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by aston 18y ago
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this preso was "What algorithm are they using to find the words?" The problem looks something like: Given a string of characters, find all possible words that start and end like the string of cha
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by aston 18y ago
The audience of SICP was just the people who were planning to major in EECS at MIT, making it only impractical for, at best, the subset of the major that was interested purely in hardware. Having not been privy to the internal discussion th
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by aston 18y ago
>>> assert "cat" in "bag" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> AssertionError (reposted because the other thread went bye-bye?)
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by aston 18y ago
The trailing comma thing is actually very un-IE. It's rarely the most stringent, standards-compliant browser.
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by aston 18y ago
I'm trying to seed a replacement phrase, "beckons the question," so that we get to keep around the cool archaic sense of "beg."
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by aston 18y ago
Why rewrite ack? It's already blazing fast and easy to customize even if you're not actually a perl head.
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by aston 18y ago
Just curious, what's poorly implemented about Clickpass?
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by aston 18y ago
Haha. I think Ted threw in that last part about using MD5 hashes in his password table just to piss off the people who were really paying attention.
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by aston 18y ago
Whatever they're paying Susan Kare, it's not enough...
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by aston 18y ago
We've been using Anyvite to schedule our weekly poker games. In general, it's a great experience. My only wish is that I could copy an event to a new day and/or make a recurring event.
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by aston 18y ago
sportshit.com was available And you let that one go? Haha.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, you technically need money to buy options, but in most cases you're buying the stock only to immediately sell it again at its current (higher) value. If there's no buyer for your stock you can probably safely let them go, since the ma
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by aston 18y ago
What happens if multiple people pick every game correctly? The regular season's not that long...
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by aston 18y ago
Not entirely true. The US runs completely on case law, so having a precedent like Veoh helps you out a lot. People will be less willing to even take you to court if they see that it's likely they'll lose under a similar ruling. And if you d
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by aston 18y ago
Too bad it's not reliably implemented cross browser. It's a great idea, though, so we go ahead and throw httponly onto every cookie we care about, even as we implement other measures. We had to hack together something, though, since Python'
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by aston 18y ago
Tipjoy. The founders are married (to each other) and they have a (really cute) kid.
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by aston 18y ago
Interesting that Kawasaki didn't pick up on the fact that YC crashes at Anybots HQ when they're on this side of the country. Kind of explains the robots and unicycles.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, but add in the personal liability part. The RIAA has demonstrated before that they have no problems suing individuals for exorbitant sums of money. At least Oullette had a corporation to protect him.
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by aston 18y ago
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intercede Might have something to do with all the "misspellings."
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by aston 18y ago
Arguing that Catcher in the Rye is obsolete because it no longer holds the shock value it once did is like arguing we should stop reading Shakespeare because nobody talks that way anymore. Good literature is good literature. Plus Holden is
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by aston 18y ago
Definitely should be clarified in the article, though. I had no clue what as converted meant despite some casual research into common terms. I doubt people totally new to term sheets would have a clue about participation based on what's t
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, definitely.
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by aston 18y ago
The killer concept to grok with divide-and-conquer is that it's only powerful if 1) the smaller version of the problem is actually easier to solve and not just smaller - or - 2) the smaller version of the proble
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by aston 18y ago
In general, I think navigation trumps everything. Assuming the user knows they're navigating, they're expressing intent to leave whatever they're currently in. Any roadblocks will be an annoyance.
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by aston 18y ago
And "cachet" rather than "cache." Lacy could use a blog copy editor.
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by aston 18y ago
At MIT (where Greenspun's been for a long time) they're together in a major. Which might explain why he's writing about how different they are.
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by aston 18y ago
I really, really like the logo for Travelfli. Whoever put that together, props. Very web 2.0, but with a grown and sexy feel (as Jay-Z might put it).
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by aston 18y ago
I think the second one is a "lost in translation." I can imagine that there's way of presenting the punchline so that it'd be funny, but I couldn't give you the words to say it in English.
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, now if only every day of the year was somebody's birthday...
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by aston 18y ago
The thing is, Kramer had some decent ideas. Particularly hiring an NYU student as an intern for Kramerica Industries. Easiest way to get a personal assistant ever.

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