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by xirium 18y ago
Search box in top right corner like http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi with user selectable back-end.
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts And Users Version 1.4
30 points by xirium 18y ago|5 comments
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MIT Hack Gallery(hacks.mit.edu)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
> shutting down new user registration A few users made their first posts more than one year after creating their accounts. Therefore, there could be a large number of dormant accounts on this forum. If you drastically limited supply the
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by xirium 18y ago
There seems to be a rush of test articles today. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213653 for another example. Is someone writing a utility to automatically create accounts, post spam on this forum and upmod it? Would it be worthwhi
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by xirium 18y ago
It could have been expensive for Microsoft to license single click window closing on a per copy basis and it could have set an expensive precedent. So, they devised numerous methods of closing a window without infringing on the patent. One
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by xirium 18y ago
> Remember the Apple "look and feel" lawsuit? A remnant of that issue may be present on your desktop. I believe this works on Windows XP and it should also work on Windows Vista. Select a window. Press Alt and release. Press Space and r
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by xirium 18y ago
If you're willing to switch from MySQL Server then I'd recommend that you try R-tree indexes in Postgres.
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by xirium 18y ago
Dup. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212534
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by xirium 18y ago
It would be more useful if the original hyperlink to a PDF file was preserved and a hyperlink to scribd was also presented. This would also eliminate a problem with duplicate hyperlink suppression.
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by xirium 18y ago
Teach Logo. It teaches geometry, block structure and subroutines. Kids get instant graphical feedback. It also smoothes the beginning of the learning curve because you can get interesting output without understanding loops or variables.
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by xirium 18y ago
If you're using MyISAM and you don't care about diskspace then you can use an R-tree index to search any two inequalities. For example, an R-tree index can be used for queries of the form A>10 AND A<100 AND B>5. Also note that R
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by xirium 18y ago
For MySQL Server 4 and below, simple indexes and compound indexes with three or less values are ignored. For MySQL Server 5 and above, the heuristic is more vague. Anyhow, if one or more columns has a combined total of three or more values
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by xirium 18y ago
Ignore the constraints of the form A>10. Only consider the constraints of the form C=3. If many of your queries are of the form C=3 and many are also of the form C=3 AND D=4 and some are also of the form C=3 AND D=4 AND E=5 then create
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by xirium 18y ago
> there is no singular "hacker music" that's best suited to programming. Heathen! Your playlist should consist exclusively of death metal, '70s rock and 160BPM techno. Any comprehensible lyrics are distracting and should be banished.
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by xirium 18y ago
I was surprised that the last outage was mentioned in the BBC's financial news. However, it was significant enough to affect the share price. Further outages could adversely affect Amazon's market value.
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by xirium 18y ago
Which database server are you using? Do most queries include conditions of the form C=3 on a limited number of columns? Are any of the columns large?
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by xirium 18y ago
A factor of nine improvement has been noted elsewhere on this forum: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196994
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts And Users Version 1.3
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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Solid State Storage Becoming a Theme(techbizstrategy.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
User gscott posted this first http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=212028 but now it has disappeared.
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by xirium 18y ago
If he signs a 24 month non-compete in New York and then takes a competing job in California within this period, is it legal? If he takes a similar job in Europe, is it legal? Can it be enforced?
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Benjamin Franklin the trickster(sscnet.ucla.edu)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
Most fundamentally, PHP combines Perl's array and hash data structures. Although you can access name/value pairs as even and odd array elements, code that doesn't need both sets of properties will run slower and consume more memory because
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by xirium 18y ago
When a people values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. -- Dwight D Eisenhower's, inaugural address, Tue 20 Jan 1953.
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by xirium 18y ago
> definition of an enterprise CMS Would Jonathan Schwartz's blog ( http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/ ) count as an enterprise CMS? That has URLs which include the title. Does Wordpress ( http://www.wordpress.com/ ) count as an enterpri
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: On a flight from Orange County to Las Vegas aboard a private plane, the government alleges, Nicholas used and distributed drugs, "causing marijuana smoke to enter the cockpit and requiring the pilot flying to put on an oxy
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by xirium 18y ago
To me, that indicates a dependency problem. Specifically, a dependency isn't available yet for 64 bit.
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by xirium 18y ago
That's fairly conclusive because there is the asymmetry of tumours and there is a control group.
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by xirium 18y ago
> Take a technical degree that interests you. Get a degree in Electrical Engineering. You do many computer topics. I met a fellow who was studing Electrical Engineering who was using tensors in a machine vision project. Many others do c

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