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After Cyprus Bank Bailout, Depositors Race to Withdraw Their Cash(thedailybeast.com)
3 points by bcater 14y ago|0 comments
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by bcater 14y ago
Thanks for your suggestions, all. Our traffic roughly doubled, which didn't cause any strain on our infrastructure. For the curious, the site is http://betterific.com , which was linked from http://facebook.com/arbys , marking our first b
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Ask HN: How can I estimate traffic for a future event?
10 points by bcater 14y ago|6 comments
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Preserve field order with Unix cut(github.com)
3 points by bcater 14y ago|0 comments
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by bcater 14y ago
Start one. Ordinary people do it all the time.
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by bcater 14y ago
I recommend less text shadow.
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by bcater 15y ago
I have a similar laptop: 32-bit, 1Gb RAM, 1.6Ghz atom, purchased years ago on the cheap. I run the latest Ubuntu desktop edition and am able to run everything that I need (mostly Rails + remote services over SSH tunnels). I can even stream
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by bcater 16y ago
Ping me - I've got some ideas. bradcater@gmail.com
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by bcater 16y ago
For those (like me) who didn't already know, the FetLife homepage appears NSFW.
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by bcater 16y ago
FWIW, I worked at an online advertising company that ran a whole division on EC2 machines - at the peak, nearly 100 instances. This was never a problem for us because we were judicious in our use of the machines (minify your content!) and w
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by bcater 16y ago
I'd recommend "The Mythical Man-Month" by Fred Brooks.
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by bcater 16y ago
You're completely right. Thanks for the find!
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by bcater 16y ago
Taking ideas from the beginning of "Keep Your Identity Small," I'd like to read something about art and / or artists. I choose that topic because, on one hand, I can say without justification that I prefer one artist's work over another's w
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Ask HN: Experience with Protocol Buffers
15 points by bcater 17y ago|10 comments
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by bcater 17y ago
Ditto on the recommendation. It's one of the few free pieces of software that does something that's important to me really well.
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by bcater 17y ago
I started using it this morning. After my session auto-expired, I can no longer log back in. It seemed useful until that happened, but lack of reliability is a deal-breaker.
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by bcater 17y ago
Riddled with grammatical errors, this piece makes me chuckle.
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by bcater 17y ago
After 1 million trials with the above method I get: avg: 499.00 sigma: 1115.04 [499.00 - 3.35,499.00 + 3.35]
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by bcater 17y ago
You're exactly right. Whoops!
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by bcater 17y ago
This is all scribbled in a notebook, so there's a good chance that it's wrong, but bear with me on the arithmetic. As a first guess, let's agree that in expectation you earn $0.51 each time you flip the coin, so it should take you about 20
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by bcater 17y ago
CNN says that he is in the hospital: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/25/michael.jackson/...
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by bcater 17y ago
Interesting that they use "type" as a field for the Format class: class Format(models.Model): type = models.CharField(choices=... type() is a Python function, so it doesn't make sense to use "type" as a field name. I found out the hard
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by bcater 17y ago
Authorize.net - http://authorize.net/
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by bcater 17y ago
At the time that I took 6.001 (the MIT version of the SICP course), PLT Scheme lacked several libraries that the book requires. Since so many students wanted to use PLT, the staff put together the extra modules for us, but I'm not sure if P
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by bcater 17y ago
I was discussing building an internal payment management system over lunch today. Do you have an API that we could use instead? As others have said, kudos on the design.
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by bcater 17y ago
What a cool company! JamLegend, that is.
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by bcater 18y ago
I'm not sure what your use case is, but we've had much better luck with generating LaTeX code that we compile to PDF (the trivial step) than with doing HTML to PDF.
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Big (and non-computable) Numbers(scottaaronson.com)
9 points by bcater 18y ago|1 comments
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by bcater 18y ago
Remarkable.
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by bcater 18y ago
Knuth all the way down at 16? Tisk.

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