dmoney

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by dmoney 16y ago
I don't think anything messed up my life, but if I had it to do over again, I might choose music as a career and programming as a hobby, instead of vice versa.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Did values affirmation actually make men score lower? Or were they just ranked lower because women, on average, had higher absolute scores than the control? Speaking of control, writing about values in a physics class could cause people ot
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by dmoney 16y ago
Where do you find 10,000 year old music?
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by dmoney 16y ago
With HN having a high concentration of people who are in some way interested in YC or its model, I'd think the success of rejected companies would be interesting to more than just the YC principals.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I wish my employer would get Dropbox. Not being able to host it in-house is probably a dealbreaker though.
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by dmoney 16y ago
I notice there's a question about patentability, but some of your essays say to ignore software patents. What changed your mind?
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by dmoney 16y ago
I met someone from Lockerz who said they have a PHP fron end and a Java service layer.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Exactly. What you describe sounds like the one PHP application I wrote, before I had done much real programming. By "the right way" I mean idiomatic, maintainable, and taking advantage of its strengths.
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by dmoney 16y ago
There's a difference between "next" and "most". Next: PHP because 94% of all CMSs, particularly WordPress, are written in it.* I kinda know it but want to learn to do things the right way. Most: Clojure because of its lispness and concurre
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by dmoney 16y ago
> Twitter strikes me as a very anti-intellectual medium because of the 140 character limitation. There's the old saying that goes something like "Nobody ever went broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people." Les
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by dmoney 16y ago
> ..."gmail killer". I am reading this like a fat slap on zuckenberg's face(book hehe) Maybe Paul just didn't want to participate in killing his own brainchild.
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by dmoney 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1892550
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Anonymous DDoS Takes Down The United States Copyright Office(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by dmoney 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
> Kind of interesting how English forces us to deal with this issue all the time. How do other languages handle it?
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Fermilab is building a "Holometer" to test theory of holographic universe(symmetrymagazine.org)
32 points by dmoney 16y ago|15 comments
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Nice gears [video](jwz.livejournal.com)
1 points by dmoney 16y ago|0 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
What do you call yourself?
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by dmoney 16y ago
It sounds like he has lived like any other person with the difference being his attitude ("Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it."). He might just be lucky. It also might be the case that that attitude
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by dmoney 16y ago
You wouldn't have to use a spaceship. "meteorite" means it's already hit the ground. You could just walk over to it, assuming it didn't wipe out all life.
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by dmoney 16y ago
Project homepage: http://rtw.ml.cmu.edu/rtw/ No source but you can browse or download the database. NELL even has a twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/cmunell
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Cosmic strings are super-massive, ultra-thin cracks in the universe(io9.com)
5 points by dmoney 16y ago|1 comments
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by dmoney 16y ago
I thought it was just people trying to be nice. Maybe some of them were.
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by dmoney 16y ago
What domain name would you use though?
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by dmoney 16y ago
Any idea how much these cost, or how much it would cost to get this service without the card? Will they order and buy stuff for you (e.g. from Amazon), or just tell you where it is?
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by dmoney 16y ago
Hard to argue with you there. But advertising is how most of the web makes money off of "free" services, and I believe it can be done tastefully.
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by dmoney 16y ago
> This is an average of roughly one thousand lines of code per month, which is pretty much the limit to how quickly I can write high quality "never need to look at this again because it will never break" code. What's your secret for b
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by dmoney 16y ago
I'd like to know how often the human drivers have had to take over.
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by dmoney 16y ago
It's possible that your users are using the site itself as a distraction. You could A/B test to see whether ads keep visitors from coming back. Or are you thinking that ads or affiliate links would make the database less valuable?
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by dmoney 16y ago
> given how upset myself and Violet Blue have been over this Why get upset about it? Why not find a non-libyan domain and move on?
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by dmoney 16y ago
WebCommandPrompt sounds like http://yubnub.org/

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