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by xirium 18y ago
Article summary: Programming Windows threads is easier because there are less datatypes and therefore less functions to learn. I disagree with this. If you're doing multi-threaded programming then you've already reached a certain level of c
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by xirium 18y ago
"who president france" also gives worse results. It seems to work best when you type: {who, what, when, why} <sequence of words in page> If this is the case then users would require the least training and get the maximum benefit if
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by xirium 18y ago
There'll be a big dip when the stock options vest in Aug 2008: By some estimates, more than 900 employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in August 2004, and that total has likely ballooned along with the stock price. ..
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by xirium 18y ago
There's also the issue of the timescale. Start with one programmer and server. You have the finances to purchase 10 additional servers or hire one additional programmer. You can get 10 servers bought, delivered, installed and configured in
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by xirium 18y ago
> first tries at something big That'll be the Second-system effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect ). If you've previously had a manager who vetoed your doohickies then there's a risk that some get implemented by y
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by xirium 18y ago
Hey! Don't downmod kul! This topic was discussed at the TechCrunch UK meeting on Fri 9 May 2008 ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=183305 ) which Harj and/or kul may have attended. Apparently, some people use Facebook solely to get dat
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by xirium 18y ago
Or access http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2007/10/cto_vs_vp_engin.ht...
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by xirium 18y ago
It is possible that the company is structured to make a loss so that it can avoid tax. This would definitely be worthwhile if the investors are on the payroll. They could take large salaries and dividends ensuring that the business remains
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by xirium 18y ago
If you go to bed at 10PM, you'd wake at 7AM without the use of an alarm clock and you'd more time during the weekend. It won't be easy to make the transisition but you should consider it.
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by xirium 18y ago
I read that sleep has nine purposes. Burning long term memory was only one purpose.
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by xirium 18y ago
http://www.powerset.com/explore/pset?q=who+president+of+fran... gives the right answer.
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by xirium 18y ago
By volume, inkjet ink is more expensive than vintage champagne. By volume, SMS is more expensive than hand delivered postcards. There's no excuse for such gouging.
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by xirium 18y ago
> use XML Notepad If the format gets unwieldly that you require special software then the benefit of it being a human-readable text format is lost.
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by xirium 18y ago
Yes, many small changes. Furthermore, this is a pessimistic case. If your average improvemented was 12% then you'd require significantly less improvements.
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by xirium 18y ago
I disagree. It would be easier to write keylogger which reads 16 sequential digits, computes a checksum and then emits a UDP packet to a hardcoded IP address.
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by xirium 18y ago
> zero experience with each language I've seen ecommerce documentation billed as having examples in Perl, PHP and Java. What they meant was some of the examples were in each language and you needed experience with all three to get somet
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by xirium 18y ago
This topic was discussed about two months ago. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=108528
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by xirium 18y ago
Don't be quick to dismiss Powerset's indexing speed. It is relatively easy to improve the efficiency of a known algorithm. Likewise, it is easier to develop an algorithm if efficiency constraints are defered. It is relatively easy to improv
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by xirium 18y ago
There's a bigger problem there. For the current year, the quantity could change. Old, incorrect values would outweigh new, correct values. So, you still wouldn't get the right answer. "Who, what, when and how do" queries can be answered wit
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: And hey, that "better search" thingie you were droning on and on about? How much better can searching the Internet really be? Why would anyone care? We get that quite frequently, so we just keep codin'.
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by xirium 18y ago
From the comments: Seems to me that far too many people reach for the 'silver bullet' that is XML, then end up with a big pile of mess. The same happened with OO. It has uses but it is generally overused.
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by xirium 18y ago
That's a cunning plan. Your script could connect to a POP or IMAP server. That would allow it to process an unlimited number of messages in one run. This would be more scalable because you could do stuff like database bulk inserts of data f
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by xirium 18y ago
In the postfix configuration, enable allow_mail_to_commands ( http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html ). In a Unix account home directory, create a .forward file which begins with a pipe symbol and names your script: |./my_mail_stub.php Fo
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by xirium 18y ago
DoubleClick is now part of Google and DoubleClick has a terrible record with promises and privacy. In the 1990s, DoubleClick said that they wouldn't associate off-line profiles with on-line profiles. They lied. DoubleClick and Google were v
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NBC makes video deal with Zune(fakesteve.blogspot.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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Webcam DoS Attack(thedailywtf.com)
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A Case Of The MUMPS(thedailywtf.com)
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You Jeepies?(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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MUD Shell(xirium.com)
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by xirium 18y ago
Off topic.

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