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   Winklevoss syndrome(startupblog.wordpress.com)

   39 points by davidst 16y ago|20 comments
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   Offer HN: Does your startup need a place to stay for SXSW?

   10 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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   by davidst 16y ago

   This happened long ago, in the pre-internet era, and a few minutes of searching yielded nothing to substantiate it but it is true to the best of my recollection. McDonald's has long had a "Birthday Club" where you could fill out a form with
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   by davidst 16y ago

   What would you think about having to license a patent to build a car? What if there were the equivalent of MPEGLA for cars that could prevent you from competing with other legally licensed car manufacturers? What if the licensing authority
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   by davidst 16y ago

   Little bits of history: Compaq shipped a computer with a 386 before IBM did. That was quite a coup at the time and helped establish Compaq as a top-tier computer maker instead of just another PC-clone vendor. Compaq was also, in a way, part
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   by davidst 16y ago

   Botter Reeves, one of my best friends and a great all-around computer guy (back when that meant being as comfortable with a soldering iron as a keypunch) had a hand in building this. He has fantastic stories of those days. I hope he gets ar
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   YouTube uses Amazon's recommendation algorithm(glinden.blogspot.com)

   2 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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   Yahoo drops its own Hadoop distribution(networkworld.com)

   2 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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   by davidst 16y ago

   Statistical machine learning and data mining. 32GB isn't enough but, then, it's hard to name any amount that would be enough this kind of work. Almost all of our machines are either 32GB or 16GB. As btmorex pointed out earlier, "Once your d
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    by davidst 16y ago

    1 GB or less
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    by davidst 16y ago

    2 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    4 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    8 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    16 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    32 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    64 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    More than 64 GB
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    by davidst 16y ago

    That rule of thumb is from Jim Gray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist) It's held true for a long time. Like any rule of thumb, at some point it may no longer be correct, but we're not at that point yet.
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Rule of thumb: RAM size lags disk size by about ten years. Ten years ago a typical workstation had around 32GB of disk storage. Today, 32GB of RAM in a workstation is perfectly ordinary. Take the size of your local disk space today. Ten y
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Was it anything like the 'Method of Analogies' from KAISSA?
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    by davidst 16y ago

    > Just comes to show that there are almost > always better solutions than you can think of! It's true. One of the characteristics I always looked for when interviewing programmers was whether they were open to other ways of doing t
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    by davidst 16y ago

    I've done quite a bit of work with dictionaries going as far back as 8-bit machines with tight memory constraints. Bear with me here as it will get interesting. A Bloom filter is a great data structure but probably not the best choice for
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    Viking Found Organics On Mars, Experiment Confirms(news.discovery.com)

    5 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Of course, it's only a matter of time before Linux succeeds on the desktop.
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Age 15. Apple II+ The discussion here brings back a lot of fond memories. The Apple II was a great computer and easy for a teenager to understand. Source was available for almost everything (and what wasn't officially available had been
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Source code is here: http://api.metadatalabs.com/ VideoRoulette is a sample app for the metadata labs video fire hose API.
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    VideoRoulette -- (Almost) every video being posted anywhere on the internet.(api.metadatalabs.com)

    8 points by davidst 16y ago|2 comments
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    Ask HN: Review my startup: metadatalabs.com and debsnews.com

    6 points by davidst 16y ago|0 comments
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    by davidst 16y ago

    Good idea. Wrong target. What we really need to do is equip all non-combatants with smart phones and provide them with free service. Secularize them overnight and end the war.
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    by davidst 16y ago

    There's a great essay in there trying to get out. Someone needs to write about the romantic vs. classical perspectives on startups.