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by andr 18y ago
I wouldn't say TC is dying. It's blogs like it that are replacing dying newspapers.
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by andr 18y ago
When it comes to metaprogramming, PHP's SPL is very handy: http://www.php.net/~helly/php/ext/spl/
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by andr 18y ago
Finally a reasonable explanation of why I've been feeling unproductive over the past few days!
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by andr 18y ago
I spent a week in S.F. in March 2007 and another in May 2008. I spent most of the time in the same areas (Market St., SoMa, Yerba Buena and Fisherman's Wharf) the increase in the number of homeless people in 2008 was staggering.
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by andr 18y ago
Liar's poker. Ask 2 people to pick a number and the one that picks the lower doesn't get paid. The number of people that actually play the game is the result of the experiment.
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by andr 18y ago
It wouldn't have worked if iTunes also let you download the music for free.
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by andr 18y ago
How exactly do you batch writes? Do you save 2 blobs in 1 file? Or some kind of keep-alive that Amazon counts as a single request?
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by andr 18y ago
1800 people attended Le Web 08. If SwissCom charged E100,000 total, that makes 55 euro per person to provide 2 days of Internet connectivity! That costs more than 2 months of residential DSL per person. Ridiculous, even if it had worked.
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by andr 18y ago
Even worse, they are going the way of a company built around a feature. Kiko users would have had to consciously move to Google Calendar. With PDF viewing most people won't even notice if what they are using changed. (I'm not ranting agains
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by andr 18y ago
You could even find better plugins at jQuery.org. The top plugin in this list is a contact form that slides. Holy bat shit!
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by andr 18y ago
andr's Law of Lists of Great Stuff: The greatness of the items in a list is inversely proportional to the size of the list. For further proof, see "Top 100 XYZ Apps" lists in ReadWriteWeb.
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by andr 18y ago
Quick, call CSI!
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by andr 18y ago
Better yet, you can run a JavaScript interpreter in there. Firefox, even.
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by andr 18y ago
Cool. An unrelated minor idea: *Note: Please clear your browser cache in order to see the changes* To avoid having to ask your users to refresh just append a version number (either manual or your SVN revision number) to all JS and CS
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by andr 18y ago
I guess metaprogramming is out of the question.
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by andr 18y ago
Yeah, I'm curious about the details, such as the mutation function and the phenotype. Otherwise it's a pretty straightforward GA.
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by andr 18y ago
I would have bought a subscription for this right away, as we were discussing rolling something like that on our own for a client. However, your pricing page being a "mailto" link put me off. Tell the price right away. Also, what are "advan
528.
by andr 18y ago
Open another instance in a second window and you'll quickly see the answer. Only one car would best fit the constraints (that's by definition). However, it's probably not the car you are seeing, because the algorithm tends to get stuck on l
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by andr 18y ago
Ok this is the second evolutionary computing post of today that does something cool with little or no explanation of what's going on. Stop teasing.
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by andr 18y ago
Why not do for memory controllers the same thing we are doing for cores? If 8 cores is the practical limit of a single memory controller, why not ship 16-core CPUs with 2 independent controllers, one for each set of eight cores? True, the t
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by andr 18y ago
Jetty does that when it comes to web servers.
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by andr 18y ago
This sounds like Paris Hilton advising me what to wear in my bag.
533.
by andr 18y ago
That's what you say now, but if you ever get to that point, you'd miss the excitement of the whole process and you'd want to do it again. So free time is not something an entrepreneur would really want.
534.
by andr 18y ago
Sorry, I didn't express myself clearly. I meant a bug in an Excel spreadsheet made by Moody's.
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by andr 18y ago
I am not sure if the giant squid gave permission to have his video taken. Shell should expect a DMCA notice any time soon, signed with a squirt of ink.
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by andr 18y ago
From memory: the Excel bug that caused Moody's to give high ratings of mortgage securities (one of the probable causes of the whole mess) was known, but management decided not to fix it. So, greed can override checks and balances.
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by andr 18y ago
The average billion dollar company is not in the web app business.
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by andr 18y ago
Great for data centers?
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by andr 18y ago
+1. My Dell fan was full of dust, so the notebook started overheating. I asked Dell (over their online chat) if it can be replaced and two days later a technician knocked on my door and took care of it. Total time wasted: 10 minutes. PS I d
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by andr 18y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but every day thousands of people around the world visit their local Genius bar. And as much as you want to think that your Genius was just awfully nice, they ARE following strict guidelines about what they can and

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