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by smanek 17y ago
Much more bioinformatics work is done in Perl than Python. I can't speak for other fields, though
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by smanek 17y ago
'A scientist is a machine for turning money into ideas. An engineer is a machine for turning ideas into money'
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by smanek 17y ago
I think everyone agrees the Backblaze (bb) has no performance - and that's fine. But a lot of his complaints are about reliability, and thats kind of a moot point since Backblaze (and anyone sane) stores every piece of data on at least two
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by smanek 17y ago
I actually love having this question at my current job. "So, what do you do?" "Well, have you seen 'Terminator'? "Yeah, of course." "Well, I'm helping to write SkyNet" It's actually not too far from accurate since one of my contract
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by smanek 17y ago
What's the advantage over a sweater/sweatshirt? And a sweater/sweatshirt is more 'flexible' since I can wear it outside of the house too ...
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by smanek 17y ago
I think (hope?) the implication is that the sun is always shining on some of this world-wide network of panels - so we don't need huge batteries to store power for nights/cloudy-days. Kind of like the old saying that "the sun never sets on
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by smanek 17y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. I suppose I'll use an env shebang from now.
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by smanek 17y ago
Same way you use namespaces in any other XML document. Do something like: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:question="http://www.my.unique/ns/question"> ... I love being able to use pure SVG markup in
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by smanek 17y ago
Incidentally, I've seen some people argue it's more portable to use '#!/usr/bin/env sh' than '#!/bin/sh'. Most every machine I've been on has both /bin/sh and /usr/bin/env, so it's a bit of a non-issue: but does anyone know what the 'correc
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by smanek 17y ago
We've been trying to build a better radio system (JTRS) for over a decade. It's over budget, behind schedule, scaled back, and still not ready. At the current rate, the radios are going to cost over $30,000/each. I blame the Object Manageme
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Technology Startup Compensation Study(scribd.com)
2 points by smanek 17y ago|0 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
Everything there is an implementation of a full (i.e., turing complete) programming language. SQL is not Turing Complete (at least not without non-standard recursion extensions, if memory serves).
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by smanek 17y ago
My understanding is that it was simply a firmware problem. Reflashing the buggy drives fixed the issue.
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by smanek 17y ago
The best solution I've seen is a Maybe Monad. The problem is that unless your language has support baked in (a la Haskell) the syntax has way too much overhead. If you haven't played with Haskell, I thought this was a pretty good explanatio
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah, and those were the G1s. After the whole bad firmware thing, the G2s are even worse. Amazon doesn't have them in stock at all, they are $300 over MSRP at Newegg, and I haven't seen them for less than about 150% MSRP anywhere.
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by smanek 17y ago
I've been trying to get an 80GB Intel X25-M G2 for a few days. They are going for well over double MSRP ($600 versus $230) at several retailers (e.g., http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167... )
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MS Donates to Charity if you upgrade to IE8(browserforthebetter.com)
4 points by smanek 17y ago|2 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
The comma 'unquotes' the place variable so it is replaced with the value passed to the first argument on set-sqrt. I'm not in front of a lisp interpreter, but I think both those v's should be unquoted too in order to get the expected behavi
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by smanek 17y ago
All the existing data says it is largely inherited
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by smanek 17y ago
Hey at least they didn't use <blink></blink> (they used "text-decoration: blink;" instead!)
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by smanek 17y ago
Yeah, Java doesn't do multimethods (i.e., method dispatch based on runtime argument types). If Class X has two methods: void foo(Object i); void foo(Integer i); then: Object test = new Integer(4); X x = new X(); x.foo(test)
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by smanek 17y ago
I think it's just informal interest. One of our founders has a lot of VC friends/ex-colleagues and he just wants to be ready for our launch in a few weeks. We won't be raising money that early, but it seems like he can talk to some people a
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by smanek 17y ago
Completely free. I agree with you - we won't be raising money till after we launch and (hopefully) gain some traction. But one of our founders is handling the business side of things and really wants to get at least some rough numbers now.
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by smanek 17y ago
My understanding is that the DMCA says that when a site receives a take down notice they have to take down the content immediately and notify the poster. If the poster chooses the contest the take down notice, the service can put the conten
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by smanek 17y ago
We are prelaunch, so no numbers yet. We are doing a small 'soft launch' in a few weeks (I'll mention it here when the time comes) - but the business guys could use a hand estimating 'best case' numbers (some potential partners, investors, e
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Ask HN: How to estimate (best case) early user growth?
11 points by smanek 17y ago|18 comments
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by smanek 17y ago
A less obvious approach is to insist that the venture capitalists buy some of your common shares at the time of the investment. There are a lot of venture capitalists and not too many good companies. If your company is attractive, you can
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by smanek 17y ago
You call it linkjacking, I call it content agregation (or filtering). How is it any different than Digg/Reddit/HN?
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by smanek 17y ago
HN adds a Scribd link to all PDFs automatically. Scribd is a YC company after all.
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by smanek 17y ago
If I take $100K from an angel no one is going to wonder why the angel isn't putting in $2Mil in the next round - angels just don't handle deals that big. If I take $100K from a VC and that VC opts not to put in another $2Mil, everyone will

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