bhiggins

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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   I find the timing hilarious. Will Safari's Readability clone also block iAds? Can we get an add-on to block out annoying iAds in app store apps? Somehow I doubt it.
2. 182.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   function doTree(node, fn) { fn(node.value); for (var i = 0; i < node.children.length; ++i) { doTree(node.children[i], fn); } } var sum = 0; doTree(numTree, function(value) { sum += value; });
3. 183.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   It's just so frustrating. Inventing the Myhrvold Way means not executing, not actually bringing anything into this world -- just sitting around waiting to license people derivative ideas or sue them.
4. 184.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Nice troll.
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   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Is it just me or are all these patents pretty trifling? Stacking toolbars, web templates, mouse timing? Really Microsoft? Did Marc Benioff say something mean to Horacio Gutiérrez? Maybe they can team up with Intellectual Ventures and do s
6. 186.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Daniel Lyons is rotting our brains.
7. 187.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   A lot of other people have had the same thought and you know some of them did? They wrote some software to automate it.
8. 188.▲
   by bhiggins 16y ago

   Alt+Shift+F works for me on Chrome. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Keyboard_shortcuts -- I had to include Shift since Alt+F is used by Chrome to bring up the tools menu.
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   Ask HN: please review my site

   15 points by bhiggins 16y ago|4 comments
10. 190.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    Clay Shirky's recent post on complex business models reminds me of this. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/04/the-collapse-of-complex...
11. 191.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    I didn't have my resume out there. It doesn't serve my interests to aid the recruiter in their fishing expedition.
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    by bhiggins 17y ago

    I had this exchange with a recruiter working at Google. Recruiter: I am writing to introduce myself as I recently received your name from a current Googler who mentioned you'd be a strong asset here. I am hoping that you might be open to
13. 193.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    ExtraHop Networks is hiring. We're a startup in Seattle with a high-end network analysis product that already demolishes our competition in many ways. Ideally we're looking for superb C programmers but if you're a great programmer and are
14. 194.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    I think you guys would both agree that the "laws" of nature are descriptive as opposed to prescriptive.
15. 195.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    I think "in X hours" is silly too, because that just means it's gunna be easy to copy. Not a good business plan.
16. 196.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    better error messages are really sweet, but ultimately the most important things are 1. better performing code and 2. shorter compile times.
17. 197.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    Practically speaking, what data are you talking about? Which characters don't map? The mapping here looks pretty complete, except for "DBCS LEAD BYTE". Is that a problem? Other non-round trip mappings look like it's because different ve
18. 198.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    1000+ shell companies to hide patent lawsuits? Brilliant!
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    by bhiggins 17y ago

    We were just looking at flup's code today and wished that its behavior with idle threads was a little better, that it wouldn't kill them off right away but wait a bit to see if more requests come in, like Apache can be configured to do. Ma
20. 200.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    It would be very interesting to know how Avancept LLC found IV's 1000+ shell companies -- their reports cost money though: http://avancept.com/Publications.html
21. 201.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    I just have to say that actually, no, this doesn't sound like that at all. And thank goodness.
22. 202.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    1000+ shell companies to hide litigation...
23. 203.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    At first I thought this was going to be a huge reason for people to migrate over to Python 3... Now I'm worried that it'll actually be another reason not to (due to size increase and only moderate speed increase), but I sure hope I'm wrong!
24. 204.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    My biggest lesson from The Design of Everyday Things is that if a lot of people are confused with how something works, it's the designer's fault, not the person's.
25. 205.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    ExtraHop Networks in Seattle, especially if you're into systems-level programming or networking. Email me: ben@
26. 206.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    We have Postini already, so we decided to relay through them. Also, I noticed that my emails were blocked before I had an elastic IP, but after I got an elastic IP address they weren't. YMMV.
27. 207.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    Startled, yeah. I know, four whole points. I almost stopped breathing...
28. 208.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    And they're nuking the old forum's contents. Not that I care, since I don't use any 37signals products, but this seems to be a typical 37signals move. I suppose migrating or just archiving old content wouldn't have been opinionated enough
29. 209.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    You must be joking.
30. 210.▲
    by bhiggins 17y ago

    There need not be any relationship between the schema, which is purely logical, and how it is implemented. In practice, there is, but why this is still the case is baffling.