jchrisa

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by jchrisa 12y ago
How far along the Kardashev scale do we need to before we can build a shield?
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by jchrisa 12y ago
You might enjoy this Long Now talk by James Carse: http://longnow.org/seminars/02005/jan/14/religious-war-in-li...
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by jchrisa 12y ago
We've been doing this at our house and it works!
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Speaking as a founder who has tried hard to replace myself (so that I can focus on what I do best, which by definition doesn't fit into an org chart), maybe you'd benefit from switching gears completely, and using this opportunity
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Plus one on remote work. I'm the only one in my company in my town and it makes me very productive.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
It also forces the session to be tracked on the server. Many apps use cookies to keep the session in the browser. Maybe deprecating the document.cookie API so that people move to local storage, is a good first step? More critique of cookies
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How the FBI Coordinated the Crackdown on Occupy (2012)(theguardian.com)
16 points by jchrisa 12y ago|2 comments
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Your crypto currency idea reminds me of something I'm working on (very slowly) http://www.wired.com/2014/07/document-coin/
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by jchrisa 12y ago
I like this sort of thing and I think it's worth having b/c it has broad implications and might be a useful way of thinking about things. Most of the science articles are useful in that way. I like quotes like this from the articl
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by jchrisa 12y ago
At Couchbase we have a plethora of simulators. Simulations of cluster topology changes, simulations of failure scenarios, simulations of workloads to estimate requried cluster sizes, etc. Here's one: https://github.com/
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by jchrisa 12y ago
There are as many sync/async options for Couch map reduce as you could possibly need. The key is for some of the patterns to work, you need to be able to know your index queries come from the same database snapshot as your event feed,
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by jchrisa 12y ago
This sounds like the approach used by Couch-style incremental map reduce. For each JSON document, run a JavaScript function to determine the document's contribution to the map reduce index. (Basically a user-defined column with optiona
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Scroll to the bottom and cross your eyes to superimpose the two images. http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~agupta/_projects/image_proce...
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by jchrisa 12y ago
There's also the question of what you work on, not just the quality of your work. You can do a barely-works version of something that it turns out people really want and it's better than if no-one had built it... Maybe slow progra
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Test First – 8th Light(blog.8thlight.com)
2 points by jchrisa 12y ago|0 comments
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Maybe Camlistore? https://github.com/bradfitz/camlistore
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by jchrisa 12y ago
I really enjoyed the tone of this paper. If only more technical articles can be written in a matter-of-fact voice like this.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Gift economies prevailed for longer than capitalism has, and my gut says they will again. Not because of scarcity / abundance but because now we have social software. I'm working on a speculative project to scale the gift economy.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Maybe the better solution would be to look for Bitcoin wallet addresses in commit messages. If maintainers don't like it they can scrub them on merge.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
The non-sketchy version of this would only accept tips for repos that had a bitcoin address committed to a well-known location in their repo. And it would send the tips directly to that address. No possibility of scamming, and opt-in by its
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Does "hostless" just mean "host I don't manage" or is there some p2p magic I'm not seeing?
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by jchrisa 12y ago
His Gnosticism reminds me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Couchbase Sync Gateway's channels are just slices through the data. The mechanism is internal to the Sync Gateway (you write a JS function that says who can see which channels and which channels a doc belongs to.) Replicating clients d
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by jchrisa 12y ago
HTML5 - http://pouchdb.com iOS, Android, .NET, Java - http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile Hosted - http://www.iriscouch.com and http://cloudant.com Original - http://couchdb.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
We have a similar school in Portland, http://villagefreeschool.org/ -- I hope to check it out when my kids are a little older. However, I would prefer to find a free-style school specifically for gifted children.
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by jchrisa 12y ago
To my mind the fundamental problem is that we insist on placing everyone on the same number line. In real life some folks may be more envious of Bill Gates while others are more envious of Joe Armstrong. In reality total ordering, or even p
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Which one of you is the AI? :)
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by jchrisa 12y ago
This is like complaining about the difference between Perl and Java. Use the right tool for the job. I for one relish the kind of writing that used to be normal before WW1 and Hemingway. I also like Hemingway and newer writing. Maybe the wr
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Maybe the root cause (of interest in HIIT) is the standard American hurry. If we all slowed down we'd probably be more healthy as a people. Also, there's a difference (and some overlap) between being healthy, and looking ripped. E
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by jchrisa 12y ago
Related discussion from 2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8444785

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