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Karhan

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/geoffnin; my proof: https://keybase.io/geoffnin/sigs/F_sdJgi7R3aQnV_T2G3AmImbQZve8SoaE2ZKzVDRc_M ]
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Karhan··on Ask HN: CLI – Java or Python or Go?
I think you'll have the fewest distribution issues with a go binary. But if you have lots of experience building and distributing java programs to your customers then go with what you know!
Karhan··on Show HN: Bot accepts every pull request for its own code
"Twitch builds pokemon"
Karhan··on Google I/O announced for June 25-26
They're going to switch to a lottery system for admission. thats kind of neat.
Karhan··on Show HN: Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Payments
Neat idea! If a little impersonal. Perhaps adding a personal message field that gets printed on a card and sent along with the package? Theres gotta be a service for that.
Karhan··on Half-Life 3 on Steam: Available Fall 2013
http://store.steaRnpowered.com/app/246720/

steaRn powered

Karhan··on Our Magic
any plans for expanding into Berkeley?
Karhan··on Amazon Orders More than 10,000 Nvidia Tesla cards
I remember reading a blog post of the peculiarities of GPU programming and the post noting that for most modern graphics cards (at the time) if you can keep your computable data in chunks no bigger than 64kb a piece you can expect to see enormous performance gains even on top of what you'll see by using openCL/CUDA because of a physical memory limit on the actual GPU itself.

I also remember thinking that a 64kb row size for DynamoDB was very odd.

I wonder if these things are at all related.

Karhan··on Retina on OS X
That's interesting. I know a lot of web designers that use macs primarily and I wonder how having such a high default resolution would impact their design choices. Could this 'break the web' as people around here are so fond of saying for non high resolution screen users?
Karhan··on Welcome Geoff
My name is Geoff and I've found this to be a strange thread.
Karhan··on Android Ice Cream Sandwich PSD startkit
I love this kind of thing and I think this is a good implementation.

I may have misunderstood it but don't the android design guidelines specifically recommend against using a bottom justified tabs control for 4.0?

Karhan··on Leaked video presentation of iPhone 5 + full specs!
debunked as fake
Karhan··on Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad
short-sighted is the perfect word here. Its possible that without his deliberate abuse this small project would have encouraged people to be more charitable to causes like the one he wants to donate to. The value of those donations over a lifetime could well have exceeded his little cash grab several times. Instead this has just made people distrust the idea of giving money away a little bit more.
Karhan··on Use Jonathan's card to buy yourself an iPad
I agree with you except on one point. Sam is exactly the kind of person I thought was taking the money and I think most people probably suspected the same thing. I thought it was someone sitting around watching the twitter feed stealing money 150$ at a go. Someone who looked at this, possibly silly probably naive, social project and said 'This is stupid and I'm gonna show them how stupid it is.' I also knew that this person would eventually write a blog post about how smart they were for figuring out how to steal from people giving away money and how the project wasn't just foolish it was immoral.
Karhan··on JBoss Application Server 7 to ship in July
Are there any Jboss users here? If so what do you consider an ideal use case for this tool/framework?
Karhan··on Introducing SkyDrive for the modern web, built using HTML5
Wow, this is excellent web software.
Karhan··on An Open Letter To LulzSec
'It's not what you do it's who you are'?

I would like to politely disagree.

Karhan··on IndexTank / 80legs Crawlathon (developer contest)
Is there a good reason that reddit has banned 80legs crawling?
Karhan··on SF Approves Twitter Tax Break Deal
the homeless?
Karhan··on Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe
Did anyone else notice that one of them shot an arrow at the plane? lol.

In all seriousness I wonder how they would treat someone like him if he just showed up one day. Probably depends on the day of the week.