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by chunkbot 16y ago
I don't know about that. While being a good hacker probably correlates with being a good engineer, I think that the focus on "hacking" excludes a lot of very capable people. I know from personal hiring experience that a lot of qualified peo
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by chunkbot 16y ago
We've experimented with this, and we've found that with "social network" graphs (that is, scale-free networks whose degree distribution follows a power law) it's possible to determine "good" partitions on which to split the nodes. "Communic
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by chunkbot 16y ago
This would make for a fun A/B test: "$15 + $5 extra" vs. "$20 - $5 discount". You might collect some evidence that people like getting a deal more than getting hit with an extra cost.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I upvoted you, but I was mostly just quoting the jwz article from 1998.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Please. IF you're using Chrome OS, you're "trusting" Google. so encryption that's impossible to disable is ok.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The existence of a garbage collector doesn't mean that the programmer has to play a totally hands-off role in the allocation of objects; as with any coding, there are usually a few bottlenecks that deserve special care. A system with a good
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I treat memory as a resource too precious to be left to the mercy of programmers. In any application, a good garbage collector can be more efficient than malloc/free or new/delete. http://www.jwz.org/doc/gc.html
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by chunkbot 16y ago
How does Sony feel about subsidizing the cost of these things?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Oracle RAC? That explains why it's so expensive.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
If a single entity controls the platform for it, a programming language is effectively owned. For all practical purposes, Apple owns the platform for Objective-C. If more apps are developed using a cross-platform standard like HTML5 than a
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The article is now available at: (Article) http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201012/viral-me-s... (Single-page/printable version): http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201012/viral-me-s...
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by chunkbot 16y ago
You could have chosen a better title for this submission. Why editorialize it with "Contempt and Confusion"?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm surprised that this has so many upvotes. Are you all net this simplistic?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
What did it quadruple from? One to four? Two to eight? I'm being serious; isn't all of tumblr numbered at around 20 people, or am I mistaken? Their About page says "we've grown from a team of two, to more than ten people."
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Isn't there a better source for this news? I mean, here's some quotes from Kelly Hodgkins' article: "For those that have been living under a rock, Tumblr went down on Sunday afternoon and hipsters everywhere were bent out of shape." "Tweets
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Much like the early days of search, businesses are overpaying for a new form of advertising. Advertisers are willing to pay ridiculous amounts for a Groupon deal, so Groupon's sales force has evolved to exploit this extremely lucrative sour
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I'm getting nearly the same numbers for paid sign-ups; I'm glad I'm not the only one surprised by how effective it is!
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by chunkbot 16y ago
They did Unix in the 70s; C was pretty nice then too.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
True, we don't have all the data, but we do know that those two bush birds are already producing millions of dollars in profit a week .
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The implication is that it is far more likely that Groupon is a "Pointcast" than a "Facebook". But the statement that there are "far more Pointcasts than there are Facebooks" is impossible to falsify.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Ten-year Treasury yield is 3%. $6 billion invested today for ten years would return $8 billion. Their valuation could be several billion more than $8 billion in less than 2 years. You might be right about the coupon sites being a novelt
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Is that true? How would you know?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Your analysis is wrong; here's why. The founders, employees, and other insiders of Groupon have already been handsomely paid off. For them, Groupon represents a free option. If it sells for $6 billion, great! But what if in 12 months it cou
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The number of Flash-enabled browsers is not getting "fewer every day"; it's growing. The ratio, however, is probably falling, given the rise of mobile and decent alternatives for things like video.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
Considering that frameworks are by far the biggest use-case for JavaScript, I'm surprised there isn't more information on how to write one. A framework is vastly different from writing an interactive website.
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by chunkbot 16y ago
These are the 23 sites that YouPorn is checking for: pornhub.com redtube.com adultfriendfinder.com xvideos.com tube8.com xnxx.com megaporn.com megarotic.com xhamster.com awempire.com realitykings.com brazzers.com xtube.com bangbros1.com fli
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by chunkbot 16y ago
You're kidding, right? How can you draw such a conclusion from a list of twenty billionaires ?
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by chunkbot 16y ago
There's very little usage of either Emacs or vim at these competitions (they seem to prefer a simple text editor). Also, they code fast , literally at the limit of how fast they can type! Maybe it's a consequence of the language choice (ty
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by chunkbot 16y ago
I really like the tag line ("The Internet was built for Universities. We're taking it back."). The design sucks, but at least it's functional. You should explain what the product does (ie. put some variation of the above text on the page?).
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by chunkbot 16y ago
The deal is in the "$5 billion to $6 billion range".

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