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by chops 17y ago
A good one indeed. I use a similar one: RAM is your desktop (literal desktop, as in the "top of your desk"). The more desk space you have, the more "things" you can be working on at the same time. Disk Space is the file cabinet. Shutting do
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by chops 17y ago
..such as customer loyalty ...the result of which is usually more profit.
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by chops 17y ago
Wow, that is so cool. Anyone have a video of it in action? That's gotta be pretty trippy.
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by chops 17y ago
A weekend is enough to get you started, to get your appetite whetted. From there, yes, multiple readings to fully digest it (which I certainly don't feel I have fully done yet)
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by chops 17y ago
Erlang is fun and a weekend read. I recommend "Programming Erlang" by Joe Armstrong.
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by chops 17y ago
What you've witnessed is merely an appeared acceleration of time, but you didn't "leap" through time, in the traditional time-travel sense. Technically, we're all traveling through time. In your case, you would simply be moving a little fa
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Ask HN: Tips for coding at the beach (or in the sun)
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by chops 17y ago
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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by chops 17y ago
Auth.net did have a twitter account where they were keeping everyone posted on the progress.
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by chops 17y ago
I couldn't agree more. Amazing how furious the population would get if they had to write those bigass checks every quarter. It's too bad. I'd love to see an organized effort by business owners to say "screw withholding" for employees (des
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by chops 17y ago
I think that it's reasonably likely that "big music" would buy up all the time worth buying at prices that the little guy couldn't match. And that would immediately solve this problem of the stations having to pay the label. That would i
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by chops 17y ago
And, once upon a time, record labels paid radio stations to get songs on the air. That was outlawed... Maybe this needs to be reversed. I'm sure there are some smaller labels who would be more than happy to pay the stations to get some o
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by chops 17y ago
My desktop OS is Windows, but all my servers run Linux and OpenBSD, and I ALWAYS have a handful of terminals open.
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by chops 17y ago
To be fair, I've been an Auth.net customer for years and this is the first of this kind. Every other outage I've ever noticed was a planned maintenance.
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by chops 17y ago
Oh thank you! Lambda functions! I'm so sick of working with php's silly create_function hack for lambda functions. This will make working in php so much more convenient! I'm also glad to see the ternary shortcut (?:) added.
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by chops 17y ago
Wow. That sounds almost as bad as the CIHost outage where thieves sawed through the walls, stole a bunch of servers, and tazed the employee that responded to the alarm. I'm so glad I got my servers out of there only 2 months prior (after b
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by chops 17y ago
Other than helping my dad at work getting paid under the table, my first job was as a movie theater employee (vendor and usher). We had a process called "counts", which was just the daily inventory, that everyone hated except for us few mat
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by chops 17y ago
I am. And granted its memory management is getting better with each release (memory usage improved greatly from 2 to 3). Admittedly, I haven't had 3.5 RC long enough for a very extensive experience. I'm speaking primarily of FF3, which f
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by chops 17y ago
During the experiment, 384 memory checkpoints were taken, which amounts to 1152 seconds or 19.2 minutes. My problem with Firefox has always been with having the browser open for a long time (days) and running multiple tabs, including havi
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by chops 17y ago
There's this widespread belief that you can't go in the park after dark, since it's /so dangerous/, but apparently statistically that's not the case. Could that widespread belief perhaps have led to folks deciding not to go to the park af
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by chops 17y ago
I've briefly looked up mobile satellite internet, and the cost is extremely restrictive: starting at like $600/month for a few hundred megs of transfer. This was for the ultra-portable satellite setups (the kinda thing you can throw in a b
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by chops 17y ago
Same for me. Trance is a good coding music. I get mine from http://www.trance.fm
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by chops 17y ago
As an individual who will likely not be around in 100 years or so, it's mildly depressing to know that I won't see the next 500+ years of advancement. As a species, I'm not worried. Who knows what discoveries will be made, and what kind of
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by chops 17y ago
You are correct. Quake was before mainstream 3d accelerators and only had a 256 color palette. Original quake palette: http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/images/quakepal.gif
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by chops 17y ago
Team Fortress 2 is cartoony and not realistic at all.
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by chops 17y ago
Very awesome idea. It's super cool seeing so many folks trading, selling, and even giving away domains to other hackers looking to start a project. Myself, I've only ever owned domains for intended projects and when it became clear that
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by chops 17y ago
My bread and butter is a legal pad and pen. I'll mock-up designs, doodle possible logos (I know, superficial, but it's fun ), write pseudocode, and tinker with the database schema. Most pages get forgotten, but the act of working through
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by chops 17y ago
This is a fantastic review. I'm one of those users who has big fat viking fingers and I was also worried about the keyboard, particularly with respect to the top row, which was one of the more common complaints of fellow-fat-finger-folks.
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by chops 17y ago
Awesome. This one is definitely getting bookmarked. I'm definitely planning my next project around Clojure, just to learn the language (my current project is in Erlang and mostly because I got the book for it first).
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by chops 17y ago
As did I. And I will be going out to buy a copy (assuming it's on the newsstands already).

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