wanorris

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by wanorris 15y ago
Duh, I should have thought of that. Thank you.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I think the mistake the parent post has made is conflating the kind of ordering you're referring to -- ordering in a tree implementation to allow for O(log n) resolution -- and ordering to preserve the position of each key-value pair as it
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by wanorris 15y ago
It's hard to fill technology jobs in the current competitive marketplace. So it's easier to take a mix of market rates and below-market rates and keep an average that is still below market rate than it is to exclude people who want market r
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by wanorris 15y ago
Ok, that sounds fair. Two hours is indeed not sustainable except in sprints. Though I've known spooky people who seem to be able to get by with not much more than that on a sustained basis.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Well, sort of. Working all the time isn't sustainable. But the point of starting a startup isn't to do things that are long-term sustainable, it's to build as much as you can in a short period of time to outrace competitors and adapt quickl
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by wanorris 15y ago
Can you place a piece to put someone in check? It's been at least a couple of decades since I've played bug house, so my memories are pretty hazy.
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by wanorris 15y ago
They're considered cost centers, because they are cost centers. Unless you generate revenue by selling software or providing operational or security services to others, there is no direct sales upside to spending more money in these areas.
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by wanorris 15y ago
I can't imagine that they are just guessing abut this. I'm sure someone tried implementing it and was horrified at the actual results before they gave up on it.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Starbucks is full of people who like the experience, and they pay the bills. I realize that there is an obvious difference between B&N and Starbucks, but most of the B&N stores I've been in have a cafe, so there are at least some wa
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by wanorris 15y ago
Better yet, at least in the US there's a long history of non-commercial media like PBS (public television) and National Public Radio mentioning sponsors in exactly this sort of way, and no one objects, so the resistance should be pretty low
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by wanorris 15y ago
Up to a point. Someone interested in monitoring what you do could still capture the display data and the data transmitted from whatever input devices you use. This is especially true if you plug this into a computer of uncertain provenance,
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by wanorris 15y ago
Given the way people use Tumblr, SOPA could force them to shut down the entire site, or change it so drastically that it's no longer recognizable. A threat of that nature makes it worth stepping on a few toes.
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by wanorris 15y ago
If a site uses a US based hosting company, domain name (e.g. .com), or payment processor, those services may still be cut off, even if the servers are out of the country. I doubt they would have any legal basis for extraditing a non-US-citi
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by wanorris 15y ago
I'm pretty sure they've got the "series of tubes" part down.
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by wanorris 15y ago
Interesting. I've had good luck with ezPDF on my (mid-2010 single core) phone except for the obvious size limitations. It's definitely the go-to PDF reader on Android. Maybe the ACM papers are just more complicated to display than the PDFs
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by wanorris 15y ago
But the bill would give software companies the same tools to go after warez sites too. Why wouldn't Adobe want to be able to crack down on sites that distribute cracked copies of Photoshop? Or Microsoft with illegal copies of Windows or Off
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by wanorris 15y ago
If your job is to shepherd, say, Proctor and Gamble forward, then the upside of boldness is radically less than if you're Amazon. And the downside of boldness, profligate spending, is likely to come out of your margins without ever being ma
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by wanorris 15y ago
While this could change the game for electric cars (Edit: as others have already been discussing), it would also be an amazing advance for cell phones and computers. Imagine a cell phone that had a lighter battery but still lasted through a
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by wanorris 15y ago
Actually rather than being unlucky, I think it would be more correct to say that they failed to get lucky somehow. In the absence of doing something right (promotion, naming, hitting a niche at the right time, having other successful apps b
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by wanorris 15y ago
I'm comfortable in Javascript, but not a ninja with it or anything. How do you effectively use this to keep what would be client side code on the server side? You can already write code in server side frameworks and only ship as much code t
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by wanorris 15y ago
TBD. Incorporating user feedback and giving users options are pretty fundamental to Microsoft's standard operating procedure, so my guess is that the next public preview or beta of Win 8 will force a lot fewer changes on the user. Really, t
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by wanorris 15y ago
They always allowed it on the old WinMo -- and they never tried to shut down the OS hackers making custom versions. Even Google tried to shut down Cyanogen, before finding a compromise and backing off. And Microsoft has always allowed you t
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by wanorris 15y ago
The "startups are like bands" analogy actually implies a different, more interesting model: what about a startup incubator for bands? Pick the most promising unsigned bands out of a set of applicants, and give them access to smart folks who
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't know that this is a correct analysis but the premise of the argument presented is that Amazon is taking a small loss up front, but in return they are effectively shipping you a cash register into which you keep depositing money for
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by wanorris 15y ago
Personally, I think the most tempting 7" is still the HTC Flyer, which is now marked down to $299. It has a digitizer and a $40 stylus is available, which makes it much more useful for notetaking than any of the other alternatives, includin
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by wanorris 15y ago
I don't think it's an indifference to microeconomics in particular so much as an indifference to anything that doesn't seem like it's especially relevant to one's life at the moment. People are indifferent to structuralist anthropology too,
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by wanorris 15y ago
Actually, setting up software firms where the best developers can "make partner" would be quite an interesting approach. I'm not sure it would work, but if it did, it could be a perfect solution for keeping a great team together for the lon
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by wanorris 15y ago
No, I think it's still in the creative sense. Consider this question from the Y Combinator application: > Please tell us about the time you, {name}, most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage. Other than the a
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by wanorris 15y ago
Fair point. Perhaps I picked a bad example. At the same time, if you were writing a bunch of random awk-like one-offs as part of your normal lisp workflow, you wouldn't write 4 lines of code every time, right? You sit down and write some fu
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by wanorris 15y ago
It is both strictly correct and irrelevant to the topic at hand that the Lisp is easier to read. Because that's like saying "Lisp sucks because WTF does 'cddadr' mean anyway?" AWK is a purpose-built language for splitting lines into fields

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