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by Udo 11y ago
> Not to mention that this has been shown on HN numerous times. Yes, and submitted by different users at that. I flagged this. Apologies to the submitter if I'm wrong about this, but since he isn't even here to answer questio
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by Udo 11y ago
> Both companies had successful crowdfunding campaigns but neither is shipping a product yet. That sounds like you might have to refund some or all of your contributors. After the acquisition, your project will cease to exist. It'
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by Udo 11y ago
> The reflected image will have depth and can be viewed from a (small) range of angles. Just like a reflection in a mirror is actually 3d. Isn't that the same as saying that a drawing on a sheet of paper is actually 3D because you
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by Udo 11y ago
That's exactly how I imagined it, thanks for sharing your experience. From the fan perspective I have to say that I don't care whether the creator missed a deadline or not. I just want to know that, somewhere, someone is working h
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by Udo 11y ago
That's an important point. I was immediately reminded of Limit Theory ( http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/08/mia-limit-theorys... ), where the creator went dark suddenly early this year. I think th
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by Udo 11y ago
> If you read the rest of my comment you'd see that I already mentioned people like you exist. I do apologize if I misunderstood you, but re-reading your comment and mine I still don't believe that's really the case. Eit
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> I don't think that's the case, I think it's just a lie told by people working in ad sales I don't work in ad sales, and I'm not lying. Yes, ads are beyond annoying and they're making some websites border
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by Udo 11y ago
It's not about macguyvering something, it's about reflecting on how well different solutions stack up with what you actually want to do. There is no one-size-fits-all ranking formula, at least in my opinion.
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by Udo 11y ago
I think it became disastrous for Google when they made the decision to serve image ads, and even worse: animated ads. This means as a user you can no longer whitelist Google ads with the expectation they'll stick to unobtrusive text-on
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I agree. It's a good solution for all cases where the intent is to have a negative vote exactly cancel out a positive. The method in the article combines a quality rating with a quantity rating, but it's a bit unwieldy and diffi
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by Udo 11y ago
I think the misunderstanding might come from the fact that a Magnetar produces many gamma ray bursts over thousands of years until it finally runs out of energy, but a supernova is a completely different process which happens only once per
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by Udo 11y ago
> This never sits right with me. Diversity for the sake of diversity. There is something to be said for trying to prevent (or break up) a monoculture. Monocultural companies are slow and rigid, and ultimately liable to lose perspective
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> Or, was the Magnetar created during the nova? Yes, it's a neutron star with an exceptionally strong magnetic field. Under the right conditions, a star collapsing into a neutron star can become a dynamo-like object. The magnetic
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by Udo 11y ago
I was confused by the numbers at first, so: that's 17k requests per second, spread out over 4 dual core Xeon (Haswell) machines, which works out to just over 4000 requests/s per machine. It's still a respectable number, but i
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by Udo 11y ago
That's a separate question though. Fact of the matter is people do tend to put an enormous part of their lives on social media platforms. So it's on there right now , which is too late to consider if it was a good idea to trust
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"Facebook tends to “memorialise” their account – freeze them so they can be viewed, but providing no access to past messages. [...] Facebook also offended a fair number of bereaved people with its Year in Review clips [...] The proble
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by Udo 11y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote or local engagements throughout Europe or the US. I'm specializing in getting web app MVPs done, refactoring, and bug hunting. Languages: PHP, JavaScript, Lua, Ruby, Java, C Environments: LAMP stack, NginX, N
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by Udo 11y ago
Location: Germany/EU (currently) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: (preferrably) PHP, JavaScript, Lua, Ruby, but I'm open-minded Résumé/CV: https://github.com/Udo/ * I started my career
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by Udo 11y ago
@jamiegreen, if you're reading this: - your notification email should not come from "support" (at least give the sender a good human-readable name) - it's good that you're showing a featured stream on the
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Yes, I thought I addressed that as well, sorry if I wasn't clear enough. I agree that the lesson here is that it goes both ways as far as timing and learning are concerned.
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It might be the law of large numbers. The larger the school, the larger the probability for one or more really mean kids per age group. This is then probably amplified once more by school size since mean kids thrive on a large audiences and
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by Udo 11y ago
> If your kid learns the alphabet at 4 or at 8, what's the difference? It might make a big difference to the individual kid. One of my earliest memories is seeing how adults read words and numbers, I must have been between 4 and 5
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by Udo 11y ago
I disagree that Reddit is an incubator of hate, but the article makes a good point showing it's a channel for all kinds of communication, including - apparently indiscriminately - racism and other kinds of hate. In much the same wa
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by Udo 11y ago
So they filled movie scripts into a chat bot and then had an incoherent conversation with it - the remarkable part being that the incoherent conversation was about morality. On its own, this seems like a non-story. Is this an effort to push
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> Welp, this causes a huge disparity because the bill comes in and either you need to go line by line to get the total, then impose a line by line tip The alternative is to make the waiter go around and handle each guest individually.
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by Udo 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischemic_cascade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1161422-overview http://www.ncbi.
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by Udo 11y ago
Yes and no. Most hypoxic brain damage occurs in the form of re-perfusion injuries. If that cascade could somehow be halted, prolonged anoxic episodes would not necessarily lead to the cell death landslides we see today after strokes and car
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by Udo 11y ago
Boy am I the wrong person to attack on this. I'm absolutely with you on the idea that we should be working harder on preserving, restoring, and - where possible - functionally reconstituting viable brains (of people who wish it). As a
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I dissected the dead in med school, and I've worked as a TA in anatomy class afterwards. Several close family members have died recently. I cared for my mother when she became terminally ill, and ultimately had to watch her die. I had
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by Udo 11y ago
Those might all be true and it's understandable why nobody wanted to support all that long term, but that doesn't mean people should abstain from developing their own languages and platforms, just because it lead to nasty code tha

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