juan_juarez

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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The page only shows thumbnails. You can click on the image to get the full picture.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
When he said "whoever creates AOL for real people [...] is going to be really, really rich" I'm pretty sure he was talking about something closer to Facebook.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
I'm surprised that he missed MySpace which was active & growing at the time.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Those people are scary. The writer might have actually had to work at getting his story, rather than collecting anecdotes from those that have romanticized the lifestyle.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
A farmer working a 40 (60... 70... 80...) hour week can produce enough food to feed hundreds of people, freeing them up to do other things. If you've ever played Civilization, agriculture is a prerequisite to doing any sort of technologica
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Wikipedia[1] says he's now at Google. Does any great programmer end up not working for them? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Budge
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Reading through the intro, he managed to get some things right and some things horribly wrong. Predictions from 1992 of technologies that would fail : solid state cooling, QWERTY alternatives, touch screens, NeXT computers, UNIX, TrueType,
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
...or this wiki: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Just because this code is released under GPLv3 it doesn't mean that the main codebase is GPLv3. They have complete ownership of their own code & can do as they will with it. The GPL only controls the rights of other people that want t
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Everyone? I know a lot of people have seen that new employee manual but I assumed that only applied to the 'elite' & that there is a giant pool of peons that support them. Am I right or do the people doing things like billing and tech
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
But they have to add their magic touch! I couldn't imagine using my phone without T-Mobile having added all those applications I can't uninstall, bookmarks I can't delete and advertisements in my visual voicemail application.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> I want to know how to parse them in PHP. Step one : Stop using PHP.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Taxing on gross is bad when your value add is simply integration. In the case of building computers - you take a bunch of components from individual producers, slap them together & call it a new product. The actual work done is very l
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
There's a number of problems. One is that it's whackjob fundamentalists that want to use this simply to isolate their children from reality. Another is that there's so many religions that just don't quite agree & wouldn't want their m
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The problem in the US is that the most vocal proponents of this are trying to use it to get their children into parochial schools rather than academically superior ones.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
While there's a hard cap on coins, they are usable in increments as small a 1E-8. As for mining... yes. Early adopters got 'free money' for buying into the system. Those with lots of computing power can more easily mine but, at present, i
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's a parable, not a real world situation. It's meant to illustrate how an appropriate abstraction can remove complexity from a problem as requirement get piled on.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Why not both? It's not exactly hard to submit something to two different websites.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
It's just another "I'm leaving and taking my toys" rant. I don't really get why these things get so much traction here.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
On the first chart, we see that humans are definitely an outlier. Slide us back to the left and see where we would "naturally" be without modern medicine and we should live around 35 years. This lines up nicely with historical data[1]. [1
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
From what I've seen, codeable.io's business model seems to be "get lots of blog posts on the HN front page".
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The irony is that, if they weren't busy designing Portal maps, they'd have enough manpower to develop their product.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Basing your idea on where the cutting edge will be in a decade on the current state of consumer products will be misleading. A roomba is a $300 piece of hardware with an embedded computer, IBM's Watson was a $3,000,000 system. Both Apple'
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
That's where you went wrong. You're supposed to start by writing factorials & quicksort.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Welcome to our post-WWII 'prosperity'. When we decided that everyone should have a car & own their own home with a yard, we forced ourselves into this suburban sprawling. While Alaska, which the article talks about, might be a rather
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The link content is below par for HN but the tangential discussions that come from it make up for it.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
The original Rogue is a pretty tiny game. By modern standards, Nethack and Angband are fairly small as well.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
You could do that if you wanted.
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
Forget the DMCA, a site hosted in the USA that hosts pornographic content without proper documentation that the models are over 18 is in for a world of hurt. We forget because there's so much porn online but these people operate on very sh
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by juan_juarez 14y ago
> these people have all the resources in the world to get out of their situation Perhaps you've missed the changes in the last 40 years of American funding for welfare and social services.

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