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by terra_t 16y ago
Oh, one more thing, this is the exact reason I left my last job -- we were in a place where it took us a whole year to sign a customer up for a free trial... We set the system up for them in October, and they didn't even look at it unti
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by terra_t 16y ago
I try to have three different priority levels: (1) for things that need to get done soon, (2) for things that are worth doing but aren't so urgent and (3) things I do to improve and recover myself. I never run out of things to do in catego
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by terra_t 16y ago
Namespaces are both the genius and stupidity of XML. The idea of being able to stitch different vocabularies together is genius. That said, I haven't seen a single XML toolchain that doesn't have some bug or, ahem, irregularity, in how
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by terra_t 16y ago
Spam-a-wham-a-bing-bam
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by terra_t 16y ago
bull, the turing test has been passed a long time ago. in order to beat the average human, all you need is (i) active listening, and (ii) the ability to change the subject.
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by terra_t 16y ago
One time I did something like $ chown -R terra_t.terra_t / on a production system. Fortunately I was able to recover the permissions of most of the system files from the rpm database, and do the rest by hand...
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by terra_t 16y ago
Well, I was being about 50% sarcastic there. Personally I've been forced into entrepreneurship, somewhere around 37, because I realized my career wasn't going to go anywhere (in terms of either doing work I could be proud of or making $
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by terra_t 16y ago
If you're in a place to make big $ w/o doing anything creative, you're in a privileged position in life. Most people are making just a little $ w/o doing anything creative or having any meaning in their life. Doing anything that matters i
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by terra_t 16y ago
CYC is an important development in that direction, but a modern memomic approach doesn't privilege top-down over bottom-up approaches. Like the human genome, the human memome is already available (in natural language) and the challenge is
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've made an "all in" bet that AGI is going to be attained by the "human memome project" long before Kurzweil's biomimetic boondoggle achieves anything -- the biomimetic boondoggle is appealing to many, however, because the whole society
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by terra_t 16y ago
That's an incoherent and muddled article, IMHO.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Attracting investment from VC's, hoping for a big sell-out before the thing falls flat on its face.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Users of Microsoft Windows have had to put up with weak facilities for managing large numbers of windows for a long time -- I remember having 60-70 windows open on an AIX workstation back in the 90's and never feeling lost, but it's pretty
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by terra_t 16y ago
A friend of mine who has created several successful non-profit organizations adds a "no buildings" clause to the bylaws of every new organization he creates. He believes that once non-profit organizations accumulate some capital, the first
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by terra_t 16y ago
It has to do with the way fsync works and metadata updates on directories. Linux does a lot more work updating directories, which hurts performance on mail servers in general but really hurts with qmail. Practically you might find your CP
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by terra_t 16y ago
I'd second that. Things may have changed recently, but historically, Linux hasn't been a great platform for mail servers because of the file system semantics. (Linux systems can get very ~weird~ under heavy email loads, kinda the way t
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by terra_t 16y ago
I know some guys who used to send 100 M emails every weekend with a qmail cluster. It was sorta opt-in, sorta. Lets just say that they're not doing it anymore. I don't think there's a big technical issue in scaling SMTP sends; you can h
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by terra_t 16y ago
I think he sees angels as more of a blogospheric enemy than a financial or business enemy. For everybody who's seriously involved in business around Hacker News, there are quite a few dabblers and posers, and a lot of people who get their
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by terra_t 16y ago
Some businesses don't need "angel" money or don't need very much. One of my tenants wanted to start a small brick-and-mortar store. He needed $30K to get inventory, and he could only get a bank loan for $15K. He was glum and depressed on
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by terra_t 16y ago
Silly. Practical dictionary-based schemes have an entropy encoder on the back end and often that's a Huffman encoder or something similar in spirit. Huffman encoding is superseded not by dictionary-based methods, but by arithmetic encoding
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by terra_t 16y ago
Well, when I look at the site I see a random jumble of one-liners, non-sequitors and meaningless links. If you got 60,000 people to make that site, you really wasted their time (and yours.) Just take a look at a page like: http://daz.c
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by terra_t 16y ago
I tend to do better than that. I have some sites that do around 25 cents eCPM, most of the time I wouldn't bother with a eCPM that low... $1.50 or $2.50 is more like what I want. I've got a project in the pipe that I'm projecting about $2
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by terra_t 16y ago
daz.com looks like a f ing spam site to me; I've got Markov Chains that make sites that look more honest than that. If you want to make a living making sites like that you've got to spam the f k out of them so you get a lot of money fas
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by terra_t 16y ago
Well, I'll just say that, when I was in grad school at an Ivy League school that 100% of the professors, for whom I knew anything about their parents, were also professors -- and that was a sample between 20 and 30 people. Things might
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by terra_t 16y ago
Well, there's also the issue that the economy refuses to provide honest reliable jobs for honest reliable people... If your dad or mom is a professor, maybe you can get a tenure track job, but if you're anybody else you've got take what'
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by terra_t 16y ago
Personally I'm sick and tired of working on "charge of the light brigade" projects that are run by people who've got no understanding of technology, no understanding of target markets and that are doomed to fail from square one. Honestly I
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What's your platform strategy for social games?(gamasutra.com)
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by terra_t 16y ago
http://ookaboo.com/1/
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by terra_t 16y ago
This would be a great thing to do with semantic technology.
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by terra_t 16y ago
If you read the comment carefully you'll see the secret is hidden in plain sight. Unfortunately my procedure for deriving the "encyclopedia of the situation" is a closely guarded secret; in 15 years or so it will be 200 feet tall and eati

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