Margh

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by Margh 11y ago
...and all I can think is: "It's a lot easier to accidentally click an ad on mobile." Not just in the sense that they are cleverly disguised, a clumsy scroll attempt often ended up triggering an ad click for me.
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by Margh 12y ago
> people who ran into you work on this open platform and liked it so much that they appropriated it for their own gains ftfy
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by Margh 12y ago
Australia has more or less exactly the same point system except (I think) points are nation wide. I would say that the cooldown periods are statistically forgiving though. You recover 4 points every year and most fines are 2-4 points. It&#x
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by Margh 12y ago
Ryan Dahl (ry) the creator of node.js started working for Joyent during its early development. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lWo0MbHZ6Tc Edit: just noticed a delicious bit of prescience from
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by Margh 12y ago
Agreed. Sibling comment is talking about devoting "hours" to closing tabs, I'm not even sure if it's a joke. I've presently got 2 tabs open: HN and this comment form. Even when neck deep into documentation or github
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by Margh 12y ago
Are you sure that's not a bird repellant? Several bars (eg. Pig and Whistle on Eagle St.) around the city have these, very effective at driving away attractive young people with good hearing; birds not so much.
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by Margh 12y ago
In Osaka / Tokyo / other large Japanese cities people ride bikes on the footpath instead of the road. They also ride comparatively slowly and the terrain is largely flat so in the cooler months sweating is a non-issue. Additionall
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by Margh 13y ago
You forgot the part where every time somebody drops a catch / pitches a ball / gets a strike the other team gets stronger and faster and if one player were to get struck out / get a walk the game often becomes a forgone concl
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by Margh 14y ago
except the hardware wasn't malfunctioning, the article says he flashed the gpu firmware and all issues were resolved.
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by Margh 14y ago
> revisions to the graphics drivers ... caused the bad behavior to worsen not exactly the intended behaviour of driver updates
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by Margh 14y ago
Is it really unreasonable to expect a patch for a reported software issue? Taking a 27" for repairs is a little bit different to taking a laptop. Also: cool that they fixed your laptop for free, but keep in mind that was 5 years ago. 5 year
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by Margh 14y ago
Do you actually think that taking it into an Apple store would have ended in the tech reflashing the GPU? Besides the fact that transporting it could damage it further, he would probably would have just been told it was end of life or neede
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by Margh 14y ago
And when the median salary of your employees is $0/month (prototyping or a family domain or something) and your options are: a. Nothing b. $50/(employee/family member) What then? Of course no company paying $300,000/month is going to care a
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by Margh 14y ago
Certainly puts me off. $5/10 per user per year, wouldn't think twice about it (even though the money would be paid grudgingly). With the number of users we have that would end up being around $50/year; but $500/year to host some email and s
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by Margh 14y ago
Yerp, we signed up about a month ago and had pretty much just settled in over the past week. Hooray.
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by Margh 14y ago
Without giving a second thought to whether or not the events described are commonplace I thought the article gave some great insights into the psychology involved if/when you get shaken down, both for you and the officers.
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by Margh 14y ago
Wait, what? This isn't a joke?
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by Margh 14y ago
If it was limited to adjectives or nouns in Japanese it would still be incredibly useful (personally that's all I really wanted out of the extension). As you say, lots of sentences don't even require a verb, a well placed piece of vocabular
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by Margh 15y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that "Steam loses user database" isn't quite the same as "Steam database of salted data compromised"? For a moment there I thought all my Steam purchases were, you know, lost.