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by bello 11y ago
Not always. Sometimes renting might be a better deal than buying. There are several factors which need to be taken into account, such as mortgage interest payments, opportunity cost of downpayment, property tax, tax deductions, property app
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Constructor.io(constructor.io)
8 points by bello 12y ago|1 comments
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by bello 12y ago
As a temporary solution, you could spoof the user agent by running chromium from command line: chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.1132.47 Safari
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by bello 12y ago
To anyone who knows more about law, is it legally/morally justifiable to hold individual executives liable for company tactics to this extent? Why don't they just ban/fine the company instead?
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by bello 12y ago
Not really, because one can easily argue that cassettes have "substantial non-infringing use". It's a little harder to argue for that in the case of TPB.
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by bello 12y ago
It's different because this time it's VC money, not people's savings. When a company is listed, the stock price better reflect the actual market value of the company (otherwise a dot-com bubble happens). However, if rich VCs
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by bello 12y ago
Good point! I always blindly assumed that removing whitespaces would lead to a decent size improvement, even after gzipping, so I ran a small test (gzip on linux, default parameters): http://i.imgur.com/U1O4Xg5.png The raw
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by bello 12y ago
Awesome initiative! As I was testing it, I noticed that the response consists of prettified JSON. I'm guessing that all that whitespace can be removed to save bandwidth?
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by bello 12y ago
Could someone explain why array writes are so expensive? I understand that a write would mark a cache line as dirty (significantly increasing eviction time cause you have to write-back) and that it could probably prevent the compiler from e
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by bello 12y ago
I really like Palo Alto for exactly the same reason. Nice sidewalk cafés and very walkable.
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by bello 12y ago
That makes sense, thank you!
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by bello 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not too familiar with the code. "This arena is mmap'd, with guard pages before and after so pointer over- and under-runs won't wander into it." Doesn't that mean that this will only protect agai
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by bello 13y ago
How's the fact that his dad was an architect during Nazism even remotely relevant to this discussion?
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by bello 13y ago
While I see how she had quite a few valid reasons for leaving, where exactly was the sexism described? Sure, some of those people clearly have issues, but I don't think it's reasonable to generalize that to a "sexist internal
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Why Silicon Valley Can’t Find Europe(techcrunch.com)
1 points by bello 13y ago|0 comments
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by bello 13y ago
While it's true that there is an "infinite supply of these problems", a good CS program it's supposed to teach you how to think, hence teaching you how to learn . If you have a very solid understanding of the fundamenta
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by bello 13y ago
"all the joins are done in client code" What's the point of joining in the application level? If you're going to join, why not do it in the database? That should be both faster and more convenient (unless your schemas ar
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by bello 13y ago
Unfortunately, few Caltech classes have lectures that are actually worth it to be posted online (unlike the MIT ones, who are IMO far superior in teaching quality, for the most part)
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by bello 13y ago
Excellent point. Since the Ancient Olympics, the Games were a period of truce. Any ongoing conflict was suspended. It was almost the only time where any disputes would be postponed for a later time. And we're talking about an actual wa
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by bello 13y ago
I don't think markets work like that.
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by bello 13y ago
What you're suggesting is converting a universal, concise, formal language into the potentially ambiguous and/or redundant "plain English". What's the point of that? One has to learn some math before being able to r
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VimFx: Vim-style keyboard shortcuts for Firefox(addons.mozilla.org)
1 points by bello 13y ago|0 comments
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by bello 13y ago
Personal analytics is indeed a very interesting topic (cool article from stephen wolfram: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic... ). The biggest challenge imo is privacy and security: How do
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by bello 13y ago
If you're looking for file snapshots and versioning, I've found Back In Time ( http://backintime.le-web.org/ ) to be awesome.
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by bello 13y ago
True. That's probably not what they're teaching in schools though.
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by bello 13y ago
Writing (0 == a) instead of (a == 0) to check a's equality with 0. It sacrifices readability. I'm sure there are tools (if not one can easily write one) that warn you for accidental assignment when comparison was meant instead. Mo
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by bello 13y ago
Please don't do that...
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Amazo announced the all-new Kindle Paperwhite(amazon.com)
2 points by bello 13y ago|0 comments