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by Afforess 14y ago
Because reddit voting is an excellent example of user moderation. /sarcasm
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by Afforess 14y ago
>Third, and lastly, Google is sending a strong signal to the market that it will have no mercy of killing whatever product it doesn’t think it’s going well. Yep. I was just investigating Cloud SQL storage today and Google has a free Clo
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by Afforess 14y ago
I tried that days ago with Wireshark. SimCity uses SSL for server communication and it has hard coded certificates - it does not use the OS SSL certificates. This prevents you from using a self signed cert to decrypt the data, at least with
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by Afforess 14y ago
Each game "Server" for SimCity is actually an Amazon EC2 cluster of servers, with 1 central master DB server. Even when the servers were "full" on game launch, all of the EC2 servers were responding to requests normally - it was the cluster
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by Afforess 14y ago
If I had to guess, I would say because GP didn't actually give any real reasons why adding complexity (a new language) would improve or solve a problem. Advocating languages is fine, we all have our pet languages, but it is important to rem
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by Afforess 14y ago
At Valve, developers work on the projects that interest them. I imagine the actual Steam client is not that interesting of a task compared to HL3 or Portal 3, etc. Seems worthwhile to mention the (leaked?) Valve Handbook. It explains a lot
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by Afforess 14y ago
Anecdotally, I've found the CMS is still a bit better (10-15% faster) than the newer G1, but the G1 has some features which make me inclined to use it. The G1 will return memory to the system, which I have never observed the CMS do, despite
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by Afforess 14y ago
The presentation reminded me of ancient microfiche readers...
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by Afforess 14y ago
I had the same thought. It's a bit of a paradox. If he is living a healthy asocial lifestyle, there is little chance he would need to externalize his internal thoughts. So by writing an essay on his healthy asocial lifestyle, he contradicts
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by Afforess 14y ago
You seem to have a significant bias against leading an asocial lifestyle. I suggest that this says more about you then it does the OP.
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by Afforess 14y ago
I personally believe that errors of omission and misleading details are identical to dishonesty, but I understand not everyone may see it that way. That is why I said it was misleading, and parenthesized my judgement of it (dishonest).
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by Afforess 14y ago
Sure. --------------- First the NYT says Broder was honest: Mr. Broder and The Times have maintained that the article was done in good faith, and that it is an honest account of what happened. Then the NYT says Broder was misleading (dish
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by Afforess 14y ago
Disagree. Go read the NYT editorial response, it's so full of spin it could serve as an amusement park ride. It only served to muddy the waters, give some kind of half-not-apology, in the hopes the issue would drop. I'm surprised so many pe
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by Afforess 14y ago
Climate models can be useful, especially when you use them to predict events that have already happened (e.g you have the data to either show the model is correctly forecasting the past event, or you have the data to show the model has gone
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by Afforess 14y ago
Do you really even look at them? When I'm with relatives, I remember events, not pictures. I say dump the photos.
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by Afforess 14y ago
What isn't mentioned here is that an LLC is relatively straightforward to set up, an average Hacker News reader could set one up in their state with a few hundred dollars and no lawyer. S-Corps are more complicated (you will need a lawyer),
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by Afforess 14y ago
This is correct, and worth pointing out, because the OP has this line: >So now you owe an extra 10% on your $40K salary which is $4K. And you also owe 35% on that $50k which is around $18K. Which is false. The extra 50k is taxed more t
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by Afforess 14y ago
This issue: http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gmail/ugBCu8... Also: http://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/gmail/jCukq7... It's pretty easy to reproduce. Create a filter for your emails, any filter at all. In the
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by Afforess 14y ago
Google customer support is notoriously bad. Support for their flagship products, gmail, google docs, etc is non-existent. For example, gmail filtering + email forwarding have been broken for over a year, with no fix in sight. So I'm not sur
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by Afforess 14y ago
That you think pork and hidden riders are acceptable is highly disturbing. Corruption should never be the norm. "Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one" -Nietzsche
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by Afforess 14y ago
You didn't look very hard, I only used control-f "H R 41" on Facebook and found it. Here is his full explanation on H R 41. I voted no on the motion to suspend the rules and pass H R 41, which temporarily authorizes the Federal Emergency M
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by Afforess 14y ago
Already happened. Amash tried to oust Boehner from his position as speaker of the House. Source: http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2013/01/rep... Since then he has been removed from the house budget committee and several Re
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by Afforess 14y ago
Honestly politics is so corrupt at this point that is rather vote for an honest politician who I disagree with than a corrupt politician who "supposedly" agrees with me. And I'm not just saying platitudes. I live in Kent County, MI and vote
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by Afforess 14y ago
Read the legislation. It's eye-opening how much stuff has a pretty sounding name, with lofty intentions, that have pork and other garbage attached. I'm afraid you just fell for the "think of the children" style reasoning.
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by Afforess 14y ago
12. Replying to HN comments
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by Afforess 14y ago
Not quite. Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to earn their shareholders money. This Hedge Fund manager is claiming that Apple's large cash reserves are contrary to their fiduciary responsibility, and they need to only keep en
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by Afforess 14y ago
>Grow their business? Who isn't shopping online with Amazon already? Tons of people. Outside of the USA, Amazon is still very small, with not a significant product offering.
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by Afforess 14y ago
When victory is not certain. Google could risk losing complete access to X country's content if X's court system rules against Google. Not every country cares as much about Freedom of Speech as the USA, and aging court justices are unlikely
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by Afforess 14y ago
From the article: >Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating. I agree, Technology has and is a great innovator and has created a lot of jobs. But when you begin reducing the number of low-effort jobs,