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by gills 18y ago
It sounded like his solution was the idea of the sampled-down rss-esque feed, with the only purchasing taking place through the artist's own paypal-or-whatever basket. The feed protocol needs to have some sort of cryptographic audit trai
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by gills 18y ago
(Representative) Republics use hierarchical voting: citizens elect representatives, representatives vote on issues and elect representatives from their own pool for higher bodies. Democracies give one vote to every citizen on all issues.
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by gills 18y ago
1. Transparent, instant, geographically-relevant market pricing data. 2. Voting, Republic-style (not to be confused with democratic-style).
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by gills 18y ago
To me 'managing it' means managing risks, which often means managing long-term expectations. Debt can't exist without risk, even the technical debt mentioned here. The way you manage that risk really depends on project-specific variables
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by gills 18y ago
I usually want that when what I really need is ordering but for some reason I want key-based/random access to the values. I think Ruby added this recently. I'm not using it yet. A crappy hack can just dump the next/prev key into the value
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by gills 18y ago
Wow. Maybe karma needs to be more meaningful...perhaps a reflection of who voted for you and what percentage of page views voted for you. It's not that I want to see social stratification edified on HN; but if your comment is voted for
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by gills 18y ago
Humanity has survived long enough to produce me. Yeehaw.
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by gills 18y ago
I usually use the various options for a contrived test case or two, hack together a quick trade study, and pick something that meets my needs. Not so possible with hardware or closed-source though...
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by gills 18y ago
Most compression algorithms do consider the context of previously-received data -- but only from the same file/unit/transmission/whetever, aside from predefined contexts and dictionaries for some algorithms (like the DCT in jpeg or the fixe
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by gills 18y ago
"Mission Accomplished" ...
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by gills 18y ago
I don't find 'main' and friends to be very meaningful), but sometimes it's ok to start there, if you don't have anything in particular to find. And structure is usually an artifact of behavior, so I almost always start with trying to under
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by gills 18y ago
Don't mistake this comment as me trying to make this thread a political flamewar. I agree with you that technologies used by government are ripe for disruption -- and in my opinion the Senate and Geithner today pretty much guaranteed that
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by gills 18y ago
The phrase "disappeared in poof of logic" seems oddly relevant.
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by gills 18y ago
I have noticed that high-quality comments are still voted up pretty well, and while some witty banter gets a rocket ride too it's not unbearable. This community has been over variations of this topic quite a few times. The conclusion I dre
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by gills 18y ago
I can't agree with this enough. Spend a little time on your candidate projects and the right one will emerge.
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by gills 18y ago
Despite this being sort of a doomer rant, I really got a chuckle from the snarky bit at the end: "I mean, we can't just give people food for free . That would be ridiculous."
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by gills 18y ago
Freedom, and the hunt.
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by gills 18y ago
Maybe the problem is that Americans are already bursting at the seams from too much debt and no matter how far you stuff that firehose down the pig's throat it just can't hold any more. So no matter how much CONgress wants the banks to lend
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by gills 18y ago
I feel sorry for David Brooks, because he may never experience life. He may never experience that moment when one knows he or she truly exists, that there is no blue pill, no "way we are supposed to act", and that life is not about climbing
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by gills 18y ago
This one is kind of cool: http://www.engr.washington.edu/facresearch/highlights/ee_con...
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by gills 18y ago
Some simple tagging and a way to add links to custom views on the top bar -- so I can have a view of all the "Review my Startup" submissions and the "YC Startup XXX launched today" submissions. (def customize-nav-bar (lambda ()
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by gills 18y ago
I do find it curious that MS would actually take delivery, and I also suspect they are trying to minimize the damage of buying at $130/barrel. Sorry about my comment being a little sarcastic...I am constantly amazed at the amount of money
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by gills 18y ago
Really? We gave these banks TARP money and they're out spending it on hoarding oil so they can jack consumer prices later? Talk about sleazy.
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by gills 18y ago
I think it's useful, it reminds me of http://www.visualjquery.com/ . The cascade-on-select on langref seems a little clunkier.
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by gills 18y ago
[Not in Silicon Valley] Because I was tired of Windows, and when it came right down to it everything I choose to use as a developer is platform-agnostic and generally easier to install on Darwin. And it's pretty.
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by gills 18y ago
Whenever I start to feel old, I get a good laugh by expressing my age in an alternate radix :)
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by gills 18y ago
Wow, that looks very cool. Most MMOs generate revenue through subscriptions. I see that the iMob game itself and the gameplay are free. Are you selling in-game ads or something?
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by gills 18y ago
There seems to be some confusion between the concept of 'newspapers' and 'news printed on paper.' This post jumps between talking about gasping for air under huge debt and tree farmers going out of business. The only thing I will miss from
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by gills 18y ago
He missed the seventh 'Java' in the title bar...
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by gills 18y ago
I read this book for the first time, last summer. It was actually a little bit spooky -- OK, very spooky -- to read basically the same thing (metaphorically) in the book and the news most days of the week.

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