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by ghc 13y ago
Played Reversi in Windows 1.01. Still lost. I will go hang my head in shame now.
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by ghc 13y ago
I'm working on http://algorithmic.ly -- algorithms as a service. It's cool because I get to help startups who don't always have the resources to hire someone like me who specialized in implementing and scaling cer
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by ghc 13y ago
As went Reddit, so goes Hacker News (albeit far more slowly). With some sadness, I feel that it is just about time for the next refuge for hackers to spring up out of nowhere and captivate us. Even Hacker News, it seems, can't escape b
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Failure is losing the will to fight(medium.com)
3 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
I'm terribly sad to hear this. Tom Clancy's "Into the Storm: A Study in Command" was one of the first books outside of the fantasy genre to inspire me as a child. It led to years of creating RTS total conversions based o
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Escapology: how, when and why to encode and escape(kivikakk.ee)
1 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
This doesn't really give you any help with what metrics you should actually be choosing. When I mentor startups we spend a lot of time on this, but for most web companies a good starting point is Dave McClure's Pirate Metrics: ht
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by ghc 13y ago
I've been a part of one of these suddent acqui-hires. It's not terribly fun if you're the guy building the critical software, not knowing if you'll have to kill your whole year's work the next day so you can switch
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by ghc 13y ago
Yes, including sales, support and integration. Nothing much is needed afterwards, but it's still doesn't scale.
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by ghc 13y ago
Hmm, can't replicate under the same conditions. Do you have any chrome extensions installed that the site might be interacting badly with?
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by ghc 13y ago
I generate about $900/month of semi-passive income from http://algorithmic.ly , but the initial setup cost is high. In the future I want it to be the goto-company for adding generalized algorithms to apps, products and servi
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Making native C calls with PicoLisp(software-lab.de)
1 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
Why not? The latest statistics I could find say that about 22 launches per year happen there. At each launch pad there are probably only a fraction of those. But even if the disturbance is approximately 2 minutes long (a slowly rising rocke
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Michael Dell is back: Dell shareholders approve $24.9B buyout(dealbook.nytimes.com)
2 points by ghc 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghc 13y ago
Every time I think I'm done with Linode, they draw me right back in. I guess I'll wait to see about the pricing, but I imagine this will be a serious challenge for Digital Ocean to overcome, since their main selling point over Lin
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by ghc 13y ago
Awesome, thanks! Still wish I could be there in person. There's nothing quite like it.
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by ghc 13y ago
I don't see what's so scary about vector clocks. I have no trouble with them in Riak. Sure, there's a little extra logic to deal with certain types of siblings, but honestly I haven't encountered any difficult edge cases
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by ghc 13y ago
That looks awesome. Unfortunately at 9 I'll be teaching Lean 101 for Lean Startup Challenge nearby, or I'd come check it out! We really do have a lot of startup events in Boston, and I try to do my part to help, but nothing matche
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by ghc 13y ago
I went to the first (?) one of these back in 2005 at Harvard. I really, really wish there was one on the east coast to complement the SV one. It was a great experience and I think there are a ton of up-and-coming entrepreneurs fresh out of
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by ghc 13y ago
This is really cool, but why don't the color gradations go back further? Is it a matter of how records were kept? I would have loved to see how many buildings survive from each century from, say, 700AD on. Pre-1850 as a category seems
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by ghc 13y ago
Certainly not. In Python, for example, exceptions are used to handle exceptional conditions . Here's an example. Say I'm writing a function and I have a dictionary I need to access values from often. Now say that 85% of the time
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by ghc 13y ago
I don't find this true at all. Haskell exceptions don't look like exceptions in other languages, so it's easy to get hung up on the fact that error is generally used only for unrecoverable errors. But that's why it&#x2
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by ghc 13y ago
It's silly to keep posting every O'Reilly eBook sale to HN. This is basically just free advertising for them. The 50% discount is nothing special: If you sign up for a membership you get a permanent buy-one-get-one-free discount t
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by ghc 13y ago
I was not aware of Forge. Thanks! I guess I stopped paying attention about 10 years ago, shortly after WotC killed Apprentice. I figured, based on their behavior, that they would never let any unlicensed innovative MTG software come out. I&
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by ghc 13y ago
I have written enterprise software. Guilty as charged.
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by ghc 13y ago
Now someone needs to use this to make a passable Magic AI. Shandalar is ancient at this point, but it's still the best attempt I've seen, and the only Magic computer game I still play.
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by ghc 13y ago
Thanks! You can send me an email either there or brendan@algorithmic.ly .
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by ghc 13y ago
I built http://algorithmic.ly , a company that helps you add intelligence to your applications by providing algorithms as a service. I mentor a lot of startups in Boston. Between the Harvard Innovation Lab, CIC, Lean Startup Mach
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by ghc 13y ago
Thanks for doing this for all of us who make things. Indifference towards people's side projects and new startup ideas has been creeping into the HN community for the past couple of years and I find it discouraging. Personally, I'
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by ghc 13y ago
Back when Borders was still around I stumbled upon a Functional Reactive Programming book by Paul Hudak. To this day it's still one of my favorites. If you know Haskell and don't want to learn Scala, you might enjoy this as an alt

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