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by z0r 15y ago
The difference between your conceptual examples and what has happened here in reality is in part a matter of history. There is the history of women being objectified to promote and sell things, and the better part of society has decided tha
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by z0r 15y ago
I dig the vertical monitor. Using one of those as a second screen plus switching to xmonad has been the most positive change I've made to my own working environment in the last year. Code, websites, anything text oriented - shorter lines ar
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by z0r 15y ago
Africa. Somebody has to pull the short straw, I guess - your objection indicates that you would agree that somebody will have to be exploited
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by z0r 15y ago
Because I've read this blog before, I can point you to this: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2010/07/seed_conflicts_of_i... Don't blame the author
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by z0r 15y ago
I have no idea how the 'optimization' example could be considered as such. The advice to not engage in premature optimization is often repeated, but it's not really illustrated here. No comment on the rest of the article.
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by z0r 15y ago
I'm interested in this kind of algorithm on principle, and analysis of successfully hurdled engineering problems are probably of interest to most readers of hacker news. Please elaborate!
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by z0r 15y ago
As much as I enjoy developing in dynamic, interpreted languages with a repl, I think this is a perfectly valid perspective. If a few seconds savings per compile is really multiplying out to a significant chunk of time, maybe it wouldn't hur
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by z0r 15y ago
http://www.t-nation.com/readArticle.do?id=1526539 Summary: resistance training is most effective, then interval training (high intensity and lower intensity), and then steady state high intensity cardio training, and finally least effecti
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by z0r 15y ago
Frankly, this article is the usual kind of frothy pro-startup blog post that is seen on an extremely regular basis here on hacker news. It's good for drawing conversation about how HN users feel about startups and that is about it. The feed
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by z0r 15y ago
Thanks - I guess this is part of why I don't like infographics so much. I prefer written analysis with footnoted/hyperlinked sources so it's immediately clear where I can check how plausible the presented figures are. The graphics do look n
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by z0r 15y ago
No sources for any of the figures given, so not so interesting
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by z0r 15y ago
I think it is not mass production that is the issue, but the short lifespan of the things we use. If every tool, every building, every mechanism - electronic or otherwise - lasted forever, or even just ten times as long, our economy and soc
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by z0r 15y ago
> When one [...] organization with [...] capital makes its goal [...] to extract value from the rest of the market for itself and its shareholders Nope, just a regular capitalist enterprise
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by z0r 15y ago
HN works fine for me without visible points (I think I might prefer it as well), but some simple way to see which posts have received an order of magnitude of upvotes more than other posts might preserve the good taste of the current design
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by z0r 15y ago
you need a working microphone to do this. i wanted to do this for fun, but i didn't know that they'd be relying on voice communication (i didn't watch the video they have embedded on the blog) e: also the prize is for US residents only, app
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by z0r 15y ago
If you had read the original post, you would have nothing to apologize for.
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by z0r 15y ago
The surplus labor army is useful for driving down the wages of the employed, to increase the profits of the employers. Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when you can pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours for what th
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by z0r 15y ago
You might find "Making Good Shape" helpful, as it is one of the few shape focused go books available in english: http://www.gobooks.info/k73.html The problems are very challenging, but that shouldn't stop you from thinking about them and
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by z0r 15y ago
Don't take the fun out of this! But that was a nice write up about Go and I enjoyed the analogy
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by z0r 15y ago
Ah, but in Go there is the concept of good shape - you can play along similar strategic lines with both good and bad shape, but if you play your stones clumsily (write your code in PHP?), you will be vulnerable to many forcing plays and cle
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by z0r 15y ago
Nothing in the top results of google seems to indicate that "andrei poyarkov" does not exist, or that the research does not exist. Do you have a link to a debunking?
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by z0r 15y ago
We use this method where I work :) It's true that if the thread hasn't finished by the end of the time limit, an exception will be raised and the thread will keep running. Part of our solution is that the thread is also aware of the time li
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by z0r 15y ago
At my job, we are running tornado w/ gunicorn and membase w/ haproxy to load balance (and not much else) and handling quite a bit of traffic. If I were to write my own from scratch I'd want to learn some erlang first ;)
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by z0r 15y ago
Yes, aside from the occasional aching in the forearms and wrists the day or so after some tough pulls, working ones grip this way seems to be only for the better. Author got it right that prevention is the best approach to this kind of inju
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by z0r 15y ago
It is questionable whether the market really determines what is best. Worse is better.
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by z0r 15y ago
Jonathan's card, at worst a marketing experiment, at best a means of charity for those who are privileged enough to learn about it and who like to frequent Starbucks, has been subverted to give to the truly poor and needy. Does it leave a b
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by z0r 15y ago
You can't sum anecdotes, addition is undefined for that kind of data (But there might be a case there if you took some real measurements)
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by z0r 15y ago
Taxing a patent directly in the way you suggest is a terrible idea. Then smaller innovators who might benefit from patent protection are priced out by larger players directly! The value of the patent becomes proportional to the wealth of th
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by z0r 15y ago
Perhaps in a few decades more, people will look back in amazement at the wastefulness of suburban sprawl as well designed urban centers and public mass-transit replaces the need for automobiles? (In the same spirit as your prediction!)
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by z0r 15y ago
That's why advertising exchanges are picking up - put up an auction for each impression for which you have no ad to run, maybe set a reserve, and you're off to the races!

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