Shamiq

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Shamiqon Paul Graham spills: Why some companies get his cash and others don't

I don't understand the difference between the version with and the version without "and" other than pedantic correctness of the quotation itself.

EDIT:Fixed typos.

Shamiqon Netflix website and ability to instantly watch movies both unavailable.

Works from the iPad too.

Shamiqon Show HN: Touch Tone Tanks, a phone controlled game built with Canvas and Node.js

http://www.ehow.com/how_18159_call-united-states.html

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Shamiqon What do you think of our new team page? (type "dance" for party mode)

Grrr IE....

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.3; MS-RTC LM 8) Timestamp: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:39:09 UTC

Message: 'beats' is null or not an object Line: 303 Char: 9 Code: 0 URI: http://wistia.com/about/team

Shamiqon Those Gray Beard Hackers And Their Tall Stories

It's his way of staying active in the community without having to constantly check threads for replies. A fun optimization, if you ask me :)

Shamiqon New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results

Definitely misread that as:

ExpertSexChange

Shamiqon Finding similar items using minhashing

23 is the seed s/he's using for the hasing function it seems.

Shamiqon Poll: Where do you work?

And CRM Online! :D

Shamiqon Poll: Where do you work?

"Front-end? Back-end? Content delivery?"

Pun intended, I assume.

Shamiqon Ask HN: What is your workflow for saving bookmarks?

I use specific gmail labels, so I can quickly go to those emails when I want to rewiew sites/ideas/things I've saved.

Shamiqon Hello HN: I am quitting school for freelance, here's my portfolio

IE8 is very unsatisfied with your site. So much so, the only way I was able to read the main content was via the page source.

Shamiqon Please review my book: Running Lean (roughcut)

Just wanted to mention that Articles/comments posted on Hacker News tend to end up on popular search engines fairly quickly. The ramifications in this isntance is that you may find this public document being exposed to a much wider audience than just HN.

Good luck and all the best!

Shamiqon NASA 'alien life' announcement leaked

The issues may be different, but the doubt that is raised now in the one true way path of life are real.

Shamiqon Close the Washington Monument

>>If he got on the plane with the bomb in the first place, doesn't that imply the system doesn't work?

I think that means part of the system had a failure, but that failure did not propogate catastrophically. If anything, this is reminiscent of a working AND resilient system.

Shamiqon Show HN: New Lisp data structure

To clarify, you mean: (setf nol (gensym)) instead of (setf nol 'nol)?

Shamiqon Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest

As far as the first line in the wikipedia page goes..."Alpha-beta pruning is a search algorithm which seeks to reduce the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree."[1] it seems like you're correct. Thanks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-beta_pruning

Shamiqon Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest

Isn't alpha-beta pruning a type of optimization you can do to a search algorithm, but not the base algorithm itself? I only bring this up since I helped make an Othello bot that used Mini-max _with_ alpha-beta pruning to help reduce the number of branches it needed to follow down a tree.

Shamiqon How I Ended Up Sleeping on Mike Arrington's Couch

Had an english teacher explain a technique for slowing down enough so that you can catch those mistakes. Read the piece, word by word, in reverse (last word first). Then re-read sentence by sentence in reverse. Paragraphs, etc.

Shamiqon Thank HN: Design for Hackers

  I'll do that

Now we have you on record. Please deliver :)

Shamiqon How Obama Raised $60 Million by Running a Simple Experiment

Glad they were able to actually write a short case-study on such a high worth (I'm assuming) case. That's real transparency.

Shamiqon Photons cooled down to room temperature, made into a blob of matter

Is it readable by those of us who fall under the "layman" category?

Shamiqon Is the first year of a degree a waste of time?

Apologies for my American-centered knowledge of an education system. Could you provide more background about this issue? A-levels vs IB (Internaltional Baccalaureate I think)?

Shamiqon Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue

Okay, I actually got a really fast turn around from my PM team (given that we're Seattle based). A video repro of your issue + a link to your comment was fired off to the person who "owns" that site, so we'll see what they do about it!

Thanks so much!

Shamiqon Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue

I see what you're saying. I'll get the right people involved.

Shamiqon Ask HN: What to do in Portland?

Tongue in cheek:

The strip joints there have quite a reputation.

Shamiqon Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue

My team is working on this product:http://crm.dynamics.com/online/

We're massively ramping up as we get closer to our 2011 Q1 RTW ship dates, and the product is way more polished and functionally relevant than our competitors. Heck, I even think our marketing team has bought some massive advertising on money.cnn.com

We're very excited.

Shamiqon Microsoft profit jumps 51 percent with record Q1 revenue

I believe he was being sincere. Perhaps something a bit more analytical and introspective with regards to the company?

Shamiqon Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

Day job here is making Dynamics CRM awesome...have you tried Dynamics?

Shamiqon How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take

Cold is typically manageable. Cold and wet on the other hand is a totally different story. Was a complete pain when we got rained on while camping.

Shamiqon Really? Windows Phone 7 Commercials

Allow me to make that a bit more clear. From testing on it for our app, it's been super fun to use, and pretty intuitive.