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961.
by lsb 18y ago
Yes, people are risk-averse.
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by lsb 18y ago
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think. O
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by lsb 18y ago
That's a bitmap font, which is really good for displays where pixels are large, but which is terrible for displays where pixels are tiny (like, say, the iPod Touch or something). Displays are getting denser, so the way to go is vector-base
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by lsb 18y ago
Verdi Spoiler Alert In Verdi's Simon Boccanegra at Covent Garden this past spring, Fiesco says "Simone, I morti ti salutano!" -- "Simon, the [previously-thought] dead salute you!". To the classically minded, it's a riff on the gladito
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by lsb 18y ago
But a malloc ain't one.
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by lsb 18y ago
in Haskell (and maybe ML), you might have vectorDotProduct = map (*)
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by lsb 18y ago
Alligators' immune system is pretty great as well; they're fairly resistant to HIV due to their immune system that keeps them safe in swamps, they've got lots of anti-bacterials and anti-fungals. I wonder how many diseases wouldn't exist if
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by lsb 18y ago
On the other hand, their two-bit flash player is quite widely distributed.
969.
by lsb 18y ago
Until you get RSI.
970.
by lsb 18y ago
Easy answer: yes. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=152559
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by lsb 18y ago
Actually, case is built into Haskell: it's the evaluation primitive in Haskell Core; see Don Stewart's blog post http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/05/16 .
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by lsb 18y ago
Nothing you can't get from Pandora (or Seeqpod). I was going to add "unless you're not in a hotspot", but browsers are going to cache more and more, so that's not going to be as true.
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by lsb 18y ago
Strictly speaking, it's Lempel-Ziv coding. LZ compresses text by replacing the second occurrence of a phrase with a pointer to the first, as above, whereas Huffman represents more frequently used characters with shorter bit strings, like M
974.
by lsb 18y ago
or google app engine.
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by lsb 18y ago
That's assuming your time is free.
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by lsb 18y ago
AJAX may be on the way out, if only that people are more interested in AJSONC (asynchronous javascript object notation with callbacks). Most people have realized that any code that writes XML from internal data structures can easily write
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by lsb 19y ago
Didn't Howard Dean beat John Kerry in 2004 online?
978.
by lsb 19y ago
microsoft research is doing pretty interesting things; i don't think anyone's anti-MS-Research. windows/msie/office are less fun, on average, than unix/firefox/tex, but don't write the whole company off. (in much the same way, IBM is big an
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by lsb 19y ago
there's David Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence --- http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm --- where he's playing compositions that some AI wrote which was trained on Bach/Beethoven/et al. last june, i was toying around w
980.
by lsb 19y ago
that's like amie.st, where you get cash for recommending cheap songs.
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by lsb 19y ago
For Javascript: Ruby is kind of similar to Smalltalk, and Javascript can be pretty Ruby-like if you use the Prototype/Scriptaculous frameworks. For CSS: I've never used Blueprint.css, but it looks pretty awesome.
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by lsb 19y ago
gmail caches everything like crazy. when the page loads, just start caching everything that the user might want to click on, and you can avoid the web 2.0 version of dancing frogs.
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by lsb 19y ago
It's a very traditional OO situation: you want a value that know how to handle its error case. Haskell makes it easy to implement that with types. Either you can check the integer return value (which your compiler can't verify), you can h
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by lsb 19y ago
Startup School: the traffic light party for nerds.
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Ask YC: tendonitis at a startup?
35 points by lsb 19y ago|62 comments
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by lsb 19y ago
that ruby code looks awfully verbose. you probably want puts STDIN.inject(0) {|sum,line| sum + 1}
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by lsb 19y ago
But you've always got humans consuming it. When they evolve into an entirely new medium, that's a different problem, but there's a canonical 1-3 hour format in a medium-large room. DVDs now have bloopers and commentary, but they aren't an
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by lsb 19y ago
then it makes sense to store, along with the data, two codecs that will make a array of bitmaps and an uncompressed raw audio file. (project gutenberg, for example, always has a plain text version whenever there's a more elaborate format.)
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by lsb 19y ago
Or just wait for Moore's law. In 2007, internet storage is $3/GB/yr, much lower than what it was/would have been in 1997. Those prices are probably going to come down as well, so the $200k/yr estimate seems way high. (I wonder if Pixar's
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by lsb 19y ago
the making of the 2 and 5 was pretty cool; how far advanced are techniques for content generation?

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