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by tdavis 18y ago
I can't decide what is more amazing: that we can create molecules, that we can see them in their 18 micro-second life, or that some guy predicted this particular one in 1934. Maybe it's just me, but I'm still impressed by the crazy crap w
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by tdavis 18y ago
When I read beadpig was involved, I became giddy. A product that combines two super awesome things into one... I want this book. Also, seeing you referred to as "Mr. Ohanian" is creepy. P.S. We've worked out a plan for that whole advertisin
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by tdavis 18y ago
Well, here's the thing: (a) That is what we are told and (b) That is what is reinforced by those who have been successful How many stories have you heard that were basically, "Yeah, I started this company part-time, never worked on it more
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by tdavis 18y ago
I would argue the exact opposite. Because the amount of information you can transmit is so limited, it makes it far easier not to think twice. Think about it: writing a blog post is, for most people, an activity which requires a good deal
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by tdavis 18y ago
"goes off to check his twitter feed for something more interesting" I think the entire point is, despite the already low bar this article has set, you won't find anything. When I used Twitter, I sure as hell never did.
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by tdavis 18y ago
More like, when a lack of effort and the Internet collide. Which, interestingly, also accurately describes twitter.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Either that has not been my experience, or I've lost my mind. Both are possible.
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by tdavis 18y ago
As I said above, I merely use CC. This gives the recipients the option of replying to everyone or just to me. Sometimes you'll want everyone to reply to everyone else, but since reply-all is just as easy as reply, I prefer the one that does
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by tdavis 18y ago
Because that only makes sense if you want them replying to everybody else, which is almost never the case, or you'd just make a real mailing list. I'm not saying "don't send e-mails to multiple people" I'm just saying "use CC appropriately.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Who puts multiple addresses in the "To:" field? That's just asking for a nightmare.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Ruby developers. It seems like any time you install something it can anonymously and unapologetically squash any other thing, whether it's a built-in method, an existing module, or what the meaning of
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by tdavis 18y ago
The joke's on everybody: Spammers surpassed the mark for 1 million recipients of useless information years ago! They make up 95% of e-mail now; nobody can beat that! Still, I hope 4Chan wins. Just to piss off everybody who somehow thinks th
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by tdavis 18y ago
It works for Facebook itself? That's news to me.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I was just talking with a buddy of mine about this last night. He lives in Rochester, NY where TWC has some sort of exclusive agreement. Apparently, they've capped bandwidth at something ridiculously low a month, but you can pay another $30
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by tdavis 18y ago
So true. I tried getting into Zope a few years ago and it was like being dropped in the middle of a forest without a map. I even came to the (incorrect) conclusion that one had to run this entire, huge Zope stack just to use parts of it.
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by tdavis 18y ago
That seems depressingly accurate.
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by tdavis 18y ago
The fact that anyone was actually outraged in the first place is the real failure here. I would have assumed prior to this past Sunday that nobody would be stupid enough to think that Amazon would maliciously, openly, and unapologetically d
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by tdavis 18y ago
It really is amazing how consistently better it gets. The community is ridiculous, too. Every time I read through or ask questions in #postgresql I am reminded that despite knowing way more SQL than your average developer, I am still a big
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by tdavis 18y ago
I won't go into details to spare the person shame, but this happened to me recently. I hope people aren't as adept as I am at reading expressions, because they would have instantly noticed I had no idea who they were as I was shaking their
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by tdavis 18y ago
Me personally? I don't live there.
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Ask YC: Meetups / Events in the Valley on Interview Weekend?
16 points by tdavis 18y ago|11 comments
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by tdavis 18y ago
My favorite quote: many actors, I've read, are introverts, and many introverts, when socializing, feel like actors When I talk to strangers, I often internally wonder to myself (during the conversation), "Can this person tell I actually h
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by tdavis 18y ago
Even if one could accept that Amazon cannot possibly plug all vulnerabilities and should not be expected to do so against all attacks, we're still left with the obvious mistake of implicitly entrusting their users with the ability to -- aut
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by tdavis 18y ago
He could also be seen as a free security consultant. What he did basically amounted to a victimless crime, but could have possibly been used for something worse. If Amazon has one CSRF vulnerability via an improper use of GET, there may wel
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by tdavis 18y ago
Broadcasting something to an undefined group of people doesn't really count as social interaction in my book. Even if it did, I'd consider it a pretty lazy and meaningless method thereof.
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by tdavis 18y ago
Phew, we're back to a net-zero effect from HN!
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by tdavis 18y ago
Why wouldn't he be serious? As more and more people spew forth garbage onto the Internet, we just end up wasting more and more of each others' time. For god sakes, look at Twitter! Maybe there's some useful information in there sometimes, b
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by tdavis 18y ago
Wait a second here! This guy is saying Google can't monetize a video site made up almost entirely of illegal content with an enormous user-base consisting mostly of people with an intelligence level and attitude roughly equal to a toddler o
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by tdavis 18y ago
But you're in the minority. Most people neither know nor care what their computer is doing in the background without their express permission. As long as their applications work, and preferably work quickly, it isn't relevant to Joe Public.
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by tdavis 18y ago
I think you're misinterpreting exceptions in so much that you feel they need to be unexpected. Say you have a list like [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]. You could count each of the lists and loop through them individually, or you could create a recursive

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