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by dfranke 19y ago
I like static typing, but Pascal seems like a weird choice. Why not ML, or even Java?
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by dfranke 19y ago
Ugh. Pascal? What for?
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by dfranke 19y ago
Awesome idea. I've been telling people for years that a great way to teach physics would be to write a FPS where c = 10 m/s.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Well, I assume you really mean "troll" rather than "spam", and given the earnest and constructive answers he's gotten so far, I'd say that if he's a troll he's the least successful one ever :-).
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think so. Why do you suspect that?
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by dfranke 19y ago
Hi javascripter. First of all, welcome to news.yc! There's at least one thing you're already doing right: you're starting out with a problem that interests you. However, I don't think you have quite the right goal. You don't want to be t
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by dfranke 19y ago
It might make sense to award delegates based on the percentage of all registered voters who vote for you, rather than percentage of those who actually vote. IOW, the number of delegates from a state isn't set in advance; it depends on vote
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by dfranke 19y ago
If someone were spending all their time on http://dfranke.us , I'd not so much feel bad for them as be rather scared and probably call the cops.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I can't seem to get this to work on news.yc, at least with my self-hosted OpenID ( http://openid.dfranke.us ). I go through my portal and then the Clickpass portal and get redirected back to a news.yc closure URL, but it just gives me a bl
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by dfranke 19y ago
* Q-BASIC, when I was in kindergarten. * Lisp, then all over again with Haskell. * Anarchocapitalism. * The proof of Turing's undecidability theorem. * Positivism (even though I'm a Platonist). * How compilers work. * RSA.
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by dfranke 19y ago
The Central Limit Theorem... that's a good one. Come to think of it, I felt enlightened by it even despite a teacher who wanted to be an actuary but had to teach AP Stat instead because she couldn't pass her actuarial exam, in addition to
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think the vote-weighting system is a better solution to the same problem, but PG hasn't turned it on (nor completely implemented it, as of arc2).
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by dfranke 19y ago
That's silly. The way to maintain a community is to control who sticks around, not who randomly stumbles across you in the first place.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think it's a joke alluding to this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121430 and that he just linked the dullest news story he could find.
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by dfranke 19y ago
The hangman paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox
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by dfranke 19y ago
See if they still really exist. They haven't updated their website in a year.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I've heard a few people recommend "Getting To Yes", but I haven't read it myself.
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by dfranke 19y ago
There's no objective answer to that. Every transaction is unique, so there's no concept of a market price. It's just pure negotiation, so read up on negotiation.
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by dfranke 19y ago
If you're looking for exercise, I recommend swimming. For recreation, paintball.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Enough, please. This is the third time in two days that you've posted this request. Also, "u r" is not inspiring confidence in anyone.
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by dfranke 19y ago
YC's application form is integrated with HN. I assume that's the main thing they removed.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I propose "venture catapult" as a generic term for what YC does.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It isn't a question of who you trust. It's a question of what classes of events that your system can withstand. EC2 is not durable. It isn't designed to be.
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by dfranke 19y ago
The way I read the rules is that you're welcome to make any deals you want -- immunity, whatever -- but they aren't enforcable. The person you make the deal with is free to reneg the moment it's to his advantage. Really, vanilla monopoly i
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by dfranke 19y ago
Be friends with one. If you aren't already, then finding the right person is going to be a serious uphill battle.
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by dfranke 19y ago
It was faster than that. There was very little fluff in April 2006, and by August 2006 it was overrun.
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by dfranke 19y ago
All you need for your backing store is a dumb key/value dictionary. You want S3 for that. Even with replication, running a DBMS on EC2 is a dreadfully foolish idea. A lot of startups are going to immediately go under the moment that EC2
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by dfranke 19y ago
memcached
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by dfranke 19y ago
Meh. He was a deliberate troll? Now I feel like a doofus for arguing with him in like three different threads.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Interesting. If you sympathize with Burke then I have no idea where to place you. He's pretty much universally reviled by every modern school of thought that I'm familiar with. Anyhow, we're quickly veering away from the topic and toward

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