aerolite's comments

aerolite | 11 years ago | on: MIT alumni in their 50s

Caltech alum in my 30s, move to the Bay Area.

aerolite | 11 years ago | on: Airbnb Is a Risky Neighbor

So everyone suddenly hates AirBnB, huh?

aerolite | 11 years ago | on: Marc Andreessen says Snowden is a traitor

moron

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Solution claimed for Navier-Stokes equations, one of the millennium problems

Very nice.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Rap Genius is Back on Google

maserati problem

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google

Funny how Matt Cutts was all over the Rap Genius article on HN right after it came out and he's nowhere to be found here. Must be the millions Expedia spends on Adwords, or my cynicism, one of the two.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Alan Turing pardoned [pdf]

"graciously pleased to extend our grace and mercy".. what a bunch of garbage. I hope that is toned down for the actual pardon.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Sequence of Events in the Cockpit on Asiana Flight 214

right, but there was also a pilot who was pulling back on the stick the entire time.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: ArangoDB

Is this named after Juan Arango?

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Why I hate virtualenv and pip

ridiculous.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: How I Automated “Finding Almost Anyone’s Email Address”

we've actually been using this hack for months and i'm sure there's a group of people who also have, who don't write about it. :/

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Two million Raspberry Pi sold

hobbyist

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: MongoHQ Security breach

I bet many products have a similar 'impersonate' feature. Nothing wrong with that if you take proper precautions.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers

you haven't lived until you've put pdb statements directly on a production machine and kept restarting the web server to catch a bug after days trying to catch it the normal way.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: ZenPayroll Is Not Hiring Hackers

isn't the hacker the first guy and the developer with experience the second guy?

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: World

with :(

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Plain Text Doesn’t Exist: Unicode and encodings demystified

More ethnocentrism. UTF-16 results in less bandwidth for any language that has non-ASCII characters.

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Cassandra vs MongoDB For Time Series Data

I'm considering using Cassandra for time series data. What exactly did you mean by the columns were for the "period"? What is the period here?

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: Bootstrap 3 released

Do you have a list of the differences between RC2 and this?

aerolite | 12 years ago | on: The De-evolution of My Laptop Battery

Look at your computer again and pay special note to the Command + Tab keys.