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by aston 18y ago
Mercurial's also in Python. And I think in most benchmarks it comes out ahead of Bazaar. Might be worth a look.
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by aston 18y ago
What will the impact be?
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by aston 18y ago
We gotta get you using the reply link. Also, g'luck!
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by aston 18y ago
Papa 'bert.
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by aston 18y ago
You hate to hear this sort of story, but it just reiterates what has been common knowledge since well-before Muxtape even existed: if you're a successful site that makes major label music available to people who don't own it, you basically
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by aston 18y ago
Very nice look. A pixel level gripe, for you: Can you get rid of the blue line fragments between the 'h' & 'i' and the 'i' & 'k' in the logo?
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by aston 18y ago
Well, having tried both, I probably have a better perspective on the matter. However, I'll defer to authority: http://gizmodo.com/5050410/microsoft-beats-apples-itunes-gen...
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by aston 18y ago
The new Zune stuff is looking really good right now. Like better than iPod + iTunes good.
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by aston 18y ago
Congratulations, guys.
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by aston 18y ago
Maybe I'm not being clear. The difference between the right algorithm and the wrong one here is whether or not items that have already been randomly swapped can be swapped again. Simply performing n random selections on the list is wrong, a
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by aston 18y ago
If you get it right the first time, you're probably just lucky. When was the last time you had to formulate an inductive proof at a career fair? And why should you be expected to? If you already know about the Knuth shuffle and you get it r
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by aston 18y ago
The moral of this story is: Amazon asks candidates some poor questions. Very difficult sort of a problem to solve on your feet, especially since "random" and "stochastic" are so related in people's minds.
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by aston 18y ago
List comprehensions aren't syntactic sugar. They're actually faster outright than for loops are. Especially if you're aiming to use the resulting list.
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by aston 18y ago
They've had it for quite a while.
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by aston 18y ago
Again, have they sued anyone? Has any company/institution they've dealt with actually been wronged? And, as far as the patent buying goes, I don't really see a moral hazard with arbitrage. Either the market for patents is really inefficient
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by aston 18y ago
I actually am his mom. Just curious, though, do you actually have any evidence that Intellectual Ventures is charging people for stuff they were already doing? Have they taken anyone to court over these patents? I'm not buying their spin, I
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by aston 18y ago
Intellectual Ventures is basically all R. These guys are indeed buying up patents, but they're doing a lot of thought themselves about how to solve problems and then going out and doing the due diligence to acquire all of the assets (patent
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by aston 18y ago
I met Nathan Myhrvold while giving his son a tour of my school. He struck me as a much nicer guy than what all of these articles play him up as. Extortion is almost certainly too bold of a term for what his company does. The patent system w
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by aston 18y ago
"The Federal Reserve plans to offer an $85 billion bridge loan to the American International Group in return for control of the ailing insurance giant..." Nice redefinition of AIG.
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by aston 18y ago
We hold a game in SOMA, which might entail two buses or a cab... It's still a cool game, though. Shoot me an email if you want to be put on the list.
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by aston 18y ago
Where are you thinking of holding the game? We put a little something together pretty much weekly in San Francisco.
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by aston 18y ago
We need more good puns here.
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by aston 18y ago
You should get a bonus for being conveniently close to Paul.
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by aston 18y ago
We definitely do use encryption for both data transfer and storage. I didn't mean to imply that those things happen in the clear. And yeah, hopefully we can find a way to help users along the path of managing their own keys.
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by aston 18y ago
I think if you're actually interested in encryption, your best bet is actually not to wait on us to help you with it. If we're cooperating with you to encrypt your data, it's by definition not secure. A number of security-conscious users us
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by aston 18y ago
Good luck! (also, thanks for using Dropbox...)
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by aston 18y ago
I'm a two-fingers-and-a-thumb, look-at-the-keyboard, what's-the-home-row? typer, and I can still hit 70+ on a bad day. Still not sure what that has to do with 1) my ability to code, 2) my ability to communicate.
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by aston 18y ago
Like any powerful tool, if wielded by the untrained or inexperienced, it can lead to bad results.
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by aston 18y ago
Photoshop's not 'for' print, either. I think you'll be hard pressed to find a better program to use for doing graphic design, especially for things that are to remain digital.
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by aston 18y ago
Why not?

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