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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Whatever I did from here on out, I told my counselor, it would be as part of a team. Therapy can be expensive. This is a good case for having co-founders.
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by xirium 19y ago
I was joking about Blub. In the context, it would have been extremely unreasonable to describe the merits of Ruby and Lisp in more detail. Regarding AOP, when I saw the video, I thought "OMG! Someone invented OO COME FROM by matching stackf
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by xirium 19y ago
A friend works at an unnamed newswire and he's shocked by the lack of safeguards. It would be possible for Yahoo to trust a reputable newpaper which trusts a reputable newswire which trusts a third party affiliate which inadvertantly gets g
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by xirium 19y ago
Well, Etsy ( http://www.etsy.com/ ) is a drop-in replacement and you can search by colour. Factor in media coverage and EBay's lack of goodwill and Etsy could have a winner.
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by xirium 19y ago
I don't see 25 innovations and predicting a market downturn by 2018 isn't a bold prediction. Regardless, I'll add a few more accelerating trends. The disposable razor was invented in 1895 and patented in 1904. It took 70 before a razor had
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by xirium 19y ago
yosefk has better commentary on hardware design ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=107221 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
You may be interested in The Paradox Of Choice - Why Less Is More ( http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200&... ).
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by xirium 19y ago
A good example to start would be BreakOut. You have a grid of tiles. Some are bricks. Some are spaces. This you can implement as an HTML <table>. The bat and the ball can be implemented as floating <div>s. You can detect the
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by xirium 19y ago
You could try timeslicing. A large number of accountants work part time. For example, Monday to Wednesday for one company the freelance work from Thursday to Saturday. This arrangement works well for all concerned. The company gets an exper
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by xirium 19y ago
Knowledge of JavaScript is transferable to ActionScript but I was quite specific about the use of JavaScript. There's a large amount of code and documentation which is ideal for the task.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: a set of APIs that allow third parties to modify search results on Yahoo by adding images, structured data and additional deep links. This will require some really strong safeguards against spammers and pranksters. For exa
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by xirium 19y ago
Firstly, skip all of the low-level, platform-specific details and learn JavaScript. This will give you all of the colours and performance that you require for sprite based games. I've seen a very good version of OutRun done in JavaScript. A
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: 9. Dirty I describe it as a deferred garbage collect.
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: build an online audience in the millions, sets tuition to zero, starts broadcasting (and archiving) every lecture at the highest possible quality This has been running in the UK since the 1970s ( http://www.open2.net/ )
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by xirium 19y ago
Given the rising cost of energy, companies include it in the cost of ownership. So, if you had a server which was 13.5 times more powerful and consumed the same energy then you'd definitely save money. Unfortunately, SPARC would cost more u
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by xirium 19y ago
Physics and finance is more profitable ( http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/1294 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
From the comments: "Oh I'm thinking about getting into web design. There's lots of money in it and I have this program called coverpage or something which makes it really simple, I wont need to do anything." What's worrying is that he could
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by xirium 19y ago
If the tech industry had a race bias ( http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/02/race-and-technology... ), would this create a bias in facial recognition startups and would this create a bias in facial recognition software?
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by xirium 19y ago
Postgres ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=109387 ) and MySQL ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=118791 ) would both run faster if they didn't avoid patented methods.
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by xirium 19y ago
We've got one article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123263 ) in which memory controllers are being brought on-die to increase speed. We got another article ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123158 ) which describes adding an
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by xirium 19y ago
"At the time of its release in December of 2005, a single chip, eight core, 32-thread, 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 server performed similarly to a two-socket, four-core, eight-thread, 1.9 GHz IBM POWER5 server, performed similarly to a four socke
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by xirium 19y ago
This inadvertant leak could be in Sun's favour because they've already got faster chips shipping.
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by xirium 19y ago
The value of adding vastly more memory in a server is obvious. However, could someone explain the problem that required solving by a team of 20 people?
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by xirium 19y ago
UK industrial designers Dick Powell and Richard Seymour had a television programme called Better By Design in which they designed products immersively. They also had some other techniques. One was to seek overlooked advances in material sci
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Emacs Lisp, the language it is written in, is every bit as dynamic as Ruby. Warning! Author thinks in Blub ( http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html ). More seriously, Ruby's apparent class patching combinatorial explosion of
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122811
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by xirium 19y ago
Java functors are ugly. I've seen an example where every column of a database had a corresponding class. This facillatated the use of functors. Java has another example to teach. JavaBeans can be called transparently via remote procedure ca
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: Shouldn't the ISPs be paying YouTube a co-marketing fee? No. Firstly, this undermines the argument because if my ISP pays YouTube then how would my ISP give me a free broadband connection? Secondly, such payment is prematu
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122226

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