richardkmichael

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by richardkmichael 12y ago
Very likely, Donald Knuth. ESR's title is suggestive of Knuth's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming .
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
If you have connect to their server(s) to use it, the trial period shouldn't be based on time/date; but rather, on "time-used".
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
Is it open source? It would be really nice to see this come to Linux eventually too (though, the KS FAQ indicates they're not looking at Linux at the moment).
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
$9 for a movie? You're getting a deal or living in 2001. Around here, you'd drop $15 minimum; $20+ if you want IMAX 3D or whatever that latest hype/junk is.
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
Arg.. there goes my new startup idea. Foiled again. <rimshot> Edit: Scrolling down reveals the answer, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6188918
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
I do IT support for a few working architectural photographers. Over the years I've thought about this too (at least, I've worked the numbers a few times). It's hard to make it work; they need a minimum of 8TB of storage for
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
Indeed, great reference material. Once upon a time, I typeset his site in LaTeX for better printing.
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
EDIT: I realize you said "near" and "closer" to production ready, but I think it's worth mentioning -- No FUD intended, but I don't consider ZFS on Linux production ready. Wanting to use ZFS, I recently started regularly reading their GitH
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
I'm on the other side. He created the first two, which I grew up with and loved, and he didn't ask me about those at all. So I'm willing to trust him. For me, crowdfunding is more about ensuring the actual creators receive my money and av
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by richardkmichael 13y ago
Many enjoyable films posted already. No one has mentioned 'Primer' (2004/Shane Carruth). Respectable as hard sci-fi, and inspiring as an independent project (Carruth did almost everything himself.) I suggest watching before you read anyth
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Tchrist on Unicode in Perl (Epic SO answer.)(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by richardkmichael 14y ago|0 comments
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
You have an opportunity to do interesting experiments with your pricing model.
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
I agree to date chat hasn't been done well enough: cross platform, fast effective UI. Looks like LeChat is making inroads, and I think the focus on search is a very good idea. How are you planning to monetize everything that everyone says?
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
1/ Why do you have different rates for Helsinki and London? I appreciate those datacenters might cost you different amounts, but as a customer, this complicates my purchase. Are you attempting to push people toward London? 2/ I noticed some
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
This happens to me often as well. Although, I am not certain I would describe it as something I need to fix. All my practical experience, going back 15+ years has formed this way. As a recent example, I just spent a long time on a tiny pl
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
It's been taken down now. There is another version, although it appears to be slightly edited from the video posted on "Real Time" website. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov3tw8rfdEE
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
Not sure it's applicable, it was in a galaxy far, far away.
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by richardkmichael 14y ago
Request-log-analyzer? https://github.com/wvanbergen/request-log-analyzer
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by richardkmichael 15y ago
+1 on this. I'm also over 30 and am still motivated to try and learn to do lots of new things well. I expect this to last my entire life, I'm just too curious to stop. Needing to reassure myself it's not "too late" is a sad consequence of
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by richardkmichael 15y ago
+1 But I remapped the movement keys to j/k/l/; to avoid moving my left-index finger.
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by richardkmichael 15y ago
This is very inspiring and congratulations! The overall site design is quite nice, and others have commented on the amount of text on the Overview page. Could you discuss 1/ your business model (is it just paid premium features on the host
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by richardkmichael 15y ago
There's this Accelerating Local Search talk this Friday (Sep-16). http://postgresopen.org/2011/schedule/presentations/42/