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   by aston 18y ago

   Not overspending out of your bankroll to take a wager, +EV or not, is pretty important. You probably wanna stick pretty near to (or beneath) the Kelly Criterion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion ). In the case of Aaron's game,
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   by aston 18y ago

   In the context of the other imagery they're going to roll out, it's actually pretty cool. It's a very humanizing illustration style that I think will go a long way towards making Symbian feel a lot less borg-like to mainstream folks. Check
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   by aston 18y ago

   Further tying the past to the present, Google now inhabits the offices that SGI had to leave behind as their business declined. As far as I can tell, Google kept the old building numbers, too, which explains why the first building Google mo
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   by aston 18y ago

   Not to mention Blockles (not 'Letris'), the product they're currently being sued over. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22815
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   by aston 18y ago

   One of the things I'm amazed Facebook isn't doing is spending time trying to seriously cut their infrastructure costs. As far as I can tell, Google started investing really early in building out their own data centers with commodity machine
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   by aston 18y ago

   This seems like just the type of app Twilio was built to be built upon. Are you guys using their API, or something you rolled on your own?
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   by aston 18y ago

   It's always fun to see the graph of a startup's user-count-double-up start on the time axis a month after you left. I'm hoping OKC continues to kill it.
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   by aston 18y ago

   CSRF exploit. If you know the username of the logged in user, you can have them vote up any story since the URL just takes the username of the voter. To my knowledge, that exploit still exists.
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   by aston 18y ago

   if you need more @charactersJustUseAt
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    by aston 18y ago

    Here's the full clip that the Daily Show samples from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfWSRuNm6do It's not clear whether Cramer's saying he's done these sorts of thing, or just would do, but either way, pretty rough.
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    by aston 18y ago

    We're on Authorize, too, and we didn't mess around with ARB at all because we anticipated that we'd need more flexibility around retries. The best I can recommend short of changing providers is to let Authorize hold on to the credit card in
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    Glibc's strlen implementation: Probably not what you'd guess(sources.redhat.com)

    127 points by aston 18y ago|70 comments
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    by aston 18y ago

    Sweet. And how'd we get our hands on this? I want similar from other companies...
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    by aston 18y ago

    A little YC easter egg: If you keep refreshing until you get to the little girl's birthday photos, you'll notice all of the names are of the YC principals + baby George. Nice touch.
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    by aston 18y ago

    Just curious, what's the status on the QA? Is it in shippable form? Has anyone bought one?
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    by aston 18y ago

    Here's my best stab at it, from the perspective of a guy who saw the internet in its infancy (not myself): Email was the first great asynchronous digital mass communication tool built on the store-and-forward idea. Twitter (or SMS'd tweets,
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    by aston 18y ago

    You edited to include the link to the JS, but here's my reading of it: 1) It pulls out content in <p> tags (presumably those are the ones with data you want). 2) It rewrites double line breaks as paragraph breaks (in case the site i
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    by aston 18y ago

    Pedantic (but so's your product): The caret that indicates an insertion goes underneath the baseline of the text, not above it. http://www.colorado.edu/Publications/styleguide/symbols.html
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    by aston 18y ago

    Here's a piece of trivia: The original iPhone calculator was designed to mimic Ram's designs (as seen part way down the linked page). compare: http://www.designmuseum.org/__entry/4799?style=design_image_... http://www.flickr.com/photos/g
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    by aston 18y ago

    Glad to hear that the orange names won't be back. I think people do more than enough judging based on the poster name as it stands without any highlighting.
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    by aston 18y ago

    I love that Sussman story. In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe," Sussman
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    by aston 18y ago

    I love a good abecedary.
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    by aston 18y ago

    There seems to be an escaping issue. Around the SF Bay Area, there's a pizza place called "Mary's Pizza Shack" that on mouse hover only says "Mary."
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    by aston 18y ago

    I think the defendants of this case deserve a lot more sympathy than they're getting. The types of remarks you make when you're an anonymous dude on a message board of only marginal repute are not the same types of remarks you make when you
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    by aston 18y ago

    Hmm. Either this dance still is cool, or I've been doing a lot of embarassing myself at parties.
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    by aston 18y ago

    nad: not the best initialism...
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    by aston 18y ago

    <pre> does the formatting, but not the escaping.
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    by aston 18y ago

    The squared relationship is actually pure coincidence. The dude who proposed the next popular ratio took all of the common presentation ratios (like 4:3 for TV, 1.85:1 for film, etc.) and laid them all on top of each other. The overlapping
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    by aston 18y ago

    It's not a real tag anymore, but <xmp> was really cool. Everything between the start and end tag was presented verbatim, with no HTML parsing. Basically a lazy man's HTML escape in a fixed width font--good for pasting in code. We us
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    by aston 18y ago

    AKA thinkcomp, as seen commenting elsewhere on this post.