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by lsb 17y ago
Patrick, I have two questions: 1) If you use any IM clients that have an API for checking your activity, could you hook that up to the site for a more thorough data source than just an if statement based on time of day? 2) Why put Nginx o
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by lsb 17y ago
That's really cool that we're implementing a lot of the sci-fi. What hasn't been done yet? What bits of Multivac don't exist at the GOOG yet?
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by lsb 17y ago
What do Austin residents think of Central Market, vs Whole Foods?
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by lsb 17y ago
Ryan Tomayko's theme is even more sparing; his name is the only hyperlink above the comments. See http://tomayko.com/writings/rack-cache-announce
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by lsb 17y ago
Can you pursue your dream job on the side, on weekends? Also, what kind of a place interviews on Christmas day?
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by lsb 17y ago
They've been working on a website for 2 months, but they can't wait 1 day for pdfs? That sounds silly.
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by lsb 17y ago
Microsoft will do everything in its power to make sure it can sell Office. They have tens of billions of dollars to ensure that this doesn't happen.
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by lsb 17y ago
It's an unfortunate aspect of IBM's legacy that they supplied the Third Reich with computer supplies (those numbers branded into people's arms are IBM database ids), and they also partnered with apartheid South Africa to supply them with te
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by lsb 17y ago
How so?
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by lsb 17y ago
Lisp-like metaprogramming is really tricky , because a lot of the language that you interact with is defined by macros. The Haskell that you see is a thick layer of syntactic sugar over a much smaller Haskell core.
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by lsb 17y ago
Facebook's actually encountered scaling problems from memcached taking up too much CPU time; that's why there's the binary protocol, and they're talking about the multiget hole at http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/26/facebooks-memc
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes, but that's hardly an auspicious beginning to a language.
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by lsb 17y ago
But Google knows the contents of each page, though. If they were going to be awesome about it, they know what the page says, so they can just store an MD5 hash of it, and find what the new URL is, if it's still live, or serve a cached versi
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by lsb 17y ago
Jon Stuart Leibowitz decided that Jon Stewart was a better TV name. In America, we had had "Irish need not apply" signs in windows in the 1800s and early 1900s, but that prejudice is basically non-existent; if you think it'll give you a le
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by lsb 17y ago
It's not just men, it's high-class men. Lots of hackers think that good work wins, but it's good work marketed well wins, and it turns out that people are incredibly biased towards high-class men, and a name like "James Chartrand" is a prim
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by lsb 17y ago
Everyone says that the parens melt away, and it's true. However, using the language means the syntax, semantics, std lib, and community. So it's ultimately a very personal choice.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes, Mark Pilgrim had an interesting blog post about that: Recently, someone did the unthinkable: they published their own version of Dive Into Python and got it listed on Amazon.com. This apparently caused a small firestorm within Apress,
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by lsb 17y ago
I'm not at Twitter, but what's the tuning parameter to specify that every x seconds data goes to disk?
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by lsb 17y ago
What, have you never planned a surprise party? People need privacy not only for nefarious ends.
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by lsb 17y ago
Interesting size; I was talking to guys at a gay dating site, and their worldwide db was around 60 GB also; it could fit in RAM, on the 4XL amazon ec2 instances.
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by lsb 17y ago
Yes, they were saying that bsdiff produces diffs 10x courgette.
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by lsb 17y ago
This basically boils down to how can a dangerous entity in captivity use bribes to attain freedom? which seems like a common enough trope between humans that any transhuman AI, having read all of recorded literature, and having acces
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by lsb 17y ago
Just to be fair, 25% is a small subset, and if all the chrome installations use it as their default DNS, they'd have quite a lot of data.
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by lsb 17y ago
Phone support! Google Public DNS telephone support 877-590-4367 in the U.S. 770-200-1201 outside the U.S. I wonder if this will be a trend.
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by lsb 17y ago
bit.ly stole TinyURL's startup idea! It's the execution that matters.
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by lsb 17y ago
Amazon has repeatedly said that page load times matter. They decreased them once by 0.1s, and revenue dropped 1%. Google is also fanatical about speed (ever noticed how much GMail caches things?). Linus Torvalds said that because Git is
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by lsb 17y ago
So how do I buy it? What are the fees? It's backed by Khosla Ventures, so it's obviously not vaporware, but I don't see a call-to-action anywhere.
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by lsb 17y ago
Or even RGB LED lighting that can plug into an Arduino, so you could make that yourself. Or, I suppose, in the vein of a plant that twitters about its thirst, a bot that performs sentiment analysis on your tweets and adjusts the light acco
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by lsb 17y ago
Ok, kids, no need to get worked up. Here's why. 1.3.2 is an EXACT VERSION. This will not change, so it's safe to save it for a while. 1.3 is the last bug fix of the 1.3 version. You want this to change, if you want the latest bugfixed 1.
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by lsb 17y ago
10%, my mistake. Does bingo card creation require a lot of CPU, and, if not, why not move to EC2? I'm also on Slicehost, looking for better deals.

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