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by chengmi 18y ago
That's strange. We made changes to DNS a few days ago. I suppose it's possible that if you're on the very outskirts of the internet, that it hasn't completely propagated yet.
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by chengmi 18y ago
Notifications was one of the original motivations for creating SearchYC, but there are a couple of fundamental flaws: 1) How would we know if you've already read a comment/submission? It would get spammy really quick unless we did some kind
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SearchYC Performance Enhancements(blog.searchyc.com)
54 points by chengmi 18y ago|24 comments
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by chengmi 18y ago
Ha! Generating a provisioning profile is more than eight steps(!) in itself.
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by chengmi 18y ago
I'm working on a solution for this, but ultimately it comes down to hosting costs. SearchYC is currently hosted on a cheap-ish virtual server whose costs come out of my pocket each month. I can't justify spending more money on this project,
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by chengmi 18y ago
I'm not sure this would work very well with Southwest because they don't assign seat numbers to passengers (at least in my experience). Most of the time, the people at the front of the group choose seats toward the front of the plane and ho
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by chengmi 18y ago
So take biology out of the discussion, and consider consciousness in a computer system. If a program is self-aware, is it conscious? Or is there more to consciousness than that? Why don't conscious computer programs exist if we already unde
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by chengmi 18y ago
This question is better suited for a philosopher rather than a biologist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
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by chengmi 18y ago
http://top.searchyc.com/domains_by_average_points Is this a better list?
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by chengmi 18y ago
This reminds me of a thesis I once read titled "The Mythos of Engineering Culture", that claims engineers "procrastinate to introduce challenge, uncertainty, and risk into engineering work." http://www-plan.cs.colorado.edu/pltools/pubs/Leo
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by chengmi 18y ago
ok... http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gongfudoi 268 submissions, 2 comments, 388 karma http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jkopelman 81 submissions, 1 comment, 613 karma http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=charzom 145 submissions,
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by chengmi 18y ago
Maybe he got modded down for posting code that won't run.
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by chengmi 18y ago
That information can be derived from multiple observations.
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by chengmi 18y ago
SearchYC.com stats: Firefox 75.7% Safari 12.9% IE 7.6% Opera 2.2% Mozilla 1.3% Other 0.3%
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by chengmi 18y ago
This is a reference to the movie "Memento", however misplaced it may be.
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by chengmi 18y ago
You must be using Ruby... ;)
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by chengmi 18y ago
this is like debating with the people who think it's okay to bring Tupperware to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It's more like management kicking you out after they've felt you've had "all-you-can-eat".
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by chengmi 18y ago
Many users edit comments after posting them Can we have an optional preview page before comments get posted instead? It would be useful for fixing typesetting and other errors before it's actually posted. I fear that having a delay of 10
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by chengmi 18y ago
While thedailywtf.com is an excellent source of entertainment, I think it's more useful to study code that compiles, looks, and runs fine, but has some less-obvious deficiency like an XSS vulnerability, or poorly chosen algorithm (e.g. bubb
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Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel for $28B(computerworld.com)
2 points by chengmi 18y ago|0 comments
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by chengmi 18y ago
The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser cleans all those greasy areas and makes it look like new. I use it to clean the keyboard and touchpad on my black Macbook all the time.
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by chengmi 18y ago
cool
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SearchYC RSS Feeds(blog.searchyc.com)
2 points by chengmi 18y ago|3 comments
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by chengmi 18y ago
...but instead starve yourself so you stay awake. Staying awake during the fast isn't necessary.
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by chengmi 18y ago
It wasn't the transfer quota. Our web host decided to randomly shut down the virtual server that day--while I was out of town.
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by chengmi 18y ago
Sorry, we were going to re-announce the plugin on the blog with our next set of features. But then we got busy, and it kept getting pushed back. The plugin is available at http://plugin.searchyc.com/
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Poll: Coworking in the South Bay Area
3 points by chengmi 18y ago|5 comments
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by chengmi 18y ago
$0-$50 per month
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by chengmi 18y ago
$50-$100 per month
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by chengmi 18y ago
$100-$200 per month

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