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by tybris 17y ago
Twitter.com provides the entire Twitter infrastructure, but only a mildly popular front-end application. They should focus on selling their infrastructure (i.e. cloud computing). I'm sure there would be tons of people interested in their re
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by tybris 17y ago
"It is said that papers in string theory are published at a rate greater than the speed of light. This, however, is not problematic since no information is being transmitted. "
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by tybris 17y ago
> also the headline seems a bit over-dramatic it's not running out it's slowing down. Good point. Time is only relative. I'm not sure if there would be any nasty (human) consequences to time going infinitely slow. It's still going at th
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by tybris 17y ago
That's not bizarre, that would be a brilliantly simple explanation of a bizarre phenomena. My brain hopes it's true, but has many questions. I guess the key question is a pretty old one: what determines time? Anyway, assuming this is true s
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by tybris 17y ago
Ahum, no civilization: no books, no music, no building.
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by tybris 17y ago
Woops, drop the us.
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by tybris 17y ago
*sigh, doesn't it ever occur to anyone that a company that still makes billions in a deep recession, has the largest market cap of any IT company, has a share of over 90% in its main revenue markets, was until recently led by the richest ma
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by tybris 17y ago
Constraints usually aren't that hard to implement. For example, "computer worms and viruses that defy extermination" is and always will be a computer security problem, not a philosophical AI problem.
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by tybris 17y ago
It could have been a great book if he had put his own views and opinions more to the background. Put in a modern setting he's clearly a libertarian economist with little regard for the success of the modern European system in ensuring avail
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by tybris 17y ago
I have little hope that Hacker News will not suffer the same fate as reddit and digg. Hopefully there will be a new refuge by then (on the other hand, it could save me quite some time).
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by tybris 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) I don't think I've ever seen so many warnings on a single Wikipedia article. To be honest, the ridiculous ways in which you have to implement trivial network applications on the Web sometim
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by tybris 17y ago
Well, it passed the ego-search test with grace. I almost thought people had given up on a search. There's just so much more you can do than what Google does.
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by tybris 17y ago
You realise this is nearly a 1 billion dollar deal for a fledgling clothing shop, right?
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by tybris 17y ago
The other problem is that a 2 hour team meeting takes 2 hours for the manager 2*n hours for the team, even before considering the disruption.
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by tybris 17y ago
We should be actively colonizing space to increase our survival chances. However, behind every technical reality, there is a far more important economic reality. First, the need for a back-up planet isn't that high yet. Second, NASA isn't
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by tybris 17y ago
Just stop using anti-virus? What's the point>
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by tybris 17y ago
The absence of evidence theory never fails.
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by tybris 17y ago
Because our lives tend to become less interesting (as in: new experiences) over time.
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by tybris 17y ago
that's because of gravity and economics.
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by tybris 17y ago
OK, so being perfectly RESTful is a pain. Just be RESTful enough.
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by tybris 17y ago
Studying our culture is done with great rigour by historians, sociologists, psychologists, economists, etc. Philosophy should be married with science, but it has little merrit on its own. It is an ego-centric discipline, where language, not
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by tybris 17y ago
If you play, play to win.
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by tybris 17y ago
At least the banks are back in business, which is unfortunately essential to recovery. First order of business is to force them to severely lower their margins. Mortgage rates need to be heavily regulated to prevent further disasters on the
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by tybris 17y ago
The best programmer I ever knew had no CS degree. The best engineer I ever knew did.
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by tybris 17y ago
I guess "making an argument" is one of the things people learn in university. :-P
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by tybris 17y ago
and not very hackerish
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by tybris 17y ago
It's not impossible, just a horrible experience. Most likely your network drivers will break, their new version of X doesn't support your graphics card/drivers, etc. I have never been able to upgrade Ubuntu without using Ctrl+Alt+F1 a lot.
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by tybris 17y ago
That's an honest and emotional piece. I don't really have bad high-school memories, mostly indifferent memories. Fortunately our high school system separates the potential construction workers from the potential scientists. I did find it ha
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by tybris 17y ago
I think I've seen a bunch of plans with free netbooks in Ireland. The lack of proper broadband infrastructure has give HSDPA dongles a boost here.
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by tybris 17y ago
Somehow that seems a little embarrassing. The "greatest" technical university in the world needs Microsoft to take care of its e-mail?

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