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by lsb 14y ago
This is rather disappointing. The dial-up modem sound is digitally created, and a digital lengthening of each tone is much higher quality.
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by lsb 14y ago
In addition to the 7 on http://ycombinator.com/people.html who are the other two?
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by lsb 14y ago
One example: when Heroku/Mongo/Apigee/etc rescinded their support from the Sqoot API Jam after women were offered as one of the perks alongside beer. There are many things to do, but a solid first step is not tacitly condoning hateful speec
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by lsb 14y ago
If your HTTP connection is going to be gzip compressed, then this will only give you monetary savings to compensate for the additional code complexity if you have medium to big data, at which point storing it in JSON is a questionable-at-be
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by lsb 14y ago
> type system nazis As a general rule of thumb, unless you mean to say that Hindley-Milner causes genocide, say "sticklers", or "evangelists", or "fanbois" even.
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by lsb 14y ago
We make nouns out of adverbial/prepositional phrases often, and alias ("in other places [known as]" -> "a name by which one is known in another place") is just one example. We talk about items, but "item" is the adverb that means "also"
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by lsb 14y ago
Bad karma. People get hesitant to work at your company if you don't pay your employees, so you only get people who don't mind that risk.
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by lsb 14y ago
Wait, why are generally accepted accounting practices nonsense? And, if so, why are they generally accepted? I don't know much about accounting, so this question is in earnest.
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by lsb 14y ago
Grammar trivia: "children" contains redundancy, a doubled plural. The germanic plural of "child" is "childer", and that didn't sound plural enough, so they added the -en that pluralized such fine words as ox -> oxen, and child-er-en the
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by lsb 15y ago
The chainable API calls looks pretty convenient for bulk uploads. Is there any way of lifting the 5-second restriction? What sort of limits do you foresee in how many key-value pairs can get stored?
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by lsb 15y ago
Do you think that that concern is as outmoded as forcing people to have a good sense of x86 opcodes, and assembler, to have a sense of what the CPU is actually doing?
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by lsb 15y ago
Water cooling feels like brute force. Why not give it plenty of air, and have the apparatus underclock itself enough until it's within a designated temperature envelope?
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by lsb 15y ago
Anyone know how to download them in bulk?
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by lsb 15y ago
Why are you friends with moochers? Won't they ever pick up the tab? This tech looks really useful for lots of verticals, but not for friends. If you constantly pay for people who won't pay for you, stop doing that.
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by lsb 15y ago
The bigger problem is that Anonymous is a lynch mob. Maybe in it for good, maybe in it for lulz, but it's still a digital lynch mob. The fundamental problem is that we're trusting vigilantes when we should be trusting courts to bring justic
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by lsb 15y ago
ZeroCater's minimum order size is 10, if I recall. Imagine you could get an extra half-hour of productive conversations out of people for ten bucks each. That's paying people $20/hr! What a good deal for engineers in the Bay Area.
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by lsb 15y ago
You can gauge someone's ranking in an organization explicitly and implicitly. Sometimes implicit beats explicit. The explicit is performance reviews, which can be cherry-picked. The implicit is the list of projects someone was entrusted to
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by lsb 15y ago
Yes, but the population of Rhode Island is ~1M, half as big as Brooklyn, a borough of a city.
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Gazehawk Team (YC S10) Joins Facebook(gazehawk.com)
65 points by lsb 15y ago|22 comments
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by lsb 15y ago
So you have 64-bit integer keys and 64-bit integer values, and you need to store these key-value pairs such that you get good lookups from key to list of values and from value to list of keys? How often are you updating? What is reading fro
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by lsb 15y ago
Yes. You can say a = zipWith (+) (0 : b) (tail c ++ [0]) and that would make a[i] = b[i-1] (where b[-1] is 0) + c[i+1] (EDIT: where the last element of c is 0 (thanks tkahn6!)). Also, interestingly, if you have lazy evaluation, you c
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by lsb 15y ago
Why is there no penalty? Lawyers wasted a lot of billable hours over a suit filed over a copyright claim on facts. If there's no penalty for such frivolous claims, we'll keep having to fight the same fight, wasting money along the way.
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by lsb 15y ago
That sounds like a pretty cool idea, create a whole fiction world where you can be anything you want. People have implemented that in meat-space as the city of San Francisco. If people find that the rest of their life tugs on them, perhaps
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by lsb 15y ago
The analogous message for untrusted webpages is "Go ahead, browse, because this is in the sandbox of the browser.". And, when you type stuff into a textbox and POST it over HTTP, a text box often pops up the first time, saying "This is inse
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by lsb 15y ago
Not only would it be more convenient for you, to focus on bits of the story you're actually interested in, the newspaper could collect analytics on what parts of the story you're interested in, and suggest further articles, and highly-targe
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by lsb 15y ago
If you'd buy twice as many at $65 than at $155, then you've just proven why, to maximize profit, they should be selling it at $155 instead of $65. 155n vs 130n is pretty straightforward, and the point of luxury brands is that not everyone i
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by lsb 15y ago
Thanks, Bertrand, for clearing that up.
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by lsb 15y ago
Cosmic rays, and it's more common than you think: http://www.quora.com/Is-ECC-error-correcting-code-RAM-worth-...
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by lsb 15y ago
For ten more € a month, get error-corrected memory: http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex6
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by lsb 15y ago
What does "my partner is a tech nerd" mean? Does he know what he's talking about, when it comes to code? Do you know what you're talking about, when it comes to code? Who knows more? Why do you not trust his suggestion to throw more hardwar

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