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by aristus 14y ago
Popular ideas about faraway places lag reality by a half-generation or more. I've talked with people who still think Medellin and Beruit are hellholes, when in fact they are now the safest places in their regions.
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by aristus 14y ago
I am an author (not of this book) and I very occasionally get an email asking for PDFs. Maybe one in a thousand sales are PDF. Since it doesn't come up that often I've never bothered with setting up a paid system; I just send them a link an
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by aristus 14y ago
In a word, yes. It's a running joke in the book, eg children in Finland start reading at 12 months. Children in Finland eat all their vegetables, etc. It's intended to poke fun at fretful American parents and the things they say to motivate
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by aristus 14y ago
It's not at all accessible to children, at least compared to what it could be. I've been writing code for money for 20 years and it took me a long time to understand that paragraph. It is concise, but it's not clear. And worse there is no i
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Pascal's Apology, or why computer science is complicated(carlos.bueno.org)
112 points by aristus 14y ago|29 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
In many languages, "meat" roughly equates to "red meat". Fish and fowl are considered different categories. I believe this came about because of a Catholic church ruling that fish did not count against the promise to give up meat during Len
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by aristus 14y ago
Not sure what you are complaining about here. :) Facebook has 1/4 the number of employees Yahoo has and less than 1/16 that of Google. It's smaller than my high school.
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by aristus 14y ago
Yep. This also extends to the publishing, marketing, etc: http://www.laurenipsum.org/like-a-startup I don't think that it's exactly like a software startup. You don't have to deal with bug reports or upgrades, for instance. But the same
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by aristus 14y ago
Yep. Though I recommend also creating a network of archives.. http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/09/paper-internet.html
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How to Sample Data Like a Pro(carlos.bueno.org)
5 points by aristus 14y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
Think hard about your appetite for risk. As companies scale up the work and character and risk profile changes, roughly with each order of magnitude of employees. The same company a year and 10 people later may suit you better.
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by aristus 14y ago
There's a problem with "critic" reviews, at least from where I'm sitting: critics don't review anything that's not backed by a huge publisher, effectively locking out all of the small-time authors who might actually have something good. For
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by aristus 14y ago
They seriously had not heard of the leading zero zip code problem until now? Fulfillment is KS's big hole, and an opportunity for them to make even more from projects as an optional service. I have done this kind of stuff before so was able
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by aristus 14y ago
That was tried about 5 years ago against the "Russian Business Network", AS40898. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/russian_b... As far as I know it only worked temporarily.
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by aristus 14y ago
My father had some bad experiences with "La Raza" in the 60s because back then it really was race politics. Today my wife and I participate in a lot of their arts programs even though I look as white as Martha Stewart. I imagine that if a h
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What a Bitcoin looks like(carlos.bueno.org)
2 points by aristus 14y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
As an aside, how do you generate the QR code? Do you have to create a separate wallet?
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by aristus 14y ago
Anecdotal, but I often interact with people who went to elite schools. A large number of them are convinced that the world is run by their classmates. It's sometimes tiring to hear, especially as having that kind of network does help. Of co
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by aristus 14y ago
Influence has a way of perpetuating itself, especially when its protected by nerdy little enclaves. So you are saying that because women (or mexicans or furries) did not contribute in the past, they now deserve to be excluded in the future?
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How to Write a Popular Science Book(open.salon.com)
1 points by aristus 14y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
A reader offered to buy a copy of my book if he could pay in BTC. I printed it out for safekeeping and to show my kids someday. I think that's about as far as I will invest.
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by aristus 14y ago
Check out http://hn-books.com/ created by this forum's own DanielBMarkham
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by aristus 14y ago
Evan is a special soul, with the heart of a poet and the spleen of a troll.
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by aristus 14y ago
With a Heisenberg Compensator! No. Like with any bottlenecked resource, you first measure how much you are using per "transaction", whatever that may be. Then you see whether you can use what you have more efficiently. Maybe you don't need
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by aristus 14y ago
(FB employee, tangentially related to this stuff) Everyone, including myself, casually uses the term "CPU-bound", "I/O bound", "Memory-bound" for convenience but the truth is usually more complex. You might actually be CPU-instruction-cache
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by aristus 14y ago
I had to put up with that same thinking about South America for years. But please, go ahead and keep thinking that! More marketshare for the rest of us. :)
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by aristus 14y ago
Netflix knows how often I replayed the first 5 minutes of The Invisible Man, too. :) This is more concerning: https://kindle.amazon.com/post/192I0Q7B1DRFJ Apparently notes and highlights can be made public, with your name attached no less
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Teaching is a form of compression.(laurenipsum.org)
2 points by aristus 14y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 14y ago
Ouch. That's your new kind of lock-in right there. It's not going to be about software compatibility, it's going to be about the extreme high cost of running on more than one cloud and sharing data between them.
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by aristus 14y ago
I think the big story here is that Egress is 1/10th the cost of AWS.

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