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631.
by seldo 16y ago
Cooking food is a form of external pre-digestion that actively increases the effective nutritional content of most food, especially vegetables, which are otherwise too hard to break down (have you tried eating raw potato?). Some evolution
632.
by seldo 16y ago
HFCS may not cause cancer, and this study is only the beginning of an investigation into whether it might. On the other hand it is shown to make you obese, significantly faster and more dangerously than ordinary sugar: http://www.princet
633.
by seldo 16y ago
Well it sure as hell isn't structured ... I mean, crap is just tacked onto the end of statements any old how :-)
634.
by seldo 16y ago
Completely agree. But I'm sure we have our equivalents -- I was writing a blog post about SQL the other day and realized I couldn't remember if it stood for Standard Query Language or Structured Query Language (it's the latter, but does
635.
by seldo 16y ago
Evil enough to give up free lunches and the tech world's best resume point? Evil enough to quit if you already work there?
636.
by seldo 16y ago
The ridiculously confusing interface to the Wave loaded on this page, plus the fact that it takes 30 seconds to load and then runs like a dog, is the perfect explanation of why Wave is being shut down. It's almost like that's what they were
637.
by seldo 16y ago
This ignores the federal benefits of marriage (taxation and immigration, for instance), as well as the fact that DOMA allows states to ignore gay marriages performed in other states. As with civil rights legislation, federal laws arise out
638.
by seldo 16y ago
Statistically speaking, somewhere between 4% and 8% of the HN population will be very interested in this news. I'll bet that's a bigger percentage than actually care about Erlang, and we're always hearing about that :-) But seriously, there
639.
by seldo 16y ago
I know this isn't really hacker news, but as a gay hacker, I beg you not to flag this story :-)
640.
by seldo 16y ago
I'm not trying to be an Apple fanboy here, but this is sort of an interesting example of what happens when you give your users more information about the system than they need. People see these stats and make incorrect assumptions about wha
641.
by seldo 16y ago
The fact that there is a market for point solutions like this always amazes me -- but we needed one ourselves in the early days, when we wanted to run a customer survey but were too busy building the product to write one.
642.
by seldo 16y ago
Failing to work on Windows is a much bigger problem than I think most people realize. You can write Java on Windows and (mostly) have it run on Linux or Solaris with no problem. And Windows has a 95%+ share in the corporate OS market. Ruby
643.
by seldo 16y ago
I feel like if you can knock over banks for arbitrary amounts of money you probably wouldn't bother with a startup in the first place. You'd just move to fiji and fuck around with unprofitable OSS projects.
644.
by seldo 16y ago
What I want to know is: if Apple knowingly brick your jailbroken phone now, are they breaking the law? Or is jailbreaking still at your own risk? (I assume the latter)
645.
by seldo 16y ago
I wasn't aware that the law has an exemption for short-term lets if the owner is present -- which is almost all AirBnB lets that I've seen, isn't it?
646.
by seldo 16y ago
Here's one drawback: migratory bird populations collapse, leading to an insect they previously ate having a population explosion, leading to swarms of insects that destroy crops, thus marginally raising food prices and leading to 2M deaths
647.
by seldo 16y ago
This seems a spectacularly foolish idea. Believing that we understand the emergent complexity of any ecosystem to the point that we can predictably alter it is a fallacy we've repeatedly disproven, and yet this is talking about altering the
648.
by seldo 16y ago
Pro: - The idea is sound. Value-added services like this are exploding all over the web - The value-prop is clear - The feature set is clearly explained Con: - As others have said, the pricing would work better as pennies per upload -- make
649.
by seldo 16y ago
"A decent micropayments model" is quite the line-item requirement. Nobody's built one yet, and we've been trying for 15 years.
650.
by seldo 16y ago
Thus defeating the FT's own pay wall...
651.
by seldo 16y ago
What is the prescription for, if I may ask? You told your doctor you were having trouble concentrating?
652.
by seldo 16y ago
As it happens, the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor, was co-designed by Intel and Busicom, a Japanese company. Busicom owned the rights. Other Japanese inventions include: - pocket calculators - CDs - the Walkman - Camcorders - Blue las
653.
by seldo 16y ago
I dunno, all Haskell's song are really self-referential.
654.
by seldo 16y ago
A lot of JS on the web does still break all the time, to be fair. It's not like he predicted it would never improve.
655.
by seldo 16y ago
People are moving their startups from Minnesota to the Dakotas ? Does your startup need hundreds of square miles of empty land?
656.
by seldo 16y ago
If you can build this, please, please let me buy it. Or preferably invest in it.
657.
by seldo 16y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the article; it's not that object models for data are bad, it's that mapping them to a relational store is inefficient and pointless. The point against ORMs is not that they have inferior APIs -- in fact I s
658.
by seldo 16y ago
If the ORM layer is providing a caching layer on top of the RDBMS, that caching layer is effectively a non-relational store for the data. If that works better, why not use it as the primary store?
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In defence of SQL(seldo.com)
125 points by seldo 16y ago|126 comments
660.
by seldo 16y ago
EMR merely abstracts away the problem of configuring and hosting hadoop; the actual business of crunching data is still very much in the build-it-yourself realm. There is a huge, huge market for a value-added service on top of EMR to help p

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