greatsuccess

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Bitcoin is a cryptographic botnet(bitcoinisablackop.wordpress.com)
22 points by greatsuccess 13y ago|22 comments
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Do you want to be bought by Yahoogle?
5 points by greatsuccess 13y ago|3 comments
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
Personally the fact that your spam links to the legislators wikipedia pages is top on HN shows that 1) you have nothing to say on the subject, 2) you are a spammer, and 3) that you are probably a complete idiot who could give a shit about t
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
Cue pointless duck typing flamewar...
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
Partitioning is the answer. In a repo that size 99% of the history is useless to anyone. You wouldnt manage a database like this so why force SCM down this path? If they used git with say only the last year of history in it they would be
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
I don't believe in this data structure. Its ill informed Rich Hickey nonsense and it doesnt scale and has no purpose but to seem clever.
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
You are correct, thats easy to reason about unless you are writing the garbage collector, in which case its pointless to write a garbage collector because there will never be anything to collect and memory will expand infinitely. As for the
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
Id like to keep immutability and databases separate in this comment. Immutability the supposed "big advantage" of functional languages, is a discussion which is one-way. No one ever discusses the implications of a system which is
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
C++ does not perform, is not a managed language, and has nothing to offer. What could he possibly be talking about? I read this as MS once again getting it completely wrong. Seriously C++ solving managed languages performance and memory p
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
As an addendum to my comment this event set a bad precedent. As the excuse to fire Scott Forstall was to come out with a similar (non) apology. Which is really ironic, because had Jobs not chosen to make this ridiculous NON apology for the
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
Im sorry to say, although I admire the song writer for his irrational exuberance, this is not the case. The day he is referencing was one of the angriest days of Jobs late tenure at Apple. Jobs was furious, indignant, and as angry as he cou
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
I have never known Paypal to be a company that improves their software. This may be the first rewrite since the 90s for all I know. Yes they have a business, but as a consumer and merchant on Paypal the overriding feeling I have always go
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
I don't need a guide to leaving the best computer currently made. If I had to use a PC I don't know if I would bother with computers at all except for my job. PC laptops have the reputation they deserve and I think they not only
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by greatsuccess 13y ago
How is what Rap Genius any different than selling ad space, Googles core business? It seems to be that this was just an interpersonal request for an AD to link back to Rap Genius. What is wrong with that anyway? Adwords and Adsense are ju