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by T-hawk 16y ago
> I'd be more likely to read a comment with a score of 95% than one with a score of 20%. Seconding this idea, I really love it. The biggest problem with a linear point count is the large dependency on a comment's visibility and number
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> And that doesn't take into account maintenance. Which is the elephant in the development room. IMO, maintainability is exactly what good programmers should be judged on. Any programming project of any meaningful size and usefulness
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Picking the nit: 2641 hours of uptime from the start of the year until the downtime began, so the uptime calc is 98.88.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> The mere fact that they perform deduplication, which is not possible if they can't read your data It is possible because it's client-server. When a new file appears in the Dropbox folder, the Dropbox client calculates a hash of it an
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by T-hawk 16y ago
>if we took all capital letters, all numbers, and 6 punctuation characters, we'd end up with ~67 unique characters, for a combined 82 billion permutations. 82 billion may sound like a lot but it is not. Suppose you had a few multi-core
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by T-hawk 16y ago
I also went to a college with a student-adjudicated honor system. It really does work, because the students actually have the better incentive for applying discipline. They're the ones that will be competing with the scoundrels for class
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> Real idea synthesis, non-trivial 'show your work' calculation required -> hard to cheat And also harder to evaluate and grade; the professor or TA must be willing to invest an hour or several in reading through the longer answers
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by T-hawk 16y ago
The comments on the original article do suggest another variable. The schedule may not be randomly arranged. The judges or the court clerks could actively arrange for easy cases earlier and more diffficult or complicated cases later. IOW
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by T-hawk 16y ago
You also have Microsoft making efforts to obscure HTML completely to create lock-in to Microsoft's design tools. It's long been easy to create a "web page" with Frontpage or Word as a WYSIWYG editor. The followup was ASP.NET Web Forms, wh
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by T-hawk 16y ago
I think the more surprising thing about the headline is that Texas needs 3,500,000 employees to run its state government?
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> It is absurd that a smart hacker is 30x better than a mediocre hacker. How maintainable, readable, understandable, and extendable is their code? It's well within possibility that changes and enhancements could take 30x longer to deve
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by T-hawk 16y ago
From the title, I expected an article about the parasitic financial industry, which creates no wealth but slices a cut for themselves in moving it around. The title is actually inaccurate, since money is not destroyed. Nobody is $20 poorer
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by T-hawk 16y ago
I think the problem angle is slightly different: it's too easy to use simple string concatenation for SQL. That works across pretty much every web stack, so it's the path of least resistance to get something working, and many a developer
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by T-hawk 16y ago
The name is a step in the funnel and causes X% dropout at its stage, just like everything else. If BCC were named Bingo Card Spewer or AR were named Appointment Annoyer, X would be higher for each. If Facebook were named CreepyStalkerHave
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by T-hawk 16y ago
If a Sudoku has one and only one solution, then it is always solvable without guessing or backtracking. It just might not be within the scope of the human brain. There exist (many) configurations where every cell is influenced by every ot
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> A "like button" based search is going to eat their lunch Only until the content farms build bots capable of liking each other. It's an eternal arms race. Google figures out a property that quality content has (links from other site
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Only if their wages also get inflated, which does not always follow with price inflation of goods. And apparently would not happen on the free market, or else the government would not have to force it with minimum wage legislation.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Oh heck yeah. We at HN are immersed in tech. Our experience is with companies whose core domain is tech and take things like source control for granted. But what about your local gym or sports franchise or restaurant chain or newspaper?
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Encryption in itself does little good without a certification authority model. Without a mathematically robust CA chain, you never know if you're sending your encrypted traffic to your intended target or to a man-in-the-middle attacker pre
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by T-hawk 16y ago
I'm not aware of any general-purpose package for German Tank Sort, but it is sometimes implemented in specialized applications where you know a distribution is close to uniform. Run one round of estimating, then run bubble sort. The worst
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> Please don't do this... having bots launch a DDoS attack on kernel.org is not good. Yeah, point them at microsoft.com instead! Should be easy to find a hefty service pack or DirectX install for the bots to hit...
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> is there much benefit to precaching ALL of them? ... If anything they're probably hurting performance by bombarding the local nameserver with a flood of requests. It's a tragedy of the commons. Each individual user gains personal per
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Parent didn't need the downmods - it's the same poster replying to himself with "what a noob". I was about to post this same answer till I saw this at the bottom of the replies.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
Sure they have. My 486 built in 1993 had 8 KB cache, 4 MB RAM, and a 120 MB HD. My desktop built in 2009 has 2 MB cache, 2 GB RAM, and a 250 GB HD. Okay, the cache has lagged behind by one or three doublings compared to the other storage ty
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> It's easy to see that the homeowner "owns" the house: More to the point, the homeowner is the one exposed to appreciation or depreciation on the open market. The bank has a fixed dollar value worth.
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by T-hawk 16y ago
XP installation packages, even updated through the last service pack (SP3), only ever came with IE6. You have to actively download and install IE 7 or 8. Not too surprising if the netbook vendors trying to compete on rock-bottom price did
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by T-hawk 16y ago
It's been standard practice forever for magazines to date themselves anywhere from one to twelve weeks in the future from the calendar date of physical sale. Cars too, unless you claim that you can't buy a 2012 model car in July 2011 (hint
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> I mean, last year BCC essentially added twenty full time teachers to the US just by preventing people with masters degrees from preparing for class by cutting construction paper with scissors and then writing on the construction paper
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> but I can't understand why ODOJ would get hit instead of ODOI. Wild guess: "job" is a highly competitive keyword subject to lots of scammy black hats ("work from home for $$$!!!"), while "internship" is much more clear of the scum?
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by T-hawk 16y ago
> It's about addressability - being able to link to things. Links are kind of important on the Web. Of course, but not in all applications and situations. What does it mean to link to the middle of a Farmville game session? It's by de

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