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by herdrick 19y ago
You can safely ignore this one if you are working on server software. Instead you really should focus entirely on functionality and ignore all considerations of performance until you actually have a problem. Be a dogmatic anti-premature-o
782.
by herdrick 19y ago
> kratom literally grows on trees You said before it was an opiate. Which is it, an opiate, or something from a tree?
783.
by herdrick 19y ago
Usually I agree - text is so much faster. But in this case, I appreciated the video. What's the general rule here? Maybe when somebody is talking about themselves or the importance of relationship or other squishy topics it's better to
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by herdrick 19y ago
You're off on several counts. For one thing, it does not take months to find an apartment. If you're willing to spend a month you can find a great deal (relatively of course), if you need an apartment in a week you can just pay a little m
785.
by herdrick 19y ago
You're missing a word.
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by herdrick 19y ago
"Extends the code-as-data paradigm to maps and vectors" Really? How?
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by herdrick 19y ago
Right, it isn't necessarily built on a core of Java; it's core might be Java bytecode.
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by herdrick 19y ago
He doesn't have much perspective yet, but that's not too important. He isn't as completely bought into the plan as you are, but you have a head start so that's expected. If you can work well together, that's what counts.
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by herdrick 19y ago
First to program were TRS-80s at school (actually, first was a programmable calculator at school), then my parents bought an Apple //e. Great computer.
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by herdrick 19y ago
What's your startup? What is your trick or tricks? Speak freely!
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by herdrick 19y ago
A culture of social egalitarianism (as opposed to the material kind) seems important to encouraging and developing new ideas. Here's Tom Wolfe on the culture of the places the founders of Silicon Valley came from: "Back East, engineers, n
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by herdrick 19y ago
Sometimes: http://www.boeing.com/history/narrative/n024boe.html
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by herdrick 19y ago
> there (used to be) an enormous Boeing factory nearby Still is.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Winter of '98 - '99?
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by herdrick 19y ago
I misread 12 as 15. But the blog post says you pick three images. So 12 choose 3, or 220. OK, if you were willing to sit through their video, why don't you tell us about this second layer?
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by herdrick 19y ago
How is this secure? There are only 15 choose 3 different possible logins for each screenful of pictures. That's 455. So you have a 1/455 chance of just guessing the right one? Or does order matter? Maybe that's what's happening. 15 pe
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by herdrick 19y ago
He didn't say all the best founders will move to Silicon Valley, just that more will than previously.
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by herdrick 19y ago
The funny thing about a great metaphor is that it somehow makes it easier to draw conclusions. If Paul had only said, "A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys, so they can move to a new town pretty easily, so we'll probably se
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by herdrick 19y ago
Perfect spelling for a PHP framework.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Ha, I did the same at WSU! How did they get caught?
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by herdrick 19y ago
Yeah, I used to go spelunking in the elaborate steam tunnel system where I went to college (Washington State U). It was pretty neat, and pretty easy to do, but totally forbidden.
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by herdrick 19y ago
I decided to break my rule of "no registering to read" and immediately regretted it. They demand that you pick a password with numbers and letters! To read a newspaper article!
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by herdrick 19y ago
Very cool. But that default font has got to go.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Wikipedia uses the wrong criterion. Instead of asking of an article, "Is this notable?" they should ask "Is this useful?" If so, let it remain. This is much more elegant than their already large body of law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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The Histogram as the Image(ironicsans.com)
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by herdrick 19y ago
> An underlying theme of the talk was "risk aversion" That's really funny. Why are they investing in startups, then?
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by herdrick 19y ago
$1.5 million is too high. He's failed to sell it before for half that: http://cgi.ebay.com/Titan-1-ICBM-Missile-Base-Located-in-Was...
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by herdrick 19y ago
Photos: http://www.k7aea.net/Titan%20Missile%20Site/Titan%20Missile%... The location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q... I'm from near that place. Note that the nearest town of significance is Odessa, WA.
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by herdrick 19y ago
Pretty good, aside from the typically inane Bob Dylan quote at the end.
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by herdrick 19y ago
The book, "The Little Schemer" is the absolute best and fastest way to break your mind of its old habits and get into lisp programming. Try to write each piece of code before looking at the answer. (Use PLT Scheme.) Afterwards, your fres

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