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by fr0sty 14y ago
There was an extensive discussion on this point in the previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855610 The short summary is no one can come up with something better than price-time priority for matching orders.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
"That's a failure of software design." Or the evidence of a differing opinion on what amount of complexity is necessary.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
The Hole Hawg is quite real, actually: http://www.milwaukeetool.com/tools/drills/hole-hawgs
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Maybe it is a UNIX/non-UNIX thing... I have been using UNIX-type operating systems almost exclusively for the whole of my professional life so have zero appreciation for the troubles people have when approaching UNIX tools from a Windows (o
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> If this is a bubble, and you know that eventually certain companies behaving this way are gonna tank -- then you can bet right now that way and earn a big payout if that's the case. "Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you
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by fr0sty 15y ago
A ponzi is where you use the money from new investors to pay off earlier investors. Early investors in startups cash out during later funding rounds or acquisitions. QED.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
>who else could you hold responsible? The contractor who underbid. If Roger's submits a bid for $1m to deliver 50k widgets he shouldn't be able to come back after the fact and demand $4m to complete the project because he underestimated
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by fr0sty 15y ago
"Which will then inevitably lose you the full value." Not even close. Insurance will reimburse you for the loss (minus a deductable).
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by fr0sty 15y ago
This reminds me a great deal of Mark Twain's plan for the improvement of English Spelling: http://www.i18nguy.com/twain.html
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Maintenance of a basic WiFi access point has exactly one step: 1. Reset Router. Hardly rocket science...
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by fr0sty 15y ago
One interesting fact (which is not quite intuitive) is that one way they improved the WiFi network performance was by disabling the radios on a number of the access points in the hotel. Less is more in some circumstances.
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IETF attendees reengineer their hotel's Wi-Fi network(networkworld.com)
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Not sure about you, but my gas bill is $/therm(~100 cu ft) and my water bill is $/100gal. Pricing data in MB (or KB!) is like billing for water by the cup (or Teaspoon!).
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by fr0sty 15y ago
A stock will have a single "primary" exchange. This is where the stock is "listed" (apple is listed at NASDAQ, for instance). However a stock may be traded at multiple exchanges (BATS, NYSE, NASDAQ, DirectEdge, etc) as well as other market
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> but probably more than one can output from a small backpack of batteries like in the vid ;) Actually, Lithium-Polymer battery packs capable of a sustained output in excess of 2kW weigh only a few pounds.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> I could easily imagine everything going the other way if Linus or DHH had picked Mercurial instead of Git. Just picking a nit, but Linus didn't just choose it, he wrote it. Also, Mercurial wasn't an option for him because it didn't
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by fr0sty 15y ago
they are in the ./t/ directory in the repository. Look for more information in the README file: ./t/README
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by fr0sty 15y ago
It is not, to my knowledge, possible to commit directly to github. You can create a commit locally and push it to github, sure, but that is not the same thing. What commands do you use to accomplish this?
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> I, for one, will get nothing out of Cameron traveling to the bottom of the ocean that drop cameras have not already produced. This is true only if you assume that the advances being made in materials and technology will not have appli
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The problem with comparing the situation in the US to " the little-known country called the United Kingdom" is that the UK is peopled mostly by the British and _not_ by americans. This small fact seems to evade most people's comparative ana
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Does anyone know how they are planning to sell off the first batch? If they do anything besides some manner of dutch auction they will be leaving a lot of money on the table for enterprising folks to pick up by reselling them on eBay.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
A vendor software push is risky even if well tested... > "something that causes something to lose all function and become inert" add "suddenly and without warning" and I'd agree with that definition.
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I wonder if as much digital ink would have been spilled on this whole kerfluffle if the original article had not used the term 'bricked'. Bricking, at least in my mind, is something that happens suddenly usually when attempting something at
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> I've found it distressingly easy to kill changesets in Git unintentionally. Mind if I ask how you manage to easily kill changesets in a 'distressingly easy' manner? In my experience it is somewhat difficult inadvertently lose commits
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by fr0sty 15y ago
I think the $25 price point is a major draw. Your example board with fewer features is $60...
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Yes, but only if: 1. All existing hardware and software magically vanishes 2. The government is put in charge of implementing its replacement. 3. The whole system is a dead-weight loss which exists to serve the whims of government oversight
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by fr0sty 15y ago
Forgive my ongoing skepticism, but where are these codes? on the boarding pass? Who is at the gate to turn you away? Does the TSA chase you down when they discover you have outwitted them?
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by fr0sty 15y ago
> "they check the codes" And what codes are these? the pen-squiggle? the highlighter-check-mark? Is it your hobby to try to sneak past TSA checkpoints? Are you successful often enough that you have been turned away at the gate for not h
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by fr0sty 15y ago
The real danger is someone figures out how to spoof a legitimate request to the TSA-QR service and have them create authentic codes with bogus data. Never mind that the solution itself is far from 'easy'. Somehow linking every ticket printe
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by fr0sty 15y ago
And as we all know, there is no way to generate your own 2d barcodes...

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