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by B-Con 14y ago
Just in case you're serious: I wrote the replies out in a simple indentation format. Then when I had convinced myself I had some legitimate humor material I saved an HN page, looked at the internal layout structure (and lost a few IQ points
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by B-Con 14y ago
OP here: Thanks for the positive response, HN. The comments here are hilarious . Way to embrace the spirit. :-) Just in case it wasn't noticed by many, note that all the links on the page are mini-jokes as well. Replies, navigation, ever
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by B-Con 14y ago
New users have that highlighting. Poor guy is apparently still adjusting to the comment culture.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I agree. I love the response that I got. :-)
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Hacker News Parody Thread(bradconte.com)
589 points by B-Con 14y ago|187 comments
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PE 101 - A Windows Executable Walkthrough(i.imgur.com)
2 points by B-Con 14y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Engineers vote with their time This is a good description. We really do. It's pretty much our currency for getting what we really want.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I kind of get the impression that a lot of their sales went to the uber-geek crowd that already spends lots of money on gadgetry (such as myself). I'm sure it was still a learning tool for them, but whenever I see phrases like > The Pi
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by B-Con 14y ago
> After more research, Steven found that under the iCloud terms of service, Apple reserves the right to remove any content at any time that it feels is objectionable, without telling you that they’re going to delete it. Today it's a bad
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by B-Con 14y ago
And to be specific, vaccums work by creating a low pressure locality inside of a gas. Same principle behind a backwards fan. Push the gas one way, you create a small low pressure point that other gas then fills. In a vaccume-cleaner the reg
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by B-Con 14y ago
Maybe for $X/month you get the experience ad-free. As sad as that type of deal sounds.
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Embedded print Statements = Debugging(drdobbs.com)
1 points by B-Con 14y ago|1 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
From his podcasts I hear that it is pure assembly. He's borderline machine, though.
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by B-Con 14y ago
FTA: > Not on Sundays or Mondays, but if pressed, pick Sundays. Seems consistent to me...?
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by B-Con 14y ago
Without commenting on the content of the article, I did find myself amused by this line: > Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about. So many times I will read an article that dares talk about some mildly sensitive topic
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by B-Con 14y ago
That's the point. Numeric notation is right-to-left. It was around long before the concept of endianness.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Did you actually read what he said? > Of course most programmers will still be average, by definition. The problem is that the average level of quality and productivity probably won't have changed all that much. It would appear not. It'
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Customer Experience: Is It The Chicken or Egg?(forbes.com)
1 points by B-Con 14y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
Here's perspective: The TSA's budget is on par with what we estimate the CIA and NSA use. The freaking CIA.
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by B-Con 14y ago
There's a difference between having the best X and living in the best country. A lot of nations have fantastic X but would widely not be considered anywhere close to the best place to live. In theory you could rank at #10 in all things desi
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Stop Selling Ads and Do Something Useful(blogs.hbr.org)
3 points by B-Con 14y ago|1 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
Could be to discourage people from storing media there. OS images and videos are probably the biggest things people would store. They're also the most pirated content. My guess is either: a) they don't care to host 100TB of pirated content,
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by B-Con 14y ago
Box.net has a 250MB file size limit for free accounts. Dropbox does not have any limits, AFAIK.
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by B-Con 14y ago
It seems to be a promotion with Dell. Dell often has little perks like this for employees.
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by B-Con 14y ago
While this is completely true and by far the more prevalent problem, I also dislike the other extreme, large fonts on a narrow layout. I don't see why you need a layout (for a desktop) that only manages to put 7 words per line.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Would the movie be downloadable through Steam?
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by B-Con 14y ago
> There's no biological reason why there shouldn't be a roughly equal proportion of women in STEM, just social anachronisms. That's an assumption. We don't know. :-) I don't know that future neuroscience is going agree with that stateme
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by B-Con 14y ago
> In the US, more degree earners are women now than men, Not in STEM, which constitutes the vast majority of the degrees relevant to Tech/IT.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I think that programming is very close to how we actually think. Programmers tend to be objective people who like distinguishing good from bad and better from worse. They're generally analyzers to the core. But we all have some personal asp
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by B-Con 14y ago
That's still better than the 54Mb/s wireless connection (never practically above 20Mb/s) my old laptop that I'm streaming content to has. For the large part, it should work. It won't be a high performance server, but then, it's a Raspberry

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