jwecker

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by jwecker 17y ago
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process." —Mark Twain Biggest. Dissection. Ever. (as a ratio to the size of the original joke, including the edit and at least 2 comments).
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by jwecker 17y ago
If the venue is privately owned the second part doesn't scare me. I believe any privately owned property has the right to refuse entry to anyone they wish, and that that right trumps civil liberties. WHICH is why the first part of the sto
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by jwecker 17y ago
Hypothesis: That's when something triggered inside of Google and it started tracking the trend (based on a build-up of volume? news? sitting in the queue for a while), and the steep initial slope is not real but a relic of the graph goin
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by jwecker 17y ago
No, and I don't know if he split that driver, but I like to think that Linus took the message to heart (regardless of how he felt about it). The two+ years that followed saw the arrival of a lot of "meta" structure fixes, like bitkeeper (a
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by jwecker 17y ago
This entry scores very high on the crackpot index ( http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html - replace some scientist notables with computer-science notables) and is generally just funny. It did make me start to think though about one
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by jwecker 17y ago
absolutely. For more minor tasks the point is more subtle- it forces you to make sure you're delegating because it is the best thing for the organization, and not because you simply don't feel like doing it and happen to be in a position t
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by jwecker 17y ago
My rules of thumb: * Don't ask anyone to do something you're not willing to do yourself (willing doesn't mean that it's smart for you to be the one doing it) * Don't ever delegate by abdicating responsibility * If there isn't any follow-up,
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by jwecker 17y ago
He grossly overstates the stability of subscriptions and their predictability. They _can_ be more stable than advertising revenue when faced with some kinds of disruptive factors... anyway, written from the grass-is-greener-on-the-other-s
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by jwecker 17y ago
I remember in Manila (Philippines) there was a light at an intersection that turned red in probably half the time any other light did. What's more, crossing the intersection required crossing 6+ lanes of traffic, so frequently you could ent
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by jwecker 17y ago
I've absolutely loved patching and working on modules for nginx source code. Partially I suspect because it's so homogeneous. It's nice and modular and succinct - the optimizations don't obfuscate the code. As others have pointed out, re
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by jwecker 17y ago
Spot on. I would like to specifically emphasize bokonist's "b)" - I only made real progress with design when I started consciously seeking out design that looked amazing- even taking photographs occasionally of billboards etc., and then tr
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by jwecker 17y ago
Justin TV http://www.justin.tv/jobs Please apply (:
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by jwecker 17y ago
Three mathematicians were out bow-hunting. Laying low they spotted a buck. The first took aim and let loose but the arrow silently zipped by 10 feet to the right of the dear. The second took aim but the arrow missed- 10 feet to the left
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by jwecker 17y ago
I was looking forward to a humorous example of even a single use case being literally broken, since I don't know how to literally break a use case. Alas, it's just a list of use cases the iPad doesn't meet.
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by jwecker 17y ago
I wonder what they have against real dark brown and real light blue? Ah, I see a second shade of blue they discontinued. Probably needed the names for some other shades...
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by jwecker 17y ago
For some informed data on the topic instead, try http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/04/us/few-risks-seen-to-the-c... or, more recently: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/garden/26cousins.html "Dr. Motulsky said researchers did not know why
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by jwecker 17y ago
I learned from this that Cuba is creating a secret army of rubyless programmers that it will at some point unleash upon the world.
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by jwecker 17y ago
"The intrusion of politics into government ..." Yeah, I know they're not exactly the same thing, but that statement still made me laugh.
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by jwecker 17y ago
I can only assume that the 12 points you currently have are from people who agree with you. If so, that's very ironic.
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by jwecker 17y ago
Ask HN: Math major who doesn't want to write equations. Am I in the wrong major?
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by jwecker 17y ago
Keep in mind as you brainstorm that there are additional API's coming out, including a pay-per-view API, subscriptions, etc. Also integrated ad networks if desired. Monetization shouldn't be a big problem moving forward. I'm sure there a
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by jwecker 17y ago
I think you slightly underestimate JTV's performance, as well as the level to which it can be customized... EDIT: concede the point to DarkShikari, though I still think you could make very viable companies based on those ideas and JTV techn
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by jwecker 17y ago
9 years ago there was a small writeup about me in the New Yorker- http://www.petermaass.com/articles/the_supercool_top-secret_... - small as in it was in the "talk of the town" section, which tends to cover trivial things in a column or s
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by jwecker 17y ago
I've used this library a few times for similar (not as good and not good enough to show off) fun- it works beautifully: http://sexpr.sourceforge.net
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by jwecker 17y ago
Inaccurate whois records are grounds for cancellation of a domain name. If you feel that the contact information is outdated or inaccurate, bring it up with ICANN. If the squatter is being lazy it may free up the domain.
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by jwecker 17y ago
overhead walks on two legs (:
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by jwecker 17y ago
Funny you should use that example. I remember mentioning to someone years ago that biologists had discovered that certain trees send chemical signals to each other through the soil- especially when they're traumatized. He scoffed and laugh
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by jwecker 17y ago
This is the biggest problem I have with gmail, and one of the principle reasons why I don't feel I'll be using it "permanently." My search queries very rarely find the emails that I'm looking for.
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by jwecker 17y ago
It's not every day you get a genuine "what color to paint the bike-shed" discussion :)
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by jwecker 17y ago
I don't think I've ever misspelled ls as sl (though I've done ls- alf and derivations plenty of times). Now that I've installed this, though, I intend to do it often.

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