jonafato

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by jonafato 16y ago
Pure speculation here, but I'd bet that this is a direct response to Hulu's price drop in Hulu Plus when opening to the general public[1]. The selection on Netflix is better (well, larger at least), but unless they can at least match the s
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by jonafato 16y ago
What is your site? Posting a URL here couldn't hurt. I'm sure there are some HNers who would give it at least give it a chance.
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by jonafato 16y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't be expected to follow SOP, I am saying that I'm not surprised that it doesn't always happen. By no means should this be excused. People make mistakes. It just happens to be the case that this mistake is wor
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by jonafato 16y ago
The thing that sets this post apart from others of the same category is the fact that the author was not given a choice in the search. This is exactly what a lot of discussion around here has been about (though admittedly the opposite of t
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by jonafato 16y ago
I'd be on board to help with that. If you're serious about it, you can find my email in my about section.
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by jonafato 16y ago
I think the problem statement means that each prisoner must find his name independently of one another. e.g. Prisoner 1 opens 50 boxes, finds his name, then the boxes are closed and Prisoner 2 must do the same without any help.
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by jonafato 16y ago
How is this in any way a secret? Sure, they don't go and shutdown sites and disrupt services for months while integrating acquired companies like Google does, but the bottom of the amazon.com home page lists their sites. Amazon buys sites
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by jonafato 16y ago
I get what is being said here, and I somewhat agree with it. Telling people something bad happens doesn't actually do anything to stop a bad thing from happening. And yes, having everyone use HTTPS all the time would be a better way to co
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by jonafato 16y ago
This seems to me as though the phrase "denial-of-service attack" is being used loosely here. Firesheep is not a service being extended by a central server to many users. You're blocking the individual user (or users) of firesheep with thi
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by jonafato 16y ago
The targeting seems off. I expected the towers to attack the enemies furthest along the path, but it seems like they might be attacking enemies closest to them.
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by jonafato 16y ago
On the note of testimonials, this might be a good opportunity to leverage something like facebook or twitter. Testimonials can often look contrived. Linking a testimonial to a facebook account would tie it to a real person and make it mor
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by jonafato 16y ago
Is this definitely against the ToS? My feeling is that this was bound to happen. This is analogous to ebay sniping services, no? Even if they don't like it happening, I would be surprised if this didn't become fairly commonplace. Worst
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by jonafato 16y ago
If the Nook is any indication of how this will work (and judging by how the game has been played with price drops / wifi versions so far, I think it is) the lending will be "once and only once". The details for the Nook lending feature are
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by jonafato 16y ago
For the most part, this seemed like an interesting blog post, but toward the end, it came across as a thinly veiled advertisement for this iOS framework. My apologies if I have misconstrued this, but the title is misleading. If you're adv
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by jonafato 16y ago
My understanding of the kindle lending process currently is that we will only be allowed to lend a book once[1]. Unless they say otherwise, this model would not work. I do think that eventually this will be opened up to work like actual b
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by jonafato 16y ago
Just finished Little Brother , in the middle of The War of the Worlds right now, and I plan to tackle Cryptonomicon once the semester starts winding down. I also read You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier recently, which is a great r
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by jonafato 16y ago
That might work out well for Facebook. I don't know what percentage of their user base would care enough to do so, though. And at this point, with all of the ridiculous things that have happened with their privacy, it might even seem exto
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by jonafato 16y ago
I'd highly recommend Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I read it last weekend and simply couldn't put it down. It's along the lines of 1984 but less extreme and thus more believable. The (free) ebook can be found at http://www.crapho
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by jonafato 16y ago
Clickable [Video]: http://blip.tv/file/4252897 On a related note, why is this not a normal submission?
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by jonafato 16y ago
I feel like I've seen so many alternative resume / business cards that I tend to dismiss any that are actually practical at this point. Something I'd really like to see a redesign of is the print newspaper. As it is, I get most of my news
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by jonafato 16y ago
I can't agree with this more. The best courses I have taken didn't have a textbook. If I don't struggle at least through some of a course, I'm probably not learning anything. Part of this seems to be that (in my experience) few people ar
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by jonafato 16y ago
There seems to be a lot of disagreement about lower bounds here. The best case lower bound is trivially 0 since you could start with a terminating permutation. The article is talking about a worst case lower bound, which is what one would
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by jonafato 16y ago
My university uses Java as the main teaching language. A few courses down the line (OS, Security) tend to use C, but it does certainly depend on the instructor. It seems to me that instructors shy away from C when they know students will
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by jonafato 16y ago
I like it so far. The site does seem a bit empty (expected for 4 hours), but there is nothing inherently bad about the design. A few comments about using it: 1) I think it would really benefit from displaying the expiration date / number
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by jonafato 16y ago
Actually, all but the middle plan seem to be "out of stock".
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by jonafato 16y ago
Microsoft and Apple did, at the very least. Apple started out with a bunch of people trying to buy more of Steve Wozniak's hand built computers than he could keep up with, and Bill Gates sold IBM an operating system well before he had an a
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by jonafato 16y ago
You'd really benefit by letting people know what this site does. It isn't immediately obvious, and it usually doesn't make sense to have the user presented with a login without any content (if ever). The docs also seem pretty long at firs
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by jonafato 16y ago
Overall a very pleasant read. I'm certainly going to check out the bibliography presented, and I'd like to read more along this line. I deeply enjoyed "The Nerd Handbook" as well. Could anyone recommend other readings in the fashion of t
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by jonafato 16y ago
I'd like to see this adapted to express many facial hair styles.
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by jonafato 16y ago
What about the GNU Free Documentation License: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html IANAL, but this seems to be at least close to what you are looking for. I do not know exactly what constitutes the difference between a "document" and a

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