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   by andr 18y ago

   While the direction this is taking is ingenious, the concrete implementation is useless. There's a reason why genetic algorithms are automated - most of the mutations are useless, so it's a waste of person's time to look at all of them. Wha
2. 542.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   Project Euler + Django
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   by andr 18y ago

   Clearly better than Emacs! (j/k)
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   by andr 18y ago

   What's the purpose of that book? It's published in 2002, so computers had been able to generate random numbers for decades. It's worthless as an OTP book, as it's probably the only such book.
5. 545.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   Technical summary, please?
6. 546.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   Citation needed.
7. 547.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   Google has the know how (XMPP), the significant user base (every Gmail user), and the relationship (who talks to who) information to do this themselves. Heck, they just need to start logging GTalk status messages.
8. 548.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   I'm afraid more and more of Seth's posts are turning into blah-blahs. In the past he had lots of very insightful posts, but now it's usually commonsense advice written using too many words.
9. 549.▲
   by andr 18y ago

   It is, but only YouTube would have realistically bought Omnisio, so they essentially locked themselves in a single-client market. Same goes for Xobni.
10. 550.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Oh well, time to brush off the old "sell dog food online" business plan.
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    by andr 18y ago

    Define sucking. Sun is the only midlevel server company that innovates beyond buying mother boards and CPUs and assembling them. They make their own CPUs, their own OS, ZFS, serious storage solutions, etc. They foot the bill for MySQL and J
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    Sun announcing up to 6000 (18%) layoffs(bloomberg.com)

    38 points by andr 18y ago|31 comments
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    by andr 18y ago

    Deserves a place in the inventors hall of fame, right next to the ropeless jump rope: http://jumpsnap.com/
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    Ask YC: Good agile book?

    4 points by andr 18y ago|3 comments
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    by andr 18y ago

    I'd try to build a microsharding system. Depending on the amount of data you want to store, go for 256 or 65k virtual shards and allocate a few shards on each DB server. A hash of the key will give you its shard and it's easy to keep a shar
16. 556.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Reminds me of BroadVision's 3-page long URLs of dot com boom fashion.
17. 557.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Ah, the one game that should've had a sequel but did not. I would've traded Monkey Island 4 for GF2 gladly. PS The tears of joy box on the very last page was a great touch.
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    by andr 18y ago

    Ok, so the whole article is just a regurgitation of what is already known about Windows Azure + ranting. Dziuba has obviously not used the service. If you think about it, .NET Live Services' service bus = SQS but better. SQL Services = Bigt
19. 559.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    I know people complain when new Windows releases take 5 years, but is the opposite better. I mean I just got my official 8.04.1 CD last month.
20. 560.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    There go my funding plans...
21. 561.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Definitely not the way to hit on chicks that are Beatles fans.
22. 562.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Definitely interesting! From what I see at first glance, there's a queue/MQ-like service, a scalable database (is it SQL or key/value?), a workflow service, and the whole thing works whether you want to use .NET or not.
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    by andr 18y ago

    Give me your email and I'll send you the answer.
24. 564.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    Why is this dead? It's a pretty clever ad as far as advertising goes.
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    by andr 18y ago

    While it's possible to have a very cool and challenging PHP project, most of the work you get paid for is glorified HTML forms. What I do to fight the boredom is build my own framework. Over 2-3 projects I've gotten to something that is clo
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    by andr 18y ago

    Fix it, fix it, fix it! (apologies to SNL)
27. 567.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    They shut down Muxtape.
28. 568.▲
    by andr 18y ago

    OK, Microsoft clearly foreshadowed this: http://i36.tinypic.com/2llnhxk.jpg
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    by andr 18y ago

    They actually succeeded in hedging, because they halved their losses compared to the market. Hedging doesn't mean you always make money. It means that if your main instrument falls, instrument B is going to go up and cover some of the losse
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    by andr 18y ago

    That is why better hedge funds know when to be long and when to be short. My explanation makes a lot of assumptions for simplification, because it is impossible to know what every hedge fund is doing at every point in time.