cmars232

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by cmars232 19y ago
What is it, and why would I want to use it? In the first 10 seconds of scrolling through it, this wasn't immediately clear to me.
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by cmars232 19y ago
Consider that if you're more productive than average, it is very unlikely your employer will pay your salary proportionally to your productivity. Taking it easy and leaving early is often the only way you'll recover this otherwise wasted e
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by cmars232 19y ago
Unless you're the semiconductor industry.
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by cmars232 19y ago
Interesting, I'd normally pass this over, but I've been researching Hilbert curves for a solution to this hard problem in geospatial privacy I've been trying to work out ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84525 ). Maybe there's somethin
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by cmars232 19y ago
Maybe you should do this in a meta-site like Disqus, that'd be interesting. I could see why a site like Reddit/Digg wouldn't want to add a feature like this, it would probably encourage the wrong sort of behavior. But human nature is human
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by cmars232 19y ago
Here's a story that illustrates how I'd like this to work, at least with regard to the encoding and the searching: Alice tells Trent of a list of identities that she'd like to meet in real life, one of them is Bob, whom she's seen online, b
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by cmars232 19y ago
I still haven't worked out the protocols for matching encoded locations -- hopefully it is possible. I fear you're right, I may not be able to get beyond a simple challenge-response type of comparison without disclosing some information. C
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Ask YC: Searchable, obfuscated location-based data?
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by cmars232 19y ago
A per-user, shareable kill list and bayesian filter. Let them have their revolution, it will be ignored!
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by cmars232 19y ago
All of this and more would be feasible if there were better cross-browser support for vector graphics. These whimsical designs might be ok for niche markets, but they require tedious Photoshop skills and they don't scale.
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by cmars232 19y ago
I'd make one myself, inspired by the TACOS at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. I think that if you clearly and plainly communicate a TOS contract to your users, that is probably good enough to establish your intentions, should a legal issue arise at
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by cmars232 19y ago
Why would somebody actually pay money out of their own pocket for a device that they don't actually own? Well, ok, telecom's a great example, but Amazon does not have the same kind of stranglehold on books... A Sony Reader with a bit of W
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by cmars232 19y ago
I have fond memories of standing up on the floorboard in the back of my parents' car and sticking my face out the window on the highway when I was a little kid. If I let my son do that today, we'd probably end up on the 6'oclock news -- som
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by cmars232 19y ago
Problem is, the number of trolls perceived in a forum is inversely proportional to one's capacity to appreciate irony. Maybe this formula would be a good meta-moderation heuristic :P
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by cmars232 19y ago
I'd take such an action as a declaration of war on my own free will, and act accordingly.
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by cmars232 19y ago
What about taxes in Europe compared to the US?
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by cmars232 19y ago
Any sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from real information.
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by cmars232 19y ago
IBM did exactly that when I interviewed with them in 1998. They give you a battery of tests including: A timed test of where you have to do a lot of boring math problems like long-multiplication and division of large sums. I hate boring m
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by cmars232 19y ago
Recent rotation: * Do Make Say Think (recent album I think) * Alice Coltrane "Journey in Satchidananda" * Various - "Putamayo World Lounge" * Hybrid - Live DJ set from Moscow, 2004 In general while hacking, anything ambient, repeti
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by cmars232 19y ago
I don't get it either... email and blogging does what Facebook does so much better. I won't check Facebook or Twitter or MySpace for the same reason I refuse to check my voice mail at work -- checking too many things and having too many a
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by cmars232 19y ago
I prefer JSON too.. it provides a more natural expression of associations, objects, etc. Sure, you can represent any XML/JSON in sexps, but then you have to come up with a convention, follow it, explain it, and check that its followed corr
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by cmars232 19y ago
Some C++ wizards took Greenspun's 10th rule as a challenge and developed template metaprogramming libraries like Loki and Boost :P Its kind of interesting to observe how C++ typelists do compile-time metaprogramming, they use a cons linked-
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by cmars232 19y ago
Don't generalize, they're hard in different ways. C++ is hard like tiptoeing across a minefield is hard. "Don't forget to make destructors virtual! Use auto_ptr! But don't put it in an STL container! Don't subclass the STL containers!
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by cmars232 19y ago
Heh its a a Cosmo quiz for geeks :P 29
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by cmars232 19y ago
Regarding the subprime fiasco, it should read "This is what happens when you build an entire industry based on tricking people into borrowing more than they can afford!"
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by cmars232 19y ago
Terror futures could be a good way to factor socio-political factors into a market prediction engine. This might be the reason they were developed in the first place.
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by cmars232 19y ago
I got a free FON in some promo a while back. Problem is, the range on a FON router turned out to be half that of my modded Linksys. It doesn't even reach outside the house...
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by cmars232 19y ago
Now who's going to invent a Flash video ad blocker first, that's what I'm waiting for... :)
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by cmars232 19y ago
How are posts rated by this thing? How can I customize AideRSS's output to my own tastes? Is this site just a canned RSS remix per site, done semi-manually (I can't add arbitrary RSS feeds, hmmm)?
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by cmars232 19y ago
1. Facebook is decent but a lot of my real-life friends already use MySpace. I refuse to keep up with 2+ social networking sites, its a waste of time! If I could push/pull content thru one site, I'd be more likely to use social networking

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