bayareaguy

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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Reminds me of http://www.caspio.com/
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Me too. As someone who looked at Bedework[1] a while back, I'd like to know if she considered it. [1] - http://www.bedework.org/bedework/
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Dropbox, because it solves a real problem my family has.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
it certainly helped That was my experience as well, having learned vi before emacs. Unfortunately back then computers were scarce and I frequently shared my account with friends less pleased with this strategy. One even thought it was
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
alias vi emacs
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
When I first read the BSD Unix source code and realized in a way that I had not before that the kernel which ran my C programs was itself just another C program, compiled with the same kind of C compiler, debuggable with the same kind of de
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Some time ago I recommended Kagi, FreshBooks and Amazon http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115741
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Looks like the domain has changed since previously mentioned http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=99908
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I recall being stunned when I first read the source to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell available here http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/...
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I never worked with one, but I believe the HyPra system included disks (as shown on page 148. http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&pg=PA148 ). I recall it was one of the earlier systems to achieve high transaction rates by
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Sounds a lot like the HyPra / ClustRa system. http://books.google.com/books?id=KH_kfSsMu80C&dq=HypRa+C...
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Escaping file naming hierarchies was the original motivation of Namesys aka ReiserFS[1]. 1- http://reference.kfupm.edu.sa/content/n/a/the_naming_system_...
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I was hoping it was about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1871608
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
For those who prefer all on one page: http://jottit.com/txq4v/
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
At a few places I've worked I had reasonable success with a similar approach by simply setting up some mail forwarding rules and MHonArc[1] to create customized internal web-based mailing lists capturing topic-specific company knowledge. 1-
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
The FreeBSD ports tree is a great place to steal code.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
Powell's has a great technical bookstore a block away from their main store. Budget plenty of time to take it all in. If the weather permits I would recommend riding a bike and taking public transportation to get around. Portland is much
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I try never to use more than 70% of my available space or other resources. If asked to do something, I usually give a promise that I'll do whatever asked but generally defer the actual work until forced. I always follow the tit-for-tat stra
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
If it is not too much to ask, what are your real constraints and requirements and what existing systems did you investigate? Based on the tidbits you've supplied I would guess what you're really doing writing is a file system capable of han
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
I would hope that the experience of Randal Schwartz[1] would teach all presumably well-intentioned people to always obtain clear and explicit authorization before doing any security testing in a work environment. 1- http://www.theinquire
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
No. Networking with the YC gang isn't my goal so for me the benefits provided by the indirection outweigh the costs.
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
It's too late for me to edit or delete the comment, but I see you've removed the link now so it may not matter. I am however curious about your maze. What do you believe it accomplishes?
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
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by bayareaguy 16y ago
For the impatient: http://www.t3x.org/5439664554/index.html
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
Although actually released in late 2008, my favorite book for 2009 was Neal Stephenson's Anathem .
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
The original goal of the Namesys filesystem (what eventually became ReiserFS) was a similar attempt to replace fixed hierarchies with a form of tagging. While the original paper is no longer accessible, I found a copy here: http://www.dmi
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
It's my experience that smart people are eager to share whenever the situation isn't detrimental to them. They know the difference between zero sum and non-zero sum outcomes and behave accordingly. They are happy to share when they have r
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
I find design sites like this more readable in Opera's "User Mode".
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
I often read HN when I happen to be at an impasse away from my laptop or desktop. I'd like to HN's interface offer better support for mobile browsers. For example, http://m.ycombinator.com could be a version of news.ycombinator.com with
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by bayareaguy 17y ago
There are a few areas where SAS is unrivaled--it can crunch huge data and exploit parallel processing So is their real competition Hadoop and the other Map/Reduce frameworks?

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