protagonist_h

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by protagonist_h 14y ago
With no plans to go to the moon again, we will soon be out of living moon-walkers.
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Clock Ticks for Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission(scientificamerican.com)
3 points by protagonist_h 15y ago|0 comments
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Fundamental inventions and discoveries are never recognized right away. That's why Nobel prizes are usually awarded for a work done several decades ago. The guys who do revolutionary work in computing right now do exist, we just haven't rec
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John McCarthy's proposal for the language of the future(www-formal.stanford.edu)
115 points by protagonist_h 15y ago|1 comments
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Here's a recent interview with him -- an excellent way to understand his perspective on the future of programming languages: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/mccarthy-elephant-2000
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John McCarthy on Elephant 2000, Lisp, Ruby and the Computer Industry(infoq.com)
10 points by protagonist_h 15y ago|0 comments
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
This number probably comes from NetCraft Web Server Survey: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/10/06/october-2011-we... It indeed shows 43M "hostnames" as of Oct 2011.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Upgrading to at least the latest minor version (0.7.6y as you say) may indeed be a good idea since there have been some security vulnerabilities discovered e.g. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2629 Not sure if this
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Yes, but positive feedback for an obviously-doomed project may lead a person to spend a lot of time on it and fail. Of course you never know -- many successful ideas were ridiculed initially. But still, HONEST feedback beats see-everything-
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'Cloning' makes human stem cell(bbc.co.uk)
95 points by protagonist_h 15y ago|6 comments
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
In other words, you want to hire in places where there's a large pool of good developers, but few employers competing for them. Am I following you now?:)
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Actually I disagree about your "cheap talent" remark. When you are building a scalable startup, looking for cheap labor is not a good idea since it's a part of "fixed cost" you have. Moreover, you don't need that many developers nowadays to
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Good explanation of benefits of being in a startup hub. However, are there advantages to being OUTSIDE a hub? I can think of at least two: * Living and working outside a startup hub, you are more likely to encounter a problem nobody else ha
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
That kind of reasoning kept me away from taking the leap, but now I realize how flawed that kind of logic is. Yes, most startups fail, but it's not a lottery. The success depends on you. It's sort like saying "only 25% of students end up gr
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
> most people that earn a few million rarely retire after that If you give a few million to random person, 99% chance he/she will retire. However, people who EARN few million rarely retire. I imagine that's precisely the difference betw
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
This could be used in video call centers in the future. Image you make a video call to your bank, and a blonde girl appears on the screen. In reality, however, you are talking to a dude in India. However, this would also require "voice subs
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Not really, as long as they don't use Windows API directly and rely on .NET Framework they should be able to run it on MONO.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
From my experience, it's not "over-abstraction" per se which is causing performance issues. Rather, it's that people who work at the upper levels of abstraction don't understand how layers below work. E.g. web-developer not understanding wh
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
The more interesting technology is contact lenses augmented with "mini LED screen" like in this article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/bionics/augmented-realit... This could actually be used to create a "bionic UI." Image Google Map
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Google App Engine for Java is another PaaS option for running Java in the cloud. I wonder how these two compare?
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Being both a carnivore and a big consumer electronics junkie I can relate to your argument. I was mostly answering to parent poster's comment about people starving. However I'm a big believer in technology being able to overcome that kinds
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
Almost every case famine during last few decades had to do with some kind of local conflict (e.g. local gangs interfering with delivery of food aid) as opposed to resource shortage. Developed countries produce much more food than they need
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
This is not an easy thing to do, especially if you use EC2 in conjunction with EBS volumes, which is typical setup. EBS volumes are created in a particular availability zone ("facility") and can only be accessed from the same zone. Therefor
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
we were thinking to migrate our service to EC2 from our dedicated softlayer server. now we will probably stick with our current setup.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
The question here is -- which jobs will remain longest. Is that "high IQ" jobs? Computers are wonderful at solving well-defined "high IQ" problems, like playing chess or performing register allocation. And creativity is just an ability to g
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
i would say "education floor" is getting higher. very few jobs fully utilize human mental capacity.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
I hope Starbucks has some mechanism to prevent brute-forcing like this.
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
That makes me wonder what the role of traditional media like BBC and CNN now. They try to differentiate themselves from "New Media" as a source of verified information. However as this incident shows, they are not any better in that departm
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
I find that people with very high IQs tend to care less about practical computer usage skills. Anyone noticed that Math (or even CS theory) professors are terrible with computers?
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by protagonist_h 15y ago
In my experience, at least in US, less than 1% of medical students go into the field "to help people." In fact, nowadays saying you want to become a doctor "because you want to help people" sounds almost cliché. Most of them do it either fo

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