kenmazy

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by kenmazy 14y ago
epsilon = some very small number used in mathematical proofs, usually approaching zero. OP is saying that this is too similar to cat pictures. I think that it is worlds better than cat pictures, but still not relevant to the HN community.
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by kenmazy 14y ago
"The top two were robots, and number 3 were all the humans"
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Not sure how you can love automatic programming but dismiss biology. Humans are an operating system that is not only time dependent, but spatial and gradient dependent self mutating automatic programming with asynchronous message passing t
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Nowhere in the video was it every implied that the doctor handed out antibiotics like candy. I wouldn't be surprised if this doctor actually wrote less antibiotic prescriptions than his younger peers.
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Usually I write a little code, commit what it is supposed to do, then fixup all the little edge cases and bugs that come naturally. But what's important is that first commit is sets up a little problem with a clear goal, and then everythin
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by kenmazy 14y ago
From my experience with super programmers: The super programmer converts complex ideas into code coherent to the normal programmer. The super programmer makes difficult decisions where the normal programmer sees only one option.
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by kenmazy 14y ago
I was trying to find a clear description of what happened, with supporting evidence at the right times, and it was surprisingly hard (many arm-chair fencers). This is the best I could find: http://shinalamandtheinfinitesadness.blogspot.com
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Another great GC discussion for LuaJit: http://wiki.luajit.org/New-Garbage-Collector
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by kenmazy 14y ago
That's funny, I interpreted what he said a bit differently for "impatience" and "hubris". To me, impatience and hubris go hand in hand for a good hacker. Impatience: Why is this code taking so long? Hubris: I could write code that is way f
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by kenmazy 14y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but do you have any sources for consumer-grade desktop parts being lower quality than enterprise-grade? I'd like to read an in-depth hardware analysis that describes circuit board design, capacitor sourcing, etc
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Hanja is widely used in modern Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanja
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Last I checked Squeeze had a fairly straightforward Xen 4.0 package. I did have trouble with dropped packets, but I was doing some pretty complex stuff and it was already fixed upstream. How exactly are you trying to setup networking? Bri
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by kenmazy 14y ago
Regarding zfs: the zfs on linux project ( http://zfsonlinux.org/ ) is actually fairly mature and has decent performance ( though there are still some outstanding issues with using zvols as xen filesystems, and also if using a xen paravirt
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by kenmazy 15y ago
Can you prove they would be? How many closed-source, for profit software projects were rescued after the supporting company went under? (I am intentionally conflating closed-source and for profit as the majority of financed projects are clo
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by kenmazy 15y ago
I also like chrome's omnibox, but I dislike their support for rss feeds as a bookmark (live rss) as well as their video adblock (doesn't work). For firefox, I use the https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ addon, it works
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by kenmazy 15y ago
the phrasing is vague, but all it is describing is tunneling http/etc through ssh. Ostensibly, you have some remote server whose internet connection is more "secure" than your home connection. I for one do not own any servers in Switzerlan
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by kenmazy 15y ago
I highly, highly recommend http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=40 for build your own pc advice. There are some very knowledgeable and helpful people that frequent that forum (in my experience, more technical than tomshardware and red
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by kenmazy 15y ago
Important correction: Netflix's HD tops out at 5 Mb/s, not 5 MB/s. Bluray max bitrate is 54 Mb/s, but I've generally seen transcoding to 20-30 Mb/s have nearly the same quality.
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by kenmazy 15y ago
git rebase -i can handle your last request (interactively combine/remove/move history). In fact, git can also handle your second wish by having simply creating a "sync" branch pointing to that extra commit, then when you switch to between y
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by kenmazy 15y ago
Pressing Esc brought me back to the menu.