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by jonburs 15y ago
The misspelling in the title is quite intentional -- cek is Charlie Kindel, former GM of Windows Phone Developer Experience (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2860646 ). It should also be said that he's a great guy that I've known fo
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The Mathematics of Changing Your Mind(nytimes.com)
102 points by jonburs 15y ago|11 comments
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The Clunky PC That Started It All(nytimes.com)
1 points by jonburs 15y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 15y ago
Why do you think Hipmunk uses GWT (by which I assume you mean Google Web Toolkit)? The source for www.hipmunk.com pulls in jquery, but doesn't have the history iframe or <module>.nocache.js reference that one would expect to see for
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by jonburs 15y ago
One interesting thing we discovered about IPXs late one night in the lab is that they're FCC Class A devices -- that is, they didn't have the same level of RF shielding as consumer Class B gear. How did we exploit this? The memory bus timin
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by jonburs 15y ago
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-14... is the canonical source.
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52 Years and $750 Million Prove Einstein Was Right(nytimes.com)
134 points by jonburs 15y ago|31 comments
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How the US found Bin Laden(nytimes.com)
3 points by jonburs 15y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 15y ago
The article describes techniques for setting up RAID(0) against EC2 local ephemeral storage for performance gains. As there's no way to replace a failed drive RAID 10 wouldn't provide any benefit.
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by jonburs 15y ago
Go is a garbage collected language: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#garbage_collection
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by jonburs 15y ago
Absolutely, you should -- for everything already said here, and more. When you interview with a company do they ask you about the project? Have their developers looked at the code in enough detail to question the design decision you've made
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by jonburs 15y ago
How the world has changed: "We established long-term relationships with many important strategic partners, including America Online, Yahoo!, Excite, Netscape, GeoCities, AltaVista, @Home, and Prodigy"
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by jonburs 15y ago
Are those the topics you're interested in or the ones that you don't want to see? I'm not sure if your example uses command-line argument syntax or search engine query syntax... I do like the idea, btw. The difficulty most likely is accurat
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by jonburs 16y ago
Interesting that Google plans on throwing money at the established players in the industry, while Amazon attempts to change how projects are selected and funded: http://studios.amazon.com/
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by jonburs 16y ago
Scaling does not imply availability. Sharding user data certainly is a good strategy to achieve scalability (i.e., support a large number of users, distributed across a fleet of commodity hardware), but it doesn't a priori make that data hi
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by jonburs 16y ago
A company hiring H1-B workers must show that they're paying average+ wages for the position [1]. They need not disclose actual salaries paid to individuals, nor are they precluded from paying above market rate. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/w
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Microsoft’s Odd Couple [excerpts from Paul Allen's memoir](vanityfair.com)
8 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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Zillow.com Said to Hire Citigroup to Manage Its Initial Public Offering(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
Project Lambda is about adding closures to the Java language. Method handles are part of the Da Vinci Machine Project ( http://wikis.sun.com/display/mlvm/Home ) which is at least partially supported in JDK 7.
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by jonburs 16y ago
I find it a bit amusing that articles of this sort only evaluate people's most recent pre-startup employment. Sure, the Beluga folk previously were at Google. Two of the three started at Microsoft after college, however -- I worked with the
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HN Bug: Upvote own submission?
4 points by jonburs 16y ago|1 comments
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Remapping Computer Circuitry to Avert Impending Bottlenecks(nytimes.com)
5 points by jonburs 16y ago|1 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
It depends on the attack vector you're trying to protect against. If you're on a machine you control (e.g., a personal laptop) and can vouch for its security -- that is, you're sure there's no kind of spyware installed -- https should be su
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by jonburs 16y ago
Employers pay their part of federal FICA (payroll) taxes when non-quals are exercised. Likewise the person exercising the option must pay Social Security (if they're still below the limit) and Medicare taxes.
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by jonburs 16y ago
"The tax rate? 1.5%. And remember that neither the federal government, nor California, tax gains on most employee stock options at all." Absolutely false. When exercised non-qualified stock options (the most common kind) are taxed as income
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Ninja: Fast build system developed for Chromium(martine.github.com)
2 points by jonburs 16y ago|0 comments
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by jonburs 16y ago
Search engine keyword are meant for exactly that. For queries to work though you need to configure the search URL: double-click on the DDG entry for the engine in the Manage Search Engine dialog and make sure its URL is set to http://duckd
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by jonburs 16y ago
No one has shown any evidence that Microsoft has directly copied Google's search index, or even violated the directives in google.com's robots.txt file. What Microsoft apparently has done is to infer relationships from Gooogle SRPs to vario
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by jonburs 16y ago
"Instead, airlines sometimes buy more planes than they really need. Energy companies drill more holes. Drug companies conduct research with only marginal prospects of success." I wish the article in some way backed up these assertions. Whil
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by jonburs 16y ago
Napster allowed you to choose what music to listen to (and when and where you wanted to listen to it). On the radio (and MTV, when they actually played videos) the choices were made for you. Kind of like network / cable TV -> DVRs, Hulu

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