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Love In The Time Of MapReduce (fiction)(vincentwoo.com)
6 points by akanet 15y ago|0 comments
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by akanet 15y ago
"I had some poorly targeted ads, so a business that makes billions on actual CTR must be broken."
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by akanet 15y ago
Nowhere in the article does he claim authorship of that link? I think the author's intent was to draw solidarity with Jon Finkel, who is (probably) not a programmer but instead a several time Magic: The Gathering world champion and a manage
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by akanet 15y ago
I can't be the only one who got to the end and thought, "Man, 80 is a really conservative number."
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NodeJS is easy, just ask her out(vincentwoo.com)
12 points by akanet 15y ago|2 comments
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by akanet 15y ago
> In this economy, how many college graduates walk out of school into an $85,000/year job and no living expenses... Probably the same people actually able to set up a HFT shop. Let's face it, this isn't for everyone. I don't think we sh
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by akanet 15y ago
Selling videogame cheat source code to interested cheating websites: a few thousand. Was surprised to find such a robust market for that stuff.
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Google Launches In-App Web Payments(youtube.com)
3 points by akanet 15y ago|0 comments
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by akanet 15y ago
The main iTerm 2 guy works at Google
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by akanet 15y ago
I was looking for things more along the lines of the theory behind constructing an automated trader
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by akanet 15y ago
I'm a programmer with some liquid cash and an interest in doing things exactly like this for fun. Can you recommend any resources for getting started?
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by akanet 15y ago
Linkbait; there's nothing here about either scaling or an iPhone app.
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by akanet 15y ago
It MIGHT be a browser issue. Did you reload/switch browsers?
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Show HN: Multiplayer Set (nodeJS card game)(multiplayerset.com)
16 points by akanet 15y ago|5 comments
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by akanet 15y ago
Mountain View, CA GOOGLE IS HIRING ALL YOUR PROGRAMMERS GIVE THEM TO US FOR THE OVERMIND
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by akanet 15y ago
He said he scrapes the HTML output of the actual Google Translate web pages.
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by akanet 15y ago
My first day at Google was yesterday. The interview process was a typical full day affair with questions ranging from algorithms to large scale systems design. I had a blast, and definitely stumbled on some questions, but I found it infinit
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by akanet 15y ago
I like how they make the ridiculous claim that they are the third search result for "github" on google. What probably happened is they have personalized search on and they upped themselves to #3 by clicking themselves so much. See http://w
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by akanet 15y ago
If you wanna play with that again, check out http://vincentwoo.com/google.html
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by akanet 15y ago
Is it just me or have there been a lot of "check out how minimalistic ally I can implement a text editor on the web that saves" lately? Personally not seeing too much value here, though the design direction is nice.
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by akanet 15y ago
Assign variable X to be the number of years you have been alive, at least to your subjective experience. An immortal will see X go to infinity. A mortal will see it go into the three digits if they're lucky. The fact that you can't perceive
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by akanet 15y ago
My reasoning is that if I can convince someone that even unrealistic immortality is desirable, the rest falls into place. Realistic immortality is also sort of more boring to argue about. Sorry, please don't hate me.
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by akanet 15y ago
I chose not to address societal implications of immortality not because they're not fascinating or relevant, but because people's immediate objections almost never have to do with "what happens to everyone else?" That said I think the popul
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by akanet 15y ago
Neat, wish I had seen this sooner.
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Arguing for Immortality(vincentwoo.com)
59 points by akanet 15y ago|89 comments
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by akanet 16y ago
Sorry about that, I wiped the subsection with these stats. They're probably dead wrong and no one can actually find the primary source.
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by akanet 16y ago
As far as I can tell, aforementioned statistics are bogus. I've removed them from Wikipedia. Burden of proof, etc.
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by akanet 16y ago
Listen, sheep means what it means. When the shoe fits...
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by akanet 16y ago
this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?
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by akanet 16y ago
cloudboyfriend.com suspiciously absent. market opportunity, anyone?

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