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mcartyem

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January 14, 2012 (14y ago)
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  1. Formal theory of creativity (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  2. Ask HN: NoSQL or flat files?

    I suspect a lot of companies use complicated tech for no reason. When using a database, even with the simpler case of not needing table joins at all, people shard databases and use caching on the front-end machines.…

    8 points 6
  3. Plan 9 from Bell Labs (en.wikipedia.org)
    13 points 8
  4. 64 Rasberry Pis turned into a supercomputer (hackaday.com)
    1 points 1
  5. RAMCloud Project (ramcloud.stanford.edu)
    3 points 0
  6. Amoeba (operating system) (en.wikipedia.org)
    37 points 19
  7. Continuations were originally ignored (cs.au.dk)
    1 points 1
  8. An operating system is a special case of a programming language (losak.sourceforge.net)
    3 points 0
  9. Ask HN: Is design intrinsically about being unique?
    1 points 3
  10. Ask HN: Is coffee healthy?
    11 points 17
  11. What HN users just realized (hnsearch.com)
    6 points 2
  12. Ask HN: You've been programming. What surprised you?

    When you look back at the time when you started programming and look at where you are now, what surprised you the most? Is there something that turned out to be the opposite of what you originally thought it would be?

    8 points 7
  13. The first potato chips were meant as an insult (csmonitor.com)
    8 points 0
  14. Fascinating accidental inventions (csmonitor.com)
    2 points 0
  15. Epistemological Pluralism and Revaluation of the Concrete (thinkingcurriculum.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Ask HN: What's the best AI chatbot I could use for customer support?
    1 points 0
  17. Was launching warheads from the moon a boneheaded idea in 1958? (security.blogs.cnn.com)
    1 points 1
  18. Ask HN: Why is a website being "responsive" good?

    Why must website elements resize magically when windows are enlarged? People read best when they don't move their head left and right. This means 80 characters in a line. Why must CSS frameworks have support for being…

    6 points 10
  19. What's your favorite CSS framework, and why not not?

    Why should I make sure to not not use this framework you propose?

    5 points 7
  20. HTML has tables - then why divs?

    And vice versa. Why must both be there?

    2 points 1
  21. I don't like Bootstrap.

    I need to fight it to undo rather than do. It doesn't center elements, spans have an extra 20px on the right, and it sets elements at specific heights and widths without me wanting it to.

    5 points 29
  22. Ask HN: What are the biggest problems in your field?
    1 points 0
  23. I will pay you if you build an iLisp.

    I want to make iPhone apps in a succinct language.

    2 points 3
  24. US Navy helps develop scary PlaceRaider smartphone malware (slashgear.com)
    2 points 0
  25. Ask HN: If I launch in the App Store will my Linode 2048 crash

    I'm about to launch an app in the App Store that talks to a Linode 2048 downloading/uploading pictures. Will that crash the server? What should I expect in terms of resource consumption?

    2 points 3