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by dmoney 16y ago
The comment about the bible was by cema, not mahmud. My impression was that cema interpreted your above comment as saying that people in the US would not respond well to plots based on Christian mythology because it was unfamiliar; when I
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by dmoney 16y ago
Took me a minute to figure out why it thought my github account had perl in it. Unfortunate that perl and prolog both use the the .pl extension. I think GitHub makes the same mistake, or did when I put the prolog stuff up anyway.
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by dmoney 16y ago
In philosophy this is called the problem of identity over time. A ship is taken apart, piece by piece. Then the pieces are used to build two separate ships. One ship has the original nameplate; the other has the original sailors. Which
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by dmoney 16y ago
I don't get the reference. The search engines don't turn up anything relevant either.
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by dmoney 16y ago
My comment is only going to complain about your headline: Your use of "hacking" is confusing and possibly incorrect. AFAIK when "hack" is transitive it usually means violating, exploiting, or modifying an existing system, which it doesn't
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by dmoney 16y ago
My guess is this is aimed at stopping Google from hemorrhaging engineers in Facebook's general direction. "Look, we've got a programmer in charge again!"
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by dmoney 16y ago
Hint: you can fit more if you melt them.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Is Mark of the Beast a common term for this type of bug (triggered by a certain number)? Never heard it before.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I'm guessing he just linked from one of his essays and it took off from there.
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by dmoney 16y ago
She also writes and produces The Guild ( http://www.watchtheguild.com/ ) and its associated comics. I think the show qualifies her as both creative and a successful web entrepreneur.
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Everything I Know About Game Design I Learned from Super Mario Bros.(etc.cmu.edu)
1 points by dmoney 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
Arguably it's not a non-computer system if the customer service rep is just a front-end for a finite state machine.
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by dmoney 16y ago
It seems to be part of the definition of a startup that the end goal is either acquisition or IPO. PG has said (in an interview, might have been on Mixergy) that YC can't make a profit on a startup unless it has an exit.
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by dmoney 16y ago
That is a revolutionary post on the time aspect. What about energy, or was it even an issue? I work about 45 hours a week, but it sometimes seems like that's all the work I've got in me. Working 70 hours a week would, I'm assuming, be al
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by dmoney 16y ago
How did you find time and energy to work on BCC while working 70 hour weeks?
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Conversational Chaff(c2.com)
1 points by dmoney 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
This is offtopic, but it makes me angry every time someone uses Lego (singular) as a collective noun. When I was a kid they were always called "Legos". I never heard someone say "I built X out of Lego". I don't know if it's worse that th
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by dmoney 16y ago
Nasal Pirate Ax
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by dmoney 16y ago
a high-energy electron beam combined with an intense laser pulse could rip apart a vacuum into its fundamental matter and antimatter components I'm not a physicist, but this sounds wrong. Vacuum doesn't have "matter and antimatter compon
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by dmoney 16y ago
I chalked that up to the billionaire supergenius creator, which also hurts the plausibility a bit.
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by dmoney 16y ago
The Baroque Cycle trilogy by Neal Stephenson was good. It took me about a year (off and on) to finish though. It's historical fiction through the eyes of a computer geek and sci-fi writer.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I liked Daemon. A rogue AI story that doesn't depend on strong AI. This talk by him was interesting (which was how I found out about the book): http://fora.tv/2008/08/08/Daniel_Suarez_Daemon_Bot-Mediated_...
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by dmoney 16y ago
This plugin is supposed to stop quote replacement: http://coffee2code.com/archives/2004/06/27/plugin-wpuntextur... Haven't tried it myself.
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by dmoney 16y ago
How do you master time?
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by dmoney 16y ago
The winner: http://quotenil.com/git/planet-wars.git/
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by dmoney 16y ago
Re: the comments, there is a system of code residuals. It's spelled "licensing."
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by dmoney 16y ago
Aside from the expense, I don't think it's more foolish than e.g. styling your hair or wearing a tie: both completely useless except for their effect on your appearance. Older people would probably buy modifications to new cars if marketer
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by dmoney 16y ago
The storage service described in the Rationale section looks like it's using something like what Git does: stores a part of a file only once, and uses references to it thereafter if another file uses the same segment. I don't see why you wo
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by dmoney 16y ago
It sounds less computery.
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by dmoney 16y ago
as anyone considered product personalization as a way to mitigate the durable goods problem? Are there other examples of firms doing this? Scion pushes the idea of customizing a new car: spoilers, rims, paint jobs, removing the logo, what

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