Torn

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by Torn 16y ago
"... Of course, Thiel is Palantir’s largest stakeholder, and his venture capital firm The Founders Fund has bankrolled much of the startup’s initial costs." This counts as news?
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by Torn 16y ago
Changed, thanks.
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by Torn 16y ago
Isn't making it rich why most people get involved in the startup communities? And is the state of the education system - and a realistic view of who walks into the best jobs - not a topic that should interest hackers / entrepreneurs - a lot
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What's Wrong with Meritocracy(the-diplomat.com)
9 points by Torn 16y ago|10 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
Interesting they've included an integrated graphics controller (Intel) but also a discrete ATI card with 1GB of its own memory. I wonder if real-world gaming benchmarks will really have near the promised 3x improvements over the last gen MB
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by Torn 16y ago
I'm fully bi-lingual french-english and yes, I can 'think' in both languages, but I wouldn't say my simultaneous multitasking is that great. When focusing on complex problems I tend to tune absolutely everything else out.
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by Torn 16y ago
PhantomJS is quite nice -- headless javascript which leverages webkit for rendering. http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/
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by Torn 16y ago
Then why validate at all? Just send the user an email with an activation link. If it doesn't work and they're still logged into the site (with a limited account), then let them change their email address.
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by Torn 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by Torn 16y ago
Why would a Java / JVM issue hang the .NET CLR?
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by Torn 16y ago
That actually sounds like a really neat idea - throwing together a PhantomJS script that scrapes the content of a particular div containing Raphael or Flot and then renders as png.
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fail0verflow lecture on recent PS3 jailbreaking - 27th CCC 2010(youtube.com)
3 points by Torn 16y ago|0 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
I wonder what they're using? I'd guess at Lucene / Solr.
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by Torn 16y ago
The font on your website (even mouseovered) is hard to read, and not weighty enough.
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by Torn 16y ago
Lots of related discussion over on NoDPI: https://nodpi.org/ (edit: seems down at the moment) I actually wrote my LLM. Cyberlaw dissertation on Phorm and the impacts of behavioural advertising.. interesting to see they're still around aft
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by Torn 16y ago
Enterprise developer using Jersey to make RESTful apps here. I've come from a Django background in my own time, and while it's pretty verbose you can get a lot done with Jersey and spring-wiring things. Are there any complementary tools out
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by Torn 16y ago
You can't post wall or message links with ' http://lamebook.com in - giving error message in the linked screenshot.
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Facebook censors links to lamebook.com(imgur.com)
1 points by Torn 16y ago|1 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
If based on Cocoa, with more closed-source hooks, then probably not.
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The ars guide to trolling: Apple edition(arstechnica.com)
1 points by Torn 16y ago|0 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
Did you make it clear to Games Workshop why things weren't progressing properly?
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by Torn 16y ago
It's a little heavy-handed, but a pretty good analogy.
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The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure(axisofeval.blogspot.com)
35 points by Torn 16y ago|80 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
A properly standards-compliant browser. I know IE9 has partial support for CSS2, but I want them to go the whole hog (css3, acid3, svg, etc).
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by Torn 16y ago
Site completely unresponsive now. Oops. <title>We're sorry, but something went wrong (500)</title> ... <h1>Please, stop that.</h1> <p>We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look a
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by Torn 16y ago
I'm getting empty character boxes instead of chess symbols, even if I force UTF-8 in Chrome or IE. Any ideas?
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Implementing a partial serial number verification system(brandonstaggs.com)
60 points by Torn 16y ago|25 comments
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by Torn 16y ago
Related to logo? http://www.wow.com/2010/07/30/the-maelstrom-is-probably-epic...
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by Torn 16y ago
Use of SQLLite too - does that scale and perform well against something like postgres? I think what we're seeing here is an email/hype-grabbing attempt with an interesting vision, using the Heroku name for leverage. Would like to see it mat
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by Torn 16y ago
re 2) - you already have /artists/blah and /tag/blah so why not /users/blah ?

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