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by russell 16y ago
Hey it works. I had a gig at a subscription Q&A site. Some members put an insane amount of work into answering questions and writing articles to get points, badges, titles, tee shirts, and free access. User recognition paid off big i
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by russell 16y ago
The solution is to avoid one-size-fits-all. Some things need to be consistent and immediately available, e.g payment processing or privacy settings, even if you have 100 million users. For those use a relational database with only a few t
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by russell 16y ago
These are all good points, but pretty shortsighted. Yes, convert from coal to natural gas. Yes, build cleaner nuclear. But we cant continue to build dams.. the good spots are gone and we need the few remaining wild rivers because they a
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by russell 16y ago
I like things pretty much the way they are. If a story has a high point value, I'll take a look, even if the title might not grab me. I also dont mind someone contributing a good story to get karma. I havent noticed a lot of story spammi
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by russell 16y ago
Likewise interested, particularly if PyPy can support multicore concurrency.
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by russell 16y ago
That was sarcasm. I have had no direct experience, but from what I have read, you are generally ignored, and if they dont like you , your results ranking can be trashed.
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by russell 16y ago
A good optimizing compiler almost always beats hand coded assembly language. It is difficult for a programmer to keep track of what is going on in his code: instruction timing, register allocation and locking, pipelined multiple instructio
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by russell 16y ago
I think so. I like programming, and I work for smaller companies which tend to have reasonable hours. Since the move from waterfall development to agile with releases ever week or two, death marches are a thing of the past. Or have I jus
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by russell 16y ago
I too was going to jump in to rant that she misused the concept "utility", but since this is HN not /., I decided to read the article. Her point is that it may not be a utility in the hole in the street kind, but people are using it as such
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by russell 16y ago
Charlie Stross has done a series of interesting posts "Common Misconceptions About Publishing" at http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/common-m... The take-away is that ink to dead trees is a small part of the cost of publi
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by russell 16y ago
The post is really asking, how do you tag files six ways to Sunday, so that files (movies say) can be located under title, genre, actors, etc. in an easy way with a good UI. By the way throw in referential integrity so that if you delete a
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by russell 16y ago
Dickey most certainly did know. "A Modest Proposal" was in the title to alert those who might not recognize satire, that he was dead set against all that he appeared to support. OTOH perhaps American education has declined to the point th
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by russell 16y ago
Not quite. The law enumerates the things that are automatically work for hire. Works outside those must be explicitly declared works for hire in the contract. If you have done any contracting you will find the phrase in your contract "wo
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by russell 16y ago
It's way more complicated than that. It also depends on how much control a contractor has over his task, hours, and tools. Even if you have a work for hire agreement, micromanagement can turn the contractor into a Statutory Employee. If
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by russell 16y ago
Agreed. Always make contracted work a work for hire. A friend of mine did not and he ending up paying $20,000 additional to ransom his software back. That was 20 years ago when $20,000 was real money. You also want to avoid having the em
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by russell 17y ago
The post said that time travel into the future was possible into the future by building a spaceship that traveled at relativistic speeds, proving Einstein wrong. It didnt prove any such thing. So I went to the source article, http://www.
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by russell 17y ago
The list is good, but it is too long to apply to every feature without devolving into a checklist without meaningful discussion . For example 12, 22, and 23 are just variants on, "Is this just a passing fad?" The list should be split in two
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by russell 17y ago
I can only conclude that Hawking has never seriously thought about it. There are NO galactic faring civilizations. If there were, they would be here now. I remember reading somewhere that it would take an expansionist civilization 10 mil
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by russell 17y ago
From the LA times * Colusa: 27.4% * Imperial: 27.3% * Merced: 21.7% * Plumas: 22.3% * San Benito: 21.1% * Sutter: 21% * Trinity: 25.8% * Yuba: 20.4% These are all small rural counties. Bad for them, but the large metropolitan areas are bet
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by russell 17y ago
You could store an encrypted password with the key hard coded. This is a little better, because it makes it more difficult for a disgruntled employee to walk off with the database password. Saving the key in a text file is little better t
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by russell 17y ago
>> you don't see many Chihuahua/Saint Bernard mixes I'm not so sure about that. My sister once had a Chihuahua/Husky mix that she got from a Russian circus. She looked like a small Husky with brown and white fur. (The dog not my s
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by russell 17y ago
Wrong. Any black hole produced at CERN Would evaporate instantly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_black_hole If it were possible to create an earth eating black hole, cosmic rays would have done the job long ago. They are way more p
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by russell 17y ago
>> We have six weeks to shipping... That tells me that they are dealing with release cycles measured in months. No wonder the pressure to add features at the last minute. Those of us in the web world are used to releases every wee
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by russell 17y ago
Can I come? I have developed languages and compiler in past iterations and language design sounds like a lot more fun than "reverse the words in a sentence" or "What is the difference between an abstract class and an interface?"
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by russell 17y ago
Best if there is an obvious connection between the the two domain names, like wonderful-name.de and the-wonderful-name.com or the .com has a hyphen. If there is no obvious connection, there is certainly the potential for confusion.
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by russell 17y ago
I once tried to turn myself into a salesman, but I coulnt. I think that an engineer has to love selling to sucessfully make the transition. One thing that worked for me was to use an intelligent, personable woman to do the initial setup.
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by russell 17y ago
Easy. Do both. Domain names are cheap and you can have multiple pointing to the same site. Definitely you want your ccTLD because it fits your market, but if you can also find a good .com, take that too, particularly if you are doing int
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by russell 17y ago
That's a good post for a technical founder. If you cant do all of the stuff in the post, you need a partner who can. And just like a non-technical founder picking a technical founder, picking a non-technical founder is difficult. A salesm
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by russell 17y ago
I found the head color correction interesting. I would say he used and overall filter rather than doing a spot correction on the head. The head becomes lighter, but it's still gray, not a Caucasian color. The sky has gone from blue to a
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by russell 17y ago
For me it was Apolo 8 Earthrise. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_10... For sheer horror there was a National Geographic story about pollution in Easter Europe somewhat later.

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