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Unknown is relative, but here are some of the rss feeds I'm subscribed too: http://nosql.mypopescu.com/ http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/ http://www.ste…

I did something similar around 2008: (but in Lisp!): https://github.com/smanek/ga Had to write my own bitmap processing library, since couldn't find anything fast enough off the sh…

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/... She's often considered the face of the irrational exuberance behind the first dot com boom/bubble. Rating many compa…

If a lay person were to ask how they get back their dollars if they are stolen from their wallet, say due to a person mugging them, what do you tell them?

A disk seek (e.g., if you have more data than RAM and are using virtual memory) might take ~10ms. A packet round trip within the same AZ in EC2 is <0.5ms.

Just to clarify, it will definetly take me more than a day to write/profile/test the changes (especially since I'll be learning arc in the process). My hope is that it will only ta…

pg: I have fair bit of lisp dev experience. If, as a weekend project, I modified the HN src to use postgres and memcache would you consider using it in production? Obviously, I don…

I think so. On a several decades/century scale it's worthwhile to funnel at least a few percent of GDP into basic science research[1]. But, in any given quarter/year, it's almost c…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

The ones on memory hierarchy (cache oblivious algos, etc)

For algo/datastructures, CLRS ( http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Corme... ) is the gold standard. For OS's, Tanenbaum ( http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating…

also offtopic: 'voracious vocabulary' probably doesn't mean what you think ;-) (you're probably thinking 'voracious reader') I like to use HL Mencken as inspiration.

Dan was awesome. A few years ago, when I was an undergrad trying to raise money for my first startup in Boston, he was a huge help. Took the time to grab a couple meals with me and…

My per-site hash is only salted with the site's name. Hence, there is no state stored on my machine. Personally, I use (and prefer) LastPass to this approach.

Actually, Google Translate was an enormous leap forward in machine translation quality. It won a number of awards for its astonishingly good performance. And its design premise is …

Woah - I've used those docs dozens of times and never realized that the demos were interactive. I just assumed they were static examples. Thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Use the Google, Luke. The first hit on searching for the quote explains its history: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/08/27/master/

tip: the original meaning of a word doesn't necessarily have any relation to it's current meaning. I assume you didn't know about the etymological fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org…

I don't think any GC scheme could work with that. Languages that allow pointer arithmetic like that basically can't be GC'd. The problem with an imprecise GC is that having an inte…

There was some back-and-forth between Zed Shaw and DHH that I remember being interested by at the time. Zed deleted all his posts - but here are some places to get started: - Shaw'…