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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Oh interesting - hard to keep track of which version Firefox is up to these days. They should really swap to a system like Ubuntu's - using the date for the version number. It was released over a month ago too. Has it had any effect on
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
This will have a pretty bad effect on Firefox's market-share if it goes live. That said, it's a solution for the current problem and should really be applied to all plugins - I'm not sure why java is singled out here, many of
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I haven't seen this Haskell syntax before: [1,3..10] ⇔ [1,3,5,7,9] Imagine running into this one on a production system... Someone needs to make a 'Haskell: the good parts' or at least a lint.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Really interesting read on how much interaction HN brings. There is a lot to be said for quality over quantity when it comes to page views. I believe you are wrong about dismissing that top comment in the other post as snarky, negative and
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> Standing on a raft in the middle of a lake. Water, it's time to go. We don't need water anymore! > Standing in the middle of a desert. It would be great if we had more water! This is literally what these arguments for or a
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I don't disagree with you at all - paper money is terrible. However, everything else is worse. The only better option is the complete removal of any kind of barter exchange - like a Star Trek economy - but that relies on a lack of scar
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Key reasons this was accepted (in my opinion, anyway): 1) Stripe employee. 2) Very clear product. Potential market is huge and has money and is willing to pay for this service - they already pay banks for it. First successful product in thi
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There are many, many problems involved in pinning your value system to a random, naturally occurring substance. See [1] for one argument. Another obvious problem: if we pin our money supply on gold, what happens if we find an asteroid made
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Some people believe that China buying US government bonds is a favour to USA as it allows the US government to spend all of this money coming in on various government projects, such as military spending and social security. If China stopped
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Lua is a far smaller language than Python. Python's complexity makes it extremely difficult to optimize because feature A conflicts with feature B, while Lua you can make much more specific optimization code. Python's standard met
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There is a way - this is just a license limitation imposed by Microsoft to make their pricey server OSes an easier sell. However, you can fairly easily modify Win7 to allow for multiple logins [1]. [1] http://www.serverwatch.com&
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Surprisingly enough, it is not. Looks like even Microsoft is now making apps for iOS and Android before making them for Windows Phone...
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Running a company is not just about grand strategy, regardless of how big that company is. As they say, execution is more important than the idea. It doesn't only apply to startups.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Running over HTTPS is not enough, stripping SSL when you can MITM or alter traffic is incredible easy and adds no real complexity. You must both force https and have HSTS enabled at a minimum [1]. Some javascript to ensure that the page bei
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Take a bit of travel through Africa. The amount of arable and unused land is simply beyond imagining.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I find the funniest part of all of this DRM browser talk is that the people most in favor of this kind of standardized DRM are pirates. It's fairly easy to see why when you look at the obvious point that any DRM running client side can
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I believe you've got this incorrect: We have the following: ServerWeb ServerDNS Attacker Background: To poison DNS for ServerWeb, Attacker will need to send forged DNS packets to ServerWeb from ServerDNS. However, ServerWeb
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
If you don't use G+ there is nothing this opt out would do. This is an opt-out for having your G+ profile picture and name show up next to search results for people who have you in their circles. If you +1 a page, then that page can b
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
$50,000 sounds incredibly low to get this to market. Surely setting up manufacturing and shipping and sourcing the components is going to eat up more than that? They've already promised nearly all their backers at least one of these th
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Close to triple through natural occurrence? Come now, you're the one being facile.
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Again, Microsoft never brought any advances to those industries. They provided a platform (closely identical to those offered by numerous alternatives) on which the real software that made these advancements was hosted on. Your argument is
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
The author seems to revolve his article around MS software running manufacturing, ambulances, etc. This is only true in the most literal sense possible. The software that runs these industries just happens to be written upon an MS platform
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
Delphi is very heavily used in the financial industry in RSA and is one of the more common languages in use in the country (the others being Java and .NET). The IT industry as a whole is fairly backwards in the country and extremely slow to
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I get that it makes you uncomfortable, but it feels like you're asking for someone to give you the ability to stick your head in the sand and excuse the problem. The problem is real and will likely manifest itself dramatically over the
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I'd think it would be because "right person, right time" would be what everyone else would be saying, while "1K times and have gotten a 60% feedback rate" are hard numbers with 60% being extremely high for this type
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
I guess it would, but I don't know how you'd get around it. If I were to post something on HN that was of interest to friend A, then sending him a link to the HN comments seems like the natural thing to do. Friend A would then pro
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
It's not ironic in the slightest. He's correct - the HN crowd is definitely afraid of slaving away for hours working on our own or other people's ideas that are simply not useful to the world around us. We're the guys wh
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I feel sorry for the author of this post - he actually believes hard, boring work is the only way to accomplish anything. I've done both hard, boring work, and easy, efficient and enjoyable work. The easy work was both more enjoyable,
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
There's no conspiracy, 42Floors just shares the HN blog post links internally and gets people to upvote them. You only need a few quick upvotes to hit the front page, and having a few 42Floors employees vote up 42Floors content is more
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by RyanZAG 13y ago
> let me control the cycle sweeps and everybody's happy. Maybe you are happy, but 99.9% of people would probably be very unhappy with that solution. How would you even go about accomplishing that in a way that wouldn't make y

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