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by andr 18y ago
If it's open in an editor, click Save.
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by andr 18y ago
I strongly disagree. That's like saying we should keep shovelling by hand and not waste time to invent the backhoe. Programming exists to automate tasks and thus lends itself to automation quite nicely. If you put together 10000 code snippe
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by andr 18y ago
True, but a more educated guess than "billions".
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by andr 18y ago
I suggest adopting RFC 2119 or something similar to avoid misleading titles on HN.
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by andr 18y ago
This has been "known" since the 60s. The Drake equation estimates the number of habitable planets in the universe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
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by andr 18y ago
Pretty cool. Perhaps they should make it a bit more like http://shortformblog.com/ . Now that'd be pretty rad.
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by andr 18y ago
Even if it was, that's not spam, so no cause for concern.
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by andr 18y ago
Laziness is different for different folks. It's like using VIM - just a question of intelligence. If you are relatively smart, you can quickly come up with a complex VIM command sequence to do what you need. Otherwise, you copy and paste fo
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by andr 18y ago
Make it $5 per HOUR. That would be the perfect noprocrast.
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by andr 18y ago
I have always been surprised by how much Woz is still just a hacker at heart. He justs wants to tinker with stuff and doesn't care much about business. The world on the other hand expects him to always have his eye on revolutionary, world c
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by andr 18y ago
IIRC several years ago the Linux virtual memory manager started to optimistically write pages to swap when it was idle. If the VMM is tuned to do this more aggressively, and not to invalidate the page file on reboot, you get the benefits of
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by andr 18y ago
Sorry, that's Software Transactional Memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
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by andr 18y ago
Pretty cool, except the fact that they advise everyone to waste a sheet of paper to see their green tech demo.
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by andr 18y ago
I know, but I'm trying to get the best parts of STM to actually get an improvement in performance.
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Ask YC: A simpler STM implementation?
2 points by andr 18y ago|4 comments
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by andr 18y ago
Don't think about the worst case scenario if you start a business. Think about the worst case scenario if you don't do a startup. You are 40. Every day you work 9 - 6 at the BIG firm. Even after getting promoted several times, getting the c
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by andr 18y ago
Zuck doesn't seem very fresh on what he's talking about.
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by andr 18y ago
With high-end server motherboards having as many as 16 memory slots and 8GB DIMMs existing on the market, it's certainly possible. http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7D...
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by andr 18y ago
What about Scala?
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by andr 18y ago
1) If you want to be taken seriously, don't plug your startup at the top of your post. 2) Arrington is a free man and can do whatever he wants, without having to give reasons that sound valid to you. If a person can leave his job because he
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by andr 18y ago
You can (could?) get an XML dump of the whole Dmoz.
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by andr 18y ago
The UI also takes some elements from iTunes, in particular the "accordion" selectors for subjects and universities.
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by andr 18y ago
If you look 0:21 in the video (scroll down), the robot at the top looks like it's stuck searching for a waypoint.
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by andr 18y ago
Military strategy? I'd like to hear your startup pitch :)
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by andr 18y ago
That's par for the course. See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g
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by andr 18y ago
Great way to bootstrap your startup :)
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by andr 18y ago
The best case I've seen was at a certain SAT center. A group of 5 people went together with the idea to copy off each other. However, the proctor had each one draw a number from a hat to determine where he was going to sit. Since they ended
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by andr 18y ago
That looks useful, but I would prefer not to have to sit in front of the computer.
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Ask YC: Meditation Advice
59 points by andr 18y ago|78 comments
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by andr 18y ago
While this sounds very interesting, it only makes sense on a regional level. On a national level, a tax on savings and deposit accounts could very well to the same at a lower cost. The logistics of doing scrips nationwide would be very comp

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