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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Also, if you're into the nerdly arts I recommend as part of "sightseeing" (all clustered pretty nearby): Digital Guru Bookstore (and Madhuban has a great Indian buffet almost next door); Weird Stuff Warehouse (be sure to go i
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Sorry I can't help with modern exotic languages. Basic, C badly, 6809 assembler, C more fully, PDP assember, Common Lisp, Scheme, Symbolics Lisp, VAX assembler, perl, php, C++, and now go (not seeing the ++ vs C+pthreads+care yet for
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Hmm, I thought it was also doing 30 days max. Feedly is doing that now for sure. I will check out inoreader - looks like even if it doesn't archive the items forever or for a long time, it can support push to "Pocket, Instapaper,
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Thanks! I had seen that and may have to go that route. I was hoping not to go down the self-hosted path as I'd wind up spending way too much time tinkering (gatewaying to Usenet, adding features, etc).
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   Ask HN: RSS backend with 30 days retention?

   5 points by avifreedman 13y ago|5 comments
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Agreed, in theory - in practice, I find that explaining mov r1, r2 vs mov (r1), r2 vs mov (r1)+, r2 followed by an hour of writing assembler programs to do basic things with null-terminated strings is usually needed to help people learning
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Very interesting. Looks like a great option for those who understand and need it. For the founders 85% of something is better than 100% of nothing... Or, 85% * some risk of Kima behaving 'badly' (from the founders' perspec
8. 68.▲
   by avifreedman 13y ago

   To get the potential of a better than $1m valuation is my guess.
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   by avifreedman 13y ago

   Effort does not correlate exactly with results, but the chances of success are high if one tries and is capable. In both tech and hustle, it's easier with wealth, privilege, connections, luck, and/or friends. But large swaths of t
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    They're $400 but I've found that these snoring earplugs - http://www.earplugstore.com/snproinwhnom.html - plus any kind of over the ear hearing protection/headphones for shooting - do the trick and can fight
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    What makes you happy? When I was in college if someone had offered to pay me $100k inflation adjusted for life to play with computers, coding, and networking, I would probably have signed in blood - even having has some success at consultin
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Another thing you can do if you are are a practitioner in a particular domain is to let your vendors and partners know that you're open to doing due diligence calls on their behalf. Then if you do take a call, be circumspect but hones
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Consider the domain and the comparable. For a limited subdomain (data anlytics, content distribution, Internet routing), I think it can be true that startups that are focusing on those areas are started by, or attract, world experts in thos
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Planning to manage one's own health is probably best. I would love to be a customer of a competent company that managed body scans and the process of looking for deltas using humans assisted by software every N years. Why? Common medic
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    Ask HN: Tae Kwon Do recommendations in/around SoMA or Millbrae/San Bruno?

    1 points by avifreedman 13y ago|0 comments
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions. robots.txt should now be blocking the /db/, which has all saved content, and a link has been added to the DMCA page on every generated page (putting it at the bottom would be obscure since the pages ca
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    If you wait too long (1 min < wait time < 10 mins, I think), the link will 'expire'. Some other sites like hckrnews.com (for articles that made the front page(s)) and hnflood and others perhaps (for /newest) address th
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    I tried all of the formats from phantomjs and GIF didn't look worse than the JPEG. Disk space isn't an issue... I will take another look or maybe just add JPEG or BMP as well. Usually I am just scanning to get the sense of wheth
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    I think that the thriftdb folks (integrated to HN and hnsearch) do a great job with some of what you are looking for. If not, I'm happy to make data accessible. Actually... It's just using the unix fs as a db right now, the struc
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Using phantomjs. For medium it just grabs an image on all renders. I considered making it not show the gif at all in the index for sites on medium for now... but I'll try to get that debugged soonish by someone familiar with phantomj
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Good point(s). Will look at encoding later and rerun all the pages. Re: _blank - it was a peeve of mine that I'd accidentally miss a ctrl on the click reading /newest, but with this interface that's not a problem since movin
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    I'm frequently mobile or in the air when scanning /newest so the browser CPU from opening 50+ tabs at once and the latency and loss with all the RTTs on modern pages is a time waster. And I couldn't find any RSS feeds of &#x2
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    Show HN: Updating archive of HN's /newest, with pre-rendering of the URLs(hnflood.com)

    32 points by avifreedman 13y ago|16 comments
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Not sure why you're learning to code, but getting into a positive feedback loop of (have idea, create, tune) is a great thing if you're doing it for more than 'just a job'. I'd get proficient with linear flow progra
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    We had 3-ish in my high school class and as far as I know, they all went into super nerd science and/or developed/expressed psychiatric issues. Considering that some fellow classmates (who were smart enough to be in class with the
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    It's more likely to be GC that makes Lisp unattractive as an alternate to C++ for the things for which I'd normally use C/C++. I have spent way too much time wrangling Wowza, Hadoop, and other things written in Java in the l
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Offer the source code for the app to others looking to develop similar applications. Doesn't have to be a lot of $ and you could include N (say 5) hours of customization for a $250 or $500 license fee.
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    I wonder if there is a sufficient supply of MicroVaxes in the world to do hosting for the geeks who would want it. Paul Vixie has one we were going to put online in Ashburn. On the other hand, the idea there was that the value of the data
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    A virtual box, no. Or... There are some ideas about how to make it work if you run the hypervisor and want to allow trusted folks to audit that, say, you're not logging or are running specific software. But to do it on 3rd party inf
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    by avifreedman 13y ago

    Usually kindle, but I try to buy a few books/year at Digital Guru on Lawrence near 101, next to Madhuban (mmm) in Sunnyvale. + easy side trips to Unix Surplus, Weird Stuff, Fry's, Halted.