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by Cpoll 10y ago
Admittedly a database would make the querying more efficient (this is actually probably a good use case for Mongo), but you could just keep a dictionary for each query-able field if you want better than O(n). Only once they ask for efficien
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by Cpoll 10y ago
On iPhone they do, and I doubt you'll have much luck getting the average Android user to side-load either.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I'd like to echo this. If you're not experienced enough to know when it's okay to break the rule, you shouldn't break the rule.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
You already listed the upsides. I'm taking the opposite stance, of course I'll list downsides. In any case, HN doesn't feel like it has an individual-driven community, at least compared to Reddit. I'm hard pressed to nam
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Facebook could probably check periodically from a separate IP (secret-shopping, if you will) and pull the URLs that don't comply. Of course, it'd probably turn into an arms race as malicious advertisers try to profile FB's bo
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I don't agree with this sentiment. I've seen having a "consistent identity" get in the way of a discussion for a variety of reasons: - Ad hominem attacks - Disclosing hypocrisy (as a logical fallacy) - Celebrity posters
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by Cpoll 10y ago
The git questions are really simple, almost at the level of "how do I hello world in X?" I think this is more indicative of the level of git adoption than any complexity - and don't get me wrong, git is complex and messy. I a
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by Cpoll 10y ago
For anyone that wants to see this in action: - Open a website, let's say google.com - Open a console and type in `window.open(" http://xkcd.com")` - Disable your popup blocker and do it again. - Open a console i
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I'll preface by saying I completely agree with the sentiment of the article. However, I was taken aback by the author's refusal to try to solve BFS. To me, it feels like someone should be able to reinvent it relatively easy - that
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by Cpoll 10y ago
>If anyone got off-topic, I simply asked a pointed question and got them back on track. I'd love to hear some examples here, maybe a snippet of one of your stand-ups.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I'd prefer the actual title here, "The secret behind iPhone’s camera is a team of 800 people working solely on it." I had no idea what the iSight was. I had no idea that the iPhone camera was actually technologically impressi
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by Cpoll 10y ago
Three hours of my life, spent waiting on hold, are going to die.
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by Cpoll 10y ago
I was about to be charitable and say 'maybe those are LinkedIn pictures,' but all it takes is a Google image search to verify that, indeed, they're stock photos.
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by Cpoll 11y ago
It's using window.screenY (and screenX, of course,) which gives absolute coordinates. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/scre... I don't think the method you're d
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by Cpoll 11y ago
Ten minutes of animal cruelty involved in eating a live octopus doesn't phase me compared to the life-long animal cruelty most farm animals suffer. The only reason it's more outrageous is because it's 'obvious,' I i
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by Cpoll 11y ago
I think the idea is that Linux has two orders of magnitude more loops, so one order of magnitude more 4-level-indentations is actually an improvement over Git's code, by ratio. It's not as if Torvalds wrote the entire codebase by
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by Cpoll 11y ago
No, you can/should just do the bad things through Tor, then you're not even a target of suspicion. If they have some other link to you, the fact that the traffic is coming out of your house isn't doing you any favors.
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by Cpoll 11y ago
I'm guessing the ransomware uses Salsa10 because it's fast? According to https://www.cryptopp.com/benchmarks.html , Salta20 is 4x faster than AES - and if I understand it, Salsa10 is half the iterations.
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by Cpoll 11y ago
There's not a lot of scamming in WoW, since the GMs actively punish it. I imagine they'll even punish you for the "horse trading" scam if you do it blatantly enough.
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by Cpoll 11y ago
Warning: This article is filled with the comments you browse HN to avoid.
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by Cpoll 11y ago
In one instance, this isn't even hypocrisy by definition: > [PayPal] said: “Becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable.” So yes, it would be hypo
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by Cpoll 11y ago
> Q: What would you like Google/Nest to do? Open source the API (if not the server code) so someone can develop an automation server that won't be pulled from under everyone's feet... at least if you want to build goodwill
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by Cpoll 11y ago
Relevant, and explains "business" and "casual" mode quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366373
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Ask HN: Is it okay that email change doesn't require my password?
7 points by Cpoll 11y ago|1 comments
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by Cpoll 11y ago
It lists harder similar games, and tries not to take too many games with the same gameplay style, which I think is acceptable for an opinion piece like this. Mushihimesama is harder than Ikaruga. Ninja Gaiden II is harder than Devil May Cry
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by Cpoll 11y ago
"The right hands" don't need a master key anyway, most locks are easy to beat, and are only there to keep people honest. You don't even need to know how to pick a lock, a powerdrill will do the job just as well. On anoth
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by Cpoll 11y ago
I wouldn't worry about a quick shift like that. You can look to the Chess world, there are still plenty of masters and grandmasters earning their bread. There's still lots of interest in the human vs. human aspect of the game. In
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by Cpoll 11y ago
> I'm personally not going to A/B test larger webpage downloads for my customers. That's very sensible. But then you can't state that smaller images alone increased your conversion rate by 56%. Maybe your products are
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by Cpoll 11y ago
An interesting subject is what can be done to stop cheating? It seems that separators are insufficient. Each player must be in a completely enclosed room, preferably a Faraday cage, lead box? Furthermore, all moves must be submitted digital
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by Cpoll 11y ago
I'm sure you're joking, but for those who are curious, Sartre's actual quote is "Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

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