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721.
by herdrick 19y ago
Congrats, Nick! Way to go. Catch you on the other side.
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by herdrick 19y ago
That should be "scholars of ancient Greek ".
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by herdrick 19y ago
Ah, OK. Thanks. That's a slightly more specific meaning of "database" than what I've gotten used to lately.
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by herdrick 19y ago
To prevent this kind of thing in the first place: Stop typing at regular intervals, stand up, and run your fingers and wrists through a range of flexion and extension motions while moving your arms around, especially over your head and back
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by herdrick 19y ago
I've heard that about Montreal. Those French - ever tasteful, non? Salt Lake because of U of Utah: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/
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by herdrick 19y ago
> Scaling ... I would want to see more than just 3 or 4 sites that have scaled well. Three or four seems to prove the feasibility. > hiring - will I be able to find talented people to work on the codebase? Yes. The people you find
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by herdrick 19y ago
Is anyone else shocked that Flickr has less than a terabyte of images?
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by herdrick 19y ago
Yes. Doubly so if you're asking the question.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Wondrous. How is it that the book "Heron's Automata" that they mention hasn't been translated yet? I would have thought scholars of ancient Greece would long since have run out of works to translate.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Silence! The voices tell me what to type.
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by herdrick 19y ago
That plugin was a little buggy when I used it this summer. If you do something with MzScheme you're much better off with DrScheme. DrScheme is pretty good, and getting better - they just added rudimentary code completion, for example. Yo
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by herdrick 19y ago
So, you are trying to do Linux on the desktop? Why? Linux for your server, Mac or Windows on your desktop.
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Google favors new web pages for newly popular searches, gets burned.(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
12 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 19y ago
Yeah, I've been wondering about Richard Stallman lately too. His searing experience was seeing the LISP world going commercial and closed... why did he choose to copy Unix instead? Was it just to piggyback on Unix's incumbency? That was
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by herdrick 19y ago
You should probably use S3 to store and access the multimedia stuff. Other than that, I'm not sure what a scalable website is.
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by herdrick 19y ago
When you want a really powerful tool, you usually have to accept a tougher learning curve. Yes, most web apps should be immediately understandable, their features laid plain to the first-time user. The problem is, advanced image editing i
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Where Scheme came from [pdf](brics.dk)
2 points by herdrick 19y ago|0 comments
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by herdrick 19y ago
Poor kid. His life will suck.
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by herdrick 19y ago
As for compensation, I think everybody who comes to the Bay Area gets somewhat screwed in their first job here. Once you get a foothold here and start making contacts, you can easily find something that pays more.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Agreed, definitely find a roommate situation on Craigslist. The process of going around from place to place meeting possible roommates is also a great way to make friends, including friends of a romantic nature, and to get a better feel fo
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by herdrick 19y ago
"... and you kids get off my lawn!"
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by herdrick 19y ago
Actually, he wrote about Amazon sucking a lot. Like here: "Emacs has the Quality Without a Name ... we have the Quality With a Name -- namely, Suckiness. We suck." ( http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel ) That's a great stor
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by herdrick 19y ago
These aren't such unanswerable questions. McDonald's, for example, is popular because it's so cheap and so fast and reasonably wholesome food. Or am I agreeing with you?
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by herdrick 19y ago
It's not the unicode. That's easy. It's "how are you going to separate the English, French, Hindi, etc. versions, from each other?" Will you have different URLs or the same URLs with a global preference, or something else?
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by herdrick 19y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about with URLs. I was talking about the implications of implementing this in different ways and saying that there's no easy way.
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by herdrick 19y ago
It's a hassle. Every string displayed in your site (aside from the user created stuff) now becomes a bundle of strings, one for each language. Also, how are you going to organize the different versions of your site? Will you just use the
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by herdrick 19y ago
Don't miss the video; there's a lot of detail here that's absent in the slides: http://www.vcasmo.com/video/osnow/391
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by herdrick 19y ago
When an employment relationship is a bigger commitment, employers are much more hesitant to hire.
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"How much of your knowledge could you regenerate?"(overcomingbias.com)
8 points by herdrick 19y ago|1 comments
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by herdrick 19y ago
I'm going to say GoF. Flame me. Also "Learn Java" (1996) and "Enterprise Java Beans" (2000).

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