Wilya

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by Wilya 13y ago
You still can use an external email address. On register screen, I still see a "Use my existing email address" link. I've almost never used gmail, and things work fine.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I much prefer the current HN smartphone experience to some stupid thing that displays one comment at a time in a huge font and is missing half the options. It does suck on non-smartphones phones, but nobody cares about that anyway.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Credit card use varies a lot between countries. Germany is more than 10% of Europe and they're known have low credit card use, so they might influence stats a bit.
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by Wilya 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I don't think you can do pure bit checks in a modern CPU. It likely does comparisons of char in a single hardware instruction anyway. Actually, if you look at the nginx source I linked, the comparisons of th
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by Wilya 13y ago
The nodejs source credits [0] as inspiration. It seems that nginx actually does something like that: first, it switches on the length of the verb, then it tries to compare the string (using the ngx_str6cmp() and similar macros) to the ones
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by Wilya 13y ago
Because having a bully-ish personality does make you a more efficient salesman (the less ethics you have, the more strategies you can use to convince people to buy stuff), and it's easier to be a bully in tech-related jobs. Jobs wher
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by Wilya 13y ago
The difference is Reddit isn't particularly looking for profit. Unless they completely change their business and way of doing things (unlikely to happen), they probably will never make a profit.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Alternate title: "XML performs as badly as JSON". JSON is used because Javascript, Python and Ruby (among others) understand it without needed external libraries, and because it's fairly readable for humans. Performance has n
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by Wilya 13y ago
I'm surprised this post isn't dead yet, to be honest. That's the usual answer to any attempt to discuss moderation.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Just like native apps, except the end-user no longer has control over anything. I can't wait.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Not what they claim: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#Does_AmazonEC2_use_ECC_memor...
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by Wilya 13y ago
I just read the TOS of my provider, and servers aren't banned anywhere. Reselling is prohibited, any kind of "professional use" is prohibited, but they don't say anything about servers. Besides, the reason nobody hosts s
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by Wilya 13y ago
Rule of thumb: if you can quote Obama's point of view on something, it's probably politics. (food would be a false positive, I suppose, but you wouldn't get so many other errors)
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by Wilya 13y ago
My problem with political topics on HN is that the focus is (in 90% of the cases) completely US-centric. Hearing what US people think about their health system, their education system, their immigration system, or SF roads is pretty uninter
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by Wilya 13y ago
I can't speak for everyone, but that's certainly the main reason why I'm not on Quora. Even before the whole "login to read" thing, I sometimes went there, skimmed through the topics and profiles of people and my im
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by Wilya 13y ago
It is useful for projects where functionality/content is what matters and the only design requirement is "looks sort of professional". If you have the money and use for a real design, bootstrap is probably not for you. It doe
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by Wilya 13y ago
A more synthetic overview: http://caniuse.com/#compare=opera+12.1,opera+15
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by Wilya 13y ago
Netboot enables you to boot in a rescue environment. From there, you can usually mount your disk, do some basic tests, and fix mistakes. Not as efficient as a direct console access, but for the occasional "Oh , I just firewalled my
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by Wilya 13y ago
The french site http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/ (not sure it's accessible outside France) shows the new prices. It seems the german site hasn't been updated yet.
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by Wilya 13y ago
It's dedicated hosting, not some shared managed thing. You do whatever you want with it.
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by Wilya 13y ago
Apple does it, and it seems to work fine for them.
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by Wilya 13y ago
This is not about the GPL'd code people take from you, it's about what they add/change to this code. Whether you can directly slap the GPL back on these modifications is very discutable. You can most certainly sue them for br
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by Wilya 13y ago
Zsh certainly does something like this. Here's what my autocompletion looks like: http://leukensis.org/files/zsh-autocomplete.png The program has to provide its autocomplete files, but it's very powerful. My
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by Wilya 13y ago
Owncloud client is based on csync, which a quite weak system compared to unison, in terms of file consistency. No idea how well unison performs in constant Dropbox-like usage, but you shouldn't let the flaws of Owncloud deter you: file
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by Wilya 13y ago
> In reality, it would take 18,918 days or 51 years for 550 analysts to listen to just one day’s worth of fiber optic data gathered for Tempora. This sort of statement is so misleading it hurts. It's kind of sad that people are so i
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by Wilya 13y ago
It's not an obvious position. They need users for feedback, but don't want to claim their software is fully production-ready. On http://www.discourse.org/faq/ you get both what just quoted, at the top, and be
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by Wilya 13y ago
The fact that you need multiple SQL queries to fetch the user handle seems like a orm fail and not a call for denormalization. Why not, you know, use a join ? (And I find the fact that Twitter actually cares about their initial load time pr
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by Wilya 13y ago
Because it's written in PHP ?
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by Wilya 13y ago
The separate process per tabs feature has different drawbacks. Notably, it means Chrome uses more memory and can handle way less simultaneous open tabs than Firefox. I'm glad both approaches exist.
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by Wilya 13y ago
The average yearly rate divided by 1000 doesn't give me a very high number at all. Maybe it's because I'm in Europe, and salaries are much lower here. Diving it by 100 and taking the result as a daily rate seems a bit more re

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