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by lsb 15y ago
There looks like a syntax error early on with the ternary operator: nblocks = nblocks ? : 1;
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by lsb 15y ago
No. The reason Rome's expansion plans fell short of expectations were because the perimeter to area ratio was too high. Defending lots of land with an enormous Mediterranean sea in the middle is far harder that a tight peninsula of farmland
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by lsb 16y ago
Some people, when confronted with a calendaring problem, think "I know, I'll use Lotus Notes". Now their subordinates have two problems.
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by lsb 16y ago
As far as I recall, it's mostly duo, ambo, and 2nd declension nouns by analogy in archaizing poetic passages.
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by lsb 16y ago
There are two problems: 1) Google paying attention to a community is far more attractive than a bunch of open source guys. 2) Google Maps's UI is much better than Open Street Maps'. The first is hard to fix, unless some open consortium sh
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by lsb 16y ago
Also, if you want to do it right, use a dual form for expressing a pair, -o. One Winkelvos, two Winkelvo, a family of Winkelvi. Duals are used for pairs or things, like eyes or hands, in Latin and Ancient Greek. In Sanskrit, duals are even
397.
by lsb 16y ago
If you really want to be pedantic, it was one of the first such mashup apps with the Google Maps "API" that hadn't even launched yet. That's what was so cool about it, and why Google was so interested in bringing him on, he reverse-enginee
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by lsb 16y ago
A few billion people in Asia would disagree. In Tokyo right now, it's 7am April 1.
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by lsb 16y ago
There was also a competitor to Second Life, First Life. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/first_life_sl_parody.ht... One of the selling points was "Fornicate using your actual genitals!".
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by lsb 16y ago
Relevant: http://www.theonion.com/articles/american-people-hire-highpo...
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by lsb 16y ago
That's not necessarily true. PG says that there's one strategic sentence redacted. Vacation Rentals is an upgrade from yuppies' airbeds, with commensurately higher margins. Hotels are an upgrade from Vacation Rentals, with higher margins a
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by lsb 16y ago
That the internet has been thus for a long time is disappointing, but not surprising. I've studied oral-formulaic poetry, and one of the interesting aspects of it is that everyone tells the same stories over and over, and what makes one ret
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by lsb 16y ago
Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the kids are cops. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1546789
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by lsb 16y ago
One of the benefits of working 9-5 at a company that makes a million dollars a day is that I have my weekends free. So I bike to Fresh Pond[1], to the Arboretum[2], or elsewhere, and read. It's like meditation, and it improves your vocabu
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by lsb 16y ago
I just bought Mary Oliver's Swan[1] and it's quite a great read. Also, I wrote a paper in grad school comparing the Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales to Anne Sexton's Transformations[2] as Homer compared to Sappho, and they are a thauma widesth
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by lsb 16y ago
There are always unintended consequences. The entire book publishing industry is funded by sales by mystery and romance. Make those easier to produce, and you lose the overhead to publish poetry, in much the same way that most newspapers do
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by lsb 16y ago
If you think a spartan grad school life is comfortable (I do ), it's easy to live in Boston on $20k a year, if you're intensely working on a startup around Davis Sq.
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by lsb 16y ago
Which book?
409.
by lsb 16y ago
So far, North Korea hasn't fallen. All governments eventually fall; what timeline were you thinking of?
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by lsb 16y ago
Additionally, all sorts of phones use tantalum capacitors, which are mostly made from coltan, mined in the Congo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan#Use_and_demand
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by lsb 16y ago
They weren't actually foaming at the mouth, they were literally foaming at the mouth. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ly1UTgiBXM [NSFW/profanity]
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by lsb 16y ago
I think it may have been Google that found that random RAM errors are quite likely over the course of a year, so you really want ECC memory if you're running a server and need uptime.
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by lsb 16y ago
As long as they're paying 37s, 37s is happy, and they're evidently happy enough with the service to keep paying.
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by lsb 16y ago
In your analogy, instead of burning the books they could just dump them in big trash heaps in Egypt, or in jars in Palestine, which correspond to bittorrenting quite nicely.
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by lsb 16y ago
So as long as you can convince impressionable young people that some entity is acting against Freedom, you will be able to mobilize them to give you cover for your activities. That seems true in other circumstances also.
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by lsb 16y ago
VoltDB looks pretty awesome, but I'm pretty concerned by its lack of ability to join a table to itself, to have over six tables in a join, to aggregate or select distinct arbitrary values. http://community.voltdb.com/docs/ReleaseNotes/ind
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by lsb 16y ago
Of course it's a bad test. Google says they only hire people above the mean skill level of a Google engineer, so you need to look better than an average Googler to get in . http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobeg...
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by lsb 16y ago
It sounds like the AJAX web app was designed to test your sense of taste and your ability to get things done, and the Javascript question was to test whether you've ever done anything numerical in JS. ('4'+4)-4 is 40, whereas (4+4)-4 is 4
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by lsb 16y ago
And in both situations, each company is giving its competitor coarse-grained data about its customer base (Netflix in real time, Apple with a few months' lead). If Netflix hasn't put DRM on their stream, someone monitoring the pipe could ea
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by lsb 16y ago
It's wonderful, if a little odd, to think of the NYC subway as a plucked guitar, versus the familiar steel-on-steel "ka-chunk, ka-chunk" as the trains rumble on the (unwelded) tracks.

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