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Ask HN: User base bootstrapping via promoters
1 points by vbtemp 15y ago|0 comments
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Interesting. Thanks!
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Ask HN: high-level languages w/static allocation
3 points by vbtemp 15y ago|2 comments
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by vbtemp 15y ago
+ a million if I could. One of my favorite quotes. It's from Max Weinreich, right? "A sprakh iz a dialekt mit an Armee un Flot"
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Hebrew has virtually the exact same properties, and is quite simple to learn as it is extremely regular, and like all Semitic languages is based off a three-root system. In fact, in a number of conversations with my arab friends I'm stunned
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by vbtemp 15y ago
How could undecidable problems possibly be a sub-set of NP-Hard problems? All the complexity classes fall within the realm of computable problems.
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by vbtemp 15y ago
No, incompleteness and its generalizations fall within computability theory, not complexity theory. In regard to your second point, you say "other problems in computational complexity". Again, you mentioned computability theory, not CCT. Th
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by vbtemp 15y ago
> The president is best advised to do the same: declare that the other side has foregone all pretense at rational legitimacy, and simply proceed to govern as best he can for the good of the country. This is seriously how the article end
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by vbtemp 15y ago
In other words, money is a necessary but not sufficient condition to be happy.
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by vbtemp 15y ago
For many reasons, DAWN is one of the coolest spacecraft in the Interplanetary fleet.
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Destination asteroid: NASA probe arrives at ancient ‘mini moon’(washingtonpost.com)
35 points by vbtemp 15y ago|10 comments
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by vbtemp 15y ago
While it may be a bit pretentious to quote oneself, I'll go ahead and do just that from another post similar to this topic: "When I come across some academic mathematics paper, even if I'm somewhat familiar with the field, I generally find
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I would encourage you all to look at the site dtnrg.org It's for the DTN research group, which among other things is beginning to architect and implement the so-called Interplanetary Internet. Some early trials have been run among NASA, ES
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by vbtemp 15y ago
That just isn't true. CS isn't about "running servers, coding sites in HTML, JavaScript, PHP, etc.." Computer Science is about (per your example): 1. developing the programming paradigms underlying javascript 2. creating SQL (i.e., defini
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Why do you say that?
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by vbtemp 15y ago
"As a non-religious American, I quite honestly don't understand why..." As a non-religious American, I quite honestly don't understand why so many non-religious Americans try to paint this partnership in grandiose, apocalyptic religious way
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I lived in TLV last summer. It annoyed me dramatically as well. It was impossible to check out the neighborhood on google maps before I moved in (as well as other points of interest that I planned on going to)
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by vbtemp 15y ago
That was pretty novel, but I still think Dawn is one of the most interesting still because of the ion thruster and re-orbit of ceres. The neat thing about DI (now called Epoxi and run by UMD, btw) is that it's now become a sort of flying te
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Among the fleet of current interplanetary spacecraft, I think Dawn is perhaps the most interesting. It will be the first spacecraft to enter orbit around a planet(oid) and then fly to a second one to enter orbit there. I just can't wait to
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Point taken. I wish I were you!
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Oh come on. Programming is not writing. When you're reading a novel you don't have to worry about concurrent access to a resource, threads, asynchronous events, or even much less conditional branching. With all due respect, I think this is
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by vbtemp 15y ago
"doesn't apply to CS or business majors where people pick the major as a default rather than out of passion" While there exist a _very_ small amount of people who do CS as "default" rather than "passion", they are very rare, and most CS stu
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I recently got an item from themeforest (just a launching page). Even though it looks rather fancy, modern, etc.. (and I could never have made anything that nice looking by myself), I've found that integrating it into my project and tweaki
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by vbtemp 15y ago
Feldman's last year was my first year there. He had a great legacy, but in his final years he wasn't too popular among the students, and I think not too many people were sad to see him go at that point. EDIT: That said, the last thing I ex
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by vbtemp 15y ago
For me, at least, once I understand it, the notation makes perfect sense and I find it far more expeditious and precise to express my idea in the domain language of the field. The problem is that getting to the point of becoming proficient
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by vbtemp 15y ago
There was no logically fallacy, he was just making a relevant point.
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by vbtemp 15y ago
While I am not an expert on the shuttle flight software, these are some challenges in flight software in general: Consider the problem of orbital insertion around a moon of saturn, or around an inner planet, or an asteroid. Not only does t
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by vbtemp 15y ago
"Mind-bending" is a bit of a weasel word. What is the difference between "hard" and "mind-bending"? Do you have any experience of the challenges of spaceflight software to demonstrate that all problems are of "sub-mind-bending" difficulty?
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by vbtemp 15y ago
These are part of NASA's Deep Space Network, used to communicate with the fleet of interplanetary spacecraft (as well as plenty of satellites and the ISS). The you mentioned the three largest ones, each with a 70 meter dish.
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by vbtemp 15y ago
I once found a manual describing the machine code for the Voyager computers (can't find it anymore). Recently there was a flipped bit in memory which caused serious problems: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151 One of t

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