frisco

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961.
IPhone Ocarina(joelaz.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
962.
Google's Invisibility Cloak(forbes.com)
7 points by frisco 18y ago|9 comments
963.
by frisco 18y ago
The GetBundles links aren't working for me, and I can't find any reference to it anywhere else via google or github. Am I completely crazy?
964.
by frisco 18y ago
They use a strange metric for success, in that the company has to go public. I'd say a good acquisition is clearly also a "success". Assuming that far fewer companies go public than are acquired (and make the founders wealthy), their numb
965.
by frisco 18y ago
yep. that's better.
966.
by frisco 18y ago
What? That's not a legitimate PROFIT strategy. You missed a vital step.
967.
by frisco 18y ago
thanks! i was worried that it was lost for a second.
968.
by frisco 18y ago
AlanT is most definitely not nuts.
969.
by frisco 18y ago
The response by KGodel was classic.
970.
by frisco 18y ago
It's incredibly stable. And a polished, supported, user-friendly end product.
971.
by frisco 18y ago
What's wrong with a mac?
972.
by frisco 18y ago
Check out Prefuse: http://prefuse.org/ It's in Java and a really solid library. For the web, there's Prefuse Flare: http://flare.prefuse.org/ which is an ActionScript 3 port (so, basically programmatic Flash) that also works really
973.
by frisco 18y ago
This is really old...
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Internet Encourages Delusions of Persecution, Schizophrenia(nytimes.com)
3 points by frisco 18y ago|1 comments
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For a Washington Job, Be Prepared to Tell All(nytimes.com)
14 points by frisco 18y ago|35 comments
976.
by frisco 18y ago
moshe: by the way, you have the greatest email address ever.
977.
by frisco 18y ago
Also, what processing is actually going on with the data? Just updating the data in storage seem like less than half the problem. You're going to need an efficient system for parallelizing whatever processing jobs need to be run.
978.
by frisco 18y ago
you really, really don't want to be using a relational database here. hitting disks a million times per minute would be disastrous, if not for performance then for blocking IO, even with only row-level locking. I'd look into memcached and
979.
by frisco 18y ago
Taxes would have to increase to finance this, though-- taxes likely levied on the companies that would have been providing the insurance before. This just leaves them providing health insurance by proxy.
980.
by frisco 18y ago
Yeah, this is true. It's a problem, and I think it stems in no small part from how deeply rooted religion is in this country. I don't think it has a lot to do with the lack or presence of an adolescence, though, or really much in general
981.
by frisco 18y ago
http://catb.org/hacker-emblem/ The glider is an "animal" from conway's game of life and has been popularized as a "hacker" symbol for a while, though I don't think it ever caught on in a huge way.
982.
by frisco 18y ago
nice glider favicon
983.
by frisco 18y ago
> Oh no, you might have to start treating them slightly more like human beings! I don't think many startups are guilty of this. But even so, could you imagine what it would do to the startup community if you required every company rega
984.
by frisco 18y ago
One thing that continually throws me is the whole, "more school, especially more college!" idea. The skills that have actually put me in interesting situations, like serious brain machine interface research or a startup doing quantitative
985.
by frisco 18y ago
Is HN flat-file based ala Viaweb, or is it on top of a relational database now?
986.
by frisco 18y ago
yeah, though the numbers don't seem to be multiples or constants (except for the death star one), they seem to be metric accelerations
987.
by frisco 18y ago
I was getting that too all morning (about 4:30 - 8:00 EST)... just stopped about 10 minutes ago. During the outage Google Reader still had all the new stories from overnight, though.
988.
Fun (and Fraud Detection) with Benford's Law(kirix.com)
4 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
989.
by frisco 18y ago
A friend worked out the math and it assumes a mass of 1e14 kg for the death star. also, i just noticed a GRAVITY_THE_ISLAND a couple more lines down. what?
990.
Android: float GRAVITY_DEATH_STAR_I(code.google.com)
50 points by frisco 18y ago|24 comments

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