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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120154
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by xirium 19y ago
People want familiarity. Therefore, a drop-in replacement has more chance of succeeding, even if it has ornate details which are completely irrelevent. As an example, some early cars had a horse reins type mechanism. This allowed a horse ow
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by xirium 19y ago
http://www.thedailywtf.com/ is becoming an extensive archive of anti-patterns. Updated Monday to Friday. Slightly biased towards Windows but when we're talking about anti-patterns, that just adds to the fun. Some of the database disasters
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: European cities have a calm and tranquil atmosphere, Asian and American cities have a hectic and confused atmosphere. This is the same sentiment as http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html
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by xirium 19y ago
Ratatouille is entirely computer generated and almost every frame of The Golden Compass has been computer enhanced.
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Ratatouille and The Golden Compass win Oscars(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|16 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
It would be fantastic if we could really get 99% off Hackers And Painters: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0596006624.01._PE99_SCLZZZ...
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Creative Uses For Old Computer Parts(techeblog.com)
1 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: The first repercussion was that YouTube disappeared from the Internet for almost an hour. I suspect the second repercussion was that Pakistan's Internet access crawled to a halt as all of a sudden they were handling IP req
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by xirium 19y ago
Use of InnoDB and an MD5 primary key is problematic and not an isolated situation. InnoDB works in 16KB pages with 13 bytes of transactional overhead per row and a default page occupancy ratio of 15/16. InnoDB attempts to store rows in prim
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by xirium 19y ago
I thought that kingkongrevenge was joking, but apparently Hugo Boss AG was founded in 1923 and became the official supplier of uniforms to the SA and SS guards ( http://www.no1-in-beauty.com/Articles/hugo_boss.htm ). The founder died in 1
702.
by xirium 19y ago
With those biceps, he may be taking human growth hormone.
703.
by xirium 19y ago
I worked for a company that sold laptops. We had a request from abroad to purchase five laptops and pay equal amounts on four credit cards held in different names. That doesn't look even vaguely legitimate. Nor was it an isolated incident.
704.
by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=122648
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by xirium 19y ago
If you want some solid state chic then you can retro-fit a 2.5 inch SATA solid state disk. 832GB capacity is already announced ( http://www.bitmicro.com/press_news_releases_20080107.php ) and we could have 1TB by Christmas.
706.
by xirium 19y ago
There's a big difference between operating systems which provide a C compiler by default and those that don't. About 10 years ago, the distinction wasn't the type of operating system but the vendor. Windows and Irix didn't have a C compiler
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by xirium 19y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- Maxims For Revolutionists, 1903 by George Bernard Shaw So, hav
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by xirium 19y ago
My apologies. I was referring from the Gutenberg.Org version ( http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/132 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
The Peter principle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle ) can lead to a bozo explosion ( http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_prevent_.html ). I believe that there are two factors which influence likelihood of a bozo ex
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by xirium 19y ago
In the 8 bit days, Woz designed the hardware and wrote the firmware. Jobs made sales. In the 16 bit days, Jobs specified design constraints, such as form factor and noise limits which techies solved. Jobs would have been involved in technic
711.
by xirium 19y ago
You could be right about premature optimisation. Shift workers live shorter lives than colleagues doing the same job. So, if you increase waking hours now then you may not increase your total and you might not spend them most productively.
712.
by xirium 19y ago
I think that I'll have to be more explicit. You're a lamer and you're spamming this forum. Please go away.
713.
by xirium 19y ago
Is that enough storage for scientific datasets? After being an admin on a renderfarm with mumble mumble mumble thousands of cores, the storage specification looks really tight to me. 1.7 petabytes / 15,744 Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) proces
714.
by xirium 19y ago
From Sun Tzu's Art Of War, 2:15: One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store. From The Art Of 'Ware, Chapter 2: Suppo
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by xirium 19y ago
> Too many people build to sell these days instead of building to last Establishing ongoing relationships is a core Indian value which can grate with more transient methods of doing business.
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by xirium 19y ago
Adding DRM to Flash will lock out open and interoperable players. However, when Flash is used to play video, Flash itself is used as a crude form of DRM. This creates a "look but don't save" environment to which most people are already accu
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by xirium 19y ago
user: khuram_mir created: 57 minutes ago karma: 1 about: Chief Marketing Officer Kraysis Ltd. A QA Outsourcing Company You have much to learn about marketing, especially when this page gets a better search engine listing than your website.
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by xirium 19y ago
I've worked for two non-hackers who sold a successful start-up. They had very differing skills. One done the accounts. One was a saleman. Neither was completely in charge. In the case of Jobs and Woz, its easy to see that they have differin
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Fractal Tic-Tac-Toe(ted.mielczarek.org)
13 points by xirium 19y ago|3 comments
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Classic text about social networks: The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold(rheingold.com)
5 points by xirium 19y ago|0 comments

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