SeanDav

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by SeanDav 13y ago
Paywall is stopping me - any way to see this once I have reached my 10 articles per month limit?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Not in any way trying to troll here, but other than as an intellectual exercise, why on earth would one want to develop in Node on the JVM? Surely Java/Scala/Clojure etc would solve any problem easier and faster than Node on JVM?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
http://boingboing.net is a rather interesting, if somewhat alternate, source of tech and other news.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I find myself using the word "nice" too much sometimes!
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Greens calls for clear-out of 'climate change deniers'(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by SeanDav 13y ago|2 comments
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Ouch, I suppose the moral of the story is don't play poker for money using a wireless connection.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
You cannot just reply to this "information request" unless you know what the consequences would be to any answer and if one could be potentially incriminating oneself inadvertently. The only sensible solution would be to consult a
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Being worried or unsure does not give the Government a right to harass people. As we seem to both agree, the prosecutors have too much power and way too little common sense.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
This reminds me about that saying: 'There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.' According to the table about relative popularity of programming languages, Javascript (5.2%) and C# (5%) have only 5 times th
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by SeanDav 13y ago
The guy found and brought to their attention a simple exploit that could have seen valuable source code released into the wild and the guys at Prezi are debating about paying him a bounty? Does this mean that Prezi do not value their code a
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by SeanDav 13y ago
No scandal, just don't buy their products, and tell all your friends to not buy their products.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Unless I missed it, where does one get the continent shapes and country outlines?
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Ask HN: Is Firefox causing me to be IP-banned from HN?
7 points by SeanDav 13y ago|3 comments
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Bitcoin is most certainly not zero sum. Zero Sum implies that for every winner, there must be a loser. It is quite possible for everyone to lose money on Bitcoin, with no winner. If tomorrow the USA gets together with China and Russia and p
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by SeanDav 13y ago
It is only "smart" to invest in Bitcoin with hindsight. Bitcoin is a pure gamble, no one can predict what the price will do and if it will all crash horribly tomorrow. There is very little difference between "investing"
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by SeanDav 13y ago
email sent - thanks!
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Thanks for these ideas, I will try them out. In the meantime I have contacted Cloudflare and await their response.
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Ask HN: Cloudflare not letting me through?
2 points by SeanDav 13y ago|5 comments
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by SeanDav 13y ago
My first experience of Elite was on a PC. It truly deserves its reputation as one of the best games ever made, not only from pure gameplay, but also because technology-wise it was just in another league for its time.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
You are right, just as there are still COBOL applications around.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
This would probably be a good thing. Right now the internet is way too US driven and focused. A more balanced, global distribution of talent would be far more beneficial.
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Have you ever seen a pride of lions hunting? The teamwork and understanding involved there is way beyond that required to recognize that another animal might not notice if one moves slowly. One very simple step is they recognize the concept
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by SeanDav 13y ago
The mindset that it is worth keeping an open mind if the consequences are potentially catastrophic - is that the mindset you are having difficulty with?
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by SeanDav 13y ago
or it may be the absolute truth - which you are dismissing as anecdotal. In either case it is worth keeping an open mind, because if it is true, then we are in serious trouble. Sticking your head in the sand and saying "no data, no dat
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Could not disagree more with you. It is far from pointless. First of all the next person in line feels good, because a stranger helped them with no underhanded motives. Then there is a high chance they will pass it on, getting a second dose
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by SeanDav 13y ago
A friend of my Father's was a mainframe guru, back in the day, and he told us about "cylinder" hard drives that would take several hours to power down because the torsional stress on them would get too high if slowed down too
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by SeanDav 13y ago
This seems to answer a question I asked myself just yesterday: A neighbour's cat and my cat had a argument, no actual fighting - just lots of staring, yowling and that strange growling sound cats make. Nothing too questionable there, b
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I suppose it is naive to believe that scientific papers should not be published until they are peer reviewed and more importantly, their results duplicated. If this is impractical there should be separate sections in journals for non-replic
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by SeanDav 13y ago
I have tried using f.lux several times as it is a recurring theme on HN, but it just does not work for me. All it does is give everything a red tinge, but the light intensity remains the same. I feel like it is cooking my eyeballs and blurr
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by SeanDav 13y ago
Always there will be the suspicion that that is what they are admitting to but what are they not (or are not allowed) to admit. They may be storing all snaps. They say they aren't but who knows.

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