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by ismarc 16y ago
Somehow I managed to miss when that article came across HN, and they auto-detect mobile devices so I couldn't read it till I got home, but it is a much better fit that the typical ones people assign. It's a somewhat flawed analogy though,
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by ismarc 16y ago
I grew up poor, not "oh, we're short on money" poor, but "people would randomly leave grocery bags with food in them during the holidays on our doorstep, of which some people stole food out of before we knew it was there" poor. It's hard t
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Generate Activity Diagrams from LLVM bitcode(ismarc.tumblr.com)
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by ismarc 16y ago
The cost is all about scale. an email is going to cost whatever your metered rate is for the traffic (well, technically 2x the metered rate, once for incoming, once for outgoing traffic). For Google's infrastructure and typical bandwidth
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by ismarc 16y ago
std::vector<std::string> v = getList(); std::for_each(v.begin(), v.end(), boost::mem_fn(&std::string::sort)); Hadn't used it in, well, forever, but have done something similar. Pretty much stolen straight off of http://live.bo
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by ismarc 16y ago
Maybe it's all the recent discussions around the eternal September recently, but this has kind of stuck in my mind, and Reddit with the subreddits actually seems kind of ideal for what you're looking for. Set up your own subreddit and just
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by ismarc 16y ago
While it may be a bit spammy, with the frequency you updat your blog, I personally wouldn't see it as such. However, you're tying yourself to HN for discussion (typically a good discussion), but I see it as "setting precedent" for others.
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by ismarc 16y ago
strangely enough, I run into wheels a lot in #startups but rarely see his comments.
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by ismarc 16y ago
Cable distribution of channels is completely different from the U-Verse example. Cable uses a certain band of frequencies for channels, each HD channel requiring a larger band. The Internet access they provide is delivered the same way, b
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by ismarc 16y ago
That's exactly how the multicast works. It's not broadcast, it's multicast. Your local set tells the next closest router the streams it's interested in. If it's already receiving them, the packets are forwarded to your on-site router. I
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by ismarc 16y ago
You're confusing terms that are independent of what's actually being discussed. If it is Internet based, it's Internet service and prioritized with all other Internet traffic. If it's traffic that does not go over the internet, but instea
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by ismarc 16y ago
They can prioritize the delivery of the TV service and telephone service that is delivered on the same physical cables as the internet service. There's only so much bandwidth available on each physical connection, and they're delivering se
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by ismarc 16y ago
I think it's easiest to think about in terms of AT&T UVerse (an easy example). You have TV, Internet and VoIP service delivered over the same network connection. TV and VoIP (the VoIP isn't carried over the Internet, instead it's dire
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by ismarc 16y ago
The same way I would turn $25000 into $25001, use $25000 to create something with a higher value. The easiest route would be carefully purchasing $1000 - $2000 cars, get them running/AC/etc, then slap a $200 paint job and sell for $2500 -
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by ismarc 16y ago
I ended up reading this article multiple times and combing over every line of it to try and find the part where Google was going to buy Internet priority. In the end, I've concluded that the opposite is taking place. Google and Verizon ar
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by ismarc 16y ago
I think the idiom is difficult because it's not a properly understood idiom for most people who speak English. It's a sailing term. When you're sailing into the wind, you criss-cross against it, changing the side of the ship the wind is c
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by ismarc 16y ago
I think the problem is not with designers (or developers, or producers, sound engineers, etc.) it's that the companies that run the "contests" don't have a real budget, don't understand the work that goes into creating the work and want the
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by ismarc 16y ago
Seriously? The link provided on reddit is some server some guy found that happened to have credentials listed on bugmenot. Nearly every book on the list is of dubious copyright status (e.g., do they have permission to redistribute it?).
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by ismarc 16y ago
question 2 of 6 for duck: Write code to trap these exceptions and return 1 if a FineException is thrown and return 0 if a CoarseException is thrown. int exceptionTrap(int a) { try { exceptionThrower(a); } catch (FineExcept
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by ismarc 16y ago
Your method of grading the tests fails. I couldn't determine if you were counting number of times compiled against the person, or just looking for something VERY specific in the final result, but both methods failed to properly categorize
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by ismarc 16y ago
I'm not sure who the "investigators" are over at geekosystem, but while they present a lot of data, they fell over when it came to analysis of the situation (as did numerous others). Scenario: For a time period, contestant B received votes
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by ismarc 16y ago
And one that gains a lot from formatting beyond what HN provides. I was only able to skim the comment last night, but was able to sit and read the entire blog post with improved formatting.
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by ismarc 16y ago
While I agree that tweet as a noun is defensible, and is an exacting term, I wouldn't expect its use from professional journalists in a non-tech report without qualification about what the term refers to. It would be like using any other n
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by ismarc 16y ago
There's one category where credit scores fail miserably, and that's a very, very small group of people (which I fall into). I have no debt and no open credit lines. I saved up and paid each semester's tuition at the start, in cash for sch
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by ismarc 16y ago
But even that doesn't provide any quantitative judgement of what the job requires or what the applicant can do. It says they can write code that does X. I've never been a part of or seen a job where the only real skills needed were syntax
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by ismarc 16y ago
The main problem with hiring/resumes isn't just volume. Volume has become a problem with the ease of sending the resume. We removed a barrier(fax, mail, drop off) and naturally the flood started. Businesses compensated by listing arbitra
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by ismarc 16y ago
It's not a "type of website", but instead "location of website", identifying the network that the website lives on. Let's say there's an intranet, internet and extranet available. Identifying the specific network that a resource lives on
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by ismarc 16y ago
Your ad sounds like you're looking for a senior level PHP developer/UI designer/database developer/marketing guru who will take over and turn your product from a blog-hosted platform to a real solution without any salary compensation, leadi
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by ismarc 16y ago
The other important piece is milestones so you know as soon as possible when the deadline is at risk. It's one thing to say "Yeah, we have to delay the launch by a month" 6 months out, and another to say "Yeah, we have to delay the launch
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by ismarc 16y ago
Indeed it was the correct one. I've got it set up and everything now, thank you VERY much.

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