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by lbrandy 18y ago
http://forum.slicehost.com/?CategoryID=7 ...especially.. http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=853&#38... Here's another I dug up: http://chrisjohnston.org/2008/configuring-a-lightweight-apac...
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Hey Hacker News, author here. I have a totally unrelated question about this post. Do you see the two trackbacks? One of them (the first) appears to be a totally legit blog, but also appears to be spam? What is the proper etiquette in this
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I noticed my server was sluggish. I ssh'd into it just in time to see some out of memory errors and notice my top was loaded with apache children. My ssh terminal became unresponsive. I went to the slicehost chatroom and said "uh oh" and th
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by lbrandy 18y ago
It wasn't just hacker news. I disabled caching when messing with the style sheet and forgot to re-enable it. Wordpress sans caching was eating the low-end slice I had from slicehost. It should be fine, now. PS. the slicehost guys were a big
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Sorry. You guys killed it :). Working with slicehost to get it back up now.
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Demotivating a (Good) Programmer(lbrandy.com)
105 points by lbrandy 18y ago|47 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Yes, it's especially obvious in the Europe <-> US traffic. It's mostly one way, depending on the time of day.
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Most Important Programmer Skills: Communication Skills? Uh. No.(lbrandy.com)
15 points by lbrandy 18y ago|15 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
So I work at a face recognition start-up.... and the answer to your question is "Yes, but your mileage may vary". Face recognition algorithms in the wild vary in quality by absurd margins. I know our stuff can do a pretty good job of it (be
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by lbrandy 18y ago
The first part of your statement is true. The face-recognition field suffers from major perceptions issues. Detecting age and gender for demographic-based advertising is possibly feasible.. beyond that.. I have my doubts. Especially at Dunk
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Another essay I wrote on my vacation. Slowly posting them all... The best (or worst) part is my idea list is growing faster than my actual output.
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Social News: Improving the Content Gene Pool(lbrandy.com)
1 points by lbrandy 18y ago|1 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I'm from PA. I'll be writing a sternly worded letter to google on their faulty search insights algorithm.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Thanks for the answers and reminding me why I love this site. It's great to hear about success stories like this especially using the dual-license model.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
So wait. He doesn't know Linux and he wanted a GUI front-end for apache. So he downloaded a free gpl'd product from Virtualmin. But this is a blog about companies who make money. How do they make money?
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Developer Timesink: Name Paralysis(lbrandy.com)
4 points by lbrandy 18y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why does no one use google docs for presentations?
4 points by lbrandy 18y ago|15 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
For grad schools, probably (keeping in mind that engineering/cs grad students almost never pay a dime to go to grad school). For undergrad, no. I went to my state school (UF) instead of several ivy-caliber schools (Carnegie Mellon) because
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by lbrandy 18y ago
While I was on vacation I wrote a whole bunch of essays on programming topics that had been on my mind and decided to start posting them. This is the first.
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A Programming Interview Question Explored(lbrandy.com)
3 points by lbrandy 18y ago|2 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
* Lolcats Aren't you supposed to keep that a secret?
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Don't forget the original "steroid era". Baseball can't hold a candle to East Germany.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
A large group of like-minded people constantly conversing is also a recipe for groupthink. Yes, the Bay area is the home of most the tech startups. And curiously they all look and feel the same, imitating each other in an innumerable number
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by lbrandy 18y ago
That blew me away. I can never get enough of these Ted talks. Even the ones with the most awful titles on the most boring subjects tend to be utterly brilliant and captivating.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
I think you are being a bit pedantic. First, the statement is true. At one time people did believe the Earth was flat. And it could be argued that the roundness of the earth wasn't conclusively proven until Magellan circumnavigated it.
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Ask YC: Canonical web site width?
3 points by lbrandy 18y ago|2 comments
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by lbrandy 18y ago
> 5. Can I exercise my unvested options early? Your answer here is completely unclear to me. I understand you don't want to give out legal/money advice, but can you at least explain the capital gains thing you were talking about. I am n
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Learn faster! Ok, more seriously, how about this: relax. Most of us computer nerds learned to program on our own, in middle and high schools, with only our computer and a cheap book (or maybe the internet, today), not from out parents. I'd
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Yea, it does. I just re-ran that image on our newest models and it does find Obama in that image, but at low confidence. See above about how our website demos are out of date. Gonna be adding newer, better, cooler ones soon.
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by lbrandy 18y ago
Not yet, but hopefully soon. We have a recognition SDK but not online demo. I am pushing hard to get our demos up to date. We have so much cool stuff that isn't online demo'd yet. Once other stuff cools down, we can turn more attention to t

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