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by awj 15y ago
It also probably wasn't that much to Paul Erdos, either. The point was in "proving" that he wasn't an addict, not winning a $500 bet.
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by awj 15y ago
> You cannot sell them, or lend them Yes, because it doesn't even make sense. This is why I simply don't understand this conversation. There's nothing for me to resell , because we're discussing a virtual good. Implicit in the resale o
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by awj 15y ago
Considering Kindle books are probably hosted over s3, those costs are relatively marginal. Amazon charges third party S3 usage for storage/transfer in cents/gigabyte, presumably at some appreciable margin. Their revenue from a single 0.99c
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by awj 15y ago
...how did you make that leap? Where does "it should be possible for being a jerk to get you fired" lead to "enforcing and enabling sliminess"? It is entirely possible to hold a firm stance on what you think is the correct approach without
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by awj 15y ago
> especially now that Apple et. al. have essentially validated this patent by licensing it themselves. Very disappointing across the board. I thought that Apple picked up this licenses as part of a bulk deal with the previous holder whe
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by awj 15y ago
Except that the price is likely a factor in all three of the reason you've cited. There's no real competitors because Netflix does a great job off an already low price. They have the market and are serving it well. That's ridiculously dif
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by awj 15y ago
> IMO anyone who disagrees either doesn't know enough of "the situation" or has simply scanned over your words, not actually digested them. That's not a useful stance to take on things. "Anyone who disagrees with this is ignorant or did
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by awj 15y ago
I'm not sure the original idea (hold a video hostage in exchange for tweets) can be improved. It's rather user-hostile. What might be worthwhile is the social-media-isize your video feature. An easy-to-use tool for embedding twitter/faceb
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by awj 15y ago
> Deniers will try to justify its value but honestly, when you look at the hole you choose to fill with TV, there are so many more productive you could be filling it with. Like pontificating on Hacker News from a pulpit built of gross g
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by awj 15y ago
No, he's just shifting from Schneier's original point out to "no system will operate 100% correctly", then from there to economic inequality.
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by awj 15y ago
FYI, you can re-declare as much of the model class as you need and simply call reset_column_info as a class method before using it. The models at work have some homemade serialized attributes (don't ask), and this makes it easier to deal wi
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by awj 15y ago
Just to be contrary: > 1) The database holds the authoritative schema. You shouldn't duplicate it in your code. I care about the authoritative data model , which is slightly different from the authoritative schema . Beyond that, I don
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by awj 15y ago
That works great, unless said miners have an almost ridiculous quantity of tools just lying on the ground waiting for someone to clean them up a bit and start using them.
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by awj 15y ago
> You can only do one Why is that?
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by awj 15y ago
> I just don't understand why you need to be quiet about it. Because it's too easy to let your days devolve into storms of bitching and moaning in which nothing of value is accomplished.
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by awj 16y ago
> The free version helped him sell the full version until it reached that "critical mass" that was required for the popularity of the full version to continue to drive sales of itself. From the investigating he did it didn't look like t
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by awj 16y ago
There isn't anything wrong with asking people to use it themselves, but then it also isn't quite the "online tip jar" that many people want to see it as. Maybe that's the point, but I honestly have been confused as to why the process with F
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by awj 16y ago
Well, sure, but you can make almost any statement sound ridiculous when you abuse word meaning to pull it that far out of the original context. Being required to put money into Flattr before other people could give you money sounds a bit sh
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by awj 16y ago
I think `follower` had it right in another reply to the GP, be careful about pricing your service and developing features against the crowd on HN. It doesn't seem like they are the target market for your application, so make sure to read op
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by awj 16y ago
I thought his comment was more along the lines of "I cannot imagine writing industrial-strength versions of all of these things Lucene gives me." Yes, you can write a spellchecker in 21 lines of code, that doesn't necessarily mean it will
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by awj 16y ago
> An amazon EC2 micro instance is something like $60/mo. An EC2 micro instance is around $15/mo (0.02 x 24 x 30). If you were charged $60 (0.085 x 24 x 30), you were running a small instance. They aren't the same thing, and Amazon did/i
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by awj 16y ago
For the complexity it adds not having GC is a detriment of C++. The language makes reasoning about allocation, object ownership, etc, much harder. It does this in the course of providing features intended to help you structure and manage
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by awj 16y ago
I'd imagine that part of this cost is reputation. The only problem I have ever had with Netflix streaming is when an agreement runs out and the pull something I or my wife regularly watch. (looking at you, "Paint Your Wagon") I have not had
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by awj 16y ago
I've seen too much code where lambdas do little more than twiddle argument orders. I'd rather pay a tiny bit more visual weight for straightforward argument usage and be able to use the same tool to reorder them. The Scala version seems (
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by awj 16y ago
There are plenty of nice places in Texas where 3-6k/mo is good living. Many are even in the cities, away from (most of) the rednecks that create the stereotype.
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by awj 16y ago
Recur relies on AST rewriting to turn self-recursion into a loop. The JVM doesn't play a part in this. My impression is that this is 50/50 language design (recur throws errors on non-tail calls) and compromise for the JVM as a platform. OCa
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by awj 16y ago
> That may be so, but since Javascript is inherently single threaded Is that in the language standard, or are you confusing details of implementations for the language's design?
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by awj 16y ago
What I have in the room with me: 1. Modern Algebra by John R. Durbin 2. Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser 3. Machine Learning - An Algorithmic Perspective by Stephen Marsland (not quite on the same level as the abo
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by awj 16y ago
Not that I think it entirely bursts your internet tough guy rant, but amazon does offer [cluster computing instances]( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/hpc-applications/ ) for exactly this purpose. Granted, they only have 10 Gigabit ethernet, but
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by awj 16y ago
> surely it depends on the value of the content inside it. It doesn't when an ebook is priced higher than paper editions with the same content. I do agree on the padding, though.

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