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by shazow 15y ago
> reversed(sorted(my_list)) I thought sorted(my_list, reverse=True) would be slightly faster, but it seems not (by a tiny amount). Weird. > "while True" should be used in-place of "while 1". Reads better. If you disassemble these st
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by shazow 15y ago
I really doubt TSR was a significant factor in this. Perhaps people are worried about Gavin giving his CIA talk in two days. Perhaps Russians were funneling money again (like with egold when it was shut down) and completed their trial run.
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by shazow 15y ago
One thing I've always wanted is something to extract multi-page forum threads and render them in a normalized readable way. For example, Reddit comment threads like IAMAs. Anyone know of a service or library that does that?
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by shazow 15y ago
And Gentoo.
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by shazow 15y ago
Can you provide some specific errors that you're encountering? - Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, sounds like you don't have Flash installed, or no 3d acceleration (no video card drivers? What videocard are you using?) - What's broken about the buil
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by shazow 15y ago
Agreed. I'd like to expand more on (2), timing is incredibly important for technology-based ideas. An idea that is ahead of its time or too late could fail just for that reason. Let's recount the numerous attempts at tablet computing since
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by shazow 15y ago
Nice, YC could use this for booking office hours.
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by shazow 15y ago
Ten million items is a lot for real-time on-demand code. I rarely deal with more than a few hundred items. Let's compare: dataset_1mil = range(1000000) dataset_1k = range(1000) dataset_100 = range(100) [random.shuffle(d)
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by shazow 15y ago
+1, I care about my writing utensil a lot. I'm a big fan of the Pilot G-Tec-C 0.4mm (also known as the Hi-Tec-C if you buy from Japan). I don't think I can ever go back to another pen. I'm still in search for the perfect notebook, my next c
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by shazow 15y ago
> in the long run, the security of all crypto goes to zero. Perhaps that's true, but then the only thing to do is prepare a viable upgrade path that could be executed as soon as it's evident that the crypto won't hold up. Bitcoin has th
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by shazow 15y ago
Depends on the amount of funding and how much equity you're getting. If they're well-funded (Series A or later) and you're getting negligible equity (hopefully not), then you should take the same salary as an established company like Facebo
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by shazow 15y ago
I wonder the same thing. I stumbled on Bitcoin from at tweet about a week before it hit parity with USD. I managed to earn 100+ BTC that week, and now it's worth almost $1000. If I came two weeks later, I wouldn't have been as lucky. If I c
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by shazow 15y ago
Ah, a classic. Here's another post of a guy paying $90,000 for a couple of pizzas: http://forum.bitcoin.org/?topic=137.0 It's fun to look at the reply history and notice that someone new discovers these posts every month like clockwork an
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by shazow 15y ago
I think citricsquid is referring to this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/23/ashton-kutcher-twitter-app/
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by shazow 15y ago
I always wonder whether you're better off trying to talk an entrepreneur out of it, try to talk them deeper into it, or just try to be neutral yet supportive. On the one hand, good entrepreneurs are supposed to be relentless and ones that a
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by shazow 15y ago
I pay for Pandora, too. I can't quantify it but Pandora does a much better job at playing music I enjoy in the context of the previous music it played and I enjoyed. There will be times when it hits streaks of an hour of non-stop amazing mu
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by shazow 15y ago
Thanks for the correction. s/wave/continuous beam/.
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by shazow 15y ago
I just forkbombed my browser. Nothing is sacred anymore. ~ # f(){ f|f & };f sh: can't fork sh: can't fork sh: can't fork sh: can't fork ...
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by shazow 15y ago
Are you sure your results aren't being personalized? Here's mine in an incognito window: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1156750/screenshots/screenshot_2011... (Spoiler: GMail is first, Yahoo is second, Hotmail is third.)
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by shazow 15y ago
This is also why particles traveling at c cannot possibly decay: no time passes for them. A photon is everywhere at once, from its own point if view. That's a really great explanation. For the first time, I've been able to visua
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by shazow 15y ago
Seems that the de facto approach is to backup-rm-symlink. My approach is to source from existing configs whenever possible. Specifically, instead of mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bashrc.bak; ln -s $DOTFILES_PATH/.bashrc ~/.bashrc I do a slightly m
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by shazow 15y ago
A common strategy is to keep a separate secure "Savings Wallet". Here's one way to do it: Make a new wallet with a receiving address you note down somewhere, compress/encrypt the wallet file with the strongest password you'll remember, shre
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by shazow 15y ago
Ah that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
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by shazow 15y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think transaction verification is tied to generating new blocks. From how I understand it, verification involves: 1. Confirming the privately-signed transaction against the public key of the sour
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by shazow 15y ago
You can include a transaction bounty (traditionally 0.01 BTC) with your payment which the verifiers receive if they're the first to verify your payment. Effectively, this puts your transaction at the top of the priority queue. When you're c
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by shazow 15y ago
You go back and forth between saying that "you don't get it because you don't get it" and "this is my preference, but you do have a point." I am experienced in JavaScript, and I believe you that I could train myself to code in CoffeeScript
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by shazow 15y ago
Synchronizing mail (and other online assets) offline via a periodic push/pull process, similar to the USB-stick process. For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time
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by shazow 15y ago
This music video is more interactive than most videogames today.
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by shazow 15y ago
I recall that this was the strategy that the 9/11 terrorists used to communicate. I suppose that the Richard Stallman approach is the next evolution of it.
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by shazow 15y ago
My biggest complaint about CoffeeScript is lines like these: $('.shopping_cart').bind 'click', (event) => @customer.purchase @cart Perhaps it's just me but it feels like there's no rhyme or pattern to the use of punctuation a

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