feralchimp

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by feralchimp 2y ago
"gimme gimme gimme" from man after midnight, you say?
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by feralchimp 2y ago
Really nice job with this project, and especially the clear/concise write-up of the pipeline steps.
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by feralchimp 12y ago
If this is real, I don't think it's about release timing at all, but the technical complexity of implementing and integrating the specific new features they've chosen. I don't have a list of specific examples to back up
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by feralchimp 12y ago
This is a great review for two reasons: a) it provides readers with a laundry list of things to go study independently b) the book author can, given time and inclination, do the same study and improve the book
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by feralchimp 13y ago
"Grave error" implies something that a non-fool might blunder into. Fools don't blunder, per se, they simply exist. One of the first jokes I ever heard at a startup was "We'll give the product away and make it up on volume!" Changing the
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by feralchimp 14y ago
If you're wondering how to write thorough doc for an engineering audience, I highly recommend looking at IBM's doc for z/OS. The first thing you'll notice is: there's a lot of it.
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by feralchimp 14y ago
And yet, an order of magnitude less arrogant than the recruiting attitude that led to its authorship.
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by feralchimp 14y ago
The market for people who want a native terminal on their phone should be roughly equivalent to people who ever want to terminal INTO their phone. The market already well served by iOS, Android, etc., is people who want to terminal OUT OF t
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by feralchimp 14y ago
Does Linux behave similarly by default if one uses calloc instead?
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by feralchimp 14y ago
This is awesome, Danny. Now get on that 30-page version. :)
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by feralchimp 14y ago
Somehow I'm not worried about their brand getting usurped.
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by feralchimp 14y ago
rock on, tptacek! if you're not eating sushi off the top of a rare steak right now, stop what you're doing. :)
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by feralchimp 14y ago
My sense is that if you can regularly acquire and store thousands of vintage LPs for less than $3 per record, it doesn't matter where you advertise the yard sale. Glad to hear Facebook ads resulted in greater than zero hits, but I'm guessin
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by feralchimp 14y ago
If you think McDonald's is liable for assaulting you, bring a suit. If you lack the resources to bring a suit, by all means complain and stop shopping at McDonald's. But how much else is there to say, really?
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by feralchimp 14y ago
> you have got to be a fucking idiot to buy one Whenever I get the urge to write something like that, I ask myself: "Am I in the target market for this?" A product built to these tolerances is not one that a rational person (even a comp
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by feralchimp 14y ago
Social network != internet-connected social network. My statements are more about people (and the experience of living among them) than they are about Facebook or any other internet site. Graph visibility / searchability has increased, ba
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by feralchimp 14y ago
This might be one of the rare cases where "you'll understand when you're older" is the most elegant and truthful response available. But I'll understand if that's not very satisfying, so... Interpersonal connections just do not exist in s
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by feralchimp 14y ago
I was an outspoken Facebook-hater for a long time. Perhaps my most quotable moment on HN to date was saying "I have no love for their product or their business model, but their engineering is diesel." My wife recently convinced me to give
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by feralchimp 14y ago
> The lack of response comes down to the fact that Google would rather make sure they get all bad actors and throw out some good than be more lenient and let some bad actors stay. If that's indeed their attitude, then they deserve to bu
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by feralchimp 14y ago
"To date, almost three years after launching 4ormat, not a single person has ever contacted us requesting support for Internet Explorer." yeesh
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Or the communications requirements of Earth's population would need to change in such a way that communicating through miles of planet becomes our most practical option. For example, nuclear/EMP attacks kill all the comm satellites and forc
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Seems like a nice tool at a high-but-fair price point. I look forward to seeing some deeper reviews, because the Illustrator trial I used to design my app icon expired a long, long time ago. :)
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by feralchimp 15y ago
I'd just like to note that, as with the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, the fact that the publisher is no longer going to print future editions does not accurately predict that future editions will be unobtainable in print format. Yo
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by feralchimp 15y ago
> don't any other people here think 2-year-old kids shouldn't be playing iPad games at all? > My own kid won't be here for a few more months, so I'm not preaching; just honestly asking. > Shouldn't kids of that age, instead of l
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by feralchimp 15y ago
The normalization of prison rape—like eighteenth-century japery about watching men struggle as they die on the gallows—will surely strike our descendants as chillingly sadistic, incomprehensible on the part of people who thought themselves
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Well that's a bummer. RDARs have been filed. Actions will be taken. The mothership will come back up. Haters will still hate code signing and provisioning profiles.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
While I appreciate their honest and upfront response to the question, I'd argue this makes the idea better suited to an application that the user runs locally.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
FWIW, I meant Dr. Decapitator. But really, take your pick.
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by feralchimp 15y ago
Add one to the list of "people who should never pay for another beer in their lifetime": In order to extract these programs from most of the DSPs, we had to decap the chips, scan them in with an electron microscope, and 'tweak' the process
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by feralchimp 15y ago
It will be a while before we have a real sense of how "crippling" this rollup really was.

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