benjamincburns

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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> or if you switch technologies, you might get a 'debt relief' There's no free lunch here. When you do this you either pay off some of the debt by removing some value from the product, or you spend ages just reaching &quot
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
I wasn't suggesting anything to the contrary...
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
ASCII NUL is indeed 0x0. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_character http://www.bibase.com/images/ascii.gif
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> the idea of seeing a specialist for help or medication really scares me. Don't let it. You're seeking help voluntarily. Assuming something is actually wrong with your brain, it's worth it to address it head-on. Worst cas
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> So, you think inability to focus is the cause of your interests running "hot and cold"? Absolutely, but this may be unique to me. I find complex things interesting. If I can't maintain focus long enough to get a certain
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
I've been editing to fill in some more details. I'd rather not discuss my experiences with medications specifically here, but feel free to shoot me an e-mail (see profile) and I'll be happy to answer any questions I can.
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Reading the OP and this comment I can't help but think "hmm, sounds like me when I'm unmedicated." I'm a very ambitious and motivated person. I love stupid hard, nitty gritty problems. I've been writing code si
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> I would say "using other people's names in confusing ways that border on impersonation should maybe be illegal" ... I think this is a textbook example of trademark infringement all wrapped up in a nice neat little packag
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> I cannot find one on that domain, but I wonder if it's the same as the one on Slack.com https://slack.com/privacy-policy Not the same company. See my other post(s).
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
This isn't from the team which produced the "Slack" to which you're likely referring.
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
It may look like it, but this isn't the Slack (team chat sold at slack.com) you're thinking of. Top post on there right now: A quick note from Jeff Morris Jr. (founder of Slack Chats): Slack Chats was created to help you
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
The filesystem on jor1k was implemented using 9P. http://s-macke.github.io/jor1k/
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I'm pushing 30, and I'm only just starting to realize how insanely weird this is. The tech industry is, pretty much by definition, at the forefront of modern . It's an industry that thr
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
So in the case of a narrow band gap, where does the excess energy go? I'd guess it must be shed as a lower energy photon?
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
The server error on this page is a great example of how to build negative brand recognition. Hint to hosting companies: your error pages aren't a good place from which to link to your sign up page.
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Even if it doesn't go through - thanks so much for the sentiment. That said, Givealittle is located in New Zealand, and they're charging New Zealand Dollars. It's likely your bank is blocking the foreign transaction, or that
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Thanks so much for this. For what it's worth, I'm not an angry person. I recognize how useless and distracting anger is. I owe that mostly to my ability to see solutions where other people see problems. However when there are no s
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
No need for the preface - it's a fair thing to say. I hemmed and hawed about whether to post this article at all for this exact reason. In the end I decided that if I was going to post it I should be both respectful and truthful. I pro
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Thanks for saying this. I won't attempt to comment on how Nicola feels, because frankly I don't know. However everything I've heard second hand has told me that what you describe is very much the sentiment of the situation. I
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Short answer: no. I just wrote a long diatribe attempting to explain why using my very limited knowledge of semiconductor physics, but realized I couldn't do so without making some substantial guesses. So instead, I'll offer some
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Would be nice if I didn't need to download a 2.1 MiB image to view this page. Could probably keep the visual appeal here without the bloat by simply switching to JPEG. Edit: Also I'm having a hard time understanding your value pro
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
I think that's a good lower bound, as it assumes no packet scheduling, and that everyone on Earth will be attempting to consume all the bandwidth available to them all of the time. It also assumes that the "backhaul" betwee
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Is there any performance improvement on multithreaded tasks with SMP enabled?
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
I think it was over a year ago that I hacked together the network support for this, submitted a few links to HN, Slashdot, and Reddit, and then proceeded to neglect it more or less entirely. It's really cool to wake up one day and see
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
Recognition leaves something to be desired. Detection classifies her as female, 40 years old ±10 years. Recognition apparently doesn't add metadata parameters from detection into it's weighting: http://imgur.com/n2
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> Actual complexity is rarely justified by requirements I find. Unless I'm the one writing it of course. ;-) I appreciate your humility, and I largely agree with your approach. You'd probably do quite well in my interview. With
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
> I've never seen anyone dig through VCS history to gain a better understanding of code. One of my favourite interview questions: A bug is found where given a specific series of user interactions an error is raised. You se
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
At the risk of participating in a philosophical debate, I pose a classic counterexample: You encounter a car parked on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Its windows are rolled down. Storm clouds are rumbling nearby and it'
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by benjamincburns 12y ago
It almost always means "bugs blocking release" in my experience. Usually the sentence I quoted is developer speak for "it's framed out, and the core functionality has been shown to work under this scheme," or "

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