henry501

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by henry501 15y ago
It's hard to say that something is going to scale smoothly up an order of magnitude until you're there. 900K requests is a lot of room for things to go wrong.
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by henry501 15y ago
Thank you. I think I'll try Diamond Age -> Cryptonomicon -> Snowcrash based on the recommendations here.
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by henry501 15y ago
Any in particular? I see The Clockwork Rocket for $3.99 and Zendegi for $0.01 on Kindle.
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by henry501 15y ago
I'm assuming there are many NS fans on HN, so I'll ask this here. The only NS book I've read is Anathem, and while I enjoyed the story his writing style seemed too self-indulgent for me to really get into. Renaming/redescribing major mathem
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by henry501 15y ago
Despite the typos, it does look interesting. Is there anything similar for Android?
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by henry501 15y ago
Competition is good.
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by henry501 15y ago
Honestly, it's just another symptom of the depersonalization in the employment market. As long as there is a surplus of qualified* workers, then there is little reason to treat people humanely. *for values of qualified from "keyword-rich re
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by henry501 15y ago
Knew a guy in college who named every physics assignment. "A brief treatise in radioactive decay, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the α particle."
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by henry501 15y ago
Love TileMill, love TileStream, love the tilesets. One day I'll move to DC...
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by henry501 15y ago
Maybe a price filter? Let us manually set the minimum to $1k.
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by henry501 15y ago
And if you can identify the last 20%, eliminate it and you become 4x more efficient.