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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, that's the fun of art. A lot of comes from playing with your expectations. I was expecting a somewhat humorous geeky pun or reference; about 90% of XKCD is figuring out the reference. What does he mean by "Time"? They're just sitting
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by phillmv 13y ago
>But we are still animals - our physical existence is, in the final analysis, the only one that actually matters. Uhm, like I said - macho bullshit. There is not a single actual argument in that paragraph past "strength good weak bad".
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by phillmv 13y ago
Yeah, did you hear that TAL about the chicago school whose students basically live in a warzone ? http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/h...
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by phillmv 13y ago
>Please don't waste your time with this "workout," unless of course you're so weak and fragile that it'll literally kill you to do a squat. I think gym-nerds vastly underestimate how out of shape the median person is. I started doing a
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well… the weak Goldbach conjecture has been known for a couple hundred years and my understanding is it's one of those things we've suspected was true but just never found a solid way to prove that it was so. This is a neat result, but no o
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by phillmv 13y ago
This made my morning. Thanks!
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Yes, but calling it an "acqui-hire" probably makes it look less good. >Why payoff the VCs? Because they're probably interested in the executive/founding team, and they can't leave without placating their investors. Wouldn't be surprised
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by phillmv 13y ago
It doesn't work for spear phishing, but for wide-ranging hits the broken english is often on purpose: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/167719/whyfromnigeria.pdf :: http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/aug/31/why-nigerian-email-sca... tldr:
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by phillmv 13y ago
>But if you want to also consider how cheap you can run your app, you need to consider how many app servers will it take to saturate the DB? Moore's law has made this sorta moot. Unless you're on Heroku, for a successful small-to-medium
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Except benchmarking is really, really hard to get right, and these benchmarks aren't really testing anything that resembles a production app. For all non-trivial apps, by the time you get 100 req/sec your bottleneck is very likely going t
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by phillmv 13y ago
Because it is slow. Compared to C/C++/langs without runtimes [albeit with JIT compilation, for long running applications this is becoming a non issue]. Compared to the current crop of dynamic language interpreters, waaaay more engineering
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by phillmv 13y ago
For delivering a CMS , your server side is totally tech agnostic. The major innovations left are all client side. If anything, people's major complaint with Wordpress is that it's a horrible tangle of spaghetti. What's the state-of-the-art
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, you end up with something like kerberos. Horrifying complexity rarely evolves in a vaccuum. Every tried building an ecommerce platform? It's really funny. You start out as a fresh whippersnapper who is all like "MAN, stuff like spree
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by phillmv 13y ago
Well, yes, you deserve what's coming to you if you run an unpatched system but that's a pretty baseless speculation.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Whelp, that's completely unreadable to me. Undergraduate computer science fail. I got as far as "the model of this physical process of entropy can act as a search function for lower entropic states, which given some poking, can resemble pro
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by phillmv 14y ago
It sounds like crazy nonsense but there's just enough in it to sound crazy awesome. I've got like, an undergraduate understanding of how this works. Does anyone have a link to an ungated copy?
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by phillmv 14y ago
>How is it that he was so successful and how did apple become the behemoth it is today if the man at the wheel was so insufferable? Unlike the other commenters, I don't think the answer is vision, tho it certainly plays a part. The reas
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by phillmv 14y ago
I am SO SATISFIED with my splits key remapping I have to share it: map <M-right> <C-w>l map <M-left> <C-w>h map <M-down> <C-w>j map <M-up> <C-w>k map &#
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by phillmv 14y ago
You will always have to compromise with people. That will never go away. But the social relationship between you and your investors - and definitely not with your fellow c-levels or co-founders - will never be quite like to that between a
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by phillmv 14y ago
>The answer is compensation. Not that big companies don’t compensate them enough, but that the compensation structure is not aligned with an entrepreneur’s world view. As far as I can tell the dominating decision factor for everyone I k
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by phillmv 14y ago
ALS is the single most terrifying disease in my view. I'm so sorry to hear that. Tony Judt, a great historian, died of it a couple? of years ago, and he wrote a harrowing tale about it here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/j
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by phillmv 14y ago
It's just _why being _why. If you're late to the party, try reading: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2012/03/...
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by phillmv 14y ago
It's not a legal duopoly, innit. It's just a business with extremely high barriers to entry given all the infrastructure. The only tools at your disposal is some kind of subsidy or legislate them into eating the costs of laying down infra
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by phillmv 14y ago
I frankly quite hate it, and no. Depending on the kind of error they're experiencing, Heroku will show a quite unhelpful and generic "Application is down" screen. I know they're limited in what they can show back given a certain kind of err
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by phillmv 14y ago
So, why aren't we talking about browser bytecode you guys? Why is everyone's solution "whelp, you're stuck with js". Is asm.js going to be a useful halfway point?
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by phillmv 14y ago
It looks good, but it's hard to use. They added this whole layer of… sanitization? that strips out all sorts of tags. I'm open to it having been PEBKAC but I recall struggling with it There's definitely a need for a good bootstrap wysiwig f
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by phillmv 14y ago
It worked just fine but seeing as I was wrong I have deleted the post.
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by phillmv 14y ago
You are correct, and now I have egg on my face: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1789-1/ I was going purely by the changelog in: http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/database/postgresql-9.1 http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise-updates/postgre
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by phillmv 14y ago
Getting this stuff right is hard. Don't be a hater. Just because the attack vector looks simple doesn't mean the bug was obvious.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Yeah. I recently began to the process of digitizing family photos and thinking about the best way to keep them around for another fifty years and found myself playing with the idea of building this kind of infrastructure. You're still relat

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