nate_martin

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by nate_martin 11y ago
Are there any examples of companies that achieved success by way of language choice other than Viaweb?
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by nate_martin 11y ago
Fun fact: there has been a problem with Googlers calculating hash functions that pass all the test cases for certain questions.
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Foucault Pendulum(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nate_martin 11y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 12y ago
Merchant sets their price in dollars (for example) and the price in Bitcoin is calculated when a transaction is made using the current btc exchange rate.
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by nate_martin 12y ago
Yep, also enriching uranium to anything near weapons grade is a cumbersome process.
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SpaceX Developing Micro Satellites(twitter.com)
5 points by nate_martin 12y ago|3 comments
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List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by nate_martin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 12y ago
Also a good read on the subject http://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
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Having It and Flaunting It(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by nate_martin 12y ago|0 comments
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Branching Points(chrishateswriting.com)
2 points by nate_martin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 12y ago
Would someone mind giving a quick explanation of how this works? I have only used sed to replace text in files and directories. How do people write interpreters and game loops with this unix utility?
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The Secret Guild of Silicon Valley (2012)(medriscoll.com)
66 points by nate_martin 12y ago|31 comments
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by nate_martin 12y ago
I was expecting this to be a lot less straightforward. It would be interesting to see if you could trick people by writing code in such a way that it looks like it is a different language.
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by nate_martin 12y ago
On your registration form, you are sending passwords over plain http. http://my.hackerbody.com/membership-account/membership-check...
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by nate_martin 12y ago
>memes
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The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed(gizmodo.com)
2 points by nate_martin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 12y ago
While I do understand the reasons for Quora wanting to join YC, I can't help but feel bad for the one company who will not get to participate now because of this. Maybe I don't understand YC well enough to make this claim but it s
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What is the name of this operator: "--&gt"?(stackoverflow.com)
22 points by nate_martin 12y ago|3 comments
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Principality of Sealand(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nate_martin 12y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 13y ago
I'm curious as to why they are not using constants or preprocessor macros for these values. It seems weird for it to be repeated in multiple places.
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What it is like being the only engineer in a meeting [video](laughingsquid.com)
222 points by nate_martin 13y ago|112 comments
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Secretary Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
90 points by nate_martin 13y ago|64 comments
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by nate_martin 13y ago
Allowing users to put custom photos on their badge is also a huge security risk.
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by nate_martin 13y ago
The product itself looks really nice, but the pricing model doesn't really seem like a good fit. I think a freemium model would work better than a subscription based one.
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Liberty Dollar(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by nate_martin 13y ago|1 comments
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by nate_martin 13y ago
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:59ucRnL...
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by nate_martin 13y ago
The non-converging sum 1 + 2 + 3 ... = -1/12 has applications in Bosonic String Theory, interestingly enough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%...
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by nate_martin 13y ago
Can someone clue me into the underlying message here? This is a little vague even for HN's off-topic wikipedia standards.
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Jeff Bezos Will Unveil A 'Big Surprise' On '60 Minutes' Tonight(businessinsider.com)
6 points by nate_martin 13y ago|0 comments
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by nate_martin 13y ago
In so many of these BTC articles the authors spend the first few paragraphs explaining bitcoin to readers who don't know what it is. They often get a lot of the basic facts about the currency wrong (ex: anonymity of bitcoin in this art

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