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by mvzink 15y ago
You know what this means? Salvatore Sanfilippo could be executed if he visits Iran.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Sorry, I didn't see this. I might be indeed! Send me an email at mvz@mvz.so
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by mvzink 15y ago
No, the world isn't seriously this disgusting. What you are looking at isn't even Silicon Valley. It's a bunch of fucking bloggers jerking around. Yeah, there are a lot of people who (for some reason) give a fuck. Some of these bloggers eve
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by mvzink 15y ago
This post explains the problem enough to give an intuitive understanding of why it's difficult: http://bit-player.org/2009/the-17x17-challenge
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by mvzink 15y ago
It's worth noting that there is some consensus amongst sociologists that money and people are the two primary forms of power. (And I do mean primary: all other forms of power derive from them.) It's also worth noting, in a much less const
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by mvzink 15y ago
This gave me an interesting thought. You mention that those trading jobs are supposed to be very demanding, implicitly citing this as a reason for their higher salaries. Well, any time a subjective factor like that affects a salary, it is b
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is cool. > The examples above all relate to engineering, but we have distilled these principles into five core values for how we run Facebook... They are reconciling the business/management style well known in the hacker communit
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by mvzink 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - In Chicago, prefer remote work. I'm a CS undergrad at the University of Chicago, but I have to pay the bills. Bigger projects should probably look elsewhere (until June 9), but I can burn through a lot of work pretty quickly.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Man. Nostalgia for the old debates about net neutrality just kicked in, and it really pales in comparison to e.g. the SOPA hearings.
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by mvzink 15y ago
Aha, that went over my head. Apologies! In that case: excellent point.
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by mvzink 15y ago
This list is really a non-sequitur. First, I honestly can't count Ubuntu. So besides that: Gates Foundation, Startup Education, and Omidyar are essentially charity. Yeah, they are technically start ups, but... The other two's problem domain
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by mvzink 15y ago
Ironically, your comment just inspired me to try out Mongrel2. Even during its initial buzz, I never looked into Mongrel2 at all because I simply had no need for a new web server. Well, after finally looking at it... it looks fricking sweet
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by mvzink 15y ago
Fear wins out over laziness: finally downloading TrueCrypt.
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by mvzink 15y ago
> Iran does not have a monopoly on mockeries of justice. You're quite right. From these cases, the only real differences would seem to be 1) basis: terrorism vs. insulting Islam and 2) extremity: different bars for capital punishment.
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The OPEN Act (SOPA/PIPA alternative) needs more discussion time(keepthewebopen.com)
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by mvzink 15y ago
I'm still an undergrad and therefore naïve, but I had always thought PhDs were much more about proving they can perform research than "what they learn"
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by mvzink 15y ago
Looks awesome, especially the type system. Check out http://code.google.com/p/decac/source/browse/examples/list.d... I'd love to see some discussions on possible/practical shortcomings.
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by mvzink 15y ago
That's unfair. You may be right, but they are similar in the way MikeCapone mentioned: they are both pushing the limits of science and technology in pursuit of a grand, incredible vision. Perhaps one of them is doing it completely wrong, bu
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by mvzink 15y ago
Couldn't even be bothered to use the correct non-reddit link, huh? http://www.dartlang.org/articles/why-not-bytecode/
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by mvzink 15y ago
I wonder if Bezos thought he was a Bezos.
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by mvzink 15y ago
It's possible you're right, but that quote is irrelevant. That's about monopolies, specifically in the form of trade associations. Smith thought any kind of monopolies—trusts, unions, import duties—were bad, that's for sure. I was talking a
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by mvzink 15y ago
I tend to agree, but there's a missing element in this economic model, though one that others have mentioned (cf. sunahsuh's comment): marketing. If you look at Marx, or even Smith, it's clear that the wants and demands of the consumers are
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by mvzink 15y ago
This seems pretty spot on to me, and it's worth talking about if only to avoid wasted discussion time. Whether they explicitly recognized it or not, Twitter (with their native-esque web app and multiple native apps), Instagram (with their w
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by mvzink 15y ago
Indeed, for those of us who missed it, they had a poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3335916 and Yehuda announced the change yesterday: http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/12/amber-js-formerly-sproutcor...
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is why I am not friending any of my "nerd friends" on Path. Only family, many of whom live across the country, and my (coincidentally very non-technical) two circles of close friends, who also live throughout the country. There are pre
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by mvzink 15y ago
It would be more obvious that this was a listhost and not a "sign up" (per se; you get my meaning) if there was only one text input. Even have the name appear after clicking on the first input.
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by mvzink 15y ago
This isn't about RAM or CPU limitations, it's about entirely different genres of algorithms that aren't feasible with classical computers.
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is technically, true, but... > if the APIs are there ... The APIs are exactly what aren't there. That is, the runtime APIs are now there, but the framework APIs aren't. GNUstep's runtime just gained some language/runtime APIs, th
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by mvzink 15y ago
This is very true, and may have seemed misleading. Although I should note that the frameworks are not "ObjC frameworks" per se, but rather the Cocoa/OPENSTEP frameworks—which are mirrored, for example, in Objective-C++, making them not exac
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by mvzink 15y ago
For system programming, that's probably feasible. GNUStep's implementations of NSString, NSDictionary, and other Foundation types are pretty solid (to my limited knowledge). That is to say, if you don't want to use anything beyond core Foun

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