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by sqs 17y ago
Check out existing open-source projects that have done the same thing. There are bound to be many in whatever language you're using.
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by sqs 17y ago
A few months ago I attended a talk by Alon Halevy (of Google) on the algorithms behind this. There are several papers with more details for those who are curious. Check his publications listed at http://alonhalevy.googlepages.com/ , specif
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by sqs 17y ago
Who are the actual App Store reviewers, and why haven't they leaked anything? They must be reading all these complaints!
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by sqs 17y ago
Maybe overconfidence gives you a slightly higher likelihood of success. But I couldn't live with myself acting like that, and I wouldn't want the success that would come with it. I will settle for perhaps a slightly lower chance of success,
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by sqs 18y ago
Yes. CS107 is the class that made C and assembly finally click for me. I have access to the assignment files; email me (in my profile) if you want them.
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by sqs 18y ago
I know some Mac users who've said they would switch to Linux if there were a TextMate-like editor available. This could be it.
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by sqs 18y ago
Wow. AnandTech has always been great, but this was especially well-written and informative. If you think 31 pages is too long, well, it's worth it. The article gives really good technical explanations of how SSDs work and how they compare t
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by sqs 18y ago
On balance, though, I think it's better to have more people trained in CS rather than fewer. Most of these people won't become programmers, but they will apply CS ideas to their own professions.
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by sqs 18y ago
Web search only becomes interesting when you scale it up. At small scale it's just fetching pages and tying together library code, which is fine but not particularly interesting or educational. Once you scale up, though, it involves tons of
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by sqs 18y ago
Is there a plugin for Firefox or something else that can convert math TeX to vector (non-raster) displays in the browser? Wikipedia/Mediawiki (and lots of other systems) converts equations to PNG, but they get pixelated when they're scaled
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by sqs 18y ago
How long did the DVD take to create?
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by sqs 18y ago
True. Although I hope someday Mandarin will become second nature to lots of Americans, in the same way that Spanish "grande," "hola," etc., can be mixed with English to effect a certain attitude. Let's start with 厉害. Easy to pronounce and s
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by sqs 18y ago
This is an interview about his personal life, though. That's the point, I think. You can read about the business aspects of Twitter anywhere.
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by sqs 18y ago
Not necessarily. Maybe the lawyer values her time at $100/hr. Say she bills $150/hr to her clients. Then, before she reaches $250,000 she makes $105/hr (roughly). But for each extra hour worked after she has made $250,000 in a year, she onl
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by sqs 18y ago
Right. I think Buffett talked about this only because it explains why Clayton Homes won't be able to lend as much in the near future. Buffett obviously thinks the bailout was best for the country and for Berkshire in the long run, but he
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Learning about Web search - distributed systems, DBs, linear algebra, IR, PageRank, etc.(qslack.com)
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by sqs 18y ago
Any specific examples of stories/articles that you'd prefer to be reading? I think you're definitely on to something, but the idea seems (for now) to be defined as a negative. In a way, Hacker News plays the role that high-quality publicati
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by sqs 18y ago
What kind of math? Just curious.
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by sqs 18y ago
The annual meeting is one huge sales event for Berkshire companies. For good reason: 25,000 mostly wealthy people (investors and their guests) are there. Borsheim's sells millions of dollars of jewelry, people sign up for NetJets, the Nebra
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by sqs 18y ago
I am frequently asked to sign NDAs. I used to sign them, but not anymore. I just tell people that if I signed an NDA each time someone came to me with an idea, then I'd probably be too encumbered to work on the ideas that I'm genuinely inte
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by sqs 18y ago
He's been investing since the 50s. How many times in his long career could someone have told him "the world is fundamentally different now, and your old strategies won't work"? Many times. The fundamental business of Berkshire Hathaway is t
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by sqs 18y ago
I understand Apple investors wanting to know more about his condition. If they want to pursue that, I think they're justified. But there's a big difference between spreading gossip and exercising one's shareholder rights. Yes, Steve Jobs ga
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by sqs 18y ago
Also, I often can't watch video content without unplugging my speakers and putting my headphones in so I don't disturb other people. Oh, and my laptop fan starts going like crazy and my CPU goes to 100% with FLV.
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by sqs 18y ago
Great speech. I'd be interested to hear other people's opinions on the consequences of his conclusion, the "do what you want" bit. I know he meant it in a broader sense, but I see a lot of people (especially high school students and younger
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by sqs 18y ago
iPhone app development is not , as many people make it out to be, the Gold Rush. It's very easy to make a small amount of money ($10 a day), but making $150 a day on the App Store is not any easier than making $150 a day doing anything els
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by sqs 18y ago
Seems to me that browsers ought to start including the fragment (the part after the #) in the referrer, now that different fragments can refer to entirely different pages. I can't see any security issues, as the previous poster was wonderin
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by sqs 18y ago
Why?
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by sqs 18y ago
I picked that up after I spent some time in China, where it's a common enough thing that nobody thinks twice when you do it. But back in the US, it gets a lot of strange looks.
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by sqs 18y ago
Why do people do interviews where they come off like this? This must be the image he's trying to project. How could being quoted as saying "I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets" EVER help anybody?
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by sqs 18y ago
Ability to style the page so that it's readable on an iPhone (without zooming and panning)

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