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by arohner 16y ago
Me too. I'm the founder of a company in Austin that interviewed for YC this winter, but got rejected. If anyone reading this wants to meet up in Austin, my email's in my profile.
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by arohner 16y ago
So why does Unicode Snowman exist? What language uses it?
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by arohner 16y ago
It's been a few years since I tried to rip a DVD, but there are plenty of tools in standard linux distros that have a single "click to rip" button.
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by arohner 16y ago
This is my de-facto password management scheme right now. I call it "log in via email" (as opposed to log in via facebook or google).
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by arohner 16y ago
The point of RSA authentication is you can give everyone your public key, and they can authenticate you without knowing your secret. Then, in case of something similar to the Gawker breach, the attacker has only the username and public key
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Ask HN: Why are we still using passwords?
15 points by arohner 16y ago|24 comments
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by arohner 16y ago
Another interesting facet of the "natural ontologies" argument is that the history of Zoology is a series of "bug fixes" where we got the ontology wrong . Leaving out changing requirements and DNA mutations for a second, there have been ma
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by arohner 16y ago
Yes, Web Programming can be hard, but it's probably harder than it needs to be. The whole ecosystem of HTML + CSS + JS + IE6 is a mess. Something along the lines of Cappuccino will help a lot. Then you're "only" left with the problems of UI
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by arohner 16y ago
> Fearing a terrorist attack is perfectly rational the question is how much liberty we’re willing to give up to prevent such attacks. How much liberty are you willing to give up to prevent automobile accidents? children drowning in swi
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by arohner 16y ago
How about the part where Bush's Treasury Secretary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson ), and Clinton's Treasury Secretary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin ), and the NY Fed Chairman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willia
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by arohner 16y ago
I've been brewing for several years, and always enjoyed it. Two pieces of advice, they cost more, but the results are worth it. 1) Keg your beer, or bottle in larger containers. I brew 5-6 gallons at a time. Putting that in 12oz beer bottle
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by arohner 16y ago
My real problem is that M-w is too close to ⌘-w, especially when I have meta mapped to ⌘ on my external keyboard. I would really love to have a consistent set of shortcuts across emacs and everything else I use.
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by arohner 16y ago
I've written an ORM for clojure (unreleased). It's 1k LoC, which is huge in clojure. Let me tell you, I'm sick of writing ORMs, I'm sick of using buggy, abstraction-leaking ORMs. I'm sick of the need for ORMs. Relational DBs should provid
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by arohner 16y ago
I find it amusing that the article doesn't contain examples of the unicode characters he mentions. For example, he brings up "Dentistry symbol light down and horizontal with wave" ⏇. I sorely wanted to see this printed next to the descripti
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by arohner 16y ago
Extremely informative chart on US federal spending: http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ Though the chart only contains * discretionary* spending, so it doesn't include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and a few other things.
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by arohner 16y ago
I'm a F.lux user, it dramatically improved my life. With that frame of reference, I've had no sleep issues from my iPad, which I use to read before bed most nights. In fact, I read in lower light using the ipad than with a conventional book
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Probability that a number is prime(johndcook.com)
1 points by arohner 16y ago|0 comments
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by arohner 16y ago
According to "suit logic", it absolutely makes sense. hey're trying to upsell the visitors. Whether that's actually profitable, I don't know. They want to have it both ways: have google crawl and report there's a page there without register
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by arohner 16y ago
New startup idea: manufacture ergonomic, mechanical split keyboards for less than $200.
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by arohner 16y ago
Because if they didn't, Google wouldn't crawl the article, and then users wouldn't find it through google. IMO, Google needs to stop that.
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by arohner 16y ago
I can't find the link right now, but I'm pretty sure I've seen them say: 1) TF2 is profitable, even including the close to ten years that it spent in development(!) 2) They make money off the updates (because of new sales), but not always e
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by arohner 16y ago
Depends on how you define the market. I think ML is still too much a pie in the sky research topic for a job , but it's in huge "demand" as a startup founder i.e. If you can actually do ML, you're much more valuable as a startup founder
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by arohner 16y ago
No, because good developers aren't strictly segmented by price. Bad developers are just as willing to take a high salary, and there are much fewer good developers. At my last corporate job, we had a hard time finding good developers, even b
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by arohner 16y ago
You're forgetting that people can have principled objections to the role of the federal government. I'm not rich, and I'm grumpy about what my 20% federal taxes are going to. The financial and GM bailouts, "homeland security", ag subsidies,
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by arohner 16y ago
Not really. I've had this break for me all the time when searching for programming terms. Proof: Google for "what we have here is failure to communicate" http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... The first hit is the
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by arohner 16y ago
Biology is strange. If I had read this in a sci-fi book, I would think the author went overboard.
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PS3 Jailbreak Exploit Detailed(ps3news.com)
3 points by arohner 16y ago|0 comments
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by arohner 16y ago
Not exactly a vegetable, but making your own beer is cost effective, and tastes great (Though it will turn you into a beer snob). It costs around $100-$200 upfront investment, and then about $50 to make 5 gallons. The time cost isn't that b
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by arohner 16y ago
Assuming the buyer has the programming talent and vision to create it, and the managers to allow something "crazy" to be built. That's rare in large corporations.
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by arohner 16y ago
The costs are going up for several reasons: 1) Many pensions are underfunded. The state has to play "catch up" because they weren't putting enough money in the fund in the past. 2) Pension funds play the stock market. In a recession, the fu

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