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fawxtin

37 karma · joined September 12, 2007

Alien hightech on my brain.
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fawxtin··on AWS Service Disruption Post Mortem
Im getting a 404, is this the same? (Amazon service disruption "explained" by an employee)

http://lgv.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonFail_explainedByEmployee.j...

fawxtin··on TheDeadline - Your Intelligent Personal Assistant
Im testing, and Im really liking. It is easy, and fun to do things.. sure it has some things to improve, but as a first public version, it simply rocks!
fawxtin··on ICFP 2009 Presentation Videos
Actually, the album is this (by the same user): http://www.vimeo.com/album/126865
fawxtin··on ICFP '09: "Get rid of cons!" Guy Steele on parallel algorithms & data structures
the video is now online: http://www.vimeo.com/6624203
fawxtin··on Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from?
Conciousness is somewhat a prevalence over instincts, you got "magically" a way to "choose". You really should read S. Freud, and M. Minsky if you want to know more about.
fawxtin··on Man hand-builds Lamborghini Countach, from scratch, in his own basement
at least give us the formula for it.
fawxtin··on A programmer's view of the Universe, part 1: The fish
A good read about why they kill each other: Konrad Lorenz, On Agression.
fawxtin··on Bill Gates' mysterious new company
Gates will try to apply his new start-up on the next YC event... Well, I can say it won't be easy!
fawxtin··on Guide to Network Programming
Also, also recommended (Richard Steven's code from his book on network programming): http://www.kohala.com/start/unpv12e/unpv12e.tar.gz
fawxtin··on Ask YC: Tests that Approximate a Developer's Skill Level?
"There is nothing that beats seeing someone's actual code", completely agreed. A good way to see this is to let some problems to be solved and sent with the curriculum, like those acm-icpc problems.