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by grinich 12y ago
Or a bicycle.
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by grinich 12y ago
I feel like it should be outlawed to post untested code that must run as root. :/
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by grinich 12y ago
Languages aren't slow. Interpreters are. As a human, I can think a lot faster in Python. So for me, it's a faster language.
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by grinich 12y ago
There's a paragraph about this in the post. Did you read it?
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by grinich 12y ago
this is hilarious :)
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by grinich 12y ago
Not if you write for TechCrunch, apparently.
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by grinich 12y ago
There was already a crisis in SF: not enough housing.
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by grinich 12y ago
How do you know they don't encrypt it on the server?
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by grinich 12y ago
Are action sports really that new? People have been skateboarding, surfing, and mountain biking for decades.
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by grinich 12y ago
What did the XMPP change have to do with Vic?
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by grinich 12y ago
I'm not sure if that would happen. It's a natural adaptation to only breed in still water. If mosquitos evolved from that, we would have much bigger problems than just malaria.
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by grinich 12y ago
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend work by the economist Mariana Mazzucato. In particular, her book "The Entrepreneurial State – Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths." http://www.amazon.com/
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by grinich 12y ago
It should also be noted this this was inaction by the administrators, not necessarily the students, researchers, or faculty.
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by grinich 12y ago
That's actually a _relatively_ new underpinning of online publishing law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
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by grinich 12y ago
This is so they can generate thumbnails of images. Yes, seriously.
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by grinich 12y ago
You should probably put that disclaimer on the GitHub README. Lots of folks will have no idea. It's a testament to your good design that it looks finished though. Kudos! :)
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by grinich 12y ago
::shudders::
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by grinich 12y ago
You know, the quote actually goes: Jack of all trades, master of none, Often times better than a master of one.
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by grinich 12y ago
great move
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by grinich 12y ago
Is he looking for a summer job? ;)
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by grinich 12y ago
When I say it's "free" I mean it in a larger sense. HN has no advertisements, and up until fairly recently, no full-time developers. There wasn't much incentive to fix these bugs in the product, even though they seem qui
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by grinich 12y ago
The reason this happens is that the link is actually a reference to a live closure[1] held in memory on the server. Notice how the URL has `fnid=...`? Well fnid is short for function ID. There isn't an obvious way to fix this without d
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Paul Graham's personal website (circa 2000)(bugbear.com)
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by grinich 13y ago
It's unlikely that San Francisco could ever supplant Wall St, despite San Francisco having a large financial centre. Is this actually that unlikely? Look at the tremendous wealth creation around the Bay Area over the las
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by grinich 13y ago
One time I reverse engineered the flight controls for a octocopter (like a quadcopter, but 8 rotors) so I could access the debug port and stream telemetry to a ground station while issuing GPS waypoints. Probably the only thing worse than r
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by grinich 13y ago
Citation? Usually the flight plan is to increase altitude (less atmospheric drag) before increasing angular velocity to full orbit. Elon's been pretty explicit that F9 stage 1 will land back on the pad, or very close by.
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by grinich 13y ago
On traditional launch vehicles, yes. Shuttle was definitely this way. And I'm sure SpaceX will initially do a complete disassemble and inspection to gather more data about the wear and tear. But the Merlin engines have been designed fr
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by grinich 13y ago
Rockets are built to be pretty durable machines (obviously). The environment they operate in outside of the atmosphere is harsher in many ways. Two big issues with sea landing: transport (tug, crane, huge truck, etc.), and corrosion/co
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by grinich 13y ago
They had two more trips scheduled to Russia; now Ressi decided, as he says, "I didn't like dealing with Russians," and told Musk he wasn't going back. Musk went anyway. On the second trip, Musk brou
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by grinich 13y ago
Not many people know that he initially (pre-SpaceX) tried to buy a couple decommissioned ICBMs to send a plant to Mars. He was ready to write the check, and the Russians spiked the price at the last minute. So he's probably got a grudg

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