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931.
by smanek 18y ago
Noyce (of Intel fame) thought the same thing. See http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/... for more details. The relevant paragraph: "Robert N. Noyce, co-founder of chip giant Intel Corp., is credited with developin
932.
by smanek 18y ago
Actually, the SATs don't have analogies any more. I was very disappointed to learn that. Apparently the new SATs have a much lower correlation to IQ than the old one. They test 'school learning' (grammar, formulas, etc.) more than 'aptitude
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Top 10 Bruce Schneier Facts(geekz.co.uk)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
934.
Behold the raw, elemental beauty of the world's first monolithic Integrated Circuit(smithsonianchips.si.edu)
8 points by smanek 18y ago|3 comments
935.
by smanek 18y ago
Yes, but it's expensive as hell. $60 a month for a VM with 384 MB Ram. That would be $20-$30 a month anywhere else.
936.
by smanek 18y ago
I use vpslink. I paid for two years in advance, and got a vps with 256MB of Ram for ~$10/month (about half the cost of slicehost). Had no problems with them so far.
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The Perfect IT Workplace(shlomifish.org)
7 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
938.
by smanek 18y ago
well, you're right - there are some more details. it needs a bit of wrapper code around it. It actually tests if n is composite, when presented with a pattern of n ones. E.g., '111' doesn't match so it is prime, and '1111' does match so it'
939.
by smanek 18y ago
You can say that again. Here's a Perl Regex to validate according to RFC 822: http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html . It's well over a page long. The problem is that email validation is really better suited to being done by a
940.
Thousands of new TLDs(afp.google.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
941.
If I make enough money now, I can quit and do what I really love later.(fastcompany.com)
11 points by smanek 18y ago|5 comments
942.
by smanek 18y ago
Nozick's 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia' and Hofstadter's 'Godel, Escher, and Bach' probably changed the way I think more than anything else. Nozick is like a less insane version of ayn rand ;-) I loved 'atlas shrugged' when I discovered it in
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by smanek 18y ago
I hate to say it, but storing users' passwords in plaintext in your internal db/filesystem isn't that bad ... (relative to a lot of other snafus we've seen). I'll of course grant that it is a far from ideal state of affairs and should be fi
944.
by smanek 18y ago
Your numbers are misleading since they only count wiretaps with warrants, and one wiretap in America averages several thousand intercepted communications. 'Presidential Secrecy and the Law' (Pallitto and Weaver) says that by conservative es
945.
Twitter: Adding employees, losing features(venturebeat.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
946.
by smanek 18y ago
Had Edison thought out his work and spent more time in preparation, he would not sweat so much. -- Nikola Tesla
947.
by smanek 18y ago
Sorry, normally I'd agree with you but this is about laws regarding the internet (routing protocols, telecoms, etc). I think that understanding the laws pertaining to the medium most YC businesses run on, i.e., the internet, is relevant to
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Why the new wire tapping law is a lot worse than you think(slate.com)
17 points by smanek 18y ago|5 comments
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The Impetus for the GPL: Gosling Emacs(developers.slashdot.org)
29 points by smanek 18y ago|1 comments
950.
The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (sometimes it's good)(acm.org)
14 points by smanek 18y ago|4 comments
951.
Nature: The Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation(arxiv.org)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
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Shmoocon 2008 Videos: Shellcode, Wifi Cracking, Botnets, XSS, and More! (shmoocon.org)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
953.
Sarkozy: "There is no reason that the Internet should be lawless"(france24.com)
2 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
954.
by smanek 18y ago
I don't really buy that. I know several great programmers who are now great sysadmins, or vice versa. Now, sysadmin may be a bit of a misnomer - sometimes sysadmins are given fancy titles such as 'network engineer', 'network architect', 'IT
955.
Guido on the fate of Lambda, map() and filter(), and reduce() in Python 3000(artima.com)
28 points by smanek 18y ago|33 comments
956.
Fast computation of the Median(arxiv.org)
3 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
957.
Why you shouldn't be using S3 or Google App Engine(electricmonk.nl)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|2 comments
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New Startup Idea - Breast Powered iPod(slate.com)
1 points by smanek 18y ago|0 comments
959.
by smanek 18y ago
<irony> wow ... that just makes me feel bad about myself. </irony> Even so, that's very impressive. After looking through, I only see likely solutions to 3 of the 6, and I would still have a fair amount of work to even verif
960.
by smanek 18y ago
That was surprisingly good. Although, I think it paints with too fine a brush sometimes (narrowing its conclusions to the Ivy Leagues). For example, I've definitely noticed a loss of solitude and way too much over specialization too early.

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