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by m0th87 16y ago
I think it's a false dichotomy to compare the tech bubble with facebook. The former was an economic phenomenon that was dependent on the continued supply of new money from increasingly clueless investors (essentially a pyramid scheme, like
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by m0th87 16y ago
My technically inept family members have been using Google for years. But I don't see their shares tumbling.
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by m0th87 16y ago
I didn't even know giraffe riding existed. I always figured your username was some inside joke.
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by m0th87 16y ago
Raleigh, NC; so not really
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by m0th87 16y ago
Centrality analysis can get much more sophisticated than PageRank (which is why Google uses PageRank only as a part of their overall search relevancy computation). But even exposing something as trivial as a PageRank for twitter is extraord
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by m0th87 16y ago
A few months ago I talked to infochimps (I got their contact info thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989180 ) I asked for a copy of the social graph so I could build exactly the kind of service provided by trst.me. Joseph Kelly
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JavaScript Intellisense Improvements with VS 2010(weblogs.asp.net)
3 points by m0th87 17y ago|0 comments
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by m0th87 17y ago
Maybe I'm dense, but I still don't understand. I'm guessing denormalization means going from relational data to non-relational data. When you're working with a document store, data never has to be normalized, and as a consequence, it never
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by m0th87 17y ago
> Usability is a political decision that not everyone agrees with because to be usable is not to make everything possible. Unfortunately true but I do think there's a happy medium. If Apple just gave some means of installing apps withou
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by m0th87 17y ago
But that is a defense of ORMs, not using ORMs for NoSQL solutions. The value of document stores for me is that I don't have to worry about JOINs or normalization - and thus the layer of abstraction between the object oriented system and t
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by m0th87 17y ago
This article begs the question "what for?" * Document stores map pretty easily to object oriented systems, and thus negate the need for an ORM * Distributed hashtables don't have the featuresets available to warrant an ORM abstraction I gue
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by m0th87 17y ago
I don't see how it could be interpreted as a joke. I've given up Java because of its verbosity, but anything that reduces it is a win.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Genuine question: is it breaking HN guidelines to post a duplicate by adding a question mark to the end of the URL, as in this case? I did think this deserved more attention than the original post's low score. http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by m0th87 17y ago
Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/0,39029552,49305387,00.htm ...at least I hope it's an April Fools joke, or we're seriously fucked. EDIT: Actually this wins: there's a vowe
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Xkcd Makes 4D Miegakure the Most-Sought Indie Game(geekosystem.com)
38 points by m0th87 17y ago|12 comments
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by m0th87 17y ago
Except the use of parameters for resource identification both breaks REST and isn't SEO-friendly. Forms somewhat break this for GET submissions, but do at least adhere for POST.
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by m0th87 17y ago
All of your examples still portray uniformity: > git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git You are accessing a resource that is partially identified by the username. > smtp://user:pass@hostname/domain The username and password is us
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by m0th87 17y ago
> Unlike Britain, America doesn't really do free-traders Seriously? America effectively invented modern neo-liberalism, and exported it abroad via international agreements (WTO, NAFTA, IMF loan agreements...) > China makes an easy
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by m0th87 17y ago
It looks at the "body content of any web page" and translates that, so the correct question to ask would be "What does the website look like for Beethoven's Ninth?" Also, news.ycombinator.com doesn't work on it, must be blocking it =(
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by m0th87 17y ago
That's not true; Kiva often charges extraordinarily high interest rates. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiva_(organization)#Interest_ra...
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by m0th87 17y ago
I'm surprised no one has commented on this thread that The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (leaving her strong political leanings aside) provides an excellent overview of the shock therapy as it was applied to the USSR and other nations. It w
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by m0th87 17y ago
Are you sure that experience can be extrapolated to the labor market as a whole? I get the feeling that the difference in capabilities from one individual to another is much more pronounced in software development relative to many other fie
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by m0th87 17y ago
Yes, but either the comments wouldn't be visible in low-resolution clients or facebook would have to provide a completely different layout (e.g. with inline comments) for them.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Brilliant design, but it doesn't seem like it would degrade very gracefully for lower resolutions.
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by m0th87 17y ago
The hardware design can be demonstrated to correctly execute every permutation of every instruction. Isn't that impossible vis-a-vis the halting problem?
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by m0th87 17y ago
I think a lot of the outrage is justly squared on the possibility that Toyota covered the issue up for years.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Why not just have more than two cycles per year? Is it because there's a lot of work that has to be done during off-seasons, or is it arbitrary?
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by m0th87 17y ago
The OP's suggestions are pretty bad, as jasonkester points out. But for a specific class of problems (ones that are both performance or JOIN intensive and require the awesome indexing/sorting capabilities in SQL solutions), schema-less MySQ
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by m0th87 17y ago
Aa well as providing a transparent computing platform. This is a much better alternative for my batch processing than keeping my laptop on overnight.
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by m0th87 17y ago
Yes but it's not purely functional in that you cannot automagically make a script scale to n threads, as is the case with Haskell. This is what the OP is referring to.

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