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by endtime 16y ago
Authorize.net, though we don't really like it. The API is ugly and we can't update a recurring bill (so if someone changes their plan we have to ask for their payment info all over again). It's not enough of a priority to change it right
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by endtime 16y ago
Did you RTFA? It's not talking about dual booting, it's talking about booting multiple OSes (the general purpose one and also specialized ones) at once and then switching between them very quickly.
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by endtime 16y ago
Well, I sure wouldn't want to play Starcraft 2 in a browser, so I think you're right to question that statement.
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by endtime 16y ago
No offense taken. I think I recognize my own limits (Stanford's a good place to learn them), but I also know our customer base better than a contractor, and at the end of the day I'm the one who has to maintain the code. There were certai
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by endtime 16y ago
I don't drink - I'm not draconian about it, but I won't have a beer unless not doing so would be antisocial, and I don't enjoy it. I'd tell you it doesn't make a difference, but maybe I'm just too terrible programmer to realize how terribl
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by endtime 16y ago
I did that, several times, and I wasn't blunt or aggressive (which made one of us) - I'm not totally socially inept. I "lost" more of those arguments than I won. I genuinely think it would have been okay if I weren't fresh out of grad sch
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by endtime 16y ago
I wouldn't guess that. My company is four people, and it's my first full time job. When I hired a contractor for a few weeks, who I'd guess is in his mid 30's (I'm 24), he couldn't handle it when I made a decision he didn't agree with. T
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by endtime 16y ago
I understand where your friend's coming from. I've had bad experiences hiring contractors older than me - any disagreement resulted in the attitude (whether made explicit or not) that I obviously don't know what I'm talking about because I
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by endtime 16y ago
Definitely middle class in 40 years. I suspect 2051 will be as far ahead of us now as 2011 would be to someone in the 1940's or so.
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by endtime 16y ago
I don't disagree with you. I was responding directly to the person...to whom I was responding, who said: >No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from. The second half of
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by endtime 16y ago
Sorry, but you sound like a shallow prick and possibly a sociopath. If I can see my (future) children grow up happy and healthy, keep learning my whole life, earn my living solving interesting problems, etc., that's not just quantitatively
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by endtime 16y ago
Stanford, perhaps anomolously, has a number of startup-oriented classes. The one with which I'm most familiar (and probably the one most of interest to HNers) is CS210: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs210/
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by endtime 16y ago
Sorry, that is what I (obviously?) meant. It would have been trivial to state that information will continue to be generated.
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by endtime 16y ago
I don't think Anonymous has ever been concerned about crossing lines. In fact, you could say that crossing lines is their default mode of operation. Their goal in this case is to discourage people from messing with them. I'd say that thei
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by endtime 16y ago
I agree with you in general, but you picked a funny example to make this case - generation of information doesn't seem like something which will level off after a while.
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by endtime 16y ago
"Doubles every year" is just a simple way of summarizing geometric growth to the layman. I'm sure info generation doubles every t, but the chance of t being very close to one year is quite low.
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by endtime 16y ago
I hate to be so negative about something so positive, but the only word that comes to mind is ghastly. I was actually thrown off a bit by the dissonance between the positive tone of the article and the product being described. >themed
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by endtime 16y ago
And how many of the people you talk to do you think use the site: operator?
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by endtime 16y ago
I don't have any data showing that, but come on. Think about alllll the people out there who log into Facebook by Googling "www.facebook.com". That's your average internet user, not you and me.
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by endtime 16y ago
The number of people who use that feature is not of statistical significance.
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by endtime 16y ago
I don't think a rockstar is someone who already knows everything so much as someone who can learn to do whatever is needed at any given moment. And honestly, that is the kind of person you need at a startup.
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by endtime 16y ago
Oh, well if the person you're worried might redirect you to a hostile site says they won't, I guess you're safe.
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by endtime 16y ago
The very point of my comment is that such analogies are silly and unproductive.
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by endtime 16y ago
You're entitled to watch organic bread without paying. The problem with comparing content piracy with theft of physical objects is that the latter are scare and the former is not. I'm not trying to justify content piracy, I'm just saying t
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by endtime 16y ago
>People with the mathematical maturity to understand it don't really need the "review". I don't really think that holds water. I read through the document and understood perfectly everything it said, but I couldn't have told you right
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by endtime 16y ago
Wow. I wonder if a recommendation from a Googler counts for even more than it used to under these conditions. If any of you Googlers have a sense of this, I'd be curious to hear what you think. Edit: emphasis
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by endtime 16y ago
You might be right about the bandwidth thing - been a while since I've read it - but it doesn't change the fact that crypto algorithms suddenly breaking (for non-brute-force reasons - again, you're saying it's bandwidth and not computing po
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by endtime 16y ago
I'm no expert on the field, but I believe the optimality of Grover's algorithm strongly suggests that the upper bound on the speedup from quantum computing is quadratic (and I apologize if I'm fudging something here). I have no idea about
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by endtime 16y ago
Given what we know in the realm of complexity theory, I see no justification for arbitrary thresholds in computing power based on space. Nanomachines can change matter but they can't change math, and the fact of the matter is we know a rea
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by endtime 16y ago
>I thought the zones being unknowable was part of the story. I'm prepared to call unknowability unscientific. >a cheap way of avoiding singularity issues muddling up the plot. Yeah, exactly. They weren't an interesting idea so much

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