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by jmatt 16y ago
So, why exactly do these academics infuriate you? I'm quite clear if you read more than one sentence. It's the way this guy responded to a comment of a blog about the paper. It just seems like a bad place to post a real unfixable flaw to
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by jmatt 16y ago
All these academics that lay low then pop up with problems and call Deolalikar's contribution unfixable infuriate me. They bring out the worst in the same way that bad QA employees do. They create no wealth and add little value. They slow d
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by jmatt 16y ago
The literal or ironic interpretation? Or maybe a little of both? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(poem) Personally I've always appreciated it in it's literal interpretation. Maybe this is why I could never truly appreciate
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by jmatt 16y ago
continued "fun" (read dangerous) redefines: #define true false #define false true #define true 0 #define false !true #define if while #define continue break :)
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by jmatt 16y ago
This has got to be the greatest thing MSFT has done for the web since Ajax. I don't know; maybe I'm missing something. Assuming they aren't going to patent it or something similarly insane. And assuming it works in a normal browser. There i
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by jmatt 16y ago
Hahaha yeah. Here is the link for those that don't know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J-y2rFfny8
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by jmatt 16y ago
Most, as usual, miss my point or are trying to argue some other point. Many people get your point but don't comment to say so. Making (pithy sarcastic lol agree simple rude first ...) comments is generally unacceptable on HN unless you ar
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by jmatt 16y ago
I think Coders at Work and Founders at Work did a pretty good job with this. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430219483/ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1430210788/
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by jmatt 16y ago
There is a broader underlying cause for these addictions. We can't adapt our culture fast enough to address technological change. What applies to these new addictions equally applies to our laws and other social customs. And through other p
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by jmatt 16y ago
Shouldn't the included templating system be the one everyone uses? Agreed. I think they know that this is a weakness. I'd expect it to improve over time. In a similar fashion to them addressing ifequal and ifnotequal in 1.2. Capitalizati
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by jmatt 16y ago
Just over a year ago I got a dell mini 9 with linux for my dad. There was no way he was going to use linux. It just confused him and nothing worked without first taking some action or involved explanation. It was all just too much for him.
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by jmatt 16y ago
I thought it would be fun to watch these when I had some downtime during a flight I'm taking next week. Two problems - they stream them and they are real one files. No idea why they make it so difficult. Solution for .rm files -> VLC [1
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by jmatt 16y ago
I agree this was frustrating initially. After a certain number of django projects most of the django devs I know use the heck out of it's modularity. If the templating system is driving you insane drop in Jinja2 and go. If it just needs to
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by jmatt 16y ago
This is what I was thinking. Knuth's up arrow on Graham's number. I like the addition of the busy beaver function. A creative improvement for sure. So far I think you win :) for the lazy amongst us: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuths_up-a
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by jmatt 16y ago
For those mac users out there, Macports is currently at 0.9.6.2. sudo port install py26-bpython
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by jmatt 16y ago
As long as they can make them faster than bumpers - it'll be a win. I can't wait to gift the remaining 5 Antenn-aids to my other iphone4 compadres.
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by jmatt 16y ago
This may sound silly now, but a long time ago I bought myLite - an iphone flashlight app. And when the app starts it has a frustratingly long and dark splashscreen before you get the actual light. Even as a flash light HandyLight outperform
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by jmatt 16y ago
I bought NetShare when it was briefly on the app store and it still works. Or at least it did last time I was at my cabin a few months ago with my 3G. If they were going to kill an app, I'd assume they would have killed that. And they didn'
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by jmatt 16y ago
579.3 MB download to make a small software fix to: Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength to display Really? Seems like a bit of a waste. I can only hope there is more to this update.
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by jmatt 16y ago
I recommend using 1.2 head. Even if you are learning clojure I'd recommend 1.2 head. With clojure, unlike most other languages, using head is relatively easy, it's stable and faster and it has more features. Pretty much a win from most pers
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by jmatt 16y ago
Excellent point. Nothing is more frustrating than forum posts that are clearly trolling for dev responses or to make statements they hope devs will see. Ironically most of these questions should be directed at producers and designers not de
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by jmatt 16y ago
We'll see how many gamers actually jump through the hoops and confusion that is openid. It's one thing to get programmers or IT to use it and adopt it. It's a whole different story to get an average gamer to use it. These are the same distr
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by jmatt 16y ago
If everybody wants to sleep at night who's gonna watch the mouth of the cave? Apparently my ancestors.
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by jmatt 16y ago
Get in there and do something with your VPS. You can always reset/reinstall. The process of following through and doing it - until it works as you originally envisioned is the best way to learn and improve. During the process understanding
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by jmatt 16y ago
Yeah, I understand that. I meant, why hasn't mint expanded to SaaS for small businesses. It's a hugely under served market and they have a product that (seemingly) easily maps. Especially since they were bought by intuit. All that being sai
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by jmatt 16y ago
Why, again, didn't mint just do this?
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by jmatt 16y ago
This page is just one small part of "The Hacker's Diet". Looking at this single page removes much of the underlying context of the whole strategy. See: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/ or http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ The site p
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by jmatt 16y ago
I think it would be ideal if the experience was more transparent. Discover some great articles that your friends and family may enjoy and incidentally get achievements. I don't think anyone on SO, the most successful achievement system out
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by jmatt 16y ago
Ya this bothers me too. Though I'm guilty of it on occasion. I think it's the same reason that the famous "Someone is wrong on the internet" xkcd comic is so funny... [1] People have no etiquette and in many cases it's easier to bash and
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by jmatt 16y ago
Yeah that is great rebranding. All it needs now is 'try Racket in your browser' and a video of some dude making a blog in 15 minutes using Racket. Then it will be the new hotness. You're using it now. Arc was built on top of PLT and news.

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