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by apetresc 11y ago
What does it mean for a home computer to become "gendered"?
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by apetresc 11y ago
> Kaplan-Moss then asked what a 10x programmer looked like and put up a series of pictures of "Mark Zuckerberg". > The first was actually the actor who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network movie, while the second was the
843.
by apetresc 11y ago
How would that work? There's no homomorphic encryption schemes anywhere near general enough for that, as far as I know.
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by apetresc 11y ago
Oh, interesting. For me it's at 0 viewing, and stuck in a 'Requesting content' loop -- and of course, as I wrote that, it found a peer! :)
845.
by apetresc 11y ago
Unfortunately it seems to have gone to 0 and therefore disappeared? =/
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by apetresc 11y ago
Except nobody actually said the words "man up" — it was the OP's own paraphrasing of a general sentiment they observed, which they then turned around and labeled as sexist for using the word "man", all in the same
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by apetresc 11y ago
The day they implement that is the day that hashtags stop being useful. "JOIN OUR SWEEPSTAKES TWEET US FOR A FREE IPHONE #apple #gameofthrones #facebook #mylittlepony #android #sex" That already happens now when the only incentive
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by apetresc 11y ago
> NASA expects to make up to three awards at a minimum of $5,000 each from a total award pool of $15,000. Considering that these ideas (if this challenge was meant to be taken seriously) would be part of a likely dozens-of-billions-of-do
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by apetresc 12y ago
Not only do they execute drug traffickers, they have a very loose definition of what "trafficking" means. If you are in possession of at least 500g of marijuana, you are BY DEFINITION considered to be trafficking it, regardless
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by apetresc 12y ago
What do you suspect their motive is?
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by apetresc 12y ago
Is there an e-mail subscription option for this?
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How the Price of Paint Is Set in the Hearts of Dying Stars(plus.google.com)
1 points by apetresc 12y ago|0 comments
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by apetresc 12y ago
"No pull requests" and "It's a full on GitHub replacement" seem like incompatible statements.
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by apetresc 12y ago
... for what?
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by apetresc 12y ago
> Nobody knows exactly how many true “short sleepers” exist, but estimates put it at one percent of the population. So the first documented case of it was in 2009, but "estimates" think it affects 1/100 people? Who can tak
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by apetresc 12y ago
Interestingly, from my hotel room in Shanghai right now, the article appears to be blocked.
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by apetresc 12y ago
This was intended as a sort of fun screening puzzle for my company at an upcoming career fair, but I figured the HN crowd might get a kick out of this type of puzzle too.
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Mastermind Codebreaker Challenge(mastermind.rubikloud.com)
8 points by apetresc 12y ago|6 comments
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by apetresc 12y ago
He's agreeing with you. He said they're going to look into [preventing] it.
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by apetresc 12y ago
Is that really as widespread as you say? I looked at the last few hours of the six most popular chat rooms and control-f'ed for "cv-pls" on all of them, and found a grand total of ONE hit: http://stackoverflow.com&
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by apetresc 12y ago
I feel like the author recently learned the word "shibboleth" and just wanted an excuse to use it as many times as possible in an article.
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by apetresc 12y ago
I can't speak to Apple, but I know for a fact that AWS' claimed 11 nines SLA (99.999999999%) for S3 is purely theoretical - in practice, they've never lost an object yet.
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by apetresc 12y ago
I find it funny that the problem was they didn't think enough people know about the `--depth 1` flag to git clone, so the solution is to use submodules (which far fewer people know how to use properly).
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by apetresc 12y ago
Because it would suit their style, juxtaposing two contrasting things (classical literature and marketing-driven pop culture that has lots of sequels).
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Image Kernels Explained Visually(setosa.io)
188 points by apetresc 12y ago|29 comments
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by apetresc 12y ago
It's probably the same one; the one linked here is stamped "1899" because that's the year it was entered into the Harvard library, but the date "July, 1869" is clearly visible on the bottom of every single page
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Twitch launches “Music Library” for approved royalty-free music(music.twitch.tv)
2 points by apetresc 12y ago|0 comments
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by apetresc 12y ago
If that were true, there would be an order of magnitude fewer commercial database systems on the market.
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by apetresc 12y ago
Oh no! I've been listening to people calling it the DPRK instead this whole time! ;)
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by apetresc 12y ago
I guess I'm saying, by the time guns are actually involved, I think they have 0% chance either way.

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