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by Torn 17y ago
Yeah, step (2) is apparently quite well defined :)
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by Torn 17y ago
I was surprised to hear that most of the 40,000 users are happy to pay £3/month to the creator in exchange for small bonuses in what seems to be a very niche (and I say niche because it's text-only, online) game. I wonder what the retention
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by Torn 17y ago
I've had Five Finger Sprints for about a year now, and have been heavily evangelising them to my friends. Running barefoot really does feel liberating, especially going off-road through parks, fields and trails. It's like being a kid again
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by Torn 17y ago
Ok, here's the ghist: - Guy's housing company provides backdated letter of deposit deductions, which they are obligated to provide within 45 days else refund the entire deposit no questions. - Mailing stamp doesn't have a visible date, inst
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by Torn 17y ago
Agreed. Not seen the Animal Crossing LP's yet, but am a big fan of the raocow super mario ones where he plays insanely hard rom-hacks and just rambles and rambles :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UYFSvsN1CY&feature=chann...
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by Torn 17y ago
Great thread, almost like a mini detective story but involving code!
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Windows Security: will rate of new threats soon outpace computing power?(derkeiler.com)
1 points by Torn 17y ago|0 comments
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by Torn 17y ago
Not entirely sure this is a new discovery -- I've seen that picture floating around for quite some time now. Link from 2005: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4200000/newsid_4209... 2008 story with higher res picture: http://www.e
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by Torn 17y ago
Nice work. Quick suggestion though (for ease of copy-pasting by end-users): From the resulting rendered html with line numbers, the line numbers are also copied into the clipboard, which is undesirable. Suggest you put them in separate el
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by Torn 17y ago
Think it might be related to the micropitching story here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=775045
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by Torn 17y ago
Having a single email address at the top of an email, necessitating parsing or eyeballing the content to understand the intentions and then forwarding it on to the appropriate people is surely more work, and less efficient, than the alter
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by Torn 17y ago
Exactly this. There's plenty of legitimate one-way uses of email communication. When I'm getting confirmation emails from Amazon after having bought something, for example, I do not expect to be able to reply to the machine sending them o
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by Torn 17y ago
Seems quite neat. I'd also recommend PythonTurtle. http://pythonturtle.com/
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by Torn 17y ago
Yeah, my sprints do smell bad quite fast. The fabric loves absorbing sweat. I'd recommend hand-cleaning them with washing powder in the sink, and really scrubbing the insides of the soles and fabric around the toes.
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by Torn 17y ago
100% correct. I don't use url shortners if I can help it, as it's introducing yet another point of failiure in internet hyperlinks. Who wants to bet that in a year or two there'll be another few url shortening services down the drain, and
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by Torn 17y ago
In Opera 10 b2, the python shell never seems to grab focus correctly, so pressing space will scroll down the page way past it, making it very fiddly to use! Along with hn user pmorici I'd like to find out what subset of Python this supports
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by Torn 17y ago
I wonder how performant this will be? From the benchmarks I've seen of Python / PHP / Ruby, etc. Ruby isn't blisteringly fast anyway, and if run in an interpreted Java VM in a relatively new in-house Java runtime then it might not be a grea
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by Torn 17y ago
Google allows you to turn the ads off.. so why the need for this 'hack'? Go to Settings -> Web Clips and untick 'Show my web clips above the Inbox'.
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by Torn 17y ago
Using opera 10 beta, and all I see is a grey screen :(
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by Torn 17y ago
It's a fair (and quite reasonable) conclusion but the article in no way supports it.
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by Torn 17y ago
+1, the article is a 10-minute gloss at best and has virtually no content or analysis. I mean come on, just look at the 'conclusion': These languages are interchangeable, especially for building web application. Neither are more awesome
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by Torn 17y ago
Yeah, I was expecting a story of how the hackers had reverse-engineered the device and found details of the skimmers
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by Torn 17y ago
Thank-you for the clear explanation.
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by Torn 17y ago
That's completely in-line with my point -- that 'ditching' email isn't necessarily getting rid of the time and effort involved in dealing with others' communication
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by Torn 17y ago
I don't see how this follows -- the colours are changing with each keypress (just as an md5 digest would change if you added a letter to the message) but surely you cannot know the key pressed without brute-forcing / breaking the hash, whic
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by Torn 17y ago
Except, he hasn't ditched email at all. 6. A few types of emails will get through for now. My filters allow emails for advertisers, interviews, refunds, and people who want to hire me, to get through to my inbox [...] I’m working on automa
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by Torn 17y ago
Not down -- the author has renamed the article (presumably for SEO) http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/stephen-hawking...
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IPhone 3GS Encryption "entirely useless"(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by Torn 17y ago|0 comments
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by Torn 17y ago
noted, thanks.
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by Torn 17y ago
Fairly easy to scan the comments the OP is talking about -- they're light-grey with negative scores, and it's clear they've had effort put into them.

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