dfranke

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by dfranke 19y ago
You'd have to have quite an ego in order to expect people to use such a thing in order to get in touch with you. I don't think there are very many people in SV who get so much personal (read: not a funding proposal) email that they can't k
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by dfranke 19y ago
I think your second hypothesis is the correct one: honest people tend to be better poker players. The reason for that is that they can handle losing. People who have a shaky code of ethics tend to equate unfairness with anything that does
813.
by dfranke 19y ago
That's absurd. If they have to be that strongly discouraged, they shouldn't exist at all.
814.
by dfranke 19y ago
What's SXSW? When I read "scheduler" I started trying to parse it as a locking scheme. "Shared eXclusive Shared Write? WTF does that mean?"
815.
by dfranke 19y ago
That too, but I think this is the real issue: http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by dfranke 19y ago
You could do this with a CS background, I think. Relays are very simple to understand. If current is flowing from A to B, then current can flow from C to D. Otherwise, it can flow from C to E. They way they work (conceptually; I've neve
817.
by dfranke 19y ago
As of a few days ago, you can just RTFS :-) (= gravity* 1.4 timebase* 120 front-threshold* 1) (def frontpage-rank (s (o gravity gravity*)) (/ (- (realscore s) 1) (expt (/ (+ (item-age s) timebase*) 60) gravity)))
818.
by dfranke 19y ago
CRM114 http://crm114.sourceforge.net/
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by dfranke 19y ago
You missed the joke... I had already seen it in the source, I was just trying to bait someone to post a link :-). It didn't occur to me to see what was there, though. I had just assumed it was a spam site.
820.
by dfranke 19y ago
What domain is that? :-)
821.
by dfranke 19y ago
Who is "they"? The group that discovered this has nothing to do with the 802.11n group.
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by dfranke 19y ago
The trouble with voice-to-text is that it's disruptive. If you have 20 people in a computer cluster all using voice-to-text, nobody is going to be able to concentrate. Nor do my roommates need to hear everything I'm writing. To a lesser e
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by dfranke 19y ago
Well, bear this in mind: you can consider condition 3 the least important. While conditions 1 and 2 are essential components of being a hacker, condition 3 is just a symptom. (1 && 2 && 3) is sufficient; (1 && 2) i
824.
by dfranke 19y ago
No, that day won't come. You'll have lots of little epiphanies along the way every time you grok some new big beautiful idea, but there isn't going to be any sudden moment of True Enlightenment. I suspect you've already passed the "hacker"
825.
by dfranke 19y ago
I know how to do it. I'm not very good at it.
826.
by dfranke 19y ago
> Hacker" is an ideal that we strive towards... an asymptote... I disagree with that. There can't be an asymptote because there's no upper bound. You strive toward infinity and "hacker" is just a mile marker along the way.
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by dfranke 19y ago
I've been nervous about this sort of thing for a while. This is an email that I sent to Bruce Schneier last month: In your November article on laptop security, you mentioned the threat of having your laptop grabbed out of hands while you'r
828.
by dfranke 19y ago
Mathematica is no speed demon to begin with. The primitive functions (written in C) are fast and heavily optimized, but the interpreted parts of the language are quite slow.
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by dfranke 19y ago
Kudos to the submitter, but I couldn't finish reading this. I got too sick to my stomach about half way through. What an absolutely perfect microcosm of how government makes society go to hell. Edit: I guess now I have to retract my comme
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by dfranke 19y ago
http://octopart.com
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by dfranke 19y ago
your (possibly accidental) assertion that what premises people believe affects what statements about reality are true None of the statements in question have to do with reality, only with abstract ideas. Libertarians believe that propert
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by dfranke 19y ago
I wasn't impressed by that one. The Hacker troll strikes a nerve because it's frightening. It's all too easy to imagine somebody really being that stupid, and too easy to imagine them becoming influential. The Daycare troll reads like ju
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by dfranke 19y ago
For $44 billion, Microsoft could buy every Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley venture-backed start-up in existence. That includes Facebook at $15 billion. It includes Slide, RockYou, and every other elemental company. It would be a Moe Green
834.
by dfranke 19y ago
Where can I get a degree in trolling?
835.
by dfranke 19y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_Affair
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by dfranke 19y ago
it's not the case that "no one is really right or wrong" in debates about computer languages, politics, or religion. There is a truth of the matter. Well, yes and no. There's only a truth to the matter if you can get people to agree on a
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by dfranke 19y ago
Like graffiti, trolling can be impressive when it's done especially well. My favorite troll of all time is the guy from comp.compression last August: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.compression/browse_threa... followed by the famous
838.
by dfranke 19y ago
I don't think I ever encountered a bug for which I'd be able to write a coherent support ticket. They tended to be horrendous mandelbugs that were difficult to reliably reproduce due to caching. If it were an open source project then I co
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by dfranke 19y ago
> If you go with MySQL or PostgreSQL, be prepared to fix bugs in the ADO connectors from .Net to the database. Likewise for SQL Server and ODBC, but then the bugs are in SQL Server so you can't fix them. However, .NET has a perfectly g
840.
by dfranke 19y ago
It sounds like your dataset will fit comfortably in memcached. Run that on top of whatever DBMS you trust and whose SQL dialect you prefer to work with. For me this means Postgre or Oracle, although MySQL 6 looks promising and I might hav

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