BoppreH

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by BoppreH 16y ago
Let me get some popcorn. Any ideas of what will happen next? How far are we until some home users with outdated ISPs be blocked from the internet?
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Mentioning the google redirect is a point I haven't seen yet and extremely valid. "Anonymous click data", as Bing said, can't account for what was seen. But I think the author focused too much in the "9%" part. Who knows what Google did wit
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Wikipedia says it (roughly) converges if e^(−e) ≤ x ≤ e^(1/e) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetration#Extension_to_infinite...
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Some time ago I took a few steps to remove all unnecessary clutter: - replace all desktop icons and docks with Launchy - remove all system taskbar icons - activate the GMail labs "unread counter on favicon" - trim down the browser to its ba
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by BoppreH 16y ago
This is not the first time I see someone using "tl;dr" as "wall of text incoming". Think of it as "this is what you'll say when you see what's below this mark."
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I don't know if it's possible, but why not make the text itself be editable instead of opening a text field side by side? It's kinda hard to see how your edits will turn out because you have to look away from where you are editing and the t
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Monitoring the clicks and parsing the data should be enough to account for the results we see.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
"anonymous click stream data" It can't be only that. The page where the clicks happen must be parsed for the click be linked to the query and reused at their search engine. They transformed: "from google.com/q=X, people tend to click on e
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by BoppreH 16y ago
It may be a different medium, but I was impressed with the technobabble in Mass Effect. It actually made sense. Every single detail, from astrobiology to weapon systems and shields, had a plausible explanation if you cared enough to visit t
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I see it more as copying the toolbar item by item.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Why the hell didn't he hire people to find tickets for him? If you are worried about people doing this without you, just make an app to calculate the values. Make the calculations server side, and only after checking if the phone is registe
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I think that "arbitrarily small" is not enough, especially if you are running a business for decades. Try convincing your boss that the chance of all tickets be winners (which would bring the business down) is "small enough".
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but what if I want to work as a software engineer? Spending the rest of life as a bartender or receptionist doesn't seem like a good prospect, regardless of pay. And if I ever have the chance to go back to wor
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Three important questions remain unanswered: 1) How expensive is the equipment to produce this synthetic gasoline? 2) How pollutant is the process? 3) What is the energy yield compared to the oil-based gasoline?
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I'm currently a college student. The university I attend is completely free and is one of the best available. What about people who don't pass the entrance exam? They go to private colleges, paying a value between 0.7 and 2 times the minimu
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Isn't anyone else tired of articles that are completely useless to anyone outside the US? I'm fine with political insights, drug/weapons/abortion/religion debates or US breakthroughs, but articles about ways around student loans and ranking
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by BoppreH 16y ago
It's been some time since I saw an email take more than 5 seconds to arrive.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Enter page, type email, hit enter, wait 5-10 seconds, "You are logged in." Apparently simple to implement for both customer and provider and takes alway all the headaches from account registering. I would pay for that.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Actually, "random" people would be better than the biased voters it currently has.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
For a moment I though this was an unusual attack that changes the system time.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Sure, using the OS settings would be the most sane way, but I still see it working well 9 out of 10 times. Could be a lot better, but I don't think it deserves "taking the cake" of the localization-challenged software. And ok, it was my fau
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by BoppreH 16y ago
"Paypal won't let me register and account, so I'll start mass spamming scams online." I'm not sure I follow. Also, I'm Brazilian and Paypal accepted my locally issued credit card just fine.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
It works well for normal people. And these options can be configured from the "under the hood" preferences tab.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Can't base64 be used to encode small images, like icons? I'm sure that I've seen this in desktop apps. Why didn't the author decode them all, instead of just the last ones? Also, did the tone of the article bother anyone else? It made me cr
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I'm getting some 4chan style questions here and nonsensical things such as "Who attends your workshops" and "Did you ask the forums about your problem?". What is this site supposed to be?
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Brazilian here. That is all very true. Except about the broadband, it's not that expensive (unless you are in a very remote location). But you forgot to mention the electronics from 2007 sold at 4 times the price of modern ones. Now you can
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by BoppreH 16y ago
One thing they always forget to address: was this guy a botnet owner using his zombie computer swarm or did he just download the LOIC and filled the fields as the guide instructed? It might be a crime anyway, but calling him a "hacker" inst
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by BoppreH 16y ago
A "Game Designer" that has never heard of roguelike? But the game turned out to look good. And please, change the title to include "iPhone game" or similar, currently it looks like a philosophy article in lesswrong style.
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by BoppreH 16y ago
Why would you do that? I can understand using only the keyboard , because it's faster and easier to automate and whatnot, but giving up on a normal browser just to be "in text mode"? Why not Firefox + Vimperator, for example?
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by BoppreH 16y ago
I'm still trying to find myself. Being quite young, I can get away with that. For other people in this position, I suggest reading some posts from http://lesswrong.com . Their Harry Potter fanfiction ( http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108

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