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by pfarrell 13y ago
Ahh. I had a similar desire to code something like this up, but didn't because I found there was some sort if service available on your account called notifo. Wonder what happened to it... Gl with this service. I definitely wanted it
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Storm, mesos, and bootstrap are some very interesting projects that have come out of twitter. If they figure out how to do ads in a way that doesn't make you roll your eyes, ignore, or feel creepy, they could be standing in front of a
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Oof! I dealt with a SASL and CAS system that had much of its flow control built into XML strings. Yeah, you may not have to "compile" things, but you end up with a system where everything is a runtime exception. I believe this sty
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I believe s/he is referring to the likelihood that a dirty bomb, detonated in an area with significant population, has the potential to cause vastly greater harm by inducing panicky actions in the populace, compared to the harm that co
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by pfarrell 13y ago
You will always have to worry about the infrastructure. This might be a view of hosted development's future, but every abstraction will leak. When the day the your app gets more sign ups in an hour than you have in your userbase, you&#
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by pfarrell 13y ago
If only Frank Zappa had lived to commentate in the 2000's. Russell brand is looking more and more like the Wilde or Shaw of our times. This piece considerably raises my estimation of him.
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Google Gay Marriage(google.com)
1 points by pfarrell 13y ago|0 comments
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Check out the "Outsider Art" movement if you would like to continue be challenged on who is capable of creating art. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Don't down vote the parents comment. He/she's right!
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Piedmont is definitely very nice. We have made some great friends there. Unfortunately, nothing was available when we moved. Pro tip: don't relocate around thanksgiving/Christmas ;).
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Oakland has about 600 police officers for a population which requires around 1,100. There have been five robberies on my street in upper rockridge, where we rent. It's an incredibly beautiful neighborhood and we pay a pretty high ren
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I moved to the Bay Area, with my family, 8 months ago. We tried to make SF work (and did live in temporary housing in SOMA for three months), but SF is not a place for young children (unless you are beyond financial constraints). I commut
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I suggest you read this essay from pg [1]. Getting a link to HN front page is very similar to most things in life. Luck plays a big role. I recommend that essay and urge you to realize, your (and my) inputs to HN are like that 20th best
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by pfarrell 13y ago
You can try to hit HN search or something, but if you didn't purposefully alter the URL to make it "unique" and the system accepted it, then you are playing by the rules that matter. Meta-disagreements from the community, n
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by pfarrell 13y ago
To the author (if self posted). The distraction of the green menu pullout icon made me unable to read the text on my iPhone. I gave up after realizing the unpleasantness caused by the distraction.
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by pfarrell 13y ago
What is the goal in trying to wean people off Excel? Is it just to get them on an open source solution or is it to replicate the functionality of Excel in something you've written/control? Business users already know how use Excel. Spreads
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by pfarrell 13y ago
There are two ways to define BigData. 1. The accumulation, integration and analysis of a larger number of data sources. 2. A volume of data that presents challenges running analysis functions across them... Due to the limits of the tools av
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by pfarrell 13y ago
If you're serious about wanting to get better at math, I recommend going to sleep, and getting up earlier. I have done this for a while and find it a great way to have some distraction free focus time. In the end, You need to protect some
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Sufficient for any practical use is not "solved" in the mathematical sense. Also, AFAIK, a general solution to P=NP could still be very time consuming to calculate (even if you prove polynomial time solutions, that could still be a very hig
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by pfarrell 13y ago
OT but i can't help commenting. Watching IAWLife is something I look forward to every Christmas. It's a rare Holiday movie that doesn't mention Santa or Religion (at least not directly). As I've gotten older, though, I have to say its a
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Curry up Now is excellent! Koja Kitchen is also great.
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by pfarrell 13y ago
I'd say Huffington's answer fits this theme too. (Ymmv)
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Thanks for posting that. I wasn't aware that it was pulled from a longer source. I did check if this link had been submitted, but wasn't aware of the original source. I do think the "blogspam" offers concise summaries of the responses, wh
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Ha! That one confused me. Did he mean too much coupling between our systems (knowledge, financial, etc) effectively producing monoculture suceptible to disease... Or just too much hanky-panky :).
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Beale st runs from the financial district (Market end) to SOMA (Embarcadero end). Expect all dining around there to be pricy, but no more than other major world cities. The real cost in SF is housing. I like Mefil on Folsom for Indian fo
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What Worries Scientists(motherboard.vice.com)
22 points by pfarrell 13y ago|17 comments
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Teachers cannot be expected to be perfect. Their responsibility is to educate kids of a wide range of abilities. I celebrate the fact that we have the ability to discuss this in an open forum. If you want to see how good you are at writin
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by pfarrell 13y ago
But what is San Francisco jammed with? 2 and 3 story buildings. The land may be maxed out in coverage, but it's still totally underutilized. SF has 17k/sq mi as opposed to Manhattan's almost 70k/sq mi. It's a town that has decided it wo
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Yes, but the way hn works, the continuations map uri's to browser sessions so they can be expired on a more granular basis than all at once or lru or what have you. I'm guessing here, though, I've not looked through the code. [addendum] I R
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by pfarrell 13y ago
Mel Brooks's, "The Producers", immediately comes to mind as we talk about crowd-sourcing financial backing for entertainment pieces. Kickstarter is great, but, like many new businesses, it creates (temporary) efficiency by bypassing regula

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