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by benihana 13y ago
> I don't really see how state laws come to a head with federal ones in this case - state police and lower will not enforce the federal laws, but FBI/DEA etc. can and probably will continue to. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by benihana 13y ago
Ha! I bet it sure feels good knowing you use a superior product that gets features well before the masses who use Firefox (psssh how uncool) get them.
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by benihana 13y ago
> Maybe it’s that a good technical implementation is a distant second to a good product This is what computer scientists should take away from this.
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by benihana 13y ago
> As for following up after conferences and such, the proper protocol is an email. Oh it is? Cool! Okay guys, morgante solved all our communication problems. All you have to do is go on the internet and tell people what the proper pro
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by benihana 13y ago
> Because you don’t realise how much the barrier has moved. We didn’t care when we had to pay unreasonable taxes last year. We don’t care when politicians lie to us in front of our sad faces, time after time, election after election. We
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by benihana 13y ago
It's so hard to read an article that starts with such a ridiculous assertion: Really, nobody takes your website serious anymore if you don’t offer an API. Especially when this article gets posted to Hacker News.
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by benihana 13y ago
The Apollo 8 flyby scenario is amazing. It's awesome how much this changes my mental model.
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by benihana 13y ago
In my opinion, this will only take off if installing everything is easier than installing Windows + Steam + drivers. If Valve can give you an image to download that has the OS, the drivers, Steam, Firefox, and all the basic codecs you need
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by benihana 13y ago
> It's surprising how many people either forget about modems or never had internet in the days of modems. Pardon the snark, but what is surprising about that? Every person with access to the internet born since about 1997* will hav
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by benihana 13y ago
This is really awesome, congrats!
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by benihana 13y ago
"The results of hard work and dedication always look like luck to saps." -- leveling up in Morrowind (no idea who to attribute this quote to)
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by benihana 13y ago
> Tools: valgrind and gdb are obvious. The fact that someone is saying they don't know where to start seems to indicate this isn't true.
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by benihana 13y ago
> They use other people's creative work to promote their business, for commercial gain This is what irritates me so much about the majority of buzzfeed's articles
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by benihana 13y ago
Just like the global food shortage that Malthusians assured us was bound to happen, the ozone layer fading away and UV rays destroying us all, Y2K breaking every computer on the planet. This time it's for real. This time, technology an
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by benihana 13y ago
Because obviously someone's title declares what he is capable of or likes doing. Because someone with a title that isn't 'hacker' instantly discredits his ability to hack. Obviously. Because people who didn't study
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by benihana 13y ago
I will never get tired of seeing these kinds of posts on HN.
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by benihana 13y ago
This is fantastic. I like the VH1 channel. Just watched it a second time. This is legitimately beautiful.
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by benihana 13y ago
The US Government isn't a monolithic entity that has a singular opinion.
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by benihana 13y ago
>Github optimized being lazy, and this was appealing, and in doing so they broke most of the technical and social structure that held together open source's ability to produce reliable, stable, well-documented software. And yet, her
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by benihana 13y ago
> More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives. But in this case it does, as quality of life over the entire earth has improved over the past 100 years and continues to improve.
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by benihana 13y ago
I'm sorry, but "switch off the most popular code repository in the English-speaking world to avoid this one thing" is really silly advice.
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by benihana 13y ago
How can I make myself feel better about what I do by trying to diminish the work other people do using the same technologies?
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by benihana 13y ago
I hate these kinds of posts. It's a guy who thinks he knows more than he does trying to tell the most successful social network in history how to make things 'better' for an extremely tiny sample size that he thinks is much m
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by benihana 13y ago
Also, this is a 2006 Xbox 360 problem, not a 2014 Xbox One problem. Hi, Microsoft, I have a computer in my pocket. If I'm watching tv, just send me a notification to that. Chances are I'm on it if I'm on the couch anyway.
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by benihana 13y ago
> Combined with some progressive taxation this works out to be massively more efficient and helpful than most other forms of welfare. Is this empirically proven somewhere? Or is that what its proponents are saying? Forgive me if I'
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by benihana 13y ago
Because Google is in the business of aggregating, storing and analyzing huge amounts of customer data. Apple is not. Google is a much more attractive target for a spy agency trying to poach data from. Apple has gone on record saying they en
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by benihana 13y ago
I mean technically OS X is an open source OS with a closed-sourced windowing system built on top of it. I hate myself for posting this comment .
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by benihana 13y ago
> my competition takes it, at this point I feel like I'm the one shaping my competitor. Obviously the only solution is to start putting horrible features that people will hate.
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by benihana 13y ago
I actually have grown to dislike Litmus to be honest. I've sent an email to Litmus and to a device it was emulating, and it looked great on the device and busted as hell on Litmus. Leads to some false negative bugfixes.
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by benihana 13y ago
Because the vast majority of people enjoy pretty emails with non-monospaced fonts, whitespace and colors. It's mostly hackers who want to show off how old school they are that complain about html emails. Also, most emails like this hav

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