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by achille 16y ago
Notebook: 15" Macbook Pro, 8Gb mem, Hybrid HDD, Antiglare (matte) display. - Quicksilver, with lots of other custom scripts - SMCFanControl to control MBP Fan speed & - gfxCardStatus to force use of Intel GPU (increase
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by achille 16y ago
$800 is what it costs to eat in the DC Area for a month (if you don't cook)
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by achille 16y ago
True, but head to digg.com and see the number of comments on the stories. Then compare to reddit their "smaller*" competitor.
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The death of digg is not exagerated(techradar.com)
3 points by achille 16y ago|2 comments
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by achille 16y ago
Why not make it a fully fledged site.
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by achille 16y ago
Heck, 50% of this entire industry is foreign born.
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by achille 16y ago
Imagine today one of your employees quits on the spot, tells you he's quitting because his car was clamped. You have no idea who manages the parking lot, but now you just lost a resource on your project. How did your manager end up reacting
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by achille 16y ago
Is this flash based or is it an iframe? How are they mitigating the risk of malicious sites that steal a users credentials as they are entered into an observable DOM hierarchy? Edit: Looks like authentication is entered into a pop-up windo
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by achille 16y ago
You can't transmit data faster than the speed of light.
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by achille 16y ago
Wait, so you are saying we would feel the effects immediately, but the light would not disappear for eight minutes? So let's assume once can cause the sun to vanish instantly somehow. If that's the case, would it then be possible to setup a
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by achille 16y ago
I have the same issue, but instead I just blocked all sources of distraction and replaced them with a message reminding me to focus.
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by achille 16y ago
Most networks allow their phones to be unlocked after two years for this very reason. Even AT&T will give you an unlock code for other Motorola, Nokia phones once the two year obligation is fulfilled.
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by achille 16y ago
This is turning into bad PR for Conde Nast. The news cycle is turning this into "Conde Nast begging for money", which in turn is likely to lose millions in the market. It's embarracing too. Conde Nast executives will wake up this week to ca
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by achille 16y ago
Writing ADA code; It's about as exciting as it sounds.
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by achille 16y ago
The commenter above just didn't realize it; the submitter never denied he's using affiliates.
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Be warned of transparent affiliate links. Summary: They highjack on_clicks
7 points by achille 16y ago|1 comments
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by achille 16y ago
> First, the guy clearly didn't do this, which would have been obvious if you would have taken 5 seconds to check before accusing him. Actually he is using affiliate links, it's transparent (see http://skimlinks.com ) See my comment
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by achille 16y ago
Even though it's not linked directly -- it's still an affiliate link. He's using http://skimlinks.com/ The link to the site has no affiliate code, but the on_click event is hijacked -- when I click it I am redirected to: https://scripts.
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by achille 16y ago
To note that even though a preforked process shows 30mb of memory usage, it may be using as little as 1mb -- while the rest is shared memory.
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by achille 16y ago
I don't get it -- I read through the entire review and I was hard pressed to find where ARM shined. The VIA chip was faster in most tests, Intel followed, the aging AMD chip came usually third and ARM last. The Intel Atom used ~3x more powe
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by achille 16y ago
Side note: does anyone have a Quora invite?
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Are there any online resume-building tools -- would anyone be interested in one?
2 points by achille 16y ago|2 comments
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by achille 17y ago
Not april fools.
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by achille 17y ago
"applying a function to objects in a graph" implies something like: bold(element) and center(element) which yields: <bold><foo /><bar /></bold> <center><baz /></center> CSS
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by achille 17y ago
The docs are still up: http://docs.sun.com/ The same site, just rebraded.
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Has anyone run SunSpider (or any other performance metric) on the iPad?
1 points by achille 17y ago|0 comments
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by achille 17y ago
Why encrypt the cookie at all? Why not just have server1 sign it and haver server2 verify server1's signature?