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by alayne 14y ago
I have seen people store dates in string form, in memory, converting to and from string form as they are updated. It hurts to read code like that.
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by alayne 14y ago
Two liter bottles are an anomaly. Every other pop container is in ounces. Cans are 16 ounces and bottles are usually 20 ounces. I can't think of a situation where "metric is common" for consumer items.
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by alayne 14y ago
100% That's the beauty of probability after the fact.
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by alayne 14y ago
Even if you got Linux to boot, would you have drivers for the hardware?
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by alayne 14y ago
Why does Rails do anything related to git anyway? What if I use some other version control system?
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Toyota Moves To Settle 'Sudden Acceleration' Lawsuits For More Than $1 Billion(npr.org)
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by alayne 14y ago
I disagree. Most operating systems, desktop applications, web browsers, and fundamental Internet services (web servers, BIND, MTAs, etc) are written in C/C++. Dropbox is not in that league of important.
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by alayne 14y ago
I recommend some other functional language like Scheme or OCaml. All I got from my time with Haskell was frustration. I read RWH and worked through tutorials. I never got to a point where it didn't seem like the simplest tasks weren't painf
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by alayne 14y ago
Apple has a very high customer satisfaction rate. You don't get there with just clever ads.
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by alayne 14y ago
TANSTAAFL
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by alayne 14y ago
A lot of the CGI seemed bad to me. It would have been better if they had just dropped the far away scenes.
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by alayne 14y ago
If you wanted to make money as a mobile app developer, would you put your effort into Android?
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by alayne 14y ago
This reminded me of the Rohloff Speedhub ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohloff_Speedhub ).
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by alayne 14y ago
Indiscriminate wiretapping and data gathering is worse than targeted strip searching with probable cause. In the U.S., it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment.
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by alayne 14y ago
There's a big difference between constructive criticism of genuine problems (such as issues with Apple Maps searching) where you may learn something and the "you're holding it wrong" kinds of comments. I'd go to reddit if I wanted to read a
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by alayne 14y ago
The Google Maps voice is worse.
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by alayne 14y ago
Apple doesn't have anything close to a monopoly in the smartphone market.
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by alayne 14y ago
4 hour old account. Silly web page that uses 1465 bytes to display an IP address and pull in Google analytics. I don't see why this is HN worthy.
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by alayne 14y ago
When you see that many conditionals, there's usually marketing bullshit going on.
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by alayne 14y ago
I've been pretty happy using Mail with GMail set up as an Exchange host in order to get push. I am glad that Google is putting effort into their client. I couldn't figure out how to get the new Gmail to do a real delete instead of an archiv
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by alayne 14y ago
Voyager did pass Pioneer 10 (1972) in the late 1990s. The alignment mentioned by others made the difference. New Horizons, which is going to Pluto, had the fastest launch speed of any man made object.
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by alayne 14y ago
Anecdotes like yours don't prove anything. That's why we have science. Without a control group and test group we don't know if your conclusions are statistically valid. Maybe most people get better grades when they watch TV and play video g
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by alayne 14y ago
My work email is usually HTML which is clumsy to reformat with the precision I had formatting simple text using Emacs+Gnus on Usenet. Normally I'd rather have the transcript of successive emails anyway.
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by alayne 14y ago
Many people believe that privacy is a fundamental human right. The UN lists it in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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by alayne 14y ago
Dave Winer via Gizmodo? Give me a break.
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by alayne 14y ago
I don't actually use Notability for sketching. I was trying to think of something with limited drawing capability that was similar to Paper. I use ArtRage and SketchBook Pro. Without full color selection, Paper wasn't that useful to me. I w
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by alayne 14y ago
It's on the charts because it's "free". The overall rating is only 4/5 stars on itunes. They use the annoying model of making you buy tools like color as in app purchases. Notability, which has some similarities, sells for 0.99 without in a
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by alayne 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3260639
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by alayne 14y ago
512 byte blocks for ls is specified by POSIX. That would probably be a painful change now.
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by alayne 14y ago
It looks like the paper doesn't refer to B-trees. It refers to binary search trees.

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