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811.
by frisco 18y ago
Looks like they're still around: http://www.jamcracker.com/
812.
by frisco 18y ago
37signals mocked this back in the first bubble: http://www.37signals.com/enormicom/ It's almost dead on. Wow. I'd thought it was pretty bad hyperbole even for 37s, but it's exactly accurate. Edit: The last paragraph is amazing : "our s
813.
Apollo Astronauts Didn't Need Heavy Boots(phys.ufl.edu)
83 points by frisco 18y ago|55 comments
814.
by frisco 18y ago
From my experience, numerical algorithms at all complicated in PHP tend to lead to major suckage. We use Thrift ( http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/ ) to send the task to a daemon written in something more reasonable, most often either Py
815.
by frisco 18y ago
Sequoia uses WSGR for counsel.
816.
by frisco 18y ago
Right on.
817.
by frisco 18y ago
The author doesn't understand how the internet works. In many ways, the First Law of the Internet, as inescapable as a law of physics, is that if the information exists, infinitely many copies will be made. Software piracy is a great ex
818.
by frisco 18y ago
Example: a function accepts as input the source of another program (assume it's computable and halts). Thus, the original function is variable; can it be simulated by a UTM for any arbitrary valid input? I'm probably using the wrong termi
819.
by frisco 18y ago
It sounds like he's stating that a UTM can't simulate an arbitrary lambda function then, since that returns a variable function (a second-order UTM: a UTM can't simulate a UTM, which makes it not a UTM?). In order to evaluate a lambda you n
820.
by frisco 18y ago
He's saying though that those two can't be separated -- the functions the machines are computing are themselves changing with time.
821.
by frisco 18y ago
His argument is deeper than that; he's basically saying that there's no such thing as a universal machine if the function being simulated meets any of the 5 criteria he lists, since the function can't be simulated (that is, you can't comput
822.
Robot with a biological brain [video](youtube.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|1 comments
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Audi - BMW - Subaru - Bentley Ad War(thetalentjungle.com)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
824.
by frisco 18y ago
4chan is basically the definition of silly.
825.
Dancing with Professors: the trouble with academic prose(trc.ucdavis.edu)
35 points by frisco 18y ago|19 comments
826.
by frisco 18y ago
Has anyone actually read the warrant application? The allegations were made by a close acquaintance of the accused who directly observed him changing grades for students and cracking into other systems; the emails in question were traced b
827.
by frisco 18y ago
When I first saw the title I thought congress was trying to ban CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL! A little confused for a second when I realized what they were actually talking about, but then it made much more sense. Would have been funny to have
828.
Walk & "Shoot" using HTML canvas(benjoffe.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
829.
by frisco 18y ago
Atheism allows you to take it further. Atheism says that since the world is governed by physical laws alone, anything not forbidden by the laws of physics is achievable. You don't have to concede that one day you'll join her in a hole in
830.
by frisco 18y ago
I'm not sure where "crowd behavior" comes into this. In the 16th century, we believed that the species of the Earth were created whole by a God. Now, science has provided a better more defensible explanation. It is this pattern I was ref
831.
by frisco 18y ago
No. People have to stop saying this. Atheism does not depend on faith. It is a falsifiable hypothesis that fails if anyone presents repeatable, concrete evidence that a higher power exists. After millenia of trying, the overwhelming ev
832.
by frisco 18y ago
You don't.
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Tweenbots - A social experiment of cute autonomous robots and crowdsourced help(tweenbots.com)
50 points by frisco 18y ago|19 comments
834.
Google Calendar "hello" Easter Egg(google.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|1 comments
835.
Conficker Wakes Up(tech.yahoo.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
836.
by frisco 18y ago
Wait. Wait. Backtrack for a second. The year is 1974, and Linux, Mac, and Windows haven't been invented yet. There is no IDE, no SDK, and no documentation. Actually, there's no development environment at all. There are no APIs, either.
837.
by frisco 18y ago
> and Yes, he's not a great hacker (he's smart and knows enough about technology but the couple Gen 1 Microsoft employees I've met say he can't code worth a darn) What? I'm pretty sure Gates is the quintessential technical founder. He
838.
by frisco 18y ago
Also be sure to note the submitting author on this post. May have to do with the upmodding.
839.
Exception paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
840.
by frisco 18y ago
A /terabyte/ of transfer a day?!?

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