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by aston 18y ago
Sounds like Vista + UAC.
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by aston 18y ago
Disqus is Django. Don't lose the faith.
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by aston 18y ago
Not free? Really??
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by aston 18y ago
Boo. Georgia's got the coolest numeral typesetting of any commonplace font. If you really think about it, why shouldn't numbers have a "lowercase" mode that features descenders and ascenders?
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by aston 18y ago
Really. Haha. Ask me about it sometime.
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by aston 18y ago
Didn't expect you to show up here, but since you are, here's my major disagreement: What makes you so certain that Tesla has so much more ability to execute than the big three auto companies? They're years and years behind in the "deliver a
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by aston 18y ago
That background sound has got to go. I almost want to flag this article just for that. edit: Oooh. Awesome. You only hear it if you visit the site in Internet Explorer. It's this type of immature, irrational Microsoft hatred that makes al
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by aston 18y ago
Nearly every email he's posted has ended up on his blog or someone else's (with permission). Which means he's still blogging.
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by aston 18y ago
I was just kidding about the reading comprehension. Mostly. Here's an example he gave of an ad hominem attack that doesn't involve calling the other person's attack ad hominem: A: "All rodents are mammals, but a weasel isn't a rodent,
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by aston 18y ago
Nicely done. Should've mentioned that Kishore is an MIT alum. Or maybe I have too much school pride.
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by aston 18y ago
He only points out that many arguments that point out ad hominem arguments are themselves ad hominem . He doesn't restrict ad hominem to that one case, though. And if you didn't suck at reading comprehension, I wouldn't need to point t
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by aston 18y ago
Fun is ./westley 0
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by aston 18y ago
I assume you've seen the plugins that'll let you typeset equations within Word using LaTeX syntax? http://texpoint.necula.org/
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by aston 18y ago
The fix for this sort of thing is pretty simple. Just keep a nonce on a user (the "user version" if you will) that increments every time a user makes a change to their login credentials, store that nonce in their cookie, and if the one in t
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by aston 18y ago
Leslie Lamport is hilarious (and also a genius). If you're ever bored and want to try to decipher how to implement PAXOS based on a prose description of Greek society, check his original PAXOS paper, "The Part-Time Parliament": http://rese
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by aston 18y ago
There are lots of teams on the leaderboard that are actually metateams. My favorite is "When Gravity and Dinosaurs Unite." http://www.netflixprize.com/leaderboard They actually do one better than your suggestion, which is that they use ma
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HTTP errors -- illustrated(flickr.com)
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by aston 18y ago
<pedantic>recuses</pedantic>
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by aston 18y ago
Here's why I don't like Mike Arrington's style of journalism. Earlier today, he was singing their praises ("One hell of a revenue model"): http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/facebook-rolls-out-veri... It's great that he gets twice the h
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by aston 18y ago
Gotta love the all lowercase. It's, unfortunately, the type of thing that once you're dismissed from duty is looked back upon as more evidence that you weren't quite cut out for the job.
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by aston 18y ago
A question for the more financially minded around here: How much of an impact would Cuban's sale of the stock have made on the price? As in, had he waited until their announcement, then sold all of his (largest minority) share, how much of
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by aston 18y ago
Your 'unscientific' analogy between WAV/MP3 and GIF/JPG is actually really spot on, technically speaking. Except unlike GIF, WAV doesn't even attempt to be small.
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by aston 18y ago
Are you being transferred?
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by aston 18y ago
Come back once in a while? You know when the poker games are...
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by aston 18y ago
JPEGs are really good at throwing out the right data for photographs. GIF and PNG are non-lossy formats; you keep every single pixel you put down (although for GIFs you do lose fidelity in the color space if you use more than 256). JPEGs wi
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by aston 18y ago
This could've been stated more strongly: The only time JPEGs are superior to GIF/PNG is for photos (like taken with a camera).
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by aston 18y ago
Would you mind going into more details about this quid pro quo going on between you guys and Facebook?
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by aston 18y ago
Well, you're above me... http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by aston 18y ago
In case people aren't paying attention, this is well-respected news.yc-er cperciva's big project. Looking pretty good, Colin! edited for clarity
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by aston 18y ago
Yeah, they've been around quite a while. I remember them starting to acquire book-selling companies right around when me and a few friends had a really popular one starting at MIT. We abandoned that space 'cause it looked like there was no

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