river_styx

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by river_styx 17y ago
Wow, the web's two most obnoxious swollen egos disagree on something. Stop the presses.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Am I missing something here? According to the article, the prices have fallen or remained the same, and Apple has upgraded all the hardware.
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by river_styx 18y ago
But in this case, they happen to be right. In the absence of big news items coming from the Valley of late, TechCrunch has become a web 2.0 tabloid.
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by river_styx 18y ago
You must be new to TechCrunch.
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by river_styx 18y ago
every time a human being does not get offspring because his/her desired mate gets snagged by a more appealing specimen that's evolution in progress Ouch. Succint and harsh.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Basically any note played on an analog instrument has a set of overtones of various frequencies. If these tones were played a bit louder, you would hear a chord rather than a single note.
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by river_styx 18y ago
The best part about _why: if this guy completely loses his mind one day, no one will notice any difference.
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by river_styx 18y ago
good programmers are forced to program simply so that future generations of bad programmers can read their code. Is this necessarily a bad thing? I generally try follow the "code such that nearly anyone can understand" mantra. Helps keep
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by river_styx 18y ago
Neat idea; unfortunate name.
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by river_styx 18y ago
This is cool and all, but what's the utility? You can already isolate individual windows and arbitrary screen regions with the built-in OS X screenshot grabber.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Dropbox stores your files locally and syncs them with the files on the cloud. Zumo stores them only in the cloud and streams them to you on demand.
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by river_styx 18y ago
And the contention is that we can observe this because certain high-precision experiments might be picking up anomalies on the scale of a Planck length, whereas we shouldn't theoretically be able to detect anything so small. Therefore, what
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by river_styx 18y ago
Cast Away
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by river_styx 18y ago
This happens to me as well. Sometimes I also hear random disconnected sounds: a bell, pots clanging, voices, etc. There have been many nights where I've actually struggled to sleep through all the cacophony.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Here's a tip: if "retarded" is the best adjective you can come up with, you've already lost the argument.
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by river_styx 18y ago
You should demand your money back.
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by river_styx 18y ago
American cows are fair game.
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by river_styx 18y ago
http://www.routesy.com/
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by river_styx 18y ago
Well, this certainly flies in the face of the sensationalist tone of the linked article. TechCrunch Layoff Tracker? Seriously?
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by river_styx 18y ago
One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less time, the app has 100% more resources to handle other request
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by river_styx 18y ago
This just in: Paul Buchheit makes a bathroom visit. More details to come.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Reddit is that way ---->
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by river_styx 18y ago
Speaking from experience: any doubts you have in your mind are inconsequential. Go for it! :)
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by river_styx 18y ago
*algorithm
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by river_styx 18y ago
Is anyone out there using a Pylons stack for GIS? I'm starting a new geo-related project, and GeoDjango looks awesome, but I'm having trouble getting over the fact that Pylons is just more my style.
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by river_styx 18y ago
ThinkPad + Ubuntu FTW
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by river_styx 18y ago
Nice article, but Ruby wouldn't have been my language of choice for illustrating HPC concepts.
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by river_styx 18y ago
Just out of curiosity... Based on your comments, there seems to be something going on between you and Zed. Was there some incident?
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by river_styx 18y ago
Bah, humbug! :)
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by river_styx 18y ago
And funny.

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