Hannan

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by Hannan 11y ago
Thanks for a very interesting perspective. To further your argument RE:[2], I would like to point out that comic book guy was not the one who made the magic xylophone comment. Though I did not attend CMU nor do I work at Google, so perhap
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by Hannan 12y ago
I assume it's just a typo/incomplete edit; his graphic directly below has the bit representation 00000000111111111111111111111111 indicating [0x00, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF].
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by Hannan 12y ago
>> Any distortion of that market would have deleterious effects somewhere in the chain. Regulation, collusion, and asymmetric information all seem to be "distortions" we're dealing with today; "The market pays what
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by Hannan 12y ago
>> I suspect, the salient fact that the CDC is leaving out is that many, if not most, of these are from car accidents. "About 1.7 million people died from short-term causes such as crashes or accidents, compared to approximately
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by Hannan 12y ago
I like very much your idea of making it as easy as possible for someone to consume and re-use as far as whatever is possible permits. But I would think that the Internet Archive or some Google text/video/image search with "sc
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by Hannan 12y ago
Fair point, and thanks for replying. I was arguing on the supposition that original content creators deserve a right to some time-limited monetary compensation for their works, if truly valuable to society. I'm sure many people would
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by Hannan 12y ago
I hate to even post this, because I agree with everything else the OP has to say but this part: >> Beyond that, the public domain was once the default in the United States: unless you put a proper notice with a copyright sign and the
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> Cycling is actually not that healthy. As someone who works out regularly but never cycles, this seems difficult to believe. Surely the cardiovascular benefits outweigh any negatives from "muscle shortening" (first I&#x27
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by Hannan 13y ago
May I ask where you live? I live in flyover country, and I can't imagine you would have a difficult time finding a new gig around here.
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by Hannan 13y ago
The phenomenon only presents at 9 million km^2 and above. ;)
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> (from Ottawa or Toronto at least) FWIW, Calgary is this way as well.
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> Pick a "green light" market... Sorry, I haven't heard of this term before and a cursory search wasn't helpful. Do you mean a market that is commonly thought to be growing or something else?
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by Hannan 13y ago
"...or super-powers in a sic[sic]-fi series that you're watching late at night..."
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by Hannan 13y ago
I think Spolsky's description[1] of working at the bakery explains best how it works for me. My bad days don't seem to be anything catastrophic going wrong, just a multitude of tiny frustrations. Basically the opposite for the g
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by Hannan 13y ago
What I wouldn't give to have read your comment 2 months ago. Smart TV integration seemed great since we almost exclusively use Netflix. But the boot time and interface interaction speed is so slow, I now leave the input set to chrome
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by Hannan 13y ago
There's valid uses for both approaches; it all depends how you're querying the data.
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by Hannan 13y ago
I imagine the intersection of those two sets is much larger than either camp is likely to admit.
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> ".. humans drink less than one gallon of water per day, but a cow can drink up to 23 gallons of water a day." They do weigh a bit more though. :) It probably ends up being ~2x-3x a human's water consumption by weight
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> Shouldn't you aim to provide the best experience for the 50-80% of users out there who are on modern browsers instead of a mediocre experience for 100% of them? In my experience, this decision is not as cut and dried as you ma
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by Hannan 13y ago
I have their pre-paid plan, which apparently doesn't get me the "Service Partner" coverage, so there's a large band on the flyovers that I have zero reception in. You're correct though, around my city and most citie
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by Hannan 13y ago
Just for anyone else who hadn't heard of it yet and searches for it, it's apparently spelled "Daala".
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by Hannan 13y ago
Presumably something similar to the Gmail "Undo Send" example? Time limited reversal (in this case specified by user preference) to give you at least some amount of time to reverse your actions before they become permanent. It&#x
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by Hannan 13y ago
It's already on the way.
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by Hannan 13y ago
There's a service in my city that does this for 30 or 40 bucks depending on how far they have to go. Minus the hangover pills, anyway. I always wonder what the insurance situation is, but however un(der)-insured they may be, it has t
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by Hannan 13y ago
>> Of taking the picture? Zersetzung?
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by Hannan 13y ago
Agreed, I stumbled for a second before realizing I could type a name in the card, but I would love to see stuff like this become popular. Also, on Chrome 28/Mac, the validation flow seems to have some issues. I can put invalid months
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by Hannan 13y ago
Nice writeup! That said, I got ~500 gumballs in the machine ((container diameter / gumball diameter)^3 * .64) so both guesses of 100 and 1000 should be within an order of magnitude. ;)
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by Hannan 13y ago
Not just the query string values, it encrypts the path to the resource (and headers, etc) as well. However, another HNer pointed me to an article on side-channel attacks which is helpful to keep in mind when considering privacy: https:&#x
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by Hannan 14y ago
The man won a Pulitzer... how high is the bar you're setting, exactly?
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by Hannan 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation and the link, much appreciated!

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