Methos's comments

On: How to build discipline and brainwash yourself

[Methos]

Actually I haven't read much of Ryan's blog/comments to make any opinion about him. But I definitely know that edw519 makes many interesting, informative comments on hn. And if he believes in Ryan's judgement, so will I.

On: Ask HN: Sorting massive text files?

[Methos]

Get a few EC2 instances and use MapReduce(hadoop)

[earle → Methos]

you can just upload to S3 and use AWS Elastic Map Reduce, fire off 10 nodes, and have this done in minutes. No need to start EC2 instances

On: Perelman declines 1M prize: "I have everything I want"

[Methos]

yeah...i totally agree with you...rather i say, we should pass a law and punish those f'kin genius bastards for being smart. Lets just force them to innovate and sell it to the society for free...after all they owe us... hmm .. hmm .. ohh wait but what if they go on strike.. shrugs .. who cares?

[mpk → Methos]

Nice Atlas reference.

On: Firefox: 46 features you might not know about

[Methos]

I face this dilemma of using Chrome for speed and small footprint VS gazillions of firefox extensions...

[booticon → Methos]

FWIW the latest beta of Chrome supports extensions, and there's quite a bit to choose from. Not quite at the level of Firefox, but it's a heck of a start.

[pbhjpbhj → booticon]

The latest beta for me on Kubuntu requires 50MB of installs. That's a bit fat for my liking.

I have 5.0.307.7 beta but am avoiding the .307.9 update.

Appears to be a new dependency on LSB that simple enables the dependencies to be shorthanded rather than giving the genuine deps.

On: ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships

[Methos]

I would rather prefer to type-in my contact list than handing over my password. Why don't you make that option available?

[jfarmer → Methos]

Because your contact list doesn't contain frequency information?

On: Mini Powerplant: two small blocks that can power an average American home

[Methos]

"....saving about $100,000 since installing its five boxes 9 months ago"

Might be a naive question, but can anyone please explain to me the economics behind this?

[pasbesoin → Methos]

I was a bit distracted while the interview was playing, but what I gathered is that their efficiency in converting chemical energy (specifically, so far, natural gas and oxygen) to electricity -- perhaps, per a comment I saw elsewhere, when the resulting heat can also be used and so considered part of the equation -- is about twice that of utility generated and delivered electric power.

I don't know whether my understanding is correct, but that's how I currently understand the comments regarding greater efficiency and cost savings.

On: ‘Obscene’ U.S. Manga Collector Jailed 6 Months

[Methos]

That sounds absurd. What about South Park creators? Shouldn't they be jailed by same laws?

On: Coding Horror and blogs.stackoverflow.com experience "100% Data Loss"

[Methos]

how about a google search site:http://codinghorror.com/

and then looking at cached results?