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by bfung 15y ago
So far in the 20min discussion, I like this answer best as it tries to outline the factors for even a crude estimation. I do have another variable to add that nobody has mentioned. I think the sentiment, not explicitly conveyed in the arti
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by bfung 15y ago
or google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fF_iKzP...
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by bfung 15y ago
Programming skill is only a small part of why Wall Street Programmers earn top salary. The major factor is that their industry is very close to the money, and their jobs are close to the money. As a result, it's easy to measure someone's
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by bfung 15y ago
I'm working on a side project related to this, but in the mean time, # of users on HN: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/users/_search Filtering on karma is possible then, and more.
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by bfung 15y ago
funny, i was just mucking with the api.hnsearch.com yesterday for the exact same query. Then I got distracted with the nice weather... Here's the same query w/the rest api, but w/o paging. use the parameters start and limit for paging. h
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Relocation: from Chicago To San Francisco, Summer 2011(bfung.posterous.com)
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by bfung 15y ago
But nobody wants to advocate eliminating humans A way of implementing this, nudging it towards more politically correctness, is birth control. At one extreme is China's One Child policy, which probably led to some economic benefits (yes,
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by bfung 15y ago
I've been in the process of teaching/pointing in a general direction a couple of friends on how to program. "Learn Python the Hard Way" was far too boring, and wasn't practical enough for my friends. If you're used to and good at learning
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by bfung 15y ago
also has keyboard commands, across the rows: do re mi fa so la ti do re mi q w e r t y u i o p a s d f g h j k l ; z x c v b n m , . / Edit: If anyone cares to figure out the recorded encoding scheme,
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by bfung 15y ago
in the LA Times article about the same topic, Steve Wozniak also added his own bits on the land purchased. Scroll down to the Comments section (it's via facebook). http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/06/apple-spa...
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by bfung 15y ago
any of them write a more successful language than Java? or how about Visual Basic even? For all the complaints, at least Java moved programming technology to another level on a massive scale, lest we all be complaining about C/C++ still.
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by bfung 15y ago
Also, since this is hacker news, how do we know that someone isn't creating new accounts to sway the poll one way or another? Only way to tell would be having access to the poll results and votes logged/audited.
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by bfung 15y ago
I have no idea who our clients are, what our funding is like, what our income is like or what our business goals are (aside from vague descriptions). have you asked or tried to talk about the business with the CTO and CEO? Perhaps make i
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by bfung 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10AeyTCeZJM Mark Zuckerberg: I need you. Eduardo Saverin: I'm here for you. Mark Zuckerberg: No, I need the algorithm you used to rank chess players. Eduardo Saverin: Are you OK? Mark Zuckerb
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by bfung 15y ago
nearly as fast as C not quite; using comparisons from the The Computer Language Benchmarks Game [ http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-lang... ], Go is currently (in general) slower than C++ gnu g++, C gnu gcc, Java
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by bfung 15y ago
The metric provided is based on searches for google.com on google, and doesn't represent the website's usage. Perhaps some shortcut created or UI enhancement (like autocomplete) this year helped people stop searching for the search engin
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by bfung 16y ago
the page itself is a demo of inuit.css (view source!).
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by bfung 16y ago
"America is clearly overreaching at the moment." Any facts/figures and comparisons to elaborate on this statement? I can see some arguments for this, but at the same time, the technologies we have these days might give this "overreach" s
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by bfung 16y ago
but now there is less anchoring bias I think this is a large one. I've been participating more in discussions lately because the content seems more thoughtful. How do I know what's important without vote counts? Read and dec
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by bfung 16y ago
Get to work. Work efficiently. Leave work at work. Optimistic-alized for you =)
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by bfung 16y ago
I just came back from eating, and two people used paypal over their phones to pay each other to split a meal... doesn't seem like carrying an extra gadget around is as good as the "what's your paypal" method.
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by bfung 16y ago
non silverlight version: http://files.ch9.ms/mix/2011/mp4/EXT03.mp4
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by bfung 16y ago
make this into a site, akin to threewords.me?
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Spiderwebs In Trees: Pakistan Floods Cause Incredible Phenomenon (huffingtonpost.com)
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SpaceX shoots for 'next big thing'(cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com)
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by bfung 16y ago
No System Monitor applet; the current System Monitor Indicator just doesn't cut it. On my dev machine, I like watching the little graph of cpu%/ram/network/disk etc. My netbook IS running unity w/o the System Monitor, but I rarely do heavy
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by bfung 16y ago
video on dark matter... http://www.youtube.com/user/mathboysmom#p/u/1/r7-O6ADAW1U
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by bfung 16y ago
The background story is that he was trying to beat the odds from being cheated at a casino using shaved dice; the presumption that dice not even on all sides would land more favorably one way than five others. This was before his foray int
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by bfung 16y ago
there's a distinction that should be made between sending spam and having many contacts. Limiting the amount recipients to a message will prevent spam. Having many contacts doesn't mean the person is a spammer. A quick google says Google
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by bfung 16y ago
part 1 is mostly intro and no play, part 2 for the impatient: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFe2pJETNuw

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