azarias

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The 'Soviet Alan Turing' and MESM(googleblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments
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How consistent is eventual consistency?(the-paper-trail.org)
1 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments
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by azarias 15y ago
PG had an interesting write up of this a while ago: http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html
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by azarias 15y ago
I actually think YC would probably have picked up on them...Especially with the early traction numbers. It would be interesting to have a postmortem of applicants...but I doubt YC would ever release that information.
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by azarias 15y ago
There is definitely a lot of social fatigue. I have cared less and less about my friends' hiking pictures over the years---and family and a few very close friends might be the largest group I will ever closely follow. It will be interesting
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by azarias 15y ago
The last exciting acquisition I remember is Mint. One of those "must work hard" events.
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by azarias 15y ago
Congrats guys. This is really exciting stuff!
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'Homeland Security could inspect what enters the United States in cyberspace'(rt.com)
21 points by azarias 15y ago|11 comments
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by azarias 15y ago
I'm pretty sure this is for amusement only. Remzi (a well known researcher in file systems) is also quite humorous.
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Google (PageRank) based ranking of CS schools(pages.cs.wisc.edu)
13 points by azarias 15y ago|10 comments
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by azarias 15y ago
I have always wondered when the cycle became self-fulfilling. From the timeline, it seems the turning point might have been late 50s and early 60s when you had the venture capital firms start to take hold with interest in small tech compani
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A distributed local-remote deployment for quick iteration(engineering.linkedin.com)
1 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments
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Jack of many trades, master of a couple(azreda.blogspot.com)
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by azarias 15y ago
A surprising amount of peer review is actually done by lowly graduate students who are assigned papers by advisors. I really try to give an honest evaluation :) [and my experience is most people generally do]. However, like it was mentioned
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by azarias 15y ago
Read the 5 points again, except now imagine he is talking about writing code. A lot of it makes sense...In fact, I say Tim Peters lifted half of the Zen of Python from Lewis :)
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by azarias 15y ago
It seems like the academic publishing model would be useful here (and in fact that might be what they are doing with alums reading applications.) Each paper gets a few reviewers, which quickly determines the definite accepts and rejects, an
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The hobo-comp(hobocomp.com)
2 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments
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RockYou and the FTC settlement (Ed Felten, FTC chief technologist)(techatftc.wordpress.com)
1 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments
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A little spying and kidnapping among friends: Heisenberg in Michigan(michigantoday.umich.edu)
3 points by azarias 15y ago|0 comments