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by biot 11y ago
Your sentence appears to be lacking both a subject and verb.
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An iRobot: android capable of basic tasks to help out with repetitive chores. Costs much more than $600 and every few years it gets progressively less stupid, meaning that people will happily shell out money for the latest and greatest beca
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The James Webb Telescope has a planned mission life of up to 10 years. At some point after that, it will fail. Given that it's going to be parked at L2, what happens at the end of its life? Presumably it'll just sit there waiting
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The third C# example shows: int? count = customers?[0]?.Orders?.Count(); So yes, it can definitely be chained as the following paragraph in the linked page explains.
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You mean as the article explicitly points out with "Mozilla's one million downloads mistake"? I'm not sure how that could be considered amusing.
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Or for shady SEO contracts. Not hard to guarantee #1 results if the contract spells out the exact (unexpected Unicode) phrase you're guaranteeing.
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> Stick-to-itivness Tenacity.
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Did you create a second account to re-post the same comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410926
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The trick is to open your shop 40 years ago and be nice towards the kids who will grow up to commit all sorts of crimes. But because they've had a rapport with you since they were kids, they will avoid directing their criminal activiti
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And you can find a fantastic list of questions about queue guarantees/properties here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8709146
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The Wired story doesn't have any mention of 23andMe in it, so the title is now inaccurate. And now having read the fusion.net story, I think it's a much better article than the Wired one because it covers the angle of each company
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A decent setup can actually be better than a theater. It's not about the size of the screen but the angle of view, which you can achieve at home with either a large TV or certainly with a projector. And these days, a couple going to th
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Also "Not long after that, I secretly gained access to his forum" seems like a CFAA violation. Though law enforcement may not care to prosecute, I don't see how it's different from "I secretly gained access to an in
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What if a blind person were selling a box of old useless foreign currencies for $2 but when you look through the box you discover there's a couple of $1,000,000 US Treasury bonds (valid, cashable) inside? Do you quickly snap it up, thi
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Killzone: Shadow Fall has some absolutely amazing, jaw-dropping architecture. Even after playing its multiplayer games for a few years, I still occasionally stop and notice something in the background that has incredible detail. Images: ht
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It was sitting face-up on a table. Other than the possibility of a flaky home button, I'm chalking this one up to the NSA. :)
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A few weeks ago I was in a meeting and Siri blurted out "Sorry I didn't get that". I've never had "hey Siri" activated (I immediately verified) and nothing was plugged into my iPhone 5. Rather disconcerting.
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The first person to write "should of" and "could of" instead of "should've" and "could've" was certainly incorrect, because they misheard someone's speech and wrote it out phonetically
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Try reading the FAQ: Why don't I see down arrows? There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on direct replies. Since your account was created 5 min
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Is it impractical to have the braking spin up a flywheel which then gets used to start the train moving when it departs? With the energies involved, I can only imagine that would end up being a monster flywheel with size, safety, and reliab
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I was anticipating this to be "Learning (Programming at Scale)" but it's instead "(Learning Programming) at Scale". A slightly different challenge. :)
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I think some people get a high/rush/satisfaction [0] from revealing privileged information. Others get the same feeling from guarding privileged information and being one of the trusted few to know. [0] I'm sure there's
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One of my favorite IOCCC winners (for most functional): Int L[A],m,b,*D=A, *c,*a=L,C,*U=L,u;s (_){u--&&s(a=*a);} char*B,I,O;S(){b=b --?b:m|read(0,&I,1 )-1;re
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The Inevitable Rise of the Stateful Web Application(petabridge.com)
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Inspired by Tron: Legacy? See the first few screenshots at http://jtnimoy.com/blogs/projects/14881671-tron-legacy
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What about an array of photodiodes like this: o o o o X o o o o This is in an enclosed box with a hole over the center. Here, "o" represents a photodiode and "X" represents the center of the hole. When the sol
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Wow, that's how I imagined Arrakis (Dune) would look. Rich spice fields, open desert, rock outcrops...
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Up to the very end I thought it might turn out to be a eulogy, especially given that the title was just "Chris Poole" and not "Chris Poole: Life After 4chan" or something similar.
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Everyone should be a surgeon and be able to perform surgical operations on their family and friends. Everyone should be an auto mechanic and be able to assemble new vehicles out of an engine and other parts. Everyone should be an electronic
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Or autonomy: tell participants they need to design their own coin-flipping experiment, then perform, measure, and report the results. They still might be underpaid on a $/time basis, but with a greater investment in the process I suspe

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