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by edge17 15y ago
first of all, very cool. how is it normalized? every single thing I type in has an upward trend, which to me just suggests that interest in Hacker News has increased over the last few years... and I don't really need a chart to tell me that
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Most decorated war dog of World War I(en.wikipedia.org)
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by edge17 15y ago
Installer :)
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by edge17 15y ago
Could you elaborate or provide some linkage? I'm curious what the perceived issues were back then.
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by edge17 15y ago
Fundamentally, the idea is the same to the end user, but this is true about a lot of ideas that started on the desktop, then were recreated in the web, and are now being recreated in mobile. Like anything, ideas are a dime a dozen and execu
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by edge17 15y ago
so why be a janitor, of all things? certainly it wasn't for the job?
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by edge17 15y ago
Might be interesting to watch this over the next few days - http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast
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by edge17 15y ago
agreed. I did the very first implementation of one of the things everyone was cheering about, all the way back in 2008. I certainly don't feel robbed; if anything I'm pleased to see they did what I thought was obvious when the first iphone
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by edge17 15y ago
of course man :) it's the catch-22 of taking something complicated and making it feel simple. the people that don't know what goes on under the hood will never understand what it took to make it feel like butter.
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by edge17 15y ago
I like the idea, but it's hard for me to get past the opportunity cost aspect of it - meaning, reading something new vs. reading something old. My list of 'stuff to read' is so long, it's tough to justify spending time on things where I kno
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by edge17 15y ago
Yes, every now and then in my life (and i've been fortunate for this), I've worked on teams that were just incredible. No other way to describe it, but you'll know it when it happens. It was just work hard, play hard and there was a lot of
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by edge17 15y ago
Regarding #9, I used to read a lot, and at most times i'm in the middle of 4-5 books minimum. The problem is when I'm writing code or working on tough problems and have a lot going on in my head, it's hard to have the patience for a book, e
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by edge17 15y ago
ironic, isn't it? i've call particularly badass programmers 'gangsters' and referred to certain individuals as 'thugs,' that wield their technical aptitude like a hammer by bringing mayhem upon anything that stands in their way when they se
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by edge17 15y ago
the rf stuff is pretty complex from what I understand. I think the iphone has around 7 antennas in it (wifi, edge, 3g, gsm, etc). I somehow doubt 'just adding' another antenna is a trivial matter, an expert would probably be able to tell yo
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by edge17 15y ago
thanks for the anecdote, could not agree more. first thing I did upon graduating college was pack a bag and buy one of those around the world tickets till i was broke. for the last several years of my life since I did it, it's been one of m
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by edge17 15y ago
the 'no two ways about it'-ness of your comment struck a chord with me. I was wondering if you had a story? This is something I've thought about a lot, partially because I feel fortunate in the opportunities in my life presently, so when th
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by edge17 15y ago
i think the cost of a booster is roughly 30m at best :)
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by edge17 15y ago
From the Lunar X prize teams we know that it nearly fits within a 30 million budget. how so? from the lunar x teams I know, it is exactly the opposite.
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by edge17 15y ago
half way through. this is quite fascinating
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by edge17 15y ago
Why is this so shocking? I keep seeing people point out that he was near by a military academy. There's plenty of documented history of US and Russians spies in eachother's agencies. In fact, I have read stories about the area I grew up in
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by edge17 15y ago
maybe this is plain offensive, but i find usatoday links are worthless. my buddy refer to it as 'my first newspaper' and I find it hard to disagree. empirically, it has a history of pushing a conservative agenda.
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by edge17 15y ago
i think that's the point
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by edge17 15y ago
thanks, that was incredibly fascinating and enlightening, especially the examples. The long s survives in elongated form, and with an italic-style curled descender, as the integral symbol ∫ used in calculus; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz b
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by edge17 15y ago
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=terrorist&yea...
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by edge17 16y ago
of course man. when people get so up in arms about something like this, it's because you've built something people love. it's crappy to be on the receiving end, but the silver lining is that you've done something people truly care about.
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by edge17 16y ago
this is great. what about privacy? sometimes I care where the code ends up since sometime's I working on other people's stuff
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by edge17 16y ago
makes sense, but there's some bubblicious wafting in the air, and typically when quantity increases, quality decreases. your point's well founded though.
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by edge17 16y ago
cool, now i can do my homework on the interviewer while sitting in the lobby :)
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by edge17 16y ago
I mean... they just want to look responsible. If they'd toned it down, people would have accused them of not taking things seriously enough. It's better for them to seize the situation and own it rather than let the press have a field day a
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by edge17 16y ago
haven't seen this stuff in a while... given the complexity and large history-tracking tables of modern branch predictors, is this stuff still useful? or is the code written in this manner just to make it more platform independent (i.e. cycl

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