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by xirium 18y ago
> they don't quite understand wanting to turn down a 100k job to bootstrap something with a very small chance of success. Your average income will exceed US$100,000. You have a small chance of becoming a billionaire and a larger chanc
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by xirium 18y ago
> Be careful when you use this thing that you don't unwind the loop so much that you overflow your machine's instruction cache. I considered this case shortly after posting. Specifically, my rule of thumb fails miserably on the 68020 wh
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by xirium 18y ago
> So shard more, or get more disks, or get flash Your intuition is excellent. These are all valid techniques to alleviate disk seek limitations. They are likely to be successful. Unfortunately, they're expensive options. You can partial
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by xirium 18y ago
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195221 for a more active discussion on this topic.
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by xirium 18y ago
The suggested plan seems reasonable. Yes, if you denormalise users inbound and outbound messages then you store the data twice. Yes, shards give almost limitless scalability. However, could it be that during peak load, the number of message
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by xirium 18y ago
> why did Duff choose "8" as the magic number? My rule of thumb when unrolling loops in assembly was to only unroll up to and including the bit length of the machine. So, on eight bit hardware, I would only unroll loops of eight iterati
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by xirium 18y ago
This will be awkward to implement but not for the obvious reason of avoiding automated fraud. In some jurisdictions, it is illegal to offer kickbacks for certain products and services, if not all. For example, in the UK, I believe that it i
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by xirium 18y ago
That might explain Apple's purchase of PA Semiconductor ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173830 ). A successor to the Apple Pippin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin ) could be successful in today's market. Apple can effic
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195532
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by xirium 18y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=157575
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by xirium 18y ago
Altheles may have a genetic predisposition to be more healthy. Regular exercise may reduce risk of clotting but it may not have much influence on the upper bound of your lifespan. A search for '"twin study" resting heart rate' found that a
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by xirium 18y ago
> At what point do we need to have a name? A name can stick from very early in development. See http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... > Also, how did you name your startup? See http://news.ycombinator.co
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by xirium 18y ago
I believe that in the book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month ), Fred Brooks suggests that you "build one to throw away". I don't recall him suggesting that you cha
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by xirium 18y ago
> Wow, this is actually a huge turn away from the direction that the original OLPC took. Yes, and possibly premature. I hope Nicholas Negrponte doesn't repeat Adam Osborne, who boasted so much about the features of his Osborne 2 that fe
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by xirium 18y ago
10 days ago, I wrote "In two years, we'll probably have a device which is a mix of laptop, mobile telephone and Nintendo DS. It would be a clamshell design with two 11 inch screens with the bottom one being touch sensitive." ( http://news.
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by xirium 18y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636
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by xirium 18y ago
That's surprisingly light on information. The hyperlinks possibly have more information than the words.
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by xirium 18y ago
Neil Armstrong could be right. He may be referring to Kleiber's law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiber%27s_law ) and the Metabolic theory of ecology ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_theory_of_ecology ). Apparently, "for most
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'Asbestos warning' on nanotubes(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Making bad law from good intentions?(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Criticism for 'UK database' plan(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 18y ago
As I understand it, UK law is quite good in this regard. Any number of residents can work from home but no-one is supposed to commute to a residential property. This means that a reasonable number of founders can live and work in the same b
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by xirium 18y ago
A friend rented the office of a furniture warehouse. It was cheap, creative and he was never short of chairs.
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by xirium 18y ago
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. -- Neil Armstrong
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by xirium 18y ago
I thought that the topic was covered comprehensively last week ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185830 ) but, there's plenty to discuss about privacy invasion and bot counter-measures.
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by xirium 18y ago
That would dwarf Quaero's US$306 million investment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=136759 ).
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: The proper value, which does deserve all of the reverence and adulation bestowed upon the current imposter, is the number now unfortunately known as 2pi. Does this mean we can have 2pi day on Jun 28?
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by xirium 18y ago
Some of the activity could be entirely innocent. For example, if you're an ISP, answering queries on the old address would reduce traffic. Other sites may do it to increase reliability and with no intention of the route becoming public. 10
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by xirium 18y ago
Your written English is better than many British teenagers. I had no idea that English wasn't your first language. You'd be absolutely fine blogging in English.
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Conway's Law(catb.org)
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