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by martian 18y ago
Jonathan Swift: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080.txt
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A Modest Proposal(zeldman.com)
23 points by martian 18y ago|43 comments
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by martian 18y ago
You can definitely find a place cheaper than $500/wk in SF. I live in the city, and pay way less than that.
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Brief history of playgrounds and the importance of children's play(goodmagazine.com)
1 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
Sometimes column stores are really the way to go. For massive RDF storage, they offer orders of magnitude improvement in query speeds when compared to the best row-store DBs. The C-Store project at MIT is cool. Here's a good summary: http:
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Bathroom Art (niemann.blogs.nytimes.com)
22 points by martian 18y ago|1 comments
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by martian 18y ago
Also, the use of "said" allows for subtlety of dialog that would be lost with more trite words such as "exclaimed" or "retorted". Joyce takes it to an extreme: only a dash separates dialog from narration.
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by martian 18y ago
During my last year of high school, I remember asking the college guidance counselors if there were other alternatives to going to college. They told me my only other choice was to join the military. Clearly something needs to change.
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by martian 18y ago
I'm stoked on your concept and loving the logo. Vertical spacing overall should be a tidied and made consistent. Maybe push the second line of your logo up onto the first line to compress the header? Also I'd suggest you put some more const
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C++ Boost Version 1.36 Released(boost.org)
4 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
This reminds me of some of the spam filtering algorithms I've read about. You'd think that categorizing spam based on keywords (or sender IP, etc) would be useful, but machine learning algorithms can pick up more subtle nuances of language
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by martian 18y ago
Agreed, I started bicycling regularly about two years ago, and it has vastly improved my overall health, focus, and drive. Getting sick in the winter used to be the regular course of things -- I'd be knocked out for about a week or so with
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by martian 18y ago
I agree that the original post lacks in critique. On the other hand, he does provide a great place to start from when considering CSS frameworks. By laying them all out on the table, we should be able to have a conversation around them to f
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by martian 18y ago
What frameworks do other YC folks use? I've been running with Blueprint for a while now and it's working great. The simple 24-column system makes a lot of sense for layouts, but I'm not tied to it necessarily.
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by martian 18y ago
My experience with C# suggests it is extremely tied into the Windows world, and for some tasks -- like building a plugin for Internet Explorer -- you may be best of with one of the MS languages (VB or C# being the most prominent). For more
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Python vs PHP benchmarks - Computer Language Benchmarks Game(shootout.alioth.debian.org)
2 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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Python for Lisp Programmers(norvig.com)
24 points by martian 18y ago|9 comments
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by martian 18y ago
Arrington reminds me a lot of the character of Anton Ego in Ratatouille. A vicious critic. This speech (by Ego) in particular comes to mind: [POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING] "In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet e
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Simple DB commits: zodb + cherrypy python(renesd.blogspot.com)
2 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
Couldn't agree more. Over-architecting should be the 8th deadly sin (at least for start-ups).
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by martian 18y ago
In the spirit of Douglas Hofstadter... nice recursion.
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Phoenix Lander ‘Talks’ to Twitterers(nytimes.com)
1 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
+1 SPF. It helps a lot with the major email providers, and it's super easy to configure.
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Robotic construction of homes and buildings(moma.org)
1 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
This is cool. Last summer I had an inkling of an idea that used basically the same strategy. My idea (never implemented) was to set the background images on visited anchors to a dynamic image url that could be used to track pageviews from o
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3D Graphics through JavaScript and Away3D(away3d.com)
5 points by martian 18y ago|0 comments
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by martian 18y ago
I hope web browsers for Windows 7 will support multi-touch. The richness of desktop apps is so often quickly lost on the web, and it would be fantastic if we could be building multi-touch web apps right out of the gate.
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Inspirational books from a CS professor(www-users.cs.umn.edu)
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by martian 18y ago
Aside from news.yc... If you're in a metro area, Craigslist is usually a good bet as well. As a programmer, I've had reasonably good luck finding interesting jobs through Craigslist -- much better IMO than dice.com or Monster or other major
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by martian 18y ago
When I purchased my Thinkpad T60 (nearly 18 months ago now -- how time flies!), the Lenovo sales staff was unable to help me find a notebook with Linux preinstalled. Maybe this has changed recently, but you're better off just buying the bas

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