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by dfranke 18y ago
Your ages will be a strike against you; expect problems with that for another two years or so at least. It's not a fatal strike, though, so definitely give it a shot. Apply to YC. Above all, keep building.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Lastly: resources like Open Courseware are worth their bytecount in barrels of oil. Don't leave them unused, especially if a traditional education is out of your grasp for the time being. For that price you could just buy MIT :-)
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by dfranke 18y ago
Always. It usually just takes a few seconds because I just skim over anything that I recognize as boilerplate. But every once in a while I reject one because it's downright scary. Worst offender I've ever seen is the Punkbuster EULA: ht
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by dfranke 18y ago
Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but there's none better.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Typical clock rates at that time would have been 5MHz. So let's say you have a 64KB document containing 16K words. For a merge sort that's 2^18 comparisons, each requiring a small number of CPU instructions, so it would take on the order
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by dfranke 18y ago
Just double-checked. Yup, looks like I have it wrong. For some reason I had it in my mind that alphabetical keyboards came first, then Dvorak and Sholes were introduced within a year or so of each other and Sholes won out.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Dvorak came first.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Compressed on disk/floppy. Decompress one block at a time as you scan through it.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't get what the big deal is. As long as the document you're checking fits in RAM, then you can just sort the words alphabetically and then check them in a single pass through the dictionary. If you really need random access, use a B+
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by dfranke 18y ago
That's the most outrageous non-compete I've ever read, and yes, you interpret it correctly. Don't even consider signing that. The bit about associating with other employees is more standard. I'd argue over that part too but it wouldn't b
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by dfranke 18y ago
Had to use it? To me that'd be an instant click of the back button and maybe a new iptables entry.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Any claim that any language that has basic control structures and access to OS facilities can't be made to scale is absurd on its face. When you say that a system scales well, you're talking about its asymptotic behavior. Using an ineffic
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by dfranke 18y ago
It doesn't go as deep as I wish it did. However, it still gives an excellent introduction to a lot of techniques I've never heard of before and can now look up in more detail when I need to.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't think there's any benefit to extending it beyond the neural lag time.
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by dfranke 18y ago
You can do SSL very cheaply these days. GoDaddy has certificates for $15/year. Dreamhost gives you a dedicated IP for an extra $4/month.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Not since 2002 or so. That's the last time I used LFS, because before that every Linux distribution sucked. Now I use Debian or Ubuntu server edition.
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by dfranke 18y ago
What's the difficulty with implementing SSL? If you're not already familiar with it, read the manpage for s_server, which is part of OpenSSL.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I hated both. My short-term solution was to compile everything by hand. My long-term solution was to switch back to Linux.
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by dfranke 18y ago
specifically, your plan fails to account for (*) extreme profitability of spam Spammers would probably be willing to pay more to make each post than legitimate users would.
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by dfranke 18y ago
The message I get from Boston is "know your history". Pretty much every block has a centuries-old story behind it, and someone there who wants you to know what that story is. I don't think it's a coincidence that the National Genealogical
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by dfranke 18y ago
I know what you mean about Cambridge. Hanging around Diesel Cafe (okay, Somerville) I saw a lot people hacking on web apps, but also a lot of copies of Derrida and Bhabha carefully positioned on the table so that people would notice them.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I usually write Lisp in 120 columns. I don't actually put very much on each line, but my code tends to be very deeply nested so it finds its way to the right margin rather quickly. Twenty consecutive close-parens is not unusual for me.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't think there's any automatic credibility here. It's a book by an unknown author published by a vanity press.
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by dfranke 18y ago
If it were a Haskell book then clearly they'd need one of these on the cover: http://arcanux.org/lambdacats.html
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New Common Lisp book announced, bills itself as a sequel to On Lisp.(groups.google.com)
53 points by dfranke 18y ago|15 comments
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If Many Worlds had come first(overcomingbias.com)
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by dfranke 18y ago
Funny, I'm just the opposite. Machine noise doesn't harm my concentration at all, even if it's deafening. But anything resembling a human voice will drive me bats.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Options trading is not zero sum because the utility of money is not linear. When a rich person gives money to a poor person, the net gain is positive because the poor person can use the money to satisfy more basic needs that the rich perso
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by dfranke 18y ago
Still no 64-bit Linux client? At this point there are probably more 64- than 32-bit Linux systems.
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by dfranke 18y ago
On a winding mountain road six miles from the nearest cross street.

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