digeridoo

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by digeridoo 14y ago
Nice, I've been looking forward to seeing games like this.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
> If lives were equal value then taking the life of a child would be equally as bad as taking the life of an 80 year old - but most people do not think that way. ? So is murder of an 80-year old worse, or murder of a child? I'm confused
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Honestly, that never happens.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
The loss is tiny and indicates profitability is in sight. GroupOn currently has a market cap of about 1.8B, which seems reasonable for a company that size, though perhaps still a bit on the high side given how low their margins are likely t
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by digeridoo 14y ago
I can see this going into Windows 8 phones... I'd buy one.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
If only the kindle fire shipped to countries where most people live.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
That's actually a problem academia should take on, but unfortunately that's not the direction computer science has taken.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
To be honest, EBS is the special sauce that makes me stick with AWS. There are so many little things that become so much easier by having network storage. To me the cost of upgrading or migrating machines using local storage is just not wor
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by digeridoo 14y ago
We shifted from services that fail often independently, to services failing rarely all at once. Clearly the former is going to be more noticeable and has greater societal impact, but as a business I'll take the latter any day.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Much sits in the way between invention and nirvana. We have to face the fact that earth is over-crowded with global infrastructure, rules, economic barriers, borders, financial systems, controlled by a small number of distant, territorial g
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by digeridoo 14y ago
a. proove it b. pi as a decimal number is an approximation that is only as long as you calculate it to be. Moreover, decimals do not contain non-numeric information. That's just your own interpretation. Imagine a number system where pi is
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Be 20 guys?
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by digeridoo 14y ago
I wish that for OAuth 3 they would make it such that client and server can separately sign the request and you don't have to share keys between the two. That would be a great security enhancement.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
I never quite get the excitement over game of life (is emergent behaviour really that surprising?), but this is extremely impressive.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
It's not like performance is a fundamental property of the language, it's just a matter of which tools are available. JITs outperforming compilers is just a matter of specialized compilation approach being able to outperform a generalized c
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by digeridoo 14y ago
In principle, duplicating results is a good thing, it's what prevents fraud. The incentives are wrong here, and it isn't proper academic conduct, but it's still valuable science.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
TV is coming. Radio is dead! Actually, radio is as big an industry as it ever was. Mobile phone and app sales may eclipse PC hardware and software sales, but the products are just too different to expect one to replace the other. Perhaps th
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Works for me.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Apple is in the same branch as sports clubs and religious institutions. They have wildly different products, but a similar way of working: speaking to people's basic desire to be part of something greater than them. With the same vigour tha
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Why not fire up the 3D printing market?
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Europe as in: the 4% of Europeans that live in Scandinavia.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
Glacier to EC2 traffic is free if your instance is in the same region as the Glacier endpoint and $0.01/GB otherwise.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
10Gbps EC2 instances start at $0.742/hour. Welcome to the cloud. ;-) I assume the cost is in retrieval though and counted per the Job Creation API, regardless of whether and how quickly you download the data. but you're right that the 3TB/h
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by digeridoo 14y ago
At 10Gbps I can retrieve 3TB within an hour.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
At 1GB/hour retrieving a 3TB archive takes 6 weeks...
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by digeridoo 14y ago
You mean like http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/ ?
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by digeridoo 14y ago
I used to believe in <div>, but nowadays I just believe in whatever works. I haven't noticed any rendering problems on HN, so I'm not sure what the problem is.
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by digeridoo 14y ago
There's nothing simple about that. :)
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by digeridoo 14y ago
or you just use a better hashing algorithm... Anyway, you're better off going for EC2 GPUs. http://www.infoworld.com/t/data-security/amazon-ec2-enables-...
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by digeridoo 14y ago
I'm not sure about the OP, but I'm pretty sure you have built distributed systems in practice. :)

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