ehsanul

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by ehsanul 17y ago
And what exactly is "filthy" about advertising?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
If either side is happy then there's an inequity. Or you might get into the position where the employer and employee think they got a great deal. I've heard of it happen before. In any case, making sure neither side is happy is not really
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by ehsanul 17y ago
That's interesting. I'm sure some people here, like me, believe the opposite, since I/O is so much slower than processors now. Can you give a bit more of an explanation as to what kind of applications are CPU bound and why?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
An apology has since been made in the comments and the post updated to reflect it.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
With regards to the second question, it seems that sometimes a hack today to save time could cost a lot down the road, when the hack becomes some integral component somewhere. It's not always that easy to decide whether the short-term benef
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by ehsanul 17y ago
This article refers to the metal foam being able to compress "without deforming". Now, I'm no materials specialist, but as a mechanical engineering senior, that makes no sense to me. The whole point of the material seems to be to deform in
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Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? (Video)(ted.com)
2 points by ehsanul 17y ago|0 comments
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I can't find the specific link, but here's the marketing pitch: http://www.sun.com/x64/intel/zfs_solution_brief.pdf Also, Googling for "sun hybrid storage" without the quotes will give you more information. Edit: Here's a good explanation
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by ehsanul 17y ago
There was some work done by Sun recently on this, around last year I think, where they showed how much more performance could be gotten out of a system when flash is added to the mix. I can't quite find the link to the article now though. I
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The Five-Minute Rule 20 Years Later(cacm.acm.org)
30 points by ehsanul 17y ago|13 comments
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I wish that blog post was a joke, as well as some of the comments there.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
A better test case would be several arbitrary pieces of code which do not change between the the benchmarks. Even if just a few lines change in the test case of thousands of lines of code, you cannot expect the change in analysis time requi
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by ehsanul 17y ago
We should institutionalize that somehow. Like the public wall of shame of old, a vetting board decides if your issue gets pushed down the pipeline and all the news outlets subscribe to it. Or, one could run it something like how Stack Ove
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Sure, but from a business perspective, those users in Asia may also be harder to monetize, depending on your market and business model. Even Google apparently had issues monetizing China, for instance, cyber-warfare and censorship aside. Bu
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by ehsanul 17y ago
What an amazing setup. What I'm wondering is whether something similar, in terms of automated jamming, could be made available to more people through software, perhaps a puredata program. That would be a really interesting project to work o
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by ehsanul 17y ago
In this interview, Alexis Ohanian does talk about it a little, though specific reasons for the idea being rejected are not mentioned: http://mixergy.com/no-reddit-didnt-copy-digg-heres-how-it-wa...
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Fair enough. I'll keep that in mind for the future.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Well, the quote was from the 404 page, but I can see how it could be seen as off-topic. In any case, it seems the situation has reversed now, so no point discussing this minor point.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I'm wondering why my comment downmodded; I'd like to know in what way I may have violated community guidelines, so I don't again. I suppose my comment was not useful, is that it?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
After three years of searching for the Apollo 11 tapes, NASA concluded that the footage of the first manned moon landing is probably lost forever. How come I never knew that Apollo 11 footage was lost?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Ahh, thanks for pointing that out. I am indeed on Ubuntu. And I'm obviously entirely clueless about fonts; ignorance is bliss. :)
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I didn't even notice my terminal font until it being pointed out. So am I the only one perfectly happy with just Monospace?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Perhaps a YC account on LinkedIn, which you could then befriend, allowing you to find others all friends with YC on LinkedIn? Just an idea. Seems like the simplest thing that could work well, without building a separate social networking si
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by ehsanul 17y ago
From the link: "Attention HN users of the "Co-founder wish list" document. I have manually transferred/formatted entries in the document as of Jan 16, 2010, 11:12am EST. You can find your entry by searching for a keyword in your entry, suc
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Chess is not where the action's at in AI anyways, so you're right, that idea is indeed laughable. These days, poker is hot new(ish) thing for AI research, with it's stochastic gameplay and psychological twist (bluffing and calling bluffs),
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I wonder how performant this is, since I see no mention of benchmarks and such. I'm currently using MongoDB to store a graph, and it's not that bad to use, except that pagination of a node's edges is unwieldy, atleast the way I have it set
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Agreed. Also, instead of hiding all comment points, perhaps the score can be hidden when it's 1 and lower, making it ambiguous, while retaining scores for comments with 2+ points.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I found myself lost in the Carver Mead interview linked in the blog post instead: http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/People/CarverMead.h... Pretty convincing for someone, such as myself, with almost no knowledge of quantum physics,
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by ehsanul 17y ago
There's a security issue with this idea obviously. If I'm not mistaken, the whole point of hashing passwords is so that a loss of the user database in some way does not compromise any accounts. You might as well store passwords in plain tex
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by ehsanul 17y ago
This reminds me of how I started "programming", making bots for online text-based mmorpgs with AutoIt V3 ( http://www.autoitscript.com/ ), automating IE. That was a great introduction to programming for me, very simple language with usefu

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