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by akg 15y ago
I've recently quit my job to work on my startup full time. I do have some money saved up and am living cheaply. At some point you have to take a chance on yourself and do what you want. Life is too short to be working on things you don't wa
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by akg 15y ago
;-), not that much. A decent connection is about $30 - 50/mo. The money saving is merely a fringe benefit, but it does add up over time. I usually just put everything up on my Linode instance where I can remotely manage updates via ssh. As
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by akg 15y ago
One practice I've found that works really well is to cancel your internet subscription. I am then forced to go to public hotspots to check/answer emails, browse the web, go on hacker news, Facebook, twitter, etc. Most of the time I can just
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by akg 15y ago
Very nice. This does make life easier for those who have limited front-end experience (aka me). Here some others that I find useful: http://960.gs/ http://sass-lang.com/ http://www.blueprintcss.org/
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by akg 15y ago
The ideas that last, the one's that stick around do have these subtle nuances that appeal to the senses. One may not understand, notice or even appreciate them at first, but in time as you learn more, you begin to see those same forms of ar
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by akg 15y ago
Akamai also has a decent list of publications that provide some insight on how they do things: http://www.akamai.com/html/perspectives/techpubs.html I recommend the following from that list: * Keeping Track of 70,000+ Servers: The Akama
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by akg 15y ago
I think what is remarkable is not her accomplishments (i mean she is only 16), but her mindset. There are very few 10 year olds that have the mindset to create something and have any sort of introspection on life. Most are preoccupied with
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by akg 15y ago
Exactly. I will also add that having one "winner takes all" is not necessarily a bad thing. Think about Wikipedia. The reason it is so useful as a tool is because it is the central portal for information retrieval and submission.
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Some Escher-like impossible figures.(home.earthlink.net)
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by akg 15y ago
I think most companies have tons of legacy code that is stilly lying around and in production use. When I was at Dreamworks Animation, we were still using tools written back in the 1980s to create animated features; albeit we kept improving
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by akg 15y ago
To a certain degree this is true. I think the major reason for why we see a "winner-take-all" effect on the internet is because of data persistence. Usually the usage pattern for brick-and-motor stores is that you visit it, get what you ne
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by akg 15y ago
Great work and a great first start. One thing that I find that is still missing from file-sharing is to share your stuff with people in your close vicinity. I often run into cases when I just need to quickly share images, code fragments, li
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by akg 15y ago
I think the tech-sector has significantly skewed what it means to be a "startup". But that has mostly to do with that fact that we only hear of the "startups" that are funded by some well-known VC for some large amount of money. Money that
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by akg 15y ago
> Won't using a high-level language incur an omnipresent speed slump? Not sure that is true. Just look at pypy( http://pypy.org/ ) which claims that run-time optimizations in the interpreted interpreter outperforms the C interpreter, an
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by akg 15y ago
Nice! I could definitely see a simply iOS app for something like that that makes use of the cover-flow animation. Could be a nice alternative to the Amazon.com store app if you can hook it up to user accounts and Amazon's personalized recom
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by akg 15y ago
It would be really awesome if something liked this was done for the recommended reading lists on Amazon.com, although, not sure if Amazon has an easy API for that.
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by akg 15y ago
Although Amdahl's law does limit the parallelization efforts, it only applies to fixed problem sizes. Greater parallelization may not always lead to greater performance of existing problems but instead leads to the ability to solve new prob
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by akg 15y ago
After doing some thorough research on the topic, I would like to say that I concede my point about the vulnerabilities of C/C++. Thanks tptacek.
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by akg 15y ago
After doing some research on the topic, I will have to say that I concede my point. ;-)
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by akg 15y ago
But doesn't the use of Java's JNI invalidate any security the JVM offers? As far as I know, any protections the JVM puts up are invalidated once you inject native code, which would potentially enable an attacker to potentially inject malici
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by akg 15y ago
I would call that a programmer error. The language certainly does make it harder to write "safe" code, but it is certainly doable. I guess my point is that the tools/libraries/frameworks on top of the language are what make it useful or not
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by akg 15y ago
Yes, however, there are libraries in place that can circumvent some of these issues: e.g., boost::shared_ptr in C++.
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by akg 15y ago
Google has a right to promote it's own products and it has no obligation to Twitter or Facebook or anyone else. People will use the product to the extent to which it serves their purpose. I guess if Google does proceed to neglect data from
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by akg 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand why one particular language would lend itself to more vulnerability than another. The less skilled someone is at a particular language, the more bugs/vulnerabilities he is likely to produce. It is a function of tec
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by akg 15y ago
Every language has it's pitfalls. There isn't one single greatest language for everything. Within an application domain one needs to consider the tradeoff between machine-time and human development-time and determine what the best tool for
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by akg 15y ago
Interesting, but not sure I agree. I find that life changes in unexpected ways. As humans, we adapt to those drastic sudden changes and learn and grow from that experience; and as your perspectives change so do you. I know for me, my "perma
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by akg 15y ago
I think to get to that point one needs to be comfortable with discomfort. That is when you push the boundaries you are capable of, grow, and accomplish amazing feats.
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by akg 15y ago
We place too much onus on considering and evaluating potential outcomes of our actions and inactions. I find that most things that we are involved in are not make or break situations. Losing a customer, getting rejected, failing at a projec
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by akg 15y ago
I love using terminal multiplexors, but prefer GNU Screen since it is almost always available wherever I need it. For those interested, I use the following to show a status line -- comes in handy when you want to name difference screens. Yo
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by akg 15y ago
His essay on enterprise vs. free approaches to development titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar is also an interesting read and provides some interesting insights behind the unix philosophy: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/cathed

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