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Are You Proud Of Your Code?(ask.slashdot.org)
2 points by xirium 19y ago|2 comments
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by xirium 19y ago
A few days ago, I noted that encryption would be developed ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114609 ).
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by xirium 19y ago
BitTorrent and similar protocols have many legitimate uses. I believe the film and music industry plan was merely to search for matching bitstrings of the form <MP3_header><known_copyrighted_payload> and subsequent known bit
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by xirium 19y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=116866
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by xirium 19y ago
MySQL Server is cheaper and faster. However, MySQL Server is technically only free if you use it with GPL2 applications or never distribute your app.
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by xirium 19y ago
Bummer. Would anyone like backup virtual hosting on our physical servers?
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by xirium 19y ago
The URL is broken. Try http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2008/02/the_next_silicon_valley....
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by xirium 19y ago
I have to disagree. Media people tend to be self-obsessed. They are more likely to publish stories which affect themselves. Indeed, I believe there was a formula: distance from NYTimes office / (severity of incident * people involved) = pag
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by xirium 19y ago
Alternative tech history? We had a few opportunities. One was Wardenclyffe Tower, which proposed wireless time division multiplexed fax in 1902. We can only imagine the world today if such developments had succeeded. Likewise, the computer
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by xirium 19y ago
The easist method depends upon your customer. Therefore, it could be beneficial to implement multiple payment mechanisms. Customers could pay through the most familiar and trustworthy mechanism. You could most heavily promote the method tha
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by xirium 19y ago
Make sure that they're shuffled first. Solving it will be a compulsion for some geeks.
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by xirium 19y ago
I've seen the effect of two people mimicking each other at a motivational meeting. From this, I presume that the situation would devolve into fits of laughter. Both people would be inclined to be cheerful. If this was mimicked then both peo
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by xirium 19y ago
Science fiction has been very fruitful for band names, such as Duran Duran and T'Pau.
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by xirium 19y ago
A former client named his educational enterprise after his building which was named after his area. He was able to register the .com despite .net, .org, .co.uk and .sch.uk being registered. How fluky!
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by xirium 19y ago
A friend's favourite was: sport + portal = sportal
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by xirium 19y ago
yooglebookapedia.com
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by xirium 19y ago
It is possible to power-nap ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap ) on public transport. Your timing has to be good but it will quickly improve with practice. Masters of the art are able to nap while standing on a train and wake shortl
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by xirium 19y ago
If you're using an alarm clock then you're not getting enough sleep. I've found that fruit as the first meal is effective for alertness and many diet problems. A small amount of exercise also reduces sleep. Effectively, you get exercise tim
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by xirium 19y ago
In the space shuttle, almost every bug could kill an entire crew. For Microsoft, a bug may cause a desktop to crash. Arguably, Microsoft wastes the most potential because many millions of instances of Microsoft software repeatedly waste a f
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by xirium 19y ago
I've been reading a book called Microsoft Secrets. It is a very dull book so you'll appreciate the summary. Microsoft works on an industrial division-of-labour principle. It also works on the assumption that bugs ("defects") are enevitable.
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by xirium 19y ago
Is YC deliberately underfunded?
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "Exclamation marks travel in packs." Remember: Five exclamation marks is a sign of lunacy!!!!! Also, the semicolon is the pennant of a dimwit; a waffler. ( http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020356.400-forum--ho...
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by xirium 19y ago
hussle + luck = opportunity
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by xirium 19y ago
This verbose stenography also applies to economists. Apparently, Alan Greenspan wasn't happy with a speech until he read the newspaper coverage the following day. If one newspaper reported the opposite of another newspaper then he was satis
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "The question of whether a valid ticket exists can not be solved for all databases and all queries no matter how long a computer thinks." Be very concerned if a flight reservation system offers you a room in the Hilbert Ho
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by xirium 19y ago
From the article: "nearly all real numbers are transcendental." I'll put forward the facetious argument that only half of the real numbers are transcendental. Between every pair of non-equal rationals exists a transcendental. Between every
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by xirium 19y ago
FreeBSD would be worthwhile in any virtual environment because it works well in low memory environments. I've got a FreeBSD server with 64MB of RAM. It has been running for years. It has been patched but it hasn't required a hardware upgrad
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by xirium 19y ago
So why did he take the job?
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From the article: "I've had a chance to interview many cashiers and evaluate many Point of Sale (POS) systems for usability." I've seen plenty of Point Of Sale systems where POS would more accurately mean Piece Of ####.
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by xirium 19y ago
I was using about eight Twinings' Earl Grey tea bags per day, five or six days per week.

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