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by awwx 16y ago
Having spent far more of my time fixing Windows problems than I really wish to recall :-/, what I've found to work most reliably in practice is to wipe the harddisk and reinstall the operating system. On the one hand, this will take a day o
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by awwx 16y ago
I asked myself if i could do anything, what would I want to do, and really I have no idea. First, before I get to the advice part, a note: Our ability make decisions in the present based on our current emotional reaction to scenarios we
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by awwx 16y ago
I agree, given some representative sample data and a goal ("make rendering this page go fast"), finding speed improvements likely wouldn't be very hard.
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by awwx 16y ago
Have you tried http://www.jungledisk.com/ ? It maps S3 to appear as a drive or directory on your computer, so you can use S3 from any program or tool that can read and write files. Or is there something specific about WebDav that you nee
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by awwx 16y ago
Yup, I've experienced a lot of frustration myself the couple of times I've worked with payment API's.
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Ask HN: Which web API's would you like to be easier to use?
3 points by awwx 16y ago|9 comments
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by awwx 17y ago
Are you using your laptop in your lap or on a desk? I've found for myself that it's essential not to have the keyboard too high... my elbows should be comfortably at 90 degrees and my wrists comfortably straight. This means for me with a k
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by awwx 17y ago
Cute: very elegant. Vicious: I have to model all my program's data structures within Haskell's type paradigm, or I get ripped to shreds by the strict type checker. Alternative explanation: the photo shows what I looked like after I progra
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by awwx 17y ago
I wonder if there's a statistical test for mob voting... a mob vote is a vote reinforcing an already extreme score, a mob voter is someone whose votes are usually mob votes?
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by awwx 17y ago
If I were creating my own ratings for my own personal view of HN, I'd like to discount votes of people who vote opposite of me: if I downvote a comment that they upvote, then I'd prefer to take their other opinions less into account. Or, si
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by awwx 17y ago
Allow people to turn on seeing the points if they want to, but give more weight to votes by people who aren't choosing to see the points?
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Drexler: cognitive bias causes progress in nanotech to be overlooked(metamodern.com)
16 points by awwx 17y ago|1 comments
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by awwx 17y ago
Find some simple Python libraries to use, and going all Python is probably best. Combining Arc and Python would be a fun project but would distract you from getting version 1 done :-) System administration is tedious but not very hard to l
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by awwx 17y ago
Here's the thing with call/cc: it's a powerful but low-level operator. It can be used for example to implement throwing and catching exceptions, or generators like Python's yield. However, once you've implemented generators or exception h
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by awwx 17y ago
They touch on this briefly at the top of page 11: "The most optimistic approach is to solve requirements 2 [accelerate the black hole to keep it with the ship] and 3 [feeding the black hole with matter so that it doesn't evaporate] together
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The Physics of Building a Black Hole Powered Starship [pdf](arxiv.org)
44 points by awwx 17y ago|25 comments
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by awwx 17y ago
Google has an interesting hybrid approach: http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/UXFedLogin If the user is logging in with an email account on a domain whose email is handled by an openid provider, it will switch over to logging you in w
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The power of function combinators(awwx.ws)
5 points by awwx 17y ago|0 comments
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by awwx 17y ago
How about opening a US bank account for your old UK business? Edit: oh, I see in one of your comments that you weren't able to do that because your old UK business wasn't registered. OK, so as I understand it, Apple owes money to a UK busin