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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Isn't it good to go public until valuations are high?
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Apparently Uber makes a lot by monetizing data that it collects about the riders. Cheaper rides serve as a mechanism to have more passengers on board. The more data, the merrier.
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> "Why can't you make Python faster!?" You can. Use a Python wrapper to invoke a program written in another language. Python becomes faster.
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> That doesn't really make much sense. GNU grep can tell whether a pattern is just a literal or not. It does help when the search string comprises of regex metacharacters and you actually wanted a literal search.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
GNU grep is fast, but there are certain alternatives that are pretty fast (probably faster): - ack [0] - ag (also known as the silver searcher) [1] You could make `grep` faster by telling it to interpret the pattern as a fixed stri
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Nothing bad. It would have been good if the kernel folks could have written or made use of an existing tool (e.g. GNU indent) that would ensure that the style is consistent. Inconsistent style hurts the eyes.
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I wonder how much does it help. Does anybody have any data about the percentage of users that would actually take up more space? One could surely have much more data to backup, but for collaboration I'd suspect that 2 TB is high en
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I'm reminded of something heard long time back: Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
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A recent rant from Linus Torvalds on commenting style: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/8/625
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I didn't suggest that those are ephemeral.
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I wish it wasn't true. On all the occasions, I was told that there was "an issue with the underlying hardware".
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We'll be building a clone of Sourcerer, a plugin for finding and using code snippets from StackOverflow. I wish some other example was demonstrated. This reminds one of https://imgur.com/gallery/SZPjHwz
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> It's put me seriously off it vs. AWS. Can't really compare, but AWS isn't great either. I've experienced instances when an instance (1) shut down, (2) rebooted on it's own. AWS support would point you to the SL
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> When you delete an account, DB keeps charging you. Maybe they expect you to cancel the card upon deleting an account. It can be said with certainty that this cannot be an oversight. Not many look at their credit card statement anyways
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Perhaps one more: guaranteed once-only delivery.
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And the primary reason is that one loses more in a single trade than what one probably earned in 5 or more trades. Humans are inherently risk-averse when it comes to protecting their profits and risk-taking otherwise. The possibility to mak
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Pitfalls in Haskell(users.jyu.fi)
103 points by 0xmohit 10y ago|71 comments
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> If I go to two dentists and ask what needs to be done, it is ~ 30% risk they both insist on expensive treatments -- but different ones... In India, doctors are mostly eager to perform surgery upon you. In a case where the symptoms clea
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
I realized that because uBlock Origin indicate so.
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It's unfortunate that Fiddler Mono build is pretty old: http://fiddler.wikidot.com/mono
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More and more people find online ads to be annoying, invasive, dangerous, insulting, distracting, expensive, and just understandable, and have decided to install an ad blocker. The blog itself uses Google Adwords. If you loo
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It is unfortunate that all people can do is to complain. One should probably think that about sending a PR for a feature request or a bug report if it really impacts them. An attempt, even if in the wrong direction, would probably push the
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
One pays money in order to buy GQ or Vogue and gets both content and ads in return. On the internet, you usually don't pay anything for the content. In return, (1) you get to see ads, (2) whatever information about you can be harveste
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> Contrary to popular opinion, people want to see ads. Yes, but they want to see other things too. Looking at the same banners upon viewing any page on a website; or looking at more ads than the actual content; or waiting for the content
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"Fast" can be relative .
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> Microsoft loves Linux. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12313179 So it seems that it not only Linux, but also Mac. So much that it's making every desperate move to make users switch over to these alte
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> “Microsoft loves Linux” Not really sure. Does Microsoft really treat C#, F# compilers on Linux as first-class citizens? What has MS done to bring MS office on Linux? Alternatively, has it contributed to other efforts like OpenOffice
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THIS is the new "new" Microsoft.
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Not sure what else has changed, but the changes in personalization (including Cortana) and telemetry changes warrant that it be called a new version. With LinkedIn in it's arsenal, Microsoft now wants to surpass Google in the amount
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Some highlights: Microsoft installed an app in users’ system trays advertising the free upgrade to Windows 10. Not satisfied, the company eventually made Windows 10 a recommended update so users receiving critical security update

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