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by api 14y ago
And the wheel turns: http://www.retrologic.com/jargon/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.ht... The wheel of reincarnation I'm referring to in this case is the cycling between a mainframe/thin-client architecture and a PC-based distributed architect
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Base91x: tighter than Base64, still XML and JSON friendly(github.com)
2 points by api 14y ago|1 comments
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KISSDB: (Keep It) Simple Stupid Database - A fast DBM that compiles to ~4k(github.com)
5 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
Since the PC, every iteration toward new form factors has come with progressively less freedom and openness: PDAs, smart phones, tablets, and now this. IMHO Microsoft's dominance was the big threat to open computing in the 90s, but feudal
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Google Glass Explorer Edition comes with extreme restrictions(arstechnica.com)
3 points by api 14y ago|1 comments
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by api 14y ago
Poll: UPMOD THIS if "NO"
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by api 14y ago
Poll: UPMOD THIS if "YES"
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Ask HN: do users like OpenID? what's the current consensus?
4 points by api 14y ago|5 comments
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by api 14y ago
Its probably useful for aggregate statistics. The Jordans and Teagans and Pats are outliers.
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by api 14y ago
It seems clear to me that government debt in modern fiat-credit economies isn't really debt in the same sense that private debt is debt. It doesn't behave like private debt. I don't think debt is even the correct term for it. Maybe we need
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by api 14y ago
In other news: JavaScript is the new X86 assembly language. Of course, X86 is "not that bad" according to Linus et. al. But it is awfully full of cruft, and could be a lot better. Yet it's fixed and will probably remain so. I wouldn't be su
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by api 14y ago
I can think of some amazing uses for this. I'm tempted to get one just to port this old hack of mine to it: http://adam.ierymenko.name/nanopond.shtml
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ZeroTier Networks: Enabling IP on the Internet(blog.zerotier.com)
2 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
I've suspected for a long time that the idea that life originated on Earth is the last geocentrism.
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by api 14y ago
That explains why my LLC's business debit card was turned off due to a fraud alert.
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by api 14y ago
Eclipse was just an example. There is going to be a niche for massive projects. There's also going to be a niche for projects that live for a very, very long time and thus are touched by a massive number of programmers... which presents man
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by api 14y ago
I suspect LISP is too unstructured for its power. It's very hard to scale something to more than one programmer or to a large size in a completely free-form dynamic language. It's easy to blow off other peoples' feet, and totally dynamic la
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by api 14y ago
From a valuation point of view I think Bitcoin behaves more like a stock than a currency. Imagine you have a tech company with a decentralized, very cryptographically strong, and very reliable global wire transfer system with a lot of great
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by api 14y ago
I completely agree. I have cut nearly all ordinary news from my life. I read domain-specific news, industry news, news from various little corners of interest, and occasionally glance at the headlines just so I have some clue of what's goin
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by api 14y ago
A left field speculation of mine: are we sure Bitcoin isn't Japanese? I know there's circumstantial evidence against Satoshi being Japanese, or even being a single person, but considering Japan's economic malaise it seems possible that they
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ZeroTier Networks: Global Local Area Networking (my new startup's teaser page)(zerotier.com)
1 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
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by api 14y ago
It's not Google's problem, or Facebook's or Microsoft's or anyone else's. The problem is architectural. With NAT and firewalls we have created a net that does not permit easy lateral communication. As a result, all communication must go t
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by api 14y ago
"who wants to lend money when you have no idea what money will be worth?" Easy. Don't lend in raw gold (or Bitcoin, or whatever). Create a mathematical construct that attempts to capture the value transacted and denominate your loan in that
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by api 14y ago
"What's wrong with people saving for their future and not spending beyond their means?" This is less profitable to the financial industry, and the financial industry finances nearly all research in the field of economics. It's difficult to
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by api 14y ago
It's almost as if currency is just a medium of exchange.
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by api 14y ago
Very good point, but I think there's some is-ought fallacy in the idea that humans should accept these things as inevitable because they are "natural." To me it's almost the definition of intelligence to try to escape one's default circumst
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by api 14y ago
I think the Chinese ghost cities are the clearest illustration of what's wrong with Keynesian economics.
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by api 14y ago
With the exception of computers, most of the economic growth of the 20th century was centered in wasteful areas: runaway suburbanization, military Keynesianism and useless wars, etc. Funny that the kooks on the Austrian side of the debate p
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by api 14y ago
It remains to be seen how this will end. There are a lot of very smart people who believe very strongly that this "longest sustained period of economic growth in human history" is absolutely unsustainable in a very, very dangerous way. It i
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In-kernel memory compression (Linux)(lwn.net)
3 points by api 14y ago|0 comments

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