mpakes

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by mpakes 15y ago
> It's a fantastic framework that should and could supplant the JVM. What makes you feel that .NET is so superior to the JVM? The JVM itself seems like a solid, performant VM platform, and there is a broad selection of languages in Scal
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by mpakes 15y ago
The video on their 'Contact' page is particularly well done: http://www.firespotter.com/contact-us The narration is a series of excerpts from the 'Wave Speech' passage in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , written abou
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by mpakes 15y ago
..and by making photography easy, fun and simple to share, Instagram encourages practice, which then increases the user's skills. It's an awesome feedback loop.
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by mpakes 15y ago
FYI — You can enable a setting in Instagram to save originals to your photo library.
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by mpakes 15y ago
The author misses the point of Instagram, and it's no surprise, given that he self-admittedly has only posted one photo. Instagram is about the community, not the filters, and not curation. The filters are just a fun way to stylize a photo
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by mpakes 15y ago
Spoken like someone who has never used a machine with an SSD. My SSD is by far the best performance investment I've made in recent years. A fast CPU is worthless if you're burning 30% of your cycles waiting for the HDD to deliver your data.
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by mpakes 15y ago
All well and good except the move to use binaries in NPM. I really, really hope this doesn't become common on the UNIX side..
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by mpakes 15y ago
People said the same thing about Mint, but things worked out pretty nicely for them..
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by mpakes 15y ago
I've noticed the same thing. AWS keys appear to actually be RSA keys, with a .pem extension.
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by mpakes 15y ago
Nginx uses a configurable, fixed number of worker processes, handling many connections per worker process. This allows Nginx to maximize throughput on any variety of multi-processor and/or multi-core configurations. If one worker dies, any
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by mpakes 16y ago
Untrue. The RX-7's rotary engine (the 13B series) is actually phenomenally reliable, and there are many examples with well over 300k road miles. The RX-8 uses a newer variant of the same engine - the 13B-MSP RENESIS. Additionally, Mazda use
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by mpakes 16y ago
Talk to the guys at Conjunctured coworking ( http://http://conjunctured.com/ ). They're well connected with the Austin startup scene. In particular, Cesar Torres (@cesart on Twitter) is a great guy to talk to.
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by mpakes 16y ago
"Free" as in speech, not as in beer.
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by mpakes 16y ago
The built-in Mail app does this (stored screenshot of current app state), but 3rd-party apps do not have this ability. 3rd-party apps can display a single static image (default.png) on boot. It is common for this image to be a screenshot of
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by mpakes 16y ago
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst Also see this site, which adapts the book's contents to the web: http://webtypography.net/toc/
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by mpakes 16y ago
Of course you're right about this.. the turbocharged era produced incredible engine output. I worded my comment poorly.. I meant to convey that the power output of the 3.0L V10 format peaked in the mid-2000s.
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by mpakes 16y ago
Regarding the recognizability of the engine technology - it's fascinating to know how much materials science technology has filtered down from F1 into road-going cars. The high-revving (9000RPM) F20C1 Inline-4 from the Honda S2000 has a pea
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by mpakes 16y ago
One thing to keep in mind.. this article about 10 years old. The current engine configuration is a 90-deg 2.4L V8, rev-limited to 18,000 RPM. Typical peak power output is around 700bhp. Additionally, a team is allowed to use a maximum of 8
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by mpakes 16y ago
Agreed on many of these. The "Post-Rock" genre, which usually is anthemic and instrumental makes great music for concentrating on intensive tasks. A lot of ambient electronica can be good as well, but sometimes the repetition gets monotonou
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by mpakes 16y ago
CloudKick ( http://cloudkick.com ) - Configurable server monitoring with SMS alerts. Love this service. CoTweet ( http://cotweet.com ) - Shared Twitter account management. Great for support and guerrilla marketing. Uservoice ( http://u
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by mpakes 16y ago
San Francisco, CA Miso, recently funded by Google Ventures, is looking for an outstanding Web Developer (Rails experience strongly preferred, but not strictly required). We're changing the way people watch TV — building a social entertainme
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by mpakes 16y ago
Miso - http://gomiso.com - The second screen that makes watching TV more fun. We have an amazing team, but we're changing the game with Miso, and we need more talent to make it happen. We're looking to hire: - iPhone/iPad wizards - Front-
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by mpakes 16y ago
I used to work on the Atlas V as well.. and I applaud SpaceX's efforts. The reliability of traditional launch vehicles like the Delta and Atlas have come at the cost of innovation. The fundamental design hasn't changed in decades. Privat
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by mpakes 17y ago
Thanks for posting the details. I was originally trying to organize a SXSW event together for Hacker News folks, but this is much better. See you all there.
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by mpakes 17y ago
The link is now on the front page, but just in case you missed it, here's the official YC event info: http://ycombinator.posterous.com/yc-sxsw-monday-march-15th-s... See you guys there.
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by mpakes 17y ago
It seems like there is an official YC meetup at Submerged on March 15 from 5-7pm, although the only details I can find are here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1138610 Given that there is already an event (with PG in attendance), I d
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by mpakes 17y ago
Fully agreed about a day-time event. I'm actually not planning to get a badge for Interactive this year -- hallway meetings and non-official events are at least as useful as the actual panels (although I will miss attending panels this yea
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Ask HN: Hacker News meetup at SXSW?
6 points by mpakes 17y ago|6 comments
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by mpakes 17y ago
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I'm always amazed by the little single-serving amusement sites that get sustained attention. Congrats. (RE: Word of mouth - point taken.. I was just expressing surprise that you didn't take advantage of m
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by mpakes 17y ago
Can you explain how this web-ified Magic 8 Ball is viral? I'm surprised not to see any Twitter / Facebook / Digg links anywhere.. Also, is this $500-1000 / mo sustained over a long period of time, or is it more like the flash-in-the-pan Fa

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