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by mxh 19y ago
Multi-core's most immediate application won't be to algorithmic parallelization, which is a ball-breaker of a problem even w/o awkward theoretical results. It will be to multitasking, VMs, etc. - scenarios where the utility of extra cores
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by mxh 19y ago
This assumes all the cars are charged at night. The grid is heavily taxed during the day. Check out http://www.caiso.com/outlook/SystemStatus.html on a hot day (A/C load has a huge impact on system demand), and this article might look a
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by mxh 19y ago
Silverlight is EEE for the web. First, MSFT deploys Silverlight clients broadly. In this phase, they will do just about anything to see it deployed on any platform available, specifically including Linux and MacOS. Continue until essentia
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by mxh 19y ago
Twisted is an interesting framework, though a little lower-level than others. I think you could build a self-contained, in-memory solution around it, as DBs aren't particularly central to its operation.
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by mxh 19y ago
Oooh - Brian Harvey. Brings up happy memories of CS60B; C, MIPS ASM, and the SPIM simulator. This guy is one of the best lecturers/speakers I know of.
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by mxh 19y ago
I don't care about FB either. I probably should, because it's a huge phenomenon, but, no matter how hard I try, I just can't. In the first place, all these pure social networking sites (i.e. those that don't do much useful if you're the
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by mxh 19y ago
The link is to Kathy Sierra's "people on the web are mean" (google can doubtless explain further) post, which is followed by a lot of her favorite pictures/graphs/bullet points about design/management/stuff. The latter are, presumably, the
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by mxh 19y ago
Two thoughts: First of all, I'm a Python fan, and would like to use it client-side. But the truth is that ECMAScript ain't that bad, it's just a little strange. I'm not at all convinced that it's a huge win to use Python over ECMAScript,
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by mxh 19y ago
This is more like the "Top Five Best-Known Hackers of All Time". Surely, the real top 5 (with all due respect to RTM), whoever they are, never saw the inside of a courtroom.
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by mxh 19y ago
"None of us have taken time off in the last three years..." ... "Just don't forget that you really aren't going to get paid in cash this week. Or next week. Or next month." I don't know when you throw in the towel on your own baby, but it
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by mxh 19y ago
This may be a silly question, but it's something that's bothered me ever since Scribd launched: How do you handle all the file format conversions? It seems to be that you couldn't be wrangling all those formats yourself, as many are undocu
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by mxh 19y ago
Marc seems to advocate raising a ton of money, and then spending it prudently. Which sounds great, but I've read that many VCs aren't that happy with that plan. They want their companies to roll the damn dice already, grow huge quickly, o
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by mxh 19y ago
The article makes reference to the fact that once a dating site becomes free, you don't have to scan user content for contact info any more. I think this is a buried lede; free sites aren't just paid sites with lower costs, they have diffe
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by mxh 19y ago
I think this could also be stated as: If no one is doing what you're doing, it's probably not because no one thought of it before. There are two reasons an idea might never have been developed into a product before: 1.) Seems too hard 2.)
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by mxh 19y ago
The 2nd-to-last paragraph is what caught my attention ... if the legislation discussed passed, and if it were extended to other private partnerships, that seems like it would eat into the mgmt. fees of most VCs. And that would seem like
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Wall St. bling soon to hurt VC profits?(slate.com)
1 points by mxh 19y ago|1 comments
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by mxh 19y ago
My definitions: Web App: Application developed entirely using open standards, which (aims to) run in any browser, requiring no additional vendor plugins. Desktop App: Application designed to launch from the user's desktop, without referen
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by mxh 19y ago
I thought this was interesting; it's always nice to see startups selling something other than advertising.
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Moo.com - Social networks + Physical stuff = Sales?(sfgate.com)
2 points by mxh 19y ago|2 comments
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by mxh 19y ago
"Google runs entirely on OO languages (C++, Java, Python)" There're some interesting questions about what makes a language an 'OO' language. For one, does a language need only to provide facilities for OO, or must it enforce OO approaches?
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by mxh 19y ago
... and this level of abuse is earned just by using a standalone tool in officially un-approved-of ways. It seems that using a fully-locked-down platform (e.g. F8, eventually Silverlight/PopFly or Flex) is an invitation to even greater hea
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by mxh 19y ago
Very true. "A friend of mine" was writing some ad copy for a job req. "his" employer was trying to fill, and wanted to use the word "hacker" in the headline. (E.g. "Looking for a great hacker", or somesuch.) The (oursourced, non-technica
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by mxh 19y ago
Am I the only one who parsed that URL as "wait errant"?
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by mxh 19y ago
Interesting .... thanks for the link. Though, in the context of that report, a 'new business' need consume only 15 or more hours per week to 'count'. Such low-intensity enterprises aren't really what the YC (or VC) crowd is interested in
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by mxh 19y ago
Wait .... 550K businesses a month = 6.6M businesses a year. There are 300M _people_ in the US (including children, and others not immediately suited for the entreprenurial life). If each business was started by only one person, that would
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by mxh 19y ago
David vs. Goliath is a nice story, but it's always better to have someone bigger on your side. MSFT has a huge warchest, and therefor a big advantage going against the FSF. I'd look for support for the cause of free software from the like
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by mxh 19y ago
The square brackets are SQL syntax; they let you reference column names containing 'funny' characters, in this case whitespace. It's definitely not ASP. BTW, ASP doesn't really 'look' like anything, since it's just an environment for the a
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by mxh 19y ago
Scribd _is_ obvious google-bait. Google's "all the world's information" bit makes something like scribd almost irresistible to them. Of course, google may try (and/or succeed in) rolling their own, first. But kudos to the scribd guys for
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by mxh 19y ago
I suppose it depends how much you're into formal methods, etc. The YC, for instance, was developed (if memory serves) to obviate the need for assignment WRT recursion, because assignment makes it much harder to reason about programs. In pr
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by mxh 19y ago
"It turns out he wasn't noticing the space between the 'o' and the 'I' in 'Do It'; in the sans-serif system font we were using, a capital 'I' looked very much like a lower case 'l', so he was reading 'Do It' as 'Dolt' and was therefore kind

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