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by asto 15y ago
Yes, this is a very big problem especially for startups. Ex: Let's say I set up a nice startup that receives attention from an investor who purchases a 10% stake in my company for a million dollars. My company is now worth 10 million "marke
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by asto 15y ago
What sort of ultra-geek uses that sort of setup? The current generation of that notebook has a processor that runs at less than 1GHz! The only reason he gets away with it is that he mostly does mail on emacs from console. It's too minimalis
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Don't be a Grin Fucker(bothsidesofthetable.com)
13 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
You're right. I just found the whole article rather poorly thought out when compared to the articles that I usually find posted here and was a little irritated. Could have explained why that concept won't work rather than just abuse. 1. How
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Understanding AMD's roadmap and new direction(anandtech.com)
39 points by asto 15y ago|4 comments
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by asto 15y ago
1: Indian Government must encourage piracy. 2: Internet enlightens people. 3: It is in the interest of a large organisation to keep people in the dark (like governments in third world countries) If 2 & 3 are correct, how will 1 ever hap
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by asto 15y ago
Why has this been downvoted?
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by asto 15y ago
We both made the mistake of giving them both numbers. In retrospect, that was a bad move. Now, I can't even change it because my account is closed permanently and there's no way for me to contact them.
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by asto 15y ago
Ha! This is nothing. I actually know why my adsense account doesn't work. Google thinks I'm trying to scam them by creating multiple accounts because they have another account on their database with the EXACT same address and phone number.
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by asto 15y ago
It could be social engineering. Once the author got his address and phone number, I presume he just sent an official looking mail or made an official sounding phone call to have the documents mailed to him.
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by asto 15y ago
I just looked up the author. Here's his Linkedin http://www.linkedin.com/in/achaudhuri July 2010 – Present (1 year 7 months) specification, design, and implementation of ActionScript Well, that explains a lot now, doesn't it?
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by asto 15y ago
A strawman argument by an Adobe shill. Javascript and V8 aren't competition because they're faster, they're worthy competition because they're fast enough for most applications.
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by asto 15y ago
RIP USA. You have a fraction of the economic growth and almost all of the bullshit that comes with a "developing nation".
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by asto 15y ago
In India, not many people have access to a decent education let alone access to the internet where you can freely read up on any medication that you are prescribed. Many of the doctors here are assholes who will prescribe antibiotics for ev
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by asto 15y ago
No. Here's a description of a patent they filed for their book scanning tech. http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_pat...
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Delhi High Court (India) says, we can block Facebook and Google like China does(economictimes.com)
1 points by asto 15y ago|0 comments
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by asto 15y ago
The barrier to entry to get oneself added to this list doesn't seem to be much. I added part 1 of 2 of the circle and already my stream is being flooded with stuff like this -> http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/442/gplushn.png/ Inf
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by asto 15y ago
Honestly, that was a rubbish calculation! Price of the camera? Gas? Really? The thing with any service that is heavily dependant on the person that does it, is that it cannot be priced by anyone other than the person doing it. How can you p
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RIAA: Someone Else Is Pirating Through Our IP Addresses(torrentfreak.com)
112 points by asto 15y ago|15 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Didn't look like he was trying to fake anything at all. The VLC control bar was in plain view on a screen in front of everyone! Then he lets the audience in on the gag by letting go of the wheel while the video continues to roll.
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by asto 15y ago
I remembered the benchmarks as being well in nginx's favour but it seems I was mistaken. As maratd has noted above, apache with mod_php is faster. But like I said, nginx is great for doing loads of things and I sort of "quit php" recently s
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by asto 15y ago
Nginx + php-fpm is MUCH faster than a vanilla apache httpd + php stack. The magic though, is not just speed. It's also the feature-set. I'm working on a pyramid(pylons) project right now and will be using nginx to load-balance the wsgi ser
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by asto 15y ago
Earlier, nginx was used to handle just static content and passed the php stuff to apache httpd. These days people just use php-fpm instead so nginx can handle everything in a php based stack without needing apache.
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by asto 15y ago
This is a space that will likely never be "disrupted" because the people capable of doing it don't have the huge capital required and the people who do have the capital don't really give a shit.
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by asto 15y ago
That makes sense on a desktop page but on my cell phone browser, no ads are displayed on most sites. Yet, they paginate. I don't get why!
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Ask HN: Why do so many mobile websites/blogs paginate?
3 points by asto 15y ago|4 comments
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by asto 15y ago
Click the double arrow on the right of the search result, right click the title that then appears and click copy link address. Not as straightforward as before but not too bad.
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by asto 15y ago
There is a big downside to getting it done by companies like Monsanto (or tobacco companies as mentioned in another thread below) - Insane public opposition. Drugs and their users are already perceived to be "morally bad". Club them with a
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by asto 15y ago
Hemp as fuel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp#Fuel
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by asto 15y ago
For those who don't know who "Sabu" is: Sabu is an alleged leader of the hacking group LulzSec. He features prominently in the group's published IRC chats, and is a supporter of the "Free Topiary" campaign. The Economist refers to Sabu as

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