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by m0nastic 12y ago
I think you're grossly underestimating the number of people that an electric car is a complete non-starter for. It's great that electric cars exist now (and maybe someday in the future I'd even be interesting in buying one on
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by m0nastic 12y ago
It doesn't predict my account correctly: PROBABILITY FEMALE: 0.997 PROBABILITY MALE: 0.569 I wonder if the fact that I mostly just post pictures with no text accompanying them skews things.
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by m0nastic 12y ago
By 1998 (when I was there), I don't remember ever seeing anything like that (we used normal Unix 'talk' to communicate with people logged into the Digital Unix servers). Go Engineers!
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John Carmack on Inlined Code(number-none.com)
456 points by m0nastic 12y ago|260 comments
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Strictly speaking, being on the GSA schedule and being able to offer products/services for sale to the federal government requires that you not sell that product/service anywhere else for less than that GSA price. This is actually
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by m0nastic 12y ago
James Pearce (Facebook Open Source Person commenting in here) gave a pretty interesting talk about Facebook's internal Open Source process at OSCon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzL6Zoy_ndk&list=UUP_lo1MFyx5... I
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I can't confirm specific customers, but I've done consulting work for virtually every large energy company (as well as financial and manufacturing), and all of those were fixed-price contracts. (I put together all of those SOW&#x2
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I haven't, but I just bookmarked it. Thank you.
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I'd like to create a market for a "wish-based" currency. (Stop laughing). As dumb as that sounds, I was struck by the idea of what a currency market would look like in some sci-fi techno-utopia (one where nanites or molecular
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Seeing the favicons while having both sites open in different tabs drives the point home even more. They're even using a very similar shade of orange. I do wonder if I was making a logo how hard it would be to search for similar ones t
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Here's my current list, what used to be a 50/50 mix of technology and comedy podcasts has slowly become almost all comedy ones (I increasingly find podcasts to be a bad medium for technology discussions that aren't just &quot
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I didn't think Grey Hat Python was a great book, but it serves a valuable purpose that I'm not aware of another book supplanting; which is that it shows you that you can use underlying programming to do security-related tasks, ins
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I think there's a good discussion to be had about what the future of VR means to advertising-based social networks, even if I don't share the authors cynicism. I think their argument about the technology is batty though. It's
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I actually liked the Little Schemer a lot, specifically the way it's laid out with just questions in one column and answers in another (it helped establish a rhythm that made it nice to go through); but I did find the tone a little &qu
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by m0nastic 12y ago
First off, you weren't "silenced". You were down-voted. I don't see what that has to do with "the progressives on HN". I'm guessing you were down-voted because you made a pretty gross and uninformed statem
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by m0nastic 12y ago
After clicking around on some of the lists to get a sense of what the intended content is, I think it suffers from a little bit of an identity crisis. By which I mean that the base, bottom-feeding type lists are already supremely well-cover
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Yeah, I've followed Clojure from afar for the past two years or so, but haven't yet had a reason to use it at work. I like a lot about the way the language is laid out, and whenever I watch one of Rich Hickey's talks I find m
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I'm excited to read this, I just bought a copy. I'm presently debating between using Haskell or Clojure for data analysis here at work (or most likely some combination of the two), so the timing couldn't be better.
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Podcast Networks Are Probably The Wrong Answer (chris.tengulabs.com)
1 points by m0nastic 12y ago|0 comments
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I just checked, and it looks like I follow 500 people (which is actually way more than I would have guessed, and I'll admit is kind of ridiculous). Most of them aren't super high-output though, which helps. I've had to unfoll
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I agree it's hard to be all things to all people. I think fundamentally, Hackage is meant to be a centralized package repository. If you look at other similar projects, there seems to be no real consensus as to whether that should just
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I think people use Twitter for different things, but for me Twitter has completely replaced RSS, IM, and news. Unlike Facebook, where none of the people I follow have relevant interests to me, on Twitter I only follow people who post things
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by m0nastic 12y ago
The "documentation" on Hackage is almost universally just the haddock-generated files (which is why it's mostly just function declarations and type signatures). Most libraries list a "Home Page" that more often than
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HydraBase – The evolution of HBase at Facebook(code.facebook.com)
2 points by m0nastic 12y ago|0 comments
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I would never claim that Apple is a fervent open source company, but here are a bunch of their open source projects: http://www.macosforge.org/
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by m0nastic 12y ago
WebObjects hasn't been related to Objective-C for a while (It was rewritten in Java in 2001). While WebObjects is still apparently being used by Apple's Online store and presumably some other internal applications, I wouldn't
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Not that it's particularly complicated, but they mentioned yesterday that the updated version of the WWDC app (which they released right after the keynote) is written in Swift. I don't know if that means "entirely written&quo
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Correct. The CFAA requires access without authorization or exceeding authorized access. Presumably you are an authorized user of your own systems. It is possible that some vendors may try to use User Acceptance Licenses to further restrict
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by m0nastic 12y ago
I think products like 1Password, Keypass, Lastpass, etc. are a good idea, in that they're making it much easier to encourage a culture of strong, unique passwords for every application and website. Of those, I favor 1Password, because
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by m0nastic 12y ago
Yeah, for whatever reason I was constantly having the following problem in 1Password: ->Whenever I auto-generated a password in the browser extension, and submitted it, 1Password would occasionally (like 1 in 20 times, but often enough t

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