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by dmoney 17y ago
You can build on their stuff but you won't scale and you won't grow, not because their technology doesn't scale, but because their licensing doesn't scale. What about their licensing for Azure? Does that scale or is it more of the same?
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by dmoney 17y ago
Jobs was quoting the last issue of the Whole Earth Catalog. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1R-jKKp3NA starting at about 12:50.
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Conventions at Light Speed: What Hackers Can Learn From SF Fandom(catb.org)
16 points by dmoney 17y ago|1 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
Maybe the NSA just wants to make Windows more secure, to make cyber-warfare harder for everyone else. But assuming the NSA is malicious, it wouldn't need to install a back door. "Helping" with development gives it access to the Windows s
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Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest(wired.com)
1 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
I think it's implied that you want to know whether or not the ball you've picked is the heavy one. What's not clear is whether "weighing" is a unary operation returning the weight of the ball, or a binary operation returning the heavier of
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by dmoney 17y ago
Writing a program is maybe 10% what you want it to do, and 90% telling the computer how to do it. So I think the question of when we won't need another programming language can be answered as: when the default programming language of the d
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by dmoney 17y ago
It's not "galactic" if it's only orbiting one planet.
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by dmoney 17y ago
I read the headline as: 1997 is somehow threatening Apple.
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by dmoney 17y ago
I find unit testing to be a drag sometimes. Creating a class is much easier than creating code to reproduce every situation it can be in. Then there's troubleshooting random failures that turn out to be bugs in the test rather than the co
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z/OMG(qntm.org)
59 points by dmoney 17y ago|33 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
If people doing SEO found tricks that Google isn't able to overcome, and those became prevalent and persistent enough, people would start to lose faith in the quality of search results. Then they would go looking for other search engines.
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by dmoney 17y ago
How much were you willing to bet?
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by dmoney 17y ago
Wouldn't the traps also make the web page unusable to regular users' browsers?
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by dmoney 17y ago
Depending on Yahoo/Geocities' TOS, it may be Yahoo that has copyright.
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Embedded Figures Test confirms that stress hurts cognitive ability(the-programmers-stone.com)
3 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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Evolution of the International Space Station (animation)(i.usatoday.net)
31 points by dmoney 17y ago|6 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
What else is it used for?
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China's Xinjiang 'isolated' by email, phone blocks(google.com)
6 points by dmoney 17y ago|6 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
Everything is doomed if you wait long enough.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Enough people will be outraged at the sexism that I don't need to be.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Part of the argument is that this is sexist. Part is that it's unprofessional. If there were also male strippers the event would no longer be sexist, only unprofessional. Would it still deserve moral outrage? Would it still be counter-p
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by dmoney 17y ago
Thought experiment: early stage startup A, which consists of 3 males throws a private launch party at which there are female strippers. It's unprofessional, but at this point it doesn't matter because it's just a group of friends who happ
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Using a video game to treat ADHD(metanetsoftware.com)
1 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Juice - Now With Artificial Flavor(toddpinkerton.com)
1 points by dmoney 17y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 17y ago
What's the difference between wealth and value?
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by dmoney 17y ago
I would stand in line for this.
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by dmoney 17y ago
Ah, I was thinking the child process started from the beginning. I guess the artist was too. It'd be funny to get some green spraypaint and submit a patch.
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by dmoney 17y ago
But wouldn't the forked process also fork another process (which would do the same...), thus, eventually "fucking yo memry"?
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by dmoney 17y ago
I don't understand #5. Using a library makes something a "Hybrid Application"?

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