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by dgreensp 15y ago
For some reason, the first thing I tried was circle-plus, which it thought was a theta followed by a bar or a one. D'oh.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
The worst fallacy of modern times: that everything comes back to the ego. I have no idea what you mean by a "more aesthetically pleasurable life," except that apparently it's a bad thing, but if we all truly accepted our insignificance (in
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Your comment is obviously just a gimmick designed to punish Congress.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I suspect the author of the post is glossing over the fact that technically he was informed, he just clicked through the "Surge Pricing / are you sure you want to pay 5x" screen without reading it closely, figuring the email had already
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Good thing we have professional prognosticators to give us up-to-date forecasts of such things as "the enterprise will increasingly use cloud services."
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by dgreensp 15y ago
One step at a time. If we can all agree on the apparently controversial/notable fact that selling your content to fans for money is a viable business for a famous person , we are finally making steps towards a better world for artists a
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Gives Google too much credit, on the one hand, by saying they will create an elegant OS that unifies desktop, web, and mobile (a sort of "holy grail" actually)... then says this is a bad thing.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
College, and school in general, is a strange game indeed. Probably the only way to get through it unscathed (or with minor scars) is with an intense amount of perspective, that is, not taking it too seriously. If you mold your very being
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I think that's the point of the reformulation: there's jargon and then there's substance-removing abstraction.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Not sure what to make of this app/company -- the pitch is very generic and doesn't really differentiate the app from any of the zillions of to-do apps and systems, some of which are also very slick and minimalist. The company is a year old
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Kind of a stretch, an elaborate ploy all to merely "friend" someone. Like, "Car thieves who want to steal your car can construct an exact replica of your street, house, and garage, so that you're actually parking right in the thief's carpar
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I noticed this too as I needed the mnemonic "I'm the guy, I'm the guy..."
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Your test is only one very specific scenario. I'm not a GC expert, but on EtherPad, which was a very complex monolithic JVM app, we had to turn to concurrent GC as the default GC just choked with any settings. If you haven't seen much dif
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I think this mini-debate is a clash of personal values more than anything else. Jacques is essentially saying, "I'm a programmer, and I'm secure in that. Even when I'm just gluing existing code together, I'm damn good at it. I know that b
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by dgreensp 15y ago
This is exactly why we need funding sources like Breakout Labs, to fund "science entrepreneurs and inventors" without the overhead of the university/grant system. Imagine if half the money your web start-up raised paid for the salaries and
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I love how the first half of the scan is cropped off at: "Jobs did not even eradicate poverty..." What a failure of a man. I agree that the world needs leaders and visionaries in other areas besides computer products, but hey, I'll take wh
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by dgreensp 15y ago
For the interested, this is almost certainly based on this research: http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/research/deblur.html
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Statements like this -- saying that x86 is either good enough or as good as anything could possibly be anyway -- sound to me like a lack of imagination, lack of perspective, or not wanting to stir up any cognitive dissonance given that mark
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by dgreensp 15y ago
On the contrary, as someone with my own firsthand experience, I think positive, empowering, live-affirming articles are needed alongside the concerned frowns and furrowed brows of often-helpless friends, family, and psychiatrists. A brillia
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by dgreensp 15y ago
By far the biggest win is probably replacing dozens of TCP sockets with one streaming connection for loading content. After that, shrinking images, and maybe offloading some CPU (JS compilation, layout). The "browser cache" story is less cl
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by dgreensp 15y ago
>I never had to manage anyone in our startup, even though I was the president. The other hackers were my peers, and would have given me the raspberry if I'd tried to "manage" them. We operated by consensus. And the rest of the company r
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Hate to jump on the negative bandwagon, but... I had a momentary hope for something truly novel, but found the usual aggregation of data-binding framework, templating language, and widget kit, where the widgets have various bugs/quirks that
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Ha. Well, Scala was designed by hardcore JVM people after all. You could count me in the second camp. It's possible that some fondness for the JVM is required to have much interest in Scala. It is a unique language, though. Functional,
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by dgreensp 15y ago
SQL was a solution more than a problem; we were just hoping for a simpler or more elegant solution. For example, it's possible that logging all data model changes to a text file would have given us the persistence we were looking for withou
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by dgreensp 15y ago
After reading the article and all the comments here, and from my own experience, I just don't think it's possible to not have a DB. At best, you write your own basic DB, because you don't need anything fancy. For example, you write S-expre
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by dgreensp 15y ago
There are ways this story fails in practice, like the "language mismatch" I mentioned. For example, in Google Web Toolkit, which compiles Java to JavaScript, theoretically the static type information should be a huge boon to optimization.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Looks interesting, from skimming the docs. Only a few obvious downsides/open questions to me: * License prohibits making closed-source things in it. * How efficient is the generated client-side code? Language mismatch is a major cause of s
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by dgreensp 15y ago
I have no faith in HP's leadership. I was talking to an insider last year about how HP wanted to be a computer maker. I said, "I know them for their printers, they make awesome printers." He said, "Yeah, they're not so interested in print
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by dgreensp 15y ago
Mixed messages here. His biggest target of criticism is his own Frankenstein's monster of a Java project, but he wants the blame to go to the tools (technologies), and the fact that he wasn't allowed to use Haskell.
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by dgreensp 15y ago
> The birth of Airbnb is a unique story. But the founding of our company simply does not compare to recent events. Weird way to open; what does this even mean?

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