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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   I Is A strange Loop ;)
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   Good to Great - Jim Collins Consider The Lobster - David Foster Wallace
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   I'm going to guess it means "psychic mode" which they just made a joke about in the presentation. "It's not psychic, but it's clever".
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   Gary Kildall refused to develop anything like a word processor application for CP/M because, basically, that way leads to evil and corruption. MS, of course, beat him out in the IBM deal and dominated with exactly that recipe. Everything o
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   Former poet laureate of the US, Charles Simic says, the secret to happiness begins with learning how to cook. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/magazine/03wwln-q4-t.html
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   Totally NSFW. WTF? Bukowski does nail the entrepreneur ethos here though.
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   by pfarrell 16y ago

   I may have missed a joke here, but even mathematics is based on belief. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
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   by pfarrell 17y ago

   Awesome story. Thanks for the repost. I've never read this one.
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   by pfarrell 17y ago

   Also, and I didn't make this explicit in my OP, we have identity collision issues (as indicated in the Flickr link from Travis) that are playing on our design as well. Thanks for the help icey
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    by pfarrell 17y ago

    Thanks Travis. That link is great. It doesn't totally address what we're dealing with, but does give me a lot of ideas (which is probably the best that can be expected).
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    by pfarrell 17y ago

    We've had issues with single points of failure and are trying to plan for failover and load balancing. I won't argue that this might be overengineered, but this is a full transactional application with 99.9% uptime guaranteed to our client
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    Ask HN: Ensuring unique account logins across the globe

    1 points by pfarrell 17y ago|5 comments
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    by pfarrell 17y ago

    I've been waiting for someone to implement the game from the movie Gotcha!. Looks like it's been done. Like sabat said, why didn't I have the guts to pursue it.
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    by pfarrell 17y ago

    I learned about difference tables in Conway and Guy's great book "The Book of Numbers". I wish the book had been available when I was an undergrad. It describes everything I loved in math that I wasn't able to pinpoint. There are so many
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    by pfarrell 18y ago

    Agreed with other comment. I used to work with credit card network. Chargebacks are a penalty for merchants, not consumers. In the case of a disputed charge, the worst that happens to the consumer is they do not get their money back. Th
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    by pfarrell 19y ago

    Thanks for a great essay. I'm in exactly the position you describe at the beginning. I have a degree in Math, but always felt like what I was learning was just ahead of what I was understanding. I work in computers, so I get to use the r