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by terra_t 16y ago
Perhaps I'm irrational, but early in my Python career I got back a source file from a friend that had invisible changes in the spacing (tabs and spaces got confused) and spent entirely too much time fixing the resulting bugs. I figured wha
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by terra_t 16y ago
Fundamentally, PHP has an entirely separate address space for each web request... This is a much more "robust" (reliable as opposed to "featureful") approach to web development because there are no data structures in RAM that are shared
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by terra_t 16y ago
GA and GP are powerful methods for machine learning, but other methods are often a better use of programmer and computer time, particularly the Support Vector Machine.
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by terra_t 16y ago
The team that makes PHP makes quality a higher priority than just about any other language; if something is built into PHP, it's pretty likely to work correctly. (For example, PHP and Python have the exact same problems with threads, a
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by terra_t 16y ago
I tested out as an INTP as a kid (where I was just on the margin of I and E) and then tested again as an ENTJ as an adult, very strongly "J".
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by terra_t 16y ago
isn't it just some kind of black hat spam site that's written by Markov chains?
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Building offline web apps with HTML 5(html5rocks.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
It seems to me that in 99% of the world, business people look down on programmers, so it's nice to see there's a little corner of the world in which it's the other way around.
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by terra_t 16y ago
oooooh, i'm so scared... but excuse me, I've got to make a few 1000 electric sheep so I can get some traffic to my blog...
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by terra_t 16y ago
Cyc failed because it succeeded. Doug Lenat was able to run a very good business (hiring about 50 people for 10+ years) running about 50% off government contracts, about 50% off sales to big companies that could use better KB management to
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by terra_t 16y ago
One of the first things that the FGCP did was discover that Prolog wasn't parallelizable the way they had hoped: very quickly they switched to a language called KL1 (very different from KL-ONE) that was parallelizable. I'm amused at the ge
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The New TRIM feature makes data recovery impossible from SSDs(techgage.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
Of course. The situationists have long asked the question of "Why don't people listen to revolutionary movements?" The answer is that people have a protective mechanism against BS in the media -- a kind of radical disengagement that keeps T
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by terra_t 16y ago
Personally I like doing "back-end" development a lot -- you can be more productive that way, because a lot of the BS in software development comes from the requirements and testing issues that come from UI work. That said, success at web
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by terra_t 16y ago
"Financial literacy" is often a cover-up for schemes to brainwash consumers into believing "stocks always go up", and that you should sell your dreams down the river, give as much money to wall street as you can with your 401K, and kid y
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by terra_t 16y ago
The right way to think about S.E.O. and social media operations is that it's all about chance -- first you do what you can to get the odds in your favor, then you buy as many tickets as you can. Search engine designers think about it stati
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by terra_t 16y ago
too much work to read... if everything was scaled smaller I might bother to actually try
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by terra_t 16y ago
It's a classic -- although a lot has changed, the principles haven't gone out of style.
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How to Dominate Search Engine Results Working Just 60-70 Hours A Week(bluehatseo.com)
3 points by terra_t 16y ago|2 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
my guess is that the market looks like that all the time -- the things it describes sound like reasonable automated market-making strategies that people would try. market making is certainly a job that needs doing, and high-frequency tradi
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by terra_t 16y ago
I make web sites that make money. I'm trying to make them bigger so they make more money. That's good enough. Even people who understand nothing about the web understand that some people make money off it, so... It's a good enough answer
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by terra_t 16y ago
u bet
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by terra_t 16y ago
Honestly, I'm wondering why we need non-technical cofounders. There are an amazing number of hustlers out there who don't hustle very well...
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High-Frequency Trading Created Fascinating Patterns During "Flash Crash"(nytimes.com)
11 points by terra_t 16y ago|2 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
My impression is that HN readers write more intelligent and critical comments than other places. I gave up on Slashdot back in 1999 because, back then, I was somewhat aware of what was to be biggest drop event for domain names in history.
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by terra_t 16y ago
This kind of study provides all sorts of opportunities for shell games, since the classification of "startup" vs "established", or "new" vs "old" or "big" vs "small" often obscures the real issues. Just to take an example, imagine the pe
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by terra_t 16y ago
love it love it love it love it love it i just love it when competitors hide their web sites behind 'romulan cloaking devices' that make their content invisible to search engines! more traffic for me! bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
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by terra_t 16y ago
Depends what you're selling, and how you sell it. I make maybe $10 a month posting affiliate links to Twitter, but it's because I'm trying to share things with people, not trying to make cash. You'd better believe that somebody is makin
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by terra_t 16y ago
Bull. It's not about technology, it's about people. Back in the 1960's, people had a fear that there was going to be this one big mainframe, attended to by a bunch of priests, that would rule the world. (See "Colossus, The Forbin Proj
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've been thinking about a way to represent RDF namespaces in JSON... I've seen RDF-in-JSON proposals that I don't like, because they involve whole URLs as keys, and I'm afraid that wouldn't work well in every JSON stack that's out there

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