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by xirium 18y ago
Spam!
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RMS Essay: Come Celebrate the Joy of Programming, with the World's Most Unbureaucratic Computers(donhopkins.com)
3 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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There's plenty of open source software that resembles XP. Why not use that? Indeed, the initial version of OLPC was designed specifically to be below the specification to run XP and now Microsoft has a small team hacking up the stock versio
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by xirium 18y ago
> The number of results is not displayed correctly when < 7. Doh! The library routine to perform estimates was working fine, the command line utility works fine, but there was a bad assumption between the web interface and the web s
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by xirium 18y ago
> Then what would you do when you got to version 11? 0.XI?
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Y Combinator Web Search Version 1.3 Released
5 points by xirium 18y ago|5 comments
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts Version 1.2
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Paradox: Is There Toscanini's Ice Cream In Heaven?(wunderland.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|1 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
WebPower ( http://www.webpower.nl/ ) runs opt-in mailing lists with quick import options and an AJAX interface. The client list ( http://www.webpower.nl/wp.php/webpower/klanten/ ) is quite impressive.
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by xirium 18y ago
> run a contest by the community and judged by the community on how to make twitter scale. There's already been more effort discussing the problem than fixing the problem. Most of the discussion has been based on very little factual dat
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Third party support is essential when launching a console. Most critically, third party developers need to know the specification of target hardware so that a game can competitively utilise the platform without being sluggish. However, Appl
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by xirium 18y ago
> His obsession with free software is far beyond the bounds of reason. He's far-sighted and he defends rights before they become important to the mainstream. He has taken what some people view as an extreme position because if he was mo
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by xirium 18y ago
I'm not modding you but I strongly disagree. > Children can learn Windows, which is a de-facto standard in corporate world, so they will be prepared better for their professional future. Teaching a seven year child how to use XP is of n
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by xirium 18y ago
As a stopgap, try http://searchdns.netcraft.com/ Combining this functionality with full text search would be useful.
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by xirium 18y ago
Whatever you pick, it won't stop you migrating to a more concise name when you can afford it. For example, motleyfool.com -> fool.com or askjeeves.com -> ask.com or altavista.com -> av.com
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Hands Free Umbrella(popularmechanics.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: Google is more vulnerable than people think. It is brilliant at displaying the answers most linked to - but not if what you want is buried deep in the search pile. If a nimble startup delivers a more intelligent engine, pe
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by xirium 18y ago
From the comments: I came across the "crossdomain.xml" file months ago after I noticed a massive number of requests for it on my own website from an IP I had been serving with a 403 error. I subsequently set this file, which did not exist a
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: We mentally compare having the prospective item to giving up what we already have (our 'endowment'), but because we're loss averse giving up what we already have (our reference point) looms large. Perhaps this reduces the
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: We are reasonably certain that our own universe is running as a simulation on such a computer. Humanity decides not to probe for bugs in the simulation; we wouldn't want to shut ourselves down accidentally. That puts a ne
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by xirium 18y ago
There was rumour of a game console. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195640
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Number keys promise safer data(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Can we rescue OLPC from Windows?(fsf.org)
5 points by xirium 18y ago|10 comments
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by xirium 18y ago
djbdns and Unbound are both DNS servers. djbdns implements caching and serving of authoritive data as separate programs without official support of DNSSec. Unbound implements both features in one program and supports DNSSec. Combining the a
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by xirium 18y ago
After reading http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/djbdns-myth... and http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery.html we'll pass on this DNS server.
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by xirium 18y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195514
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by xirium 18y ago
The economics of downtime is a very important consideration. I read that three minutes of downtime reduces the value of a website by 1%. However, that may be a figure bandied by vendors of high-availability equipment. It is also generally a
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by xirium 18y ago
I'm very impressed with your quantative approach. I'm also very curious about the type of modifications you're making. What proportion of changes are local changes which affect common cases, what proportion of changes are local changes whic
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I'm aware of Amdahl's law. I also know of a case where adding an index to a production database gave a factor of 1000 improvement. If your design started as a proof-of-concept, you made a rash assumption, you had a tight deadline or you're
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by xirium 18y ago
When I mentioned that it may be possible for a web startup in beta to improve the speed of their code by a factor of 1024 over no particular timescale, I was downmodded by five points ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187692 ). I can

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