Shish2k

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by Shish2k 11y ago
> we don't make hypotheses and don't do experiments. I don't formally write them down (unless it's a particularly complex case), but during debugging and performance tweaking I find myself making hypotheses and experi
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Meanwhile in England, a law from 1835 has recently been used to declare them illegal :( http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/uk-hoverboard...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I wonder if anyone makes a phone with LEDs for all hardware functions, like some laptops have LEDs which light up whenever anything accesses the built-in webcam?
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> pg saying that downvoting for disagreement is ok. I'm surprised I've not heard that before; but either way, I guess I stand thoroughly corrected, and will know better in future. Thank you for replying to explain my error and
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> You glean just as much information from someone clicking Like and leaving no context as you do someone clicking Dislike and leaving no context. I disagree; Perhaps a programming analogy instead? if(x == 0) # when this is true, you kno
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I mean HN the community rather than HN the website (As in, every time I've seen a meta-discussion about the HN voting system, something along those lines has been mentioned; though I guess that's more "culture" than &quo
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Imagine you're at an automated restaurant. There are buttons for "order fries", "order cake", "order sandwich", and "do not order pie". Can you see why the last button in that list is not as usef
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by Shish2k 11y ago
For disagreement, write a comment explaining /why/ you disagree. (It's similar to HN's policy* of "prefer discussion to downvotes") * EDIT: I mean culture; as in I've seen it mentioned a lot by users of th
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by Shish2k 11y ago
So we now have explicit optional to go with implicit optional. Still looking for an explicit not-optional where the compiler will complain when a possibly-null value is passed in :(
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Trying to correct all the misunderstandings in this discussion would be a little soul crushing; but just picking this one comment as it seems well-intentioned and doesn't go anywhere near anything NDA-covered ;) > break stuff, but b
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I've watched a few companies go down the shitter using known good ways; and seen companies with mind-blowingly horrific software succeed based on marketing and contracts. There are a lot of anecdotes, but I have yet to see any data sug
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by Shish2k 11y ago
This terminal emulator is also a file browser and media center, so you can save space by removing your old ones of those ;) (tyls is ls with thumbnails, and tycat is like cat except that if you try and cat a movie file to stdout it will dis
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> precisely knowing when an app is running and when its not seems inherently dependent on the app [...] How do the init systems you mentioned tackle this? In systemd's case, it provides an API so that the app can explicitly say &quo
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Digitally anonymous and free of network surveillance, sure. Physically anonymous and free of a cop simply walking up and arresting you, not so much...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10176289
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by Shish2k 11y ago
correlated.org doesn't seem to have updated in ages -- the dates keep updating, but the correlations stay the same...
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Which can be anti-gamed by charging $50 for new installs then $10/mo for each consecutive monthly renewal
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I wonder where all the women are ? I'm fairly sure that the human race as a whole is 50/50 split; but dating sites are 99% men, the tech industry is 90% men, when I take public transport it's 75% men, pubs are 80% men, const
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by Shish2k 11y ago
I would; though for me going out to eat with friends is more about the "going out with friends" - where we end up is a fairly minor detail
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> How do you square these claims with the public outcry over a brief glimpse of Jannet Jackson's tit? "America", perhaps? Clarkson is racist and violent; Jackson is a human being with human body parts - the latter crime is
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Approximately nobody outside the tech industry uses VPNs to hide their real IPs (the number of people using VPNs, period, is relatively tiny compared to the overall population of the internet); approximately everybody who uses the internet
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Meanwhile, kids in Britain are sparking urban planning changes by slapping mums :( (Not entirely joking; I wonder if it's media bias, or are kids in less-well-off countries like this really so much more motivated to create and improv
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> What do we do about the historic content that will never, ever be ported to anything other than Flash? Stick it in our history books as an example of what happens when you tie yourself to a proprietary platform?
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> On almost all elements in the GUI you will see the API-path on mouseOver This is such a great thing, I wish more apps would adopt it -- it's such a joy to use I keep looking for excuses to use it when I don't even have a need
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by Shish2k 11y ago
Why? It seems a perfectly cromulent word for a concept which has no other succinct description
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by Shish2k 11y ago
> They didn't cheat. Also, use of physical violence isn't explicitly banned by the rules of tic-tac-toe. I think I've just found a new winning strategy that "isn't cheating" :D
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by Shish2k 11y ago
The hash function is completely irrelevant to this bug - whether you use a hash that returns 0 for every input, or invent a hash function that returns a perfectly unique and unpredictable hash for all inputs, PHP will still shoot you in the
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by Shish2k 12y ago
If they make a worse product, then in the long run, they get more customers...
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Gah, looks like that changed recently (I did an upgrade a couple of weeks back and it wasn't the case), and I can't edit my comment any more :(
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by Shish2k 12y ago
Upgrade from wheezy. Continue using sysvinit because "continue using what's installed already" trumps "systemd is default for fresh installs". Problem doesn't even exist. (I actually like systemd, just adding t

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