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by lemming 14y ago
Metrics are the only way to get your job done God, I wish I'd known this sooner.
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by lemming 14y ago
In his office, during an hour-long interview, there was not a single interruption. No email or text pings. No ringing phones. His computer was closed. His cell phone was turned off, as it usually is. He sometimes works until 9 at night, bu
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by lemming 14y ago
He used his prodigious skills as a programmer and technologist not to enrich himself but to make the Internet and the world a fairer, better place. Here's hoping his memory inspires more folk both here and elsewhere in the world to do the
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Ask HN Down Under: Best Universities for AI/Machine Learning in Aus/NZ?
1 points by lemming 14y ago|0 comments
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by lemming 14y ago
Sure you have a choice. I deleted my Facebook account years ago, I have a perfectly functioning social life. Some things are slightly more inconvenient but there's really not many of them. I saw a large reduction in the amount of useless cr
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by lemming 14y ago
The main problem is that people don't spend the time to filter their photos - I'm often too lazy to have more than an idle flick through photo albums that people send links to because people upload some really bad photos that they just can'
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by lemming 14y ago
This is not true. Topaz is a scanned, PDF like format that Amazon uses for older books where for whatever reason they can't get a digital copy. While it's true that Topaz books can't have the DRM easily removed, only around 5% of Amazon's b
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by lemming 14y ago
This is pretty cool. I haven't followed graphics tech in a while, but Subdivision Surfaces are one of the most important modeling primitives around. Back in the day when Catmull and Clark first developed them Pixar held a patent on them and
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Golden Hour photography light calculator(golden-hour.com)
1 points by lemming 14y ago|0 comments
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by lemming 14y ago
This looks great! I also liked Bernie Sumption's guides: http://berniesumption.com/photography/beginners-guide-for-ge... http://berniesumption.com/photography/depth-of-field-for-gee...
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by lemming 14y ago
Relevant interestingness from Jeff Moser: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...
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by lemming 14y ago
What was surprising was how much faster the Java implementation was than Go. I expected it to be competitive but I didn't expect it to perform much better.
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Ask HN: anyone know when Apple Java will support the Retina Display?
1 points by lemming 14y ago|1 comments
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by lemming 14y ago
$2.2MM is probably peanuts compared to what they would have made in an acquisition, you'd have to figure that any acquisition price would be far north of $8MM. I'm perversely glad they didn't take it, it's great to see people really dedicat
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by lemming 14y ago
Great story, and it's a shame that this attitude is so unusual. I guess the success stories from bootstrapping don't get the press, so maybe it's not so unusual after all. Still, it's a nice counterpoint to the usual VC-is-the-endgoal idea.
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by lemming 14y ago
I hope that by now everyone here is aware that this is ridiculous advice. Please, please, don't learn about cryptography in order to store passwords. And don't implement your own half baked scheme. Listen to the people who know more about i
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by lemming 14y ago
I've been tempted to delete mine several times recently. Looks like now is the moment.
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How to make your CSS really mobile friendly(mat-t.tumblr.com)
1 points by lemming 14y ago|0 comments
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Why not Haskell?(neugierig.org)
2 points by lemming 14y ago|0 comments
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Sabbatical - what it's like not to work(neugierig.org)
2 points by lemming 14y ago|2 comments
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Higher-order Contextual Functions in Clojure(spin.atomicobject.com)
1 points by lemming 14y ago|0 comments
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by lemming 14y ago
I don't think this is quite right, although I'd be delighted to be corrected. Clojure still has to deref the var in order to call the function, and afaik this happens at runtime (hence the fact that you can redefine a function in the REPL).
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by lemming 14y ago
Actually, it's not so cut and dried. I don't have a formal reference to hand, but this is discussed in the last chapter of Stumbling on Happiness - I can dig up the reference if required. Basically, what seems to happen is that having kids
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by lemming 15y ago
Another notable company that does this is Gore & Associates (of GoreTex fame): (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._L._Gore_and_Associates ) Unlike the traditional management structure that Bill Gore had experienced at DuPont, he pro
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Microcredit examined: stimulates enterprise but doesn't help poverty(microfinance.cgap.org)
30 points by lemming 15y ago|6 comments
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by lemming 15y ago
One thing to bear in mind is that for these really big companies, the huge attraction of Ireland is not the low corporate tax rate, it's that profits can be easily and legally sent to Holland, from where they can be sent to the Caribbean. I
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by lemming 15y ago
Because when you execute code in a REPL you choose when to do so, presumably because you understand the side effects. The IDE doesn't but has to execute the code anyway to give you the feedback. This might be useful for pure functions but y
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by lemming 15y ago
To wit, IDEs encourage complexity and bloat and fat function/methods I write all my Clojure code in IntelliJ, using a (customised) version of La Clojure. Could you explain to me how this encourages complexity and bloat in my code?
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by lemming 15y ago
Hi cletus, totally unrelated to this story but would you mind sending me a mail on colin[at]colinfleming.net? I tried to contact you through your blog but the contact form seems to be pretty broken (both the captcha and the submission). Tha
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by lemming 15y ago
If your VM has a copying (moving) GC for the young generation, allocating a new object is exactly two very fast machine instructions... That's how OCaml does it. That's also how the JVM does it. You can criticise the JVM on some things, b

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