per-se: People simply stopped paying attention because of the failed promises of AI - and in a nod to the parent, some of the talent base probably shifted to other technologies, and Lisp was
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by aggieben 19y ago
I'm sure it's the domain 'cafe24.com'; our filter categorizes it as 'chat', which to corporate IT morons is the root of all evil.
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by aggieben 19y ago
Could someone summarize what this is? My employer blocks this site (and makes you feel criminal for clicking the link in the first place).
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by aggieben 19y ago
Is this interesting? I tried to find out on the fortress project page linked above, but all I could quickly glean was that it requires Java, and it's intended specifically for HPC, with support for some concurrency primitives. Same song,
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by aggieben 19y ago
So, you're working on SLDB?
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by aggieben 19y ago
My disagreement was directed at your use of Occam's Razor (which didn't even make sense), not on whether pg thinks startups are neat. Clearly, he does.
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by aggieben 19y ago
Occam's Razor suggests that PG works with startups because he thinks they're better, not that he thinks they're better because he works with them. He is rich enough to work on whatever he wants. Huh? I think you'd have to know pg pretty
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by aggieben 19y ago
Best point was at the end: One difficulty with disagreeing with people is that you have to present their argument and your argument, and so your essay ends up being longer than theirs.
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by aggieben 19y ago
ok, ok, vendors are at fault too.
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by aggieben 19y ago
Embedded programmers only code in C because they haven't yet discovered C++ (seriously...embedded programming is like living in the 70s). C++ will be all the rage in embedded circles in the 2020 decade.
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by aggieben 19y ago
I think the most interesting feature of the chart is that Germany and the U.S. have the smallest spread.
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by aggieben 19y ago
Most of the problems he mentions have reasons behind them...there's method behind the madness, for those experienced in Java. Yup - and the reasons all have to do with fundamental paradigm flaws in Java itself (IMO). As someone who has b
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by aggieben 19y ago
Google isn't really about search, it's about data aggregation . I would say any of the important web applications are also within the group of "core products" that Google "sells", including the upcoming Google Health, GMail, and Google Doc
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by aggieben 19y ago
The money quote: Java is much like a 100-armed monster, who will put 3 of those arms to work to solve your problem if you very carefully tell it how to use the other 97 arms to masturbate itself.
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Calm and Rational Discussion of Java(briancarper.net)
1 points by aggieben 19y ago|3 comments
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by aggieben 19y ago
I'm curious - has YC ever thought about doing startup school in other locations? I'd love to do startup school (just like I'd love to apply to YC), but a startup school here in Dallas would be more beneficial to me because it would attract
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by aggieben 19y ago
My choice would be RogueWave. There are truly C++ experts there - the kind you will have a tough time finding (in person) in other places. Also, there's a good chance (I suppose) that you'll get to work on core products at RogueWave. The
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by aggieben 19y ago
any blog entries or anything describing what you did and what led to your shut down? I hope to avoid learning this kind of thing the hard way...
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by aggieben 19y ago
makes sense to me, and it seems right by set-theory too. Take this all with a grain of salt, though, because it's been a while since I was taught set-theory, but here's my stab at it: there is an intersection between '(a a) and '(a b); the
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by aggieben 19y ago
Agreed. It's not an unserious view of intellectual property to say that some creative works aren't valuable in and of themselves (or shouldn't be), but may help drive the value of something else that is .
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by aggieben 19y ago
I'm pretty sure the guy wants to get paid for his part-time work...
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by aggieben 19y ago
heh. If you didn't go look at the presentation, you might think this was a new twist on the now old-hat 419 scam. Watch out for emails like this: Hello good sir, we are in the early stages of starting a company that will make millions. B
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by aggieben 19y ago
sigh . The amount of work it takes to produce a really good benchmark is something more than what this guy did. Exhibit A: his analysis of optimization impact. I've been accused of biasing the results by using the -O2 option for GCC, supp
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by aggieben 19y ago
I totally identify with this; I've been coding for over 10 years and the only thing that has been truly consistent about my experience has been that frustration with my inability to learn everything I want to learn. I have a stack of books
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by aggieben 19y ago
But, see, people like not having strong identities on the internet, and where it matters, reputation and identity get built up organically already (i.e., I don't need Utu to know who the idiots are in my favorite IRC channels).
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by aggieben 19y ago
Uh...AOL = America OnLine. Point taken, but AOL isn't a great example - it started when Americans really were (practically speaking) the only netizens (and overseas connections were expensive).
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by aggieben 19y ago
Ah, but see...that's life. That's the beauty of a great Risk strategy - it takes into account probabilities that bad (or good) things will happen.

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