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by andr 18y ago
Thanks to Mashable for bringing some sense in the April Fools stupidity. I like the idea of the day, but if it's not really really funny don't do it. Notably, "company X buys company Y" is dull. Doubly so if X == Google.
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Ask YC: Which queue/background worker solution?
4 points by andr 18y ago|1 comments
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by andr 18y ago
You mean like http://getsatisfaction.com/ups and http://getsatisfaction.com/tmobile ?
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by andr 18y ago
That's only half of the job. They still don't offer a way to "delist" yourself from GS. Customers will still think GS is providing support for 37Signals and will be disappointed. Even if the badge says it is not an official site many people
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by andr 18y ago
That's nonsense. I know at least 50 people with 1400+ SATs (on a 1600 scale) and only one of them is really into classical. That statistic is wrong on so many levels. In particular, SAT scores correlate to the level of education, which corr
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by andr 18y ago
Make sure you get the .net and .org before domain spammers steal it.
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by andr 18y ago
The actual PDF: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/10731/15987355.pdf
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by andr 18y ago
Pretty cool. Back in 2004 I built about the same thing. It accepted requests from IRC and a web site and streamed MP3s through Icecast (YouTube did not exist). I remember spending several days to build a smart algorithm to pick songs when t
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by andr 18y ago
That actually sounds like a neat business.
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by andr 18y ago
I'd love me 2 of those. Has anyone had experience with CUDA?
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by andr 18y ago
As much as I like DropBox, you have to take dl.getdropbox.com out of the equation to get an accurate comparison, because dl is used for sharing files with third parties and even hosting files on the web.
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by andr 18y ago
The SAT is a little over 2 digits, too. First, you can never get a 755 or something - it always ends in a 0. Then, you can't get less than 400 and more than 1600. So it's 1-120, again.
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by andr 18y ago
About time. We had quite a few discussions with the registrar in my university about the benefit of converting a numeric grade to a letter grade (round to the neared quarter), which would then be converted back to numeric to compute the GPA
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by andr 18y ago
In other news, TechCrunch has a bigger audience than The Bold and the Beautiful amongst male programmers that do not own a TV.
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by andr 18y ago
Didn't they know C# has a garbage collector before they started using it?
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by andr 18y ago
i guess it matters if you are writing a fighter jet OS.
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Ask YC: Why are SSL certificates so expensive?
41 points by andr 18y ago|60 comments
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by andr 18y ago
So the next desktop will be effectively single threaded, without the ability to show two windows at the same time? Seriously, a modern webbrowser is already a more powerful platform than the iPhone. That's why Palm is using WebKit...
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by andr 18y ago
Nonsense. Once the developer accepts a $2500 offer he is obliged to do his part of the deal. Not to mention that $2500 can be a lot of money for a lot of people. The 10% share of profits is a sign of good will on behalf of OP. It was not pa
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by andr 18y ago
To answer your question, Java is very easy to reverse engineer. Google for a decompiler. Several years ago I would get an almost perfect copy of the original source, with the proper variable names, etc. The only thing missing were comments
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by andr 18y ago
Oh the irony if NASA decided the lander does not need to be waterproof, because there is no water on Mars!
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by andr 18y ago
Without even clicking the link I can tell the "secret" is either something extremely vague as "work hard" or something that wouldn't hold to the simplest statistical test.
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Ask YC: AI/NLP for legal analysis?
5 points by andr 18y ago|3 comments
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by andr 18y ago
I used to hate MBTA until I moved to London. The system is much more poorly maintained here, and the fact that it's bigger is no excuse. Only in London will you hear an announcement like "All lines except the Northern line are operating wit
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by andr 18y ago
Why not cache the MD5/SHA1 hashes and only update them when the timestamp of the file changes?
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by andr 18y ago
The article never actually says why Perforce is more scalable, except that you have "an IT department taking care of it."
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by andr 18y ago
Summary: PG has an Air and uses Firefox and Terminal. But he's PG, so that automatically becomes newsworthy.
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by andr 18y ago
so how does eval_fun evaluate functions, then?
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by andr 18y ago
In the spirit of this article/book, when I interview people I ask them to have an apple or an orange and judge them entirely based on the fruit they choose.
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by andr 18y ago
Some day I will write an iPhone app in the bathroom and make it to the BBC headlines.

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