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by cyrus_ 16y ago
In any competitive field, from computer science to ballet, there are those who practice for hours and hours per day. The author does not want to be a competitive computer scientist, and is happy being a casual one -- skilled enough to make
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The situation here is a bit more complicated than this headline implies. The House Judiciary Committee plans on looking at these provisions. This bill was introduced to temporarily extend them to December of this year to give them time to d
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Requiring corporations to act responsibly is different from wanting a world where they do.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
After Oracle's purchase of Sun and the Dalvik lawsuit, I think it may be time to consider Mono and the Common Language Infrastructure more seriously. There seem to be far fewer legal issues there, surprisingly (mostly centered around using
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Its insane to me how much leverage a first-approximation model of economic activity, developed more than a century ago, has amongst even highly intelligent people. As soon as you leave the limit of omniscient investors with infinite capital
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
I don't understand why business project failures are treated like normal occurrences but government project failures are treated like fundamental and systemic problems with social democracy.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
I suspect that the amounts they are quoting are extraordinary bargains for Google and Mozilla, given how many highly skilled person hours went into discovering and fixing those bugs. I fear that if they increase the amounts, it will damage
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
I'm not so sure this is true. For any startup founders here, some questions: 1. How much time did you spend incorporating your business? 2. How much time do you spend per year filing your income taxes, or do you hire an accountant? 3. If th
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
They could just extend the MacBook Air line up to 15" and leave the MacBook Pro line in the same form factor, "pro" ports and all (please god no more variants of video out). I wouldn't mind being given a choice between an optical drive and
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
I'm pretty sure you've already blown your cover as far as the offering party is concerned. How many big tech firms have made 8 figure offers in the last day or two? All of them have tons of employees that read HN, so unless none of them are
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
How much bandwidth could we squeeze out of long-range packet radio technologies? Even big commercial shops like Verizon and AT&T have to be careful about bandwidth usage on their networks. What we would really have to do is take over on
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
1. CACM is more of a magazine than a journal or conference proceeding. 2. You aren't paying for all the externalities associated with your choices, so I wouldn't be so sure you are truly paying for your 100 odd pages. Maybe you could look i
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
correct, not Turing-complete
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There is also a Better Gmail extension for Firefox.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
FYI, the Better Gmail extension to Firefox has had this capability for at least a year now (amongst other useful features).
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Take a look at some of these popular Western portals. They are no less busy than the Chinese portals discussed in this article. http://www.yahoo.com/ http://www.aol.com/ http://www.msn.com/ Google and Baidu both share a minimalist aes
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Print out the articles you want to read. I don't know anyone who reads ACM proceedings and journals cover to cover, and it wastes a lot of resources.
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Build a Bigger House(nytimes.com)
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
I really like the advice about asking your employees to keep a manual where answers are kept. Way better than trying to start with some sort of comprehensive statement of principles.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
A talent acquisition means the company buys your company and then hires you -- all the shareholders make money, even those which the new company doesn't hire. This is very different from dissolving your company and getting big sign on bonus
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
View all your unread items and sort by "Magic" -- you'll get better stuff at the top and it will feel just like Twitter/Tumblr.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
They took control of the Youtube content network. They serve the ads for most of the world's biggest websites, and they have a solid foothold in mobile. I don't think Google is in any trouble. They really just need to make a compelling soci
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
The EFF has a plugin that uses SSL when available on a number of common websites (Google included): https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere . AdBlock will get rid of a lot of stuff (you will be depriving some sites of revenue, use the whiteli
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Remove all your information, hide your wall, set your email preferences to only receive event information, figure out how to prevent the insidious "Like" button across the web from tracking you. There ya go. When you are creating an event,
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
It looks like the paper is fairly straightforward. It purports to give a polynomial time algorithm for 3-SAT. Interesting facts: - It is a O(n^4m) algorithm, where n is the number of boolean variables and m is the number of disjunctions. -
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
If you can write is a 2n for some integer n, then it is even. If you can write it as 2n + 1 for some integer n, then it is odd. Therefore, zero is even and not odd.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Volume 4A is specifically about combinatorial search algorithms.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
1. Its not that hard to get to zero if you know the keyboard shortcuts to Gmail: use 'J' and 'K' to move between messages and 'Y' to archive. If you're in list view, 'X' highlights the message so 'XY' will archive things very very quickly.
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by cyrus_ 16y ago
Let me clarify that a bit further -- I'm not excluding languages which offer mutable data structures, even in standard libraries. I'm simply excluding languages where the use of these data structures are de-emphasized. This isn't a precise
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Haskell's core data structures are immutable (ADTs, tuples, records, etc.) -- what do you mean?

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