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by biot 12y ago
> A good taxi drive will get you someplace faster than a bad one, will > know shortcuts and longcuts, and understands patterns of traffic to > avoid them. A good taxi driver optimizes the ride in order to maximize their
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by biot 12y ago
I find tipping culture really confusing. How is it that when your plumber saves the day and gets your leak fixed (saving you expensive flood restoration costs) you pay the price on the invoice, yet for a car ride from A to B it's worth
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by biot 12y ago
There is also the diffraction limit[0] which, until materials are developed which have negative refractive indexes for visible light, imposes a maximum on the available resolution. Of course, that's for a single capture source... photo
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by biot 12y ago
Shame that the holes are drilled so haphazardly. If only for the aesthetics, print out a template with the holes drawn on a circle, evenly spaced. Then use that as a guide to drill. Or find a local hacker group with a CNC drilling machine w
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by biot 12y ago
The solution is to vote with your wallet and encourage others to do so as well, which will hit their bottom line. Attacking their network is basically acting like a petty thug, and thugs can rot in hell. Besides which, DRM-free solutions al
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by biot 12y ago
One option to consider is to interview around and get a few firm, written job offers with companies you'd want to work at and with compensation you know to be fair. With those in hand, go to your employer and hand them your resignation
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by biot 12y ago
Bad example. The items in the movie are mostly paraphrases or summaries of the original. This would be more like releasing a movie where in one of the scenes a wall in the background contained a slide that said: WIZARDS - NEVER LATE O
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by biot 12y ago
[Edit] I had misunderstood the quoted Mozilla performance claims[0] to be related to processing speed, whereas they refer to performance being a measurement of quality. Thanks sp332 for the correction. [0] http://people.mozilla.o
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by biot 12y ago
That's a non-sequitur. Are you trying to suggest a relationship between an open-source project with many contributors and a requirement to avoid building a complete platform? If so, could you provide an argument behind your statement?
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by biot 12y ago
> if Docker could have just stuck to running containers Do you argue the same for Amazon with AWS? They should have just stuck to running VMs on EC2 backed by S3? Amazon should not have added databases, scaling, load balancing, c
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by biot 12y ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but from what I read this is the part that can be construed as "slinging mud". I've put some [read between the lines] comments in square brackets: "Unfortunately, a simple re-u
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by biot 12y ago
It is, but with a sufficiently large number of attempts you can account for jitter. A good summary (with links to existing research) can be found here: http://blog.astrumfutura.com/2010/10/nanosecond-scale-remote..
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by biot 12y ago
What he's avoiding saying is that while the need to hire more people isn't going away those human workers displaced by technology will, in all likelihood, be out of a job because there is now a higher-order job that they are unqua
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by biot 12y ago
Talk about a blast from the past! Watcom C/C++ with external amber debugging display was the best.
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by biot 12y ago
Despite Amazon's open platform, I'm fairly sure that her phrase: "We just saw a profiteer try to punish a publisher for disobedience..." refers to Amazon's conflict with Hachette.
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by biot 12y ago
A quick search yields this: http://www.girlwonder.com/2010/09/a-network-of-constant-inte... "Gordon Pask developed musical cybernetic systems that count as early cyborg hybrids. His 1953 Musicolour mac
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by biot 12y ago
This has long been a pet peeve of mine when it comes to online articles. I see the appeal for printed magazines because, if people are flipping pages, a large pull quote might catch their attention and get them to start reading. But for an
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by biot 12y ago
At a first approximation, your hosting costs are very obvious: you get a monthly invoice from your hosting provider. If you use multiple providers, add them up. If you use a CDN, add that in too. Very simple. Whether or not your infrastruct
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by biot 12y ago
Quantum entanglement cannot communicate information, regardless of any other factors. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
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by biot 12y ago
How about a workaround: if you want to deposit less than $10K in cash, you first withdraw an amount that, when added to your original deposit, totals $10,001. This automatically triggers the reporting requirement. If enough people made eve
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by biot 12y ago
A
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by biot 12y ago
> Can I fix the bad unit once I get it? > Yes you can, but it’s not easy. Given that it's a fixable problem, I'm wondering why they don't ask users to return the product for a free repair/replacement. The
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by biot 12y ago
> What does that loop even do? for (i=0; i<8 && (c|32)=="infinity"[i]; i++) if (i<7) c = shgetc(f); It's a pattern matching loop. The 'c' variable is a character which is read from FI
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by biot 12y ago
If you present a conclusion, your opponent can claim it's an invalid conclusion based on faulty premises. However, if you only present evidence-backed facts, your opponent can't argue against the evidence and you force your oppone
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by biot 12y ago
From the HN guidelines: "If the original title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link anyway."
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by biot 12y ago
In Canada, we've had Interac providing transfers for a number of years. All you need is the person's email address or mobile number and you can send them money with the ability to specify a passphrase to pick it up. Once picked up
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by biot 12y ago
I understand what you quoted (refer to what I wrote in the second paragraph). If the problem is with the rest of the internet, why did CloudFlare quarantine the Medellín datacenter? To use an analogy, if your company's upstream phone p
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by biot 12y ago
> For the time being, we have quarantined the Medellín data center > and disabled connectivity with Internexa. Does this imply that it was CloudFlare's trust of Internexa's announced BGP routing which caused or con
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by biot 12y ago
These kinds of policies are unfortunately commonplace and largely ignored. Gandi.net, which incidentally powers Amazon's Route 53 domain registration, requires that you agree to their "good moral standards" [0]. Gandi reserve
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by biot 12y ago
The article also says: "RAM scrapers, by contrast, can be installed remotely on a Big Box retailer’s network and deployed widely to dozens of stores in a franchise, without an attacker ever leaving his computer. They can a

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