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by allwein 15y ago
This makes me sad. I always thought that part of being a good user on HN was submitting feedback via comments and voting. To imagine that there are users out there who don't consider this a community, and want only to leech off the useful
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by allwein 15y ago
About 4 seconds after that feature was implemented, someone would write a greasemonkey script that clicks all the abstain buttons for an HN article.
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by allwein 15y ago
Well, tomorrow is better than never, so hence not the worst. To reiterate on day, the better quote would be: "The best time is yesterday. The second best is today. The worst is some day."
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by allwein 15y ago
At some point, spoilers have to have a statute of limitations. It's been 12 years since that book came out. Likewise, Bruce Willis was dead the entire time; Vader is Luke's father; and Rosebud was his sled.
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by allwein 15y ago
Posting a random screenshot without giving any indication about what you perceive to be the problem is probably not going to get much of a response.
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by allwein 15y ago
If you're not using the SSD for some of your data files, you're losing out on a lot of the performance. I keep all my code working directories on the SSD as well. Compiles of even large projects just scream from an SSD.
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by allwein 15y ago
Congrats!
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by allwein 15y ago
First off, not everyone knows about Khan Academy. Secondly, the link is unspecific because the OP hasn't detailed exactly what areas he needs a refresher in. It might be Algebra, it might be Calculus. Better to send him to a general highe
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by allwein 15y ago
Apple no longer applies DRM at all in their music store. It still does in the video store though.
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by allwein 15y ago
In addition to phishing and malware, I'd also check to see if this user had a PSN or Gawker account with the same email and password.
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by allwein 15y ago
I think you're looking for "An Awesome Book", by Dallas Clayton. It actually is a children's story book, and I bought a hardcover version the last time it came through here. http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebook/inside.html
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by allwein 15y ago
Not too strange when you consider that most people don't understand networking and the internet. From the point of view of some people: "It's the Playstation Network, obviously you have to use a Playstation to get on the Playstation N
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by allwein 15y ago
If you haven't worked with legacy systems, you may want to check out "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0131177052/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... You'll want to make your boss's profitable projects your top prior
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by allwein 15y ago
I find that my procrastination disappears from lack-of-sleep as well. My most productive days at work are the ones where I get less than 4 hours of sleep.
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by allwein 15y ago
I like your example, and it's a good one for the specific case. I imagine a more formal proof would involve a reduction of any "non-leaky" abstraction to being capable of solving the halting problem, which is already proven impossible.
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by allwein 15y ago
> I'm thinking I'd be eating anything I could kill. That, and anything I could gather Given that I just finished watching this video about how poor Haitians eat "dirt cookies", I'm inclined to agree with you. http://www.youtube.com/wat
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by allwein 15y ago
>but the moment you start wanting to eat fish/meat, your food expenses will skyrocket. Not necessarily, though it depends on what you consider skyrocketing. I find that it only adds $2-$3 a day, depending on what your eating and how yo
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by allwein 15y ago
>Second, there are so many different diets, fads, foods, etc to eat or follow that's it ridiculous to even argue one way or another. I hate to invoke the name of Tim Ferriss for fear of the downvotes, but that's exactly one of the thing
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by allwein 15y ago
>since 50-60% protein would make a lot of people want to barf. I don't think that's true. I'm currently on a diet that's fairly high in protein (and to go with the theme of the article, comes out to $4-$6 a day I believe). I don't thi
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by allwein 15y ago
What will be amusing if Yahoo later acquires the newly invigorated Delicious 18 months from now.
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by allwein 15y ago
Right, but it's those poor schmucks who used their debit cards online as if they're credit cards that can get really screwed by this.
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by allwein 15y ago
Opportunity costs are measurable. It all depends on your assumptions whether the measurements are reasonable or not. Ex. If I make $2000 a week as a contractor on a steady contract, I know that the opportunity cost of taking a week of u
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by allwein 15y ago
Or it could have been a feature. Back in 2000, I worked on the ecommerce site of a major consumer electronics manufacturer. One of the "features" that was implemented was for people that had an account, but hadn't logged in and had decided
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by allwein 15y ago
Even if every hates this anti-feature, I think it's led to a (perceived) increase in quality of discussion.
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by allwein 15y ago
Dropbox already has provisions for restricting those accounts which use an excessive amount of bandwidth. They'd be able to block those files without needing to know the actual contents.
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by allwein 15y ago
At the time they requested the removal of the tool, they hadn't yet fixed the problem server side. I don't think it's egregious to request that the tool be taken down while they worked on fixing the problem. Much like how security exploit
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by allwein 15y ago
I just took a look at the FAQ for Nook Color, and I have to admit I'm a little disappointed at the battery characteristics: Only 8 hours to a charge. Takes 3-4 hours to recharge. No USB Charging.
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by allwein 15y ago
>it doesn't attempt to rotate the screen to match my position as often as iOS apps do It was your particular phrasing of this issue that made me think that this may be a feature of the Nook, and not a bug. My biggest complaint about any
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by allwein 15y ago
I don't see how you can comment on Kindle not being a quality product if you haven't used one at all. It's easy to use and built well. I haven't heard of any widespread issues about it at all. Also, The Kindle SDK program hasn't been canc
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by allwein 15y ago
What impressed me were the videos of people taking the Model T "off-roading". I would never attempt to drive my current car into a ditch like that.

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