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Rhapsody rebrands itself as Napster(theverge.com)
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Don't follow your passion–but bring it with you(youtube.com)
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by anw 10y ago
Coming from the Bay Area, I think your analogy with the Dodgers is a bit of a stretch. He is talking about people that are hated for being successful. /s
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by anw 10y ago
This may be true if it weren't for that fact that you mention "Are we on Hacker News? A technology site?" As engineers, developers, and designers, there is a mantra of designing software to "fail gracefully". This m
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by anw 11y ago
http://www.lugod.org/presentations/virt-lugod.pdf and http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf These seem to be the most popular ones that show up.
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by anw 12y ago
This is perfect timing for a link to "developer edition" laptops. I've currently been scouring, trying to find something I can be happy developing on for the next 5+ years. The big selling features for me [and most developers
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by anw 12y ago
As the title is a bit vague, I'll clarify for those who may be interested: This is about people who collect objects and information, things such as antiques or items of curiosity. This story is not about why the world needs more _debt_
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by anw 12y ago
An interesting point was brought up about licensing Nintendo through Atari. How would the gaming world be different now had they gone with it? > "In the early '80s, Atari debated whether to go with the internally developed suc
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by anw 12y ago
Before clicking the link, the title reminded me of an article I had read a few years ago. The article mentioned how true randomness can be prone to heavily favoring one outcome for a long stretch; while "faked" randomness will usu
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Ask HN: SDET / QA viewed as 2nd string Developers
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North Korea says it didn't hack Sony; offers to help investigation(engadget.com)
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The 4 year old Linux kernel hacker(git.kernel.org)
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by anw 12y ago
I can't speak on too many scrapers, but Selenium offers a whole lot over just Web scraping. It's a wonderful tool to automate functonal tests, perform monotonous tasks, and other handy things. If you do any sort of Web development
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by anw 12y ago
No problem. I feel it's good to automate stupid little things like this, and to share those stupid little scripts with the world. And yes, I'm an automated tester. :)
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by anw 12y ago
For those of you who may have trouble viewing this, I hacked together a little Selenium script to scrape this for you[1]. [1] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/84449fe7860e292e904f The list: Category: FICTION & POE
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by anw 12y ago
I wouldn't even limit it to semi-official government leaks. For instance, New Gingrich said: > No one should kid themselves. With the Sony collapse America has lost its first cyberwar. This is a very very dangerous precedent.[1] &gt
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by anw 12y ago
How many North Koreans "sleeper agents" do we actually have inside the USA, that companies see this as a legitimate threat? Shutting down an event because someone is able to say "remember Sept 11" says more about our own
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by anw 12y ago
The problem with assuming... http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-p... I find it funny how fast pop-media news jumps on top of a bandwagon without actual investigation. Earlier we were being
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by anw 12y ago
> In an editorial published on 4 September 2013, the Los Angeles Times hailed a step forward. “States and schools shouldn’t cling to cursive based on the romantic idea that it’s a tradition, an art form or a basic skill whose disappearan
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by anw 12y ago
Other than the obvious, some things worry me. > We have confirmed that initial entry was made via a team member's compromised login details and not as the result of a vulnerability in the phpBB software. > The attackers were able
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by anw 12y ago
Oh, how I wish back-issue collections also included the advertisements that ran in them. Just the same as old comic books were filled with brine shrimp and muscle building ads, I would look forward to seeing those old ads about compilers th
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by anw 12y ago
Interesting. It's also interesting that Facebook developers are using Pastebin for things such as this. I would assume that they'd have an internal wiki, or gist-like app. It's also noteworthy to see how they set up their acc
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by anw 12y ago
First of all, I'd like to offer my appreciation to the Dr. Dobb's staff, along with Andrew Binstock (I thoroughly enjoyed and found myself nodding my head at articles such as "Just Let Me Code"[1]). I still have some of
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by anw 12y ago
This seems to be an ignored article at the current time, but I'll chime in. The author admits to having only been to San Francisco three times; and then proceeds to write a tech piece on Silicon Valley. While SV is part of the SF Bay A
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by anw 12y ago
Since this is a child comment under my post, I'll chime in, too. When I first started out here, I was making aprox $6666 a month ($80k annual). Of that, I would take home around $4100 after taxes and withholdings (including travel expe
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by anw 12y ago
I've lived in a few major metro areas, so I'll take a shot at helping you. I'm interested in seeing if anybody else has run into these things happening to them, as well. Coming from a background in CS, you have a definite adv
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by anw 12y ago
The comments on HN are actually more provoking than this article. For instance, the author states: > George Orwell said, “Within certain limits, the less money you have the less you worry.” He was wrong. by taking out of context the quot
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by anw 12y ago
> ... allowing me to read all kinds of articles/comments on topics like this, as well as financial & nutritional material - which I assume lead to better decisions for me & my family. It may just be wording, but I'm goi
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by anw 12y ago
Videos like this make me truly yearn for our civilization to expand off of our home planet. I've finally gotten into some of Philip K Dick's works, as well as adventuring in the game Eve Online. Both make me question how far we co
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by anw 12y ago
"I wonder sometimes if it were possible for everyone to contribute to one linux desktop if the situation would be different today." To a point it could be beneficial, but then we would hit the same wall we're coming to here.

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