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by shenberg 14y ago
You're reading it wrong - it's blunt criticism, but it's also constructive. It's not fun to read this, but I find it a lot better than someone saying your X is awesome while thinking privately that it sucks.
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by shenberg 14y ago
Unlikely that you'll meet the founders - It's not worth it for a founder to meet someone for a $1k investment (the minimum allowed). Seems more like an easy way for you to spread your risk over several start-ups with smaller investments in
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by shenberg 14y ago
rvalue references actually let you guarantee this in C++11.
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by shenberg 14y ago
By 'free email client' do you mean the one funded by paying for your OS (Outlook Express), your hardware (Mail.app), or maybe Google (Thunderbird)?
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by shenberg 14y ago
Please please please don't require a user of some sort to submit feedback - I don't need another set of credentials for this and you don't want more friction for users who want to help you out. Also, please add tooltips for various icons -
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by shenberg 14y ago
One point I never see discussed in these things is that you need to take a bit of care with digit-based representations because 0.1111... = 1.000..., 0.0111.... = 0.1000... - an argument could be made that perhaps while you know the number
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by shenberg 14y ago
Craigslist isn't a thing in Israel - there are a few competing sites that share one important attribute which craigslist lacks - an interface in Hebrew
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by shenberg 14y ago
Rainbow tables are a clever way to implement a time/space trade-off for finding the inverse of a hash value in general by doing a lot of precalculation (see wikipedia, the core nice idea there is explained under "hash chains" in the Rainbow
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by shenberg 14y ago
Note: Just to make things clear, I support Apple's decision here. You're ignoring the fact that according to your analogy, our hypothetical KFC is already allowing people to make and sell different sorts of food with KFC branding from withi
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by shenberg 14y ago
You're discounting two phenomena that helped them weather the tougher times and are unlikely to repeat - Pokemon (you can't really count on another such a massive media franchise popping up) and handheld gaming dominance (iPhone and Android
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by shenberg 14y ago
One odd thought crossed my mind - most proprietary software you use has a clause prohibiting reverse engineering in the license agreement, and here they are admitting to the world that they routinely ignore said license agreements. Are they
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by shenberg 14y ago
There is one slight mistake there - saying that [::-1] is a special case. An empty value in a slice implies the beginning or the end, and when the stride is negative, the beginning is the last index, while the end is 0 - making [::-2] for e
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by shenberg 14y ago
Look, what you say is roughly my point of view, and I'm playing the devil's advocate here, but you didn't actually respond to the article, but rather to some straw-man representation of "the Chomsky nonsense", to use your words. I'll try to
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by shenberg 14y ago
The Chomsky view in linguistics hasn't been shown as wrong - see for example http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12963265 where they talk about a specific grammatical construct which they claim (backed by some data) that can't have been l
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Quantify your worth to Facebook(fbme.disconnect.me)
2 points by shenberg 14y ago|0 comments
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by shenberg 14y ago
Sure you can - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison#All_Things_Must... for example - George Harrison lost a copyright infringement case because he was deemed to have subconsciously plagiarized, no less. Care to claim that when
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Linux API C/C++ tracing framework(github.com)
3 points by shenberg 15y ago|0 comments
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by shenberg 15y ago
Why attack DNS? BGP is more vulnerable and receives less scrutiny (remember Pakistan bringing youtube down for the entire world via a misconfigured censorship attempt?). Go look at the references from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_hijack
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by shenberg 15y ago
I'm surprised no-one mentioned Source Insight - it's by far the best editor I've used for truly large C/C++ code-bases - doing symbol lookups almost instantly on a source tree eating up several GBs on the drive was extremely impressive when
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Recursive Game of Life(youtube.com)
8 points by shenberg 15y ago|0 comments
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by shenberg 15y ago
Compatibility: The new language will have to talk with older languages. Types will have to be translated; memory models will need to be aligned and compilers will need to 'play nice' together. This is not just as the compiled object level
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by shenberg 15y ago
I think a decent case could be made for the fact that the internet tends to cause people to converge more, not less - the same anti-long-tail arguments apply (for example, see http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2011/11/08/t...
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by shenberg 15y ago
This resonates with me unfortunately well. Note that happiness has definite genetic links - twin studies show that it is a somewhat heritable trait, and some mechanisms have actually been found as to how it's heritable (for example, see ht
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by shenberg 15y ago
Python had an implementation of sandboxing (rexec), but gave up plugging the holes people kept finding in it (see http://docs.python.org/library/rexec.html ). The problem is that sandboxing wasn't designed into the language so they don't g
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by shenberg 15y ago
The start argument was only added in Python 2.6...
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by shenberg 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that one-liner is a joke...
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by shenberg 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree - if it helps get the point of the snippet across more succinctly, it's worth breaking the guidelines.