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by benihana 12y ago
I love WebGL and 3D graphics and particles, and love seeing WebGL becoming ubiquitous (when I first played with it I had to download a nightly of Firefox). But it's really hard to come up with a business use case that justifies using W
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by benihana 12y ago
I think this is a few years old. I remember seeing it before.
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by benihana 12y ago
Hey Iran, you hear that? If you're short on cash, sue Greece for that whole Alexander thing. I find it very hard to find sympathy for Greece at the moment. This is literally the fable of the grasshopper and the ant.
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by benihana 12y ago
> Probably sold US secrets to China and Russia >He's one of the most successful double-agents in history, with excellent public relations. >Snowden is almost certainly a double-agent based on the countries he fled to All th
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by benihana 12y ago
This is fantastic. Particularly helpful to me is the antipatterns. I've been playing around with Canvas for about four years now and I never knew to use clientWidth and clientHeight to fix the problems I was having using width and heig
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by benihana 12y ago
How about don't compare a European nation to a large city, do it to the US equivalent: A state.
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by benihana 12y ago
Scrolling didn't work, hitting right arrow did.
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by benihana 12y ago
I hear what you're saying but that view is too cut and dry and cynical when you look at reality. Some of the most amazing things we've accomplished as humans and some of our best amenities have been born out of military needs or t
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by benihana 12y ago
I hear what you're saying, but there were several posts and job ads in the who's hiring thread the other day saying "we don't care if you know $technology_in_our_domain, we want quick learners who understand concepts.&qu
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by benihana 12y ago
> Exchanging peace of mind and a huge decrease of life quality for some extra probabilities of being rich and extra consumption doen't worth IMO. I don't think you understand what it's like to live in the US and Canada as
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by benihana 12y ago
This was brought up two days ago when a similar story was posted. And the conversation then seemed to conclude it's not so much about how much water almonds and cows need to grow, it's about California inefficiently allocating res
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by benihana 12y ago
Can they not put plastic covers like that around the trees and capture water that way? Or does that kill the tree?
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by benihana 12y ago
Yep. I landed in the Upper East Side in a small apartment with bad lighting - the main window faced a building. The way it was built, I saw into my next door neighbor's kitchen and bedroom. I was really depressed that whole first winte
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by benihana 12y ago
There's a thread for these April Fools Day announcements: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302010
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by benihana 12y ago
I think it's actually a point against lining up variable assignations like that more than a point for spaces (I prefer spaces over tabs btw).
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by benihana 12y ago
I think the end game is delivery of a good by robotics in under an hour. I'm not sure what the next step in that is. But this doesn't solve the main problem Amazon faces that their traditional competition solves: I don't have
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by benihana 12y ago
The thought of going for a walk and only seeing my coworkers sounds horrible and not very clearing.
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by benihana 12y ago
How snarky. According to the author: I'm fighting quota issues with my dumb host. I assure you migrating to something better is not my day job. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291719
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by benihana 12y ago
With my personal email - google. They handle the costs of storage and transport and in exchange they show me ads and collect high level data. With my work email - my company. They pay to keep the email secure and contextual and in exchange
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by benihana 12y ago
> Secure messaging should be free for everyone. Displaying ads alongside your private communication seems out of place, even immoral I completely agree. In this ideal situation, who pays for it? The article seems to have left this small
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by benihana 12y ago
A pragmatic one I like to say to non technical people like my mom and sister: - Have a dedicated email password that is different from every other password you use. Let's be honest: You should have different passwords for every site,
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by benihana 12y ago
It absolutely is from both the operational side and the political side: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180#2014_availability_concer...
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by benihana 12y ago
>Why is this at the top of HN? Because a bunch of people voted it up because it's relevant and useful to a bunch of people even though it's been on HN before. Can you believe it?
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by benihana 12y ago
It's bizarre to me that you started your post by dismissing an entire language based on popular opinion then end it by saying you don't understand the vitriol people have about a different language.
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by benihana 12y ago
What I don't understand is who are they targeting this towards? Hacker School might have started as a place to teach the general public to code, but the only people who seem to get into that place now are already in the industry, or we
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by benihana 12y ago
I realized that the entire piece is hinged upon this incorrect assumption: > This isn't something that we like to think about as programmers, because we'd really rather believe that we're always working from scratch and on
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by benihana 12y ago
Damn you're right. All we have to do is standardize an open source chat protocol. It's so simple! Why haven't we done this before? Clearly because you weren't around to point out it should be done. And not because it tak
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cement and concrete are different materials
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I wish people would think through citizen's united instead of just spouting off the 'corporations are people' platitude (convenient no one seems to mention that unions are also people now). Why should a group of persons not h
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by benihana 12y ago
> That stuff has come a long way - but it's still no replacement for valves driven to within an inch of their lives. Yep. I had to sell my tube amp when I moved to New York City and the modeling pedal I have comes nowhere close to

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