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by fizx 17y ago
Think about Gödel numbering or Cantor diagonalization. Let's assume discrete, rectangular representations of images (width, height in pixels and colorspace of #000000-#FFFFFF). Here's an injective mapping from natural numbers (the indices
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by fizx 17y ago
Single founder, and damn it's tough. :)
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by fizx 17y ago
There's a couple of these already in progress, but you usually have to get introduced to them via your network. Ask around :)
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by fizx 17y ago
Don't have anything to relate about the truth of the rumor, but my dad is a family doctor who has been begging for a clever tablet for medical forms for about five years now. The two key wins for him are (1) not having to fetch and replace
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by fizx 17y ago
I think this is why I lost 5 pounds during my two week vacation in France.
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by fizx 17y ago
At a conference, Norvig once mentioned that you not clicking on the number 1 link says a lot more than you clicking on the number 4 link. Just saying.
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by fizx 17y ago
I'm happy to downvote every comment someone makes in an out-of-order thread exchange. I'm not going to look for your comments elsewhere, but if two people get in an argument 6 levels deep, that's going to be 6 downvotes.
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by fizx 17y ago
Love the topology graphs. I might have to steal some features :). Hurray open source!
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by fizx 17y ago
My review: http://fizx.posterous.com/testing-out-whnchrm-and-posterous
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Google Image Swirl(image-swirl.googlelabs.com)
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by fizx 17y ago
This is a really great article for today's design trends. It provides the sort of knowledge that would really help a mediocre designer (i.e. multitasking founder) jump up a level. I wonder tho. These principles were presented as universal
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by fizx 17y ago
FYI, be careful about using Rinda. It's quite inefficient. O(n) inserts, etc.
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by fizx 17y ago
I have now! ;)
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by fizx 17y ago
I like everything they're doing; I just don't trust their capability to win enough market share to make developing on their platform meaningful. Plus, I don't own one so I wouldn't dogfood.
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by fizx 17y ago
That's the killer for me. I wish projects that release version 0.17.2 would just get on with it and give us a 1.0. Actually, I guess I'd be happy if the constraint was simply "don't break shit in a patch release, even if you're 0.x".
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by fizx 17y ago
What's interesting about this to me is that when combined with the currently free inbound bandwidth, you could have a pretty damn cheap crawler.
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by fizx 17y ago
The pricing has to be cyclical on a daily/weekly basis, right? Plus, the algorithm could be opportunistic and take advantage of temporary dips in price/utilization.
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by fizx 17y ago
They need to make it so that when you do an elastic mapreduce job, you can get the cheapest job that will finish in a specified amount of time.
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by fizx 17y ago
Run headless Firefox+xvfb+Selenium. Selenium has java, ruby, and python clients. This is working really well in production. You might also have luck with AppleScript/RubyCocoa/MacRuby+Safari. I've tried a couple other options like HTMLUn
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by fizx 17y ago
I'm sure he stole the quote from somewhere....
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by fizx 17y ago
Actually, I bet I could convince at least 1/100 of that group to marry me. It's the mutual compatibility that's the problem.
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by fizx 17y ago
From the wikipedia article on Paul Erdős: His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems", and Erdős drank copious quantities. (This quotation is often attributed incorrectly to Erdős himself
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by fizx 17y ago
Presumably, he works in a branch.
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by fizx 17y ago
A couple years back, I made a great hire. He came in for the interview, and fumbled through our generic tests (program fibonacci in the language of your choice, etc). So we said "no thanks." He emailed us back and wanted another intervie
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by fizx 17y ago
"Make", not give.
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by fizx 17y ago
whois pissedoffedness.com NO MATCH
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by fizx 17y ago
The thing that excites me most is that Rails is moving to jQuery with "unobtrusive javascript" for all of the ajax helpers. Currently, its Prototype with inline spaghetti code.
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by fizx 17y ago
TechCrunch is claiming 8 figures, which would be a bit high for a simple talent acquisition. Seems like a talent+tech acquisition, more along the lines of FriendFeed than Parakey or Pownce. Edit: Parent formerly read: "...Seems like PR spi
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by fizx 17y ago
YC doesn't take a board seat, so their options for forcing change in portfolio companies are pretty much limited to suing for breach of fiduciary responsibility. IANAL, AFAIK, etc. TL;DR: NO
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by fizx 17y ago
You store a normal AMI on S3, which is $.15/GB. If you care about costs, you should be doing all of your high IO tasks on the /mnt swap drive, so your IO costs should be pretty low. It's probably a wash.

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