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by bkrausz 18y ago
I think the email from CMU's president sums it up very well: Dear Colleagues: It is with great sadness that I inform you that our dear friend and colleague Randy Pausch passed away today, July 25, after a brave struggle against pancreatic c
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by bkrausz 18y ago
Recaptcha already does this: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/ Didn't you basically just reimplement that?
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by bkrausz 18y ago
The problem is that they are just now beginning to focus on their overseas presence, with translations and such, and statistically there are many more people with slower internet connections over there. It's safe to assume that anyone at a
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by bkrausz 18y ago
At this point you may as well be writing in assembly, but compilers are advanced enough that it's usually more efficient to write in C and let the compiler convert to assembly. In short: no.
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Facebook: Sea Cow of the Internet(nerdlife.net)
9 points by bkrausz 18y ago|6 comments
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Worst Idea Ever: SSHKeygen.com(sshkeygen.com)
79 points by bkrausz 18y ago|32 comments
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Colbert Bump - Firefox 3 Proves its Existence (blog.mozilla.com)
7 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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Firefox Download World Record is Official(blog.mozilla.com)
4 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 18y ago
I've used VPSLink on and off depending on my needs since they started, incredibly cheap service and I've yet to have any major problems. Minor issues were resolved very quickly, great support.
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F8 Tickets Now On Sale (July 23rd)(facebook.com)
1 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 18y ago
Personally I like to find a balance...I upvoted this because it's hilarious, and I haven't seen any humor on HN for a while. If there was a joke site like this posted every few day I wouldn't upvote any of them.
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IE Sends Mozilla a Cake to Celebrate FF3(nerdlife.net)
5 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 18y ago
While I agree that there should be a way to disable the awesome bar, it's worth nothing that it does take some training and getting used to. The awesome bar uses historical data from previous searches, so if your search for "news" always en
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by bkrausz 18y ago
The site didn't go live until 11:16am PDT, so we're a tiny bit behind...we'll catch up fast though. Go downloads go!
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by bkrausz 18y ago
The site is pretty reliable now, IT has been working their asses off over the last couple of hours. Feel free to use http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ now.
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by bkrausz 18y ago
Server's a little slow (we're serving 14k downloads per minute right now...), but the site is updated and good to go. More direct link: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
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Firefox 3 Released!(mozilla.com)
2 points by bkrausz 18y ago|1 comments
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by bkrausz 18y ago
I did that with xkcd a while back, and asked the community if I should take it down. The general consensus was yes, so I did. Karma isn't really important, what's more important is improving the community and quality of submissions. It's
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The Internet and Thought(nerdlife.net)
4 points by bkrausz 18y ago|1 comments
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by bkrausz 18y ago
Title and first sentence are probably grabbed directly (probably cURL), it's trivial to snag a <title> tag and the first <p> tag. They definitely cache them somewhere, since pulling them every time would do terrible things
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by bkrausz 18y ago
How is it that HN accepted this, the link is an exact duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=205709 ? I thought there was a check for dup links...
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Help Firefox Set a World Record(spreadfirefox.com)
5 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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2008 Google SoC: 21 Projects I'm Excited About(freesoftwaremagazine.com)
2 points by bkrausz 18y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 19y ago
While I agree that I hate those apps, the good ones do have a massive userbase. While I do intend to discourage stupid pointless apps, I won't explicitly ban them. Though 3 may be a little high, I may switch it to 2. Keeping in mind tha
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by bkrausz 19y ago
It's a relatively light course, worth 1/3 the units of a regular course. It's meant to give people a taste of something, and isn't a full-fledged course.
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by bkrausz 19y ago
Already spoke to him a few weeks ago, he gave some great advice.
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Ask YC: How would you teach a Facebook Apps course?
6 points by bkrausz 19y ago|12 comments
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by bkrausz 19y ago
Scraping HN for fnid's to auto-post xkcd comics :-P. It was a hack so I just did string searches.
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by bkrausz 19y ago
I don't think they killed it, but average Joes will be buying laptops instead of desktops for the foreseeable future. They have all the power needed for the basics. I definitely see desktops becoming how laptops were years ago: a niche mar
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by bkrausz 19y ago
If you pick up the book (and I highly recommend it), order one from a while back. I hear the newer versions have edits to remove offensive parts (it was written 70 years ago, women didn't work, etc.), but I also hear these edits sometimes

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