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by anrope 15y ago
It's funny, I was just thinking yesterday how I hadn't heard much about Airbnb since all the attention from the robbery in SF this past summer. There was a lot of negative press, and some serious concerns. It's great to see that they've ove
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by anrope 15y ago
Andy New grad: M.S. Computer Engineering Looking to work in San Francisco, Boston, or Washington D.C. Interested in Python backend stuff. Check out my github: http://github.com/anrope Featuring: - Twitter/flickr mashup (python/twisted/NLT
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by anrope 15y ago
Cool dip into Ruby internals. If you roll your own ruby, instead of redoing all your strings, you could just change RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX. This would cause more wasted memory if you have a lot of short strings (0 < len << RSTRIN
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by anrope 15y ago
Pretty spot on. GoDaddy already has a bad reputation, and they're way easier to stop using than, say, the NFL or ESPN (for most people). Also, GoDaddy is an internet company, supporting internet oppression. It's kind of like they're trying
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by anrope 15y ago
> Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation Go Daddy wouldn't be my first choice for who I want representing the internet to the government.
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by anrope 15y ago
Just to be a jerk (not really, but sort of), I did: while True: print "foreverrrrr" Of course it looped quite persistently, and then proceeded to ignore my ctrl+c's. Any chance you could catch those to kill a runaway program?
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by anrope 15y ago
Everyone is mentioning how petitions don't work, which I agree with. (Sidenote: I think it is an extra step worse that the government put up a website for petitions, and still ignores their own system. Random petitions (e.g. "\signed" forum
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by anrope 15y ago
Absolutely. You can almost feel the panic they must have experienced, trying to comprehend what was happening, in the dead of night, over the ocean: "What the hell is happening? I don't understand what's happening." "Damn it, I don't have c
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by anrope 15y ago
Up to this point, the situation was playing out in a sadly too common case of pilot error, pilot inexperience, which makes up a huge portion of aviation accidents. When I read about the dual input averaging, I literally exclaimed "what?!".
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by anrope 15y ago
Eigenvector isn't that bad, it's just not english: "The prefix eigen- is adopted from the German word "eigen" for "own"[1] in the sense of a characteristic description" (from wikipedia) I think Shannon's Information Theory is pretty fair to
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by anrope 15y ago
It bothers me a little bit that all these classes have their own domain names, all of which border on spammy-sounding (e.g. generic-prescription-drugs.com). I wonder why they aren't all under the same domain? All the classes I've seen so fa
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by anrope 15y ago
A bit off topic, but I was always a bit puzzled about how knots are described mathematically. This is a fantastic intro to knots in the mathematical sense.
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by anrope 15y ago
Not that it's a showstopper, but Photoshop has built in currency detection based on the EURion constellation, a pattern printed on a lot of currency worldwide to help prevent counterfeiting. Kind of cool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURio
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by anrope 15y ago
Also, completely separate thought, but I think the reddit crowd would love this if you could draw rage faces.
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by anrope 15y ago
I would think this would just make it easier for domain squatters, giving them a central place to trawl. Although, they probably already use tools like this.
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by anrope 15y ago
Yeah this is driving me nuts. It feels like a lot of companies are throwing around the same catchphrases, when instead they should be describing what they actually do or need done.
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by anrope 15y ago
Aww just had a good sesh where we drew (I think) a guy with a poster about looking both ways before crossing the road. Accidentally clicked leave. This is fun, and I understand the idea of communicating through drawing... but I still find m
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by anrope 15y ago
This caught me off guard too. He starts with a reasonable question, gets a reasonable answer, then comes up with this "we have the technology" noise? What's the point of getting an expert opinion if you're just going to completely disregard
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by anrope 15y ago
Digikey has some in stock, but at $19.50. http://search.digikey.com/us/en/products/STM32F4DISCOVERY/49...
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by anrope 15y ago
Useful as it is, I hope the high valued problems will become a bit more diverse, involving topics other than graph theory. Despite that, and some late-game changes, I think this first codesprint event went off really well. I think the inter
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by anrope 15y ago
They really pushed the "infinite storage" point in their presentation. But didn't they mention something about predicting which files to cache before they are requested? I would have liked to see more focus on that. Otherwise, it doesn't se
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by anrope 15y ago
It seems like a common experience at a hardware store to have an employee help you find what you need (versus, say, a grocery store), then finally direct you to the front of the store to pay. If that same employee could also ring you up on
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by anrope 15y ago
The article mentions that Lowe's has already been working to offer wifi in their stores, so it doesn't seem like too much of a reach to just use ipods. It seems like it would be expensive to have 25 cell phone data plans per store, but mayb
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by anrope 15y ago
"When soldiers kill people with drone aircraft in video game-like conditions, it removes the reality from something that would be extremely traumatizing when done with bare hands." This type of physical disconnect is discussed in a radiolab
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by anrope 15y ago
Good point about there being different levels of frameworks/tools. What's important is using the right tools for the job. Sometimes you might need the high level, very abstract framework, but it's not cool if that ends up being the only too
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Ask HN: Fresh grad interested in startup scene visiting the bay area
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by anrope 15y ago
I mostly just wanted to roll my own cross compiler, plus it was easier (for me) to distribute to the network machines that way. USB DFU is a device class specified by the USB standard. I like the idea of following a standard more than getti
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by anrope 15y ago
Completely agree, ARM is where it's at. Recipe for an open source, GCC-based ARM toolchain: -GCC -Newlib (an implementation of the C standard library aimed at embedded systems) -Binutils -GDB (optional; great if you pick up a jtag debugger
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by anrope 16y ago
That's fair. Still, in my experience (which is nothing special, 4 years undergrad, in second year of masters) there are definitely professors who consider teaching an unfortunate side-requirement of their research. And I don't think it's un
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by anrope 16y ago
"...overhead and red tape (grant proposals, teaching, committee work, etc.)..." I feel like a professor shouldn't consider teaching "overhead". If you're teaching classes, you should be putting at least as much effort into research as teach

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