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by pork 15y ago
Thank you! Perhaps this warrants a blog post by itself?
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by pork 15y ago
No; you're thinking of a group, GP meant a filter (a friend list).
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by pork 15y ago
As far as facebook likes and profiles, OP is correct. But you're spot on with that being a strong signal of brand loyalty.
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by pork 15y ago
Just curious about the key distribution algorithm -- why use CRC-16(key) % 4096 instead of a fast hash function like djb2, which almost certainly has better key equidistribution? http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/hash.html
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by pork 15y ago
Really? How would you pay your bills then? :)
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by pork 15y ago
Fair enough, I suppose I didn't read your original comment closely enough. I appreciate your essays on the topic, but I fear that too many people have, without a full understanding, drawn the conclusion from them that SHA = bad, bcrypt/pbkd
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by pork 15y ago
Hate to be pedantic, and I'm sure you already know this, but you do realize that PBKDF2 uses SHA in HMAC mode right? There's nothing inherently slow about that, it's the repeated iterations of hashing. You could slap MD5 into PBKDF2 with
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by pork 15y ago
Great idea -- "add to dropbox" buttons, but 18 months--seriously?
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by pork 15y ago
To answer GP's question, "in stock" is a buffer between manufacturing and consumer. Apple has an algorithm to keep that buffer small but flowing.
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by pork 15y ago
I think there is. From their FAQ: > We store your file on our secure storage server for a brief period (2 weeks at the moment)
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by pork 15y ago
I like the premise of "dead simple" file sharing, but it seems to me that the minute you start charging for the service, the "dead simple" moniker goes away (my wife, for example, would rather grab the nearest nerd than pull out a credit ca
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by pork 15y ago
> "SQL-like-declarative-query-language + Hadoop" It already exists, is free, and is widely deployed. It's also actively maintained, mainly by a lot of Facebook folks, and I've heard that they know a thing or two about scale: http://hiv
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by pork 15y ago
That's a fair point, but the product as it stands is very usable for me. Even if they never updated it, I would keep this build as something that is more than adequate for what it does.
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by pork 15y ago
You dont need an image editing program, just imagemagick: > convert a.jpg -strip -quality 60 a.jpg
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by pork 15y ago
A moot point since single server durability is enabled by default in Mongo now, actually from the 1.8 stable (currently at 2.0 stable)
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by pork 15y ago
At 500+ mil users with an average of 150 connections, you're looking at 500,000,000 * 150 / 2 = 3.75e10 edges. Assuming generously that each edge can be stored with a 4 byte unsigned int, you're looking at about 140 GB. I haven't seen any s
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by pork 15y ago
Presumably, Gould had delivered a useful and valuable invention to the world and the patent sets him up to be compensated accordingly, if the premise holds.
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by pork 15y ago
The vast vast majority of people want to click on the Firefox icon and go to Facebook. People have lives that are busy, and the computer is a tool to get a job done. How many people "explore" the engine of their cars? Not many.
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by pork 15y ago
Wow thanks for that! I feel closer to one of my heroes.
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by pork 15y ago
Sports bikes are harder to justify than cars when you have kids :)
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by pork 15y ago
I think the difference is that you can just drive down to the station and fill up, but unless you have Tesla's expensive high-voltage charger, you're looking at several hours plugged into a standard wall outlet to recharge the Roadster.
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by pork 15y ago
IMO, you drive the roadster for the 0-60, not the top speed.
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by pork 15y ago
Wow thanks for that. Unfortunately, I don't see myself driving down California highways in that, but I will definitely keep an eye out for it!
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by pork 15y ago
:) It's not rational. You should try to get in one. There's a site called HiGear that will let you drive a Roadster for $500 a day. It's steep, and you only get about 100 miles, but it's an experience that words can't fully describe.
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by pork 15y ago
For those who doubted Tesla's ability to turn a profit, this is my anecdote. I used to be one of you. Selling an absurdly priced boutique sports car that can only run 250 miles did not seem like a viable business strategy. The battery packs
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by pork 15y ago
MP3 may be a crap format, but it's the VHS of the digital world.
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by pork 15y ago
As someone who has an autistic person in their life, you have to understand that they think differently, and that can often seem scary to us because we value empathy so much in a society. I just think we should cut him some slack in the lig
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by pork 15y ago
Actually in a previous HN thread about exactly this (you can pull it out from my comments), someone referenced an interview where stallman mentions that he's slightly autistic. For those who don't know, a lack of empathy is a symptom of aut
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by pork 15y ago
You're correct, but dogs are rarely used in the pursuit of big game.
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by pork 15y ago
Wow, looks a lot like http://noyouu.com

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