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by aston 18y ago
Tetris is Hard, even to approximate. http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CC/0210020
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by aston 18y ago
Unlike most antagonyms, "literally" only took on its opposite meaning when it was used hyperbolically--that is, when it was meant to be interpreted ironically/sarcastically. I guess now we've given up on the distinction, though.
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by aston 18y ago
Now he's fsck'd.
484.
by aston 18y ago
Actually, this is about EA/Hasbro making a Scrabulous competitor. "Facebook making their own version of apps" is even more misleading than the headline TC used.
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by aston 18y ago
You just demonstrated one of the coolest things about posting at news.yc. You never know who you're gonna run into. Even when they're replying directly to you. edit: Hint, click his name...
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by aston 18y ago
It's like 37signals is writing blog posts to specifically reply to news.yc posts...
487.
by aston 18y ago
Nice. Any comment on what was changed to keep comments from timing out for a half hour?
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by aston 18y ago
You get the exact same name-resolution funniness in other languages, too. Like python, for example: >>> message = "Hello" >>> def f(): print message ... >>> message = "World" >>>
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by aston 18y ago
Doesn't Office run on Macs natively?
490.
by aston 18y ago
Joke would've gone over better if news.yc didn't clip long url's. And if people read more closely.
491.
by aston 18y ago
Those graphs are a bit sketchy. Kinda deceiving to compare a half year's numbers with a whole year's. The conclusions are right, but there's some psychological manipulation in the pictures.
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by aston 18y ago
Hey, nickb, how'd you repost this URL? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192
493.
by aston 18y ago
In the world of programming languages, nothing's new; all of the good stuff was thought of by 1970. That's basically the extent of what I learned in college.
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by aston 18y ago
If you take a look at that nanopass paper, it's very much in the "just use macros" school of thought. It's even in Scheme. For the tldr crowd, http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dyb/pubs/nano-jfp.pdf .
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by aston 18y ago
Aston on why the NYT should read the mythical man month ... Also, microkernels aren't the end-all-be-all of OS design. And Singularity is more about a managed-code kernel than a microkernel.
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by aston 18y ago
https://zuneoriginals.net/
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by aston 18y ago
The 2nd edition of High Performance MySQL might interest you: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596101716 It covers, among tons of other stuff, some new features in MySQL 5.1 that make partitioning easier.
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by aston 18y ago
Or this: mysql> help which has gems like clear (\c) Clear command. edit (\e) Edit command with $EDITOR. ego (\G) Send command to mysql server, display result vertically. quit (\q) Quit mysql. sourc
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by aston 18y ago
The Zune marketplace wasn't even Microsoft's first entry. They started with PlaysForSure as a way to elbow in on a market despite not having a player (not to mention a music store).
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by aston 18y ago
This effect last seen in your neighborhood grocery store. Want a shorter wait? Get rid of some of that crap so you can stand in line for the express lane.
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by aston 18y ago
I understand the technical reason for the behavior. It'd be awesome if the back button worked anyway. http://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/Articles/38/fixing-the-bac...
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by aston 18y ago
Is that Leah Culver on the cover?
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by aston 18y ago
When I click to go to an outside article (say a company profile), it shows in something like an iframe, and the only way to return to the front page is to click the "Return to reader" link provided. My browser back button doesn't do anythin
504.
by aston 18y ago
Ahh! Broken back button! Really, really annoying.
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by aston 18y ago
Part of my argument, which I didn't explicitly state, is that most artists would rather their work be widely appreciated than it make a lot of money (any money?).
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by aston 18y ago
Even if the major labels were only useful outside of marketing, that would make them a pretty big deal. The consumption of pop music hinges completely on how well your image and sound is sold to the general public. It's hard not to like "Um
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by aston 18y ago
MIT probably counts as one of the "elites," Ivy or not. But I would say my experience there runs counter to a lot of the points in this article. The diversity at MIT is not only geographical and racial, but also cultural, socioeconomic, sex
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by aston 18y ago
Joel calls this "Architecture Astronomy." http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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by aston 18y ago
More 20-20 hindsight follows in later paragraphs. There's a lot of unfortunate bellyaching about random 'mistakes' the Coca-Cola company made that clearly would not have been worth thinking about on the first pitch of the company (like worr
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by aston 18y ago
I'm calling shenanigans here. You can't use poker terms in real life, can you?

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