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Six things I wish we had known about scaling(linkedin.com)
3 points by crescendo 12y ago|0 comments
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Richard Feynman on computers and Big Brother (1985)(youtube.com)
3 points by crescendo 13y ago|0 comments
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by crescendo 14y ago
Hi everyone, original author here. Thanks for all the feedback! My friend posted this before it was really ready for public consumption. My goal here was to learn how Lisp works at a really low level. I'm planning to add the features you wo
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by crescendo 14y ago
Yep, this is still very much a work in progress. Metacircular eval and macros are up next.
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by crescendo 15y ago
Does anyone else find it amusing that it seems to have become the norm nowadays that "Release Candidates" are "Released"?
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ROC, a Redis Object Collection for Ruby(github.com)
20 points by crescendo 15y ago|3 comments
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by crescendo 16y ago
Whoops, I downvoted you before I got the joke. Sorry about that!
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JQuery Mobile Framework Announced(jquerymobile.com)
312 points by crescendo 16y ago|55 comments
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History of Pie in the Sky Software (Maker of Corncob 3D Flight Simulator)(pieintheskysoftware.com)
2 points by crescendo 16y ago|0 comments
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by crescendo 16y ago
First of all, congratulations! There will be a lot of ups and downs, so just remember to enjoy the good times and hang in there and be persistent through the bad. I have a couple suggestions for your landing page: * The current overall payl
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Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million(techcrunch.com)
30 points by crescendo 16y ago|13 comments
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Facebook, you’re doing it wrong(jarqu.es)
4 points by crescendo 16y ago|0 comments
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by crescendo 16y ago
From the FAQ: wrpme is an ultra fast _persistent_ cache engine
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by crescendo 16y ago
Blippy's response: http://blippy.posterous.com/blippy-and-credit-card-numbers
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by crescendo 17y ago
Academia.edu is hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobs We're currently hacking a lot of cutting-edge technology like Node.js and Redis to scale the site up, and we're looking for some really talented engineers to help us out. Based in San F
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by crescendo 17y ago
Thanks, dannyr. I wasn't aware they'd added that feature.
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by crescendo 17y ago
The problem with analyzing companies like this is that they don't really admit of a traditional value-based assessment. What is the value proposition of a service like Vidly, really? It shortens the process of posting a video link to Twitte
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by crescendo 17y ago
This is highly reminiscent of the broken window fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
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by crescendo 17y ago
And Mountain View, CA (GoogleWifi).
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by crescendo 17y ago
This app is awesome. I'm a musical hobbyist, but today was the first time that anything has ever remotely made it sound like I can sing.
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by crescendo 17y ago
I use the following analogy, which seems to get the point across most of the time. Imagine you're catering an event, and you need to make 500 identical sandwiches. Now, the usual approach is to get out the bread slices, lettuce, tomatoes, t
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by crescendo 17y ago
Reminds me of this Feynman rant about honor groups: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3164300309410618119#...
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Stanford students' invention could revolutionize the way diseases are diagnosed(news.stanford.edu)
4 points by crescendo 17y ago|1 comments
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by crescendo 17y ago
Apple is making a huge mistake here. I love my iPhone, but in the wake of this GV business, I find myself seriously considering a switch to an Android phone. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm sure I'm not the only iPhone fan out there who
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by crescendo 17y ago
I think the point is that for every wildly successful company out there, there was surely an early group of naysayers who could see instantly that it was a dud. Arrington might fail here, but you have to give the guy a lot of credit for how
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by crescendo 17y ago
I was actually wondering the other day whether Apple does any kind of arbitrage behind the scenes of their international app store sales. Seems like they could be making a lot of extra money that way. Maybe there's an opportunity for a star
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by crescendo 17y ago
I can't remember where I read it now, but there was a very well reasoned argument positing that this is essentially why we have sports. A sport is a means of venting primal violent and competitive urges in a way that's controlled and (usual
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by crescendo 17y ago
Football is a very important pastime to a lot of people. Just playing devil's advocate here: can you name one reason why those NASA programs are more important than the football arena, without making reference to your own subjective value s
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by crescendo 17y ago
This allows an attacker to iteratively try various HMAC values and see how long it takes the server to respond. The longer it takes, the more characters he has correct. Can one of the security gurus here explain this in a bit more detail?
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by crescendo 17y ago
Yea, this is classic linkbait sensationalism: Top n list, FUD, overgeneralization and exaggeration.

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