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by zck 17y ago
>8. What Memory (RAM) Is For The best analogy I can find for RAM is short-term memory. RAM holds less stuff than long-term memory (hard disk), but is faster to access. And if you don't put an item into long-term memory (write to disk),
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by zck 17y ago
Especially with the new comment sorting algorithm.
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by zck 17y ago
A month or so [1] after Gmail launched, The Screensavers [2] got a Gmail address and, on the air, invited viewers to send them emails to fill it up and see what happened. Unfortunately, I didn't see the end of the show. [1]I don't know what
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by zck 17y ago
One suggestion: the point ranking could be merely probabilistic -- for each comment set its "page-sort" score by selecting a random number between 1 and the comment's score. (For negative comments, between 0 and their score?) Then sort the
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by zck 17y ago
Yes; if anything, hiding the username might be just as useful.
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by zck 17y ago
I'm glad they're responding to people's reactions to compact florescent bulbs. A lot of people could be saving money with them, but aren't. My father, for instance, refuses to switch. I asked him, and he said he doesn't know why. Even after
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by zck 17y ago
You want SEO (search engine optimization). Basically, it's getting your website to rank highly on Google. I don't have any experience there, so I can't give you names of who to talk to. Basically, I'd recommend a few things: 1. Get a websit
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The Last Days of the Polymath(moreintelligentlife.com)
39 points by zck 17y ago|8 comments
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by zck 17y ago
On the graph, how can there be more replies per second (the y axis) than requests (the x axis)? Look at the graph at x=80 (actually, it's slightly under, maybe 79). There are up to 85 replies.
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by zck 17y ago
That's true, and I'm kind of disappointed in myself for not thinking of Zappa. I do think the Velvet Underground might be a better example, because you have to explain less -- people know they're influential.
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by zck 17y ago
There's a danger in simply looking at the immediate audience. The Velvet Underground is an example of a band who, although they never became very popular, were quite influential. Having an influential, respected reporter on staff might not
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by zck 17y ago
It was a while -- it looks like almost two weeks -- between TechCrunch publishing the article and twitter removing them from the suggested followers list. I wonder if there are any more examples, or if anyone on the suggested followers list
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by zck 17y ago
This is interesting. I'd be interested to see the runtimes of these programs. It's fascinating to see how fast some of the most seemingly-complicated problems go. (It's also fun to use a programming language with unlimited-size integers, as
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by zck 17y ago
I think it depends how you're placing your lower-tier version. If it's permanently free, I don't think you need credit card information. If it's a 30-day trial of your paid version, you might want to grab the card just to make sure that no
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by zck 17y ago
It looks like it's more than 1 pixel, since they talk about displaying an "E".
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by zck 17y ago
>I can image having to check every week whether something I've written and copyrighted has appeared on their site, and I think it's unsupportable that they say "It's your problem to check - tell us and we'll take it down." But that's th
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by zck 17y ago
>C is the most powerful language that attracts the smartest minds into its fold. As simple as that. I am sure nobody will get annoyed at the above observation no matter how political you are with languages. Really? How is this not troll
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by zck 17y ago
Spend too much time on the 'net? Iter8r can help you get Money for your time Won't that be divine When you vote up and then get a check?
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by zck 17y ago
The U.S. doesn't have an official language. Also, as a business, if you have the option to make it easy on a significant portion of your audience, and you don't, it shouldn't be a surprise when that audience chooses not to patronize your bu
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The arithmetic of voting: the motivation behind approval voting(universalworkshop.com)
1 points by zck 17y ago|0 comments
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by zck 17y ago
This will hurt them more than one might think at first. One of the selling points of their Blockbuster Total Access plan (the Netflix competitor) is that you can return movies to a store and pick up new ones. Unless their new kiosks will le
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by zck 17y ago
That page doesn't include any admins. The page is defined on line 2258: (newsop leaders () (leaderspage user)) Leaderspage is just below: line 2262. The line we're interested in is line 2266: (each u (firstn nleaders* (leading-users)) This
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by zck 17y ago
If you're looking for power users, it's public who the 100 users with the most karma are: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by zck 17y ago
There's no database for HN. Everything is saved as text files. The save-votes function (line 133 of news.arc), which writes out the hash table of a user's votes to a file, is as follows: (def save-votes (u) (save-table (votes* u) (+ votedir
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by zck 17y ago
I love the school that had parents write their kid's name on a piece of paper and put it on their windshield. 'Cause, absent further checking ("your ID, Mrs. Jones?"), no one can write a child's name on a piece of paper unless it's eir kid.
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by zck 17y ago
Yeah, it's confusing. They say Wozniak pulled that prank, then it devolves into Jobs making a phone call where he doesn't order 4000 cups of coffee.
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by zck 17y ago
Is it me? Either that or a sense of balance -- pg should be in the center, since it's a homage to Leonardo's The Last Supper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_%281452-...
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by zck 17y ago
This is interesting, but the 1337speak makes them somewhat hard to read.
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by zck 17y ago
The "default use" of an iTablet might be in portrait mode, so it would use the bottom half (or third, or whatever) of the screen.
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by zck 17y ago
>...this thought has been in the back of my mind since we started hearing about the spectacular gains from Ivy League endowments and why they aren’t doling them out to at-need students. This is a very frustrating statement. First, unles

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