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811.
by minimax 14y ago
Where are the computers?
812.
Engineer Anti-Patterns(dtrace.org)
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813.
by minimax 14y ago
Try subscribing to a high volume mailing list like bugtraq or linux-kernel. For a search to yield any meaningful results you have to add -label:bugtraq -label:linux-kernel. for. every. single. search. Still, for the other 99.9999% of user
814.
by minimax 14y ago
He's making the distinction between saying a language is "functional" versus "pure functional." It is not correct to classify Lisp and Erlang as pure functional languages, because they both include support for imperative style programming.
815.
by minimax 14y ago
So assuming I can mock up a convincing picture, I can get any arbitrary fast food employee fired by uploading a picture with forged exif data to 4chan?
816.
by minimax 14y ago
> I'm going to call her a "stuck up bitch" in her wordpress comments and see if wordpress has some magical powers to stop me from judging her in public. I'd just like to point out regardless of your age, gender, nationality, et cetera,
817.
by minimax 14y ago
> most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies What a ridiculous thing to say. Remember Google when it was small? Two guys came up with better web search algorithms than all their deep-pocketed competition. Look
818.
by minimax 14y ago
Cedar (Ashe Juniper) is not an invasive species in central Texas. Some people are extremely allergic to the pollen though, so that's usually why they want to cut them down.
819.
by minimax 14y ago
No but there was a user called nickb that was responsible for a disproportionate amount of content (excellent content) back in the day. There was a lot of speculation that nickb and pg were one in the same. Here are some posts for context
820.
by minimax 14y ago
> apple only charges $200 for the 16GB option Only $200? That's twice what it would cost to buy from Newegg.
821.
by minimax 14y ago
You're outraged because you'd like to purchase a scarce resource (in this case a domain name) at less than its market value. With that sort of mindset you're gonna have a tough time.
822.
by minimax 14y ago
The report they are attempting to summarize covers the period from 2007 to 2010. It was just released by the Fed yesterday. It's publicly available, so I'm puzzled as to why they didn't link directly to the source material from the articl
823.
by minimax 14y ago
He emphasizes hiring great people essentially because that's the only way you'll be able to hire more great people. He goes on to make the point that if you lower the hiring bar and start hiring lower quality people, that in itself may cau
824.
by minimax 14y ago
Awesome tip! Thanks!
825.
by minimax 14y ago
It's true that gas is cheap, but it's not true that people who whine about gas prices belong to any political or demographic group. It's basically a national past time here. It's like talking about the weather. It's part of our culture a
826.
by minimax 14y ago
What gets me is how mysterious it sounds, when there is a ton of obvious troubleshooting that should have happened... and probably did but I can't find reported anywhere. Hedge fund places order. NASDAQ returns an order id. Did that order
827.
by minimax 14y ago
This isn't necessarily true. Many algorithmic trading strategies are driven by correlations between historical prices, none of which exist yet for FB.
828.
by minimax 14y ago
So Wolfram thinks he is the Charles Darwin of what exactly? The Origin of Species has a singular focus, i.e. presenting evidence for the mutability of species. What is NKS's focus? What makes you think NKS is in any way comparable to Ori
829.
by minimax 14y ago
Anyone interested in NKS might also be interested in Cosma Shalizi's review which details several substantial problems with the book. http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
830.
by minimax 15y ago
Initial versions of Google at Stanford ran on a mix of both Linux and Solaris. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
831.
by minimax 15y ago
Seems to be a Google-ism. I haven't worked there, but all the ex-Googlers I've worked with do this. It also makes it easy to grep for all your TODOs in a tree, something you can't do with cvs/svn/git annotate.
832.
by minimax 15y ago
In Houston, where I grew up, older people (retirees) used to drive to their nearest indoor mall just after it opened for the day and walk laps around the inside the mall. They wanted to walk but they didn't want to do it in the heat. Some
833.
by minimax 15y ago
Who is voting this to the HN front page and what the hell is wrong with you? I would rather see links to 30 more DCPU-16 simulators than read this tripe. Stop it.
834.
by minimax 15y ago
See excellent comment from henryl on the hotel business. He's spot on. Marriott is a franchise business. That is, they don't own the hotels. They license the brand to hotel owners or operating groups. Most hotel brands work this way. S
835.
by minimax 15y ago
The hotel wifi service provider business is (and has been for 5+ years) a really crummy race to the bottom. Hotels don't want to do it themselves. They can't really; they don't have the talent in-house. It's fairly expensive to do correc
836.
by minimax 15y ago
Looks like Flajolet was responsible for both the linear probabilistic method and the hyper log log method. Probabilistic method (1985): http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlMa85.pdf Hyper log log (2007): http://algo.inria.fr/flaj
837.
by minimax 15y ago
I think now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that blacklisting low quality "link bait" sites was once suggested (and implemented) by pg. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=160704 I for one much prefer the uncensored HN so I ca
838.
by minimax 15y ago
You're talking about SQL Slammer. The whole virus fit in a single UDP packet. Wired had a pretty good (if slightly sensational) writeup at the time: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/slammer.html
839.
by minimax 15y ago
Starters, as I understand it, are particularly easy to replace. I think there's something about tinkering around on cars that appeals to the programmer mindset. I like working on my car, and fixing it gives me the same satisfaction I get
840.
by minimax 15y ago
Fascinating paper, even if it is 18 years old now. Thanks.

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