MikeAmelung

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by MikeAmelung 8y ago
So if the normally extremely anti-racism posters of HN have concerns about Chinese people, we should automatically assume it’s racism.
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by MikeAmelung 9y ago
Can't really make that argument without considering the population of a country, right?
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by MikeAmelung 10y ago
Sometimes it's easier to acquire the goods than it is to fence them. Same thing happens in real life all the time; burglars end up tossing what they've stolen because they can't turn it into money.
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by MikeAmelung 13y ago
I've used the Stripe Transfers API, and am considering using it on another project soon, but I've also been looking at Balanced. One of the pain points for me was that funds are only available to be transferred 7-ish days after th
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by MikeAmelung 13y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that you won't try to run some executable that depends on Ruby 1.9.3 and SomeGem 2.9, but you're on your rbenv that is Ruby 2.0 and SomeGem 3.0.1. I'm not a Ruby developer, but I know t
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by MikeAmelung 13y ago
The resistors change the voltage of the resulting signal. So the Microsoft keyboard probably checks whether the circuit is closed and the voltage to determine which keys are actually pressed.
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by MikeAmelung 13y ago
Why does it animate counter-clockwise when I click from San Francisco to London?
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by MikeAmelung 13y ago
Ignorant? You're going to say someone else is ignorant while comparing some mild gas expansion in a closed bottle to devices designed to maim and kill. It's almost like, why am I even writing this comment...
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
I don't understand why you find that distasteful? I've spent way more time than I should have following many, many conversations about this insanity. When you filter out the crazies on either side, it seems that most rational people have de
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
DOS didn't have a gradient gray background; it was black.
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
She was hiding in real life, while being a "badass" on the internet. I think I'm going to open a bait shop myself, and call it "Big Dongles."
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
I believe he means that each process requires ~5 seconds of CPU/system time per update, meaning that even a single 8-core machine wouldn't keep up. It's not really related to how many threads or processes can be created, rather how many can
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
I'm not interested in logical fallacies. I don't think this is a particularly logical subject. When you say "people" should learn to code, do you mean everyone? I posit, completely illogically, that some people will contribute greater good
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
I think this is a good point, but I'll take it a step further. The kid that likes drawing doesn't have to be a programmer, so stop trying to teach it to him and let him draw without the constraints that programming brings. We don't all have
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
Here is an article with details about the sale: http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2010/08/16/daily5... Not much for the second largest building in St. Louis. Then again, they were looking at a considerable bill for renovations.
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
Still $11 below IPO. So much wealth!
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by MikeAmelung 14y ago
No kidding. What was Socrates, Galileo or Kant's IQ? The hilarious part is that you can find IQ scores attributed to these people, despite the fact that they were smart long before the idea of a supposed measure of intelligence. Ranking uni
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by MikeAmelung 15y ago
Nobody has a health problem because the celery farm was overproductive. It is the technological advances that have introduced the health problems, because it's hard to get a quick meal that doesn't involve hormone-injected beef and genetica