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by biot 12y ago
Too bad it's Gandi, given their terrible business-hostile terms: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4970439#up_4970947
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by biot 12y ago
The lettering in the logo suggests a cold experience; it's So... brr.
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by biot 12y ago
The word "forum" is a Latin word, and I'm using it in its traditional meaning (ie: a "public venue"), not in the recent "internet message board thingy" meaning. And I think I'll just have to disagree
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by biot 12y ago
It's quite inappropriate to speculate on a person's private health matters in a public forum. It's little different than being in the same room as someone, then pointing at them and asking "What's wrong with that pe
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by biot 12y ago
> Building in languages like PHP, JS, Java, and to a > lesser extend Perl and Python, means you have access to > lots of cheap devs. Especially in the case of PHP and JS. Given that PHP and JS is what Facebook's st
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by biot 12y ago
I think you meant to say: "Is Betteridge's law useful?"
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by biot 12y ago
It seems like vehicles will have to go through an "unsafe valley"[0] where there's a huge gulf between "does a couple of things really well" and "go to sleep and you'll arrive safely at your destination&qu
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by biot 12y ago
Does your two minutes of effort also include regression testing? Did you verify that all aspects of the OS and applications which depend on the home button having a specific behavior continue to function within OS-guaranteed response times?
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by biot 12y ago
"If GML was an infant, SGML is the bright youngster who far exceeds expectations and made its parents too proud, but XML is the drug-addicted gang member who had committed his first murder before he had sex, which was rap
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by biot 12y ago
It's a bit like the government using a whiteboard to track terrorists and the court has asked them to preserve what's on the whiteboard. The government considers this too burdensome because if they can't erase the whiteboard
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by biot 12y ago
Here's a related Mozilla bug report from 2002 regarding the link visited issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147777
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by biot 12y ago
If you want to have ngrok as a free public service, then abuse will be hard to get around while keeping it fully featured. However, to preserve the initial user experience you could allow the first 5 IP addresses to access the tunnel of unv
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by biot 12y ago
If your body is healthy, you're going to avoid that nursing home. My father was in such a home in his seventies, yet family friends of the same age who stayed active and fit were going on kayaking vacations around the world. If you dis
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by biot 12y ago
Still cheaper than Vancouver with a $922K benchmark house price[0] ($847K USD) in Greater Vancouver area, or $2.1M in Vancouver West. Factor in Vancouver's lower salaries and higher mortgage costs, and SF looks particularly cheap in co
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by biot 12y ago
Throughout the text, there are cross-promotion links for your other products: 1. The $199 "Double Your Freelancing Rate" book 2. The $1,799 "Consultancy Masterclass" 3. The "five day email course" itsel
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by biot 12y ago
No consternation felt here; my intent is to encourage higher quality comments. Your follow-up comment was quality as it contained relevant details your initial comment lacked.
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by biot 12y ago
> Sometimes it is possible to say much with humor in very few words. I completely agree with that, though I disagree that you said much in your original comment (or that it was funny) which is why I think that your subsequent com
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by biot 12y ago
This is the comment you should have made originally. Your initial comment comes across as little more than an unsuccessful attempt at a funny one-liner. Here's what pg has to say[0] about those kinds of comments: "The most dan
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by biot 12y ago
In that case, they should update the wording on their site to make that clearer. It currently reads: "Place an early preorder for your best chance to secure this domain. * Includes $100.00 non-refundable application fee. Annual
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by biot 12y ago
Many registrars are offering priority preregistration of domains, but this includes a non-refundable fee of at least $100. So in order to secure rockstar.ninja, for example, you would need to perform priority registration at all registrars
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by biot 12y ago
> Nobody asked for an argument, and by downvoting any > argument on my part was prevented. I feel like we're all being trolled, but how is your failure to present a cogent argument in your initial comment affected by do
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by biot 12y ago
This was brought up recently in the comments for "Mostly functional" programming does not work where there's also a thread on Glitch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654686
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by biot 13y ago
Here's a good rant on vocal fry, exaggerated for effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsE5mysfZsY The sad thing is that I know someone who talks exactly like this.
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by biot 13y ago
While not a debugging war story, here is one of my favorite stories about a different sort of war between two OSes: http://www.eros-os.org/project/novelty.html#persistence
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by biot 13y ago
Previous article on MakeSpace's initial fundraising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6453732
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by biot 13y ago
Please don't post mystery meat URLs. The bit.ly link goes to: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest/run?services_CDN=&serviceT...
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by biot 13y ago
This is completely ridiculous, like those TV commercials where some clumsy person nearly severs their own hand with a knife because they're not using the infomercial's special chopping tool. The guy making pancakes was especially
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by biot 13y ago
Original source: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/140424/the-w...
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by biot 13y ago
It's a skinner box disguised as a game.
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by biot 13y ago
No matter what you socialize around, after about four hours or so it will be hard to avoid bringing food into it somehow. Hungry, irritable people don't make for the best social companions.

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