VintageCool

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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   I had the impression that LCS players were only disallowed from streaming those games if their stream advertised League of Legends content. At the top of the Elo ladder, queue times can be up to half an hour as the matchmaking service tries
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   For the headphones issue, try using pavucontrol. It allowed me to direct audio output to headphones or speakers on an app-by-app basis. Alternatively, it's possible that you might need to reload pulseaudio after plugging in the headpho
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   Question: why isn't gold the international reserve currency?
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   I do not think that this article is correct about the motivation of the gang members low in the hierarchy. The Robert Taylor Homes were poor, isolated, and cut off from the rest of Chicago by a highway. The young men who joined the gang did
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   I thought that the whole HN userbase was going along with the joke.
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   Xi Jinping's third plenum starts tomorrow, and many people believe that they will reform the hukou system, allowing people to sell their property in the country and buy property in the city. That could create a lot of urban homebuyers
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   Thank you for the arrow at the bottom of the screen.
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   The Economist's endorsement of Obama in 2012 was pretty narrow. I think they switched twice over the course of the summer, and the final endorsement basically amounted to "we don't like Obama's policies, but we distrust
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   by VintageCool 13y ago

   I get a 500 Internal Server Error on Congressman Raúl R. Labrador (R-ID).
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    TokuMX. They ripped out the native MongoDB storage engine and replaced it with the TokuDB engine. http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/04/29/what-tokudb-might-mean-...
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    > In short, Silicon Valley has killed major innovation. That's being somewhat extremist. I don't think that major innovation stopped after the Facebook IPO. I doubt that it has even slowed down that much.
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    HN also sits inside a center tag using a table with width="85%", as I recently found out while trying to override its CSS rules. It's bizarre that an organization so forward looking uses deprecated html tags. <body><
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    I can touchtype with my WASD hand, but not with my right hand.
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    I've seen people using Wordpress to power a high-traffic REST API.
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    That was my interpretation too. This may have been motivated as PR for Toyata's efficiency consulting arm.
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    PHP?
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    That's not necessary. Microsoft's net income this quarter was $4.97 billion. They're doing great. They failed to meet Wall Street's expectations this quarter, but that doesn't mean they're getting dragged down.
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    Python is not an appropriate example. Guido van Rossum started working on python in the late 80s while employed by a computer science research center in Europe, then continued working on it while employed by a computer science research in t
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    by VintageCool 13y ago

    Our server API still receives noticeable traffic for versions of the app that date back to late 2011 when we first launched.