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by burkemw3 12y ago
For a moment after reading "a study of 150,000 historical figures that shows cities have long acted as cultural magnets" I was wondering if 'historical figures' referred to people or the actual data. In this case, it&#x2
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by burkemw3 12y ago
In addition, Netflix has multiple copies of the same content at different quality levels. So, there might be the 1080p, 720p, and SD quality levels of the popular content, each of them taking up space from other movies/shows.
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by burkemw3 12y ago
Depending on how the calendering system reports busy-ness, there's a nice timing attack on figuring out who people are meeting with. If the calendar shows busy when an invitation has been sent, instead of when someone accepts the invit
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by burkemw3 13y ago
A wallet with a dozen virtual currencies sounds rather hard to make a budget with.
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by burkemw3 13y ago
Deidre Austen responded [0] to the original post that the standard being assessed is "find whole number quotients of whole numbers with up to 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisors using strategies based on place value, the properties
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by burkemw3 13y ago
I agree with ggreer [0] that there must be a want to commit everyday. sferik, good job in doing what you want, when you want. When I saw this I was immediately reminded of the recently front page "Your 60-Hour Work Week is Not a Badg
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by burkemw3 13y ago
What happens if I take photos of a sidewalk after a snow storm, note the areas that are covered with snow, and argue that the unused space should be used for additional car lanes or parking?
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by burkemw3 13y ago
I don't think of Java of as a language that makes concurrent operations like this simple, but I do think there are libraries that make it easier. Hystrix's async command comes to mind: https://github.com/Netflix&#x
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Playing the Odds on Saving(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by burkemw3 13y ago|0 comments
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The shell company owns some right to assert the patent. It may even own the patent itself. This right is a revenue generating asset. The shell company should even have records of just how much revenue that asset generates. Can anyone point
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by burkemw3 13y ago
Doesn't Amazon do the opposite? Charge less to newbies so they get hooked and charging more to the regulars because they're hooked.
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I can't believe this isn't off topic at SO.
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The cheap parts of Detroit are that bad. After a screening of BURN, an film following firefighters in Detroit, a firefighter commented 'A gallon of gas is much cheaper than a movie ticket.' There are blocks of houses where 0, 1, o
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by burkemw3 13y ago
I like reading the mobile site on the desktop! The column is thin enough to be easily readable and there's no clutter!
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by burkemw3 13y ago
I just got the popup twice...
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by burkemw3 13y ago
What benefit do I have for signing in? If the game saves state, so I can login again later, then I'd prefer to start playing without signing in at all. Then, when I'm ready to leave, if I want to save, then I'll give you some identifier. At
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by burkemw3 13y ago
A previous discussion, "Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US" from April, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2491213
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War for the Web documentary: US Consumers v. Big Providers(indiegogo.com)
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by burkemw3 14y ago
My public github is pretty sad, so I wired this up for GitHub Enterprise ( https://github.com/burkemw3/song-of-github ) and like my song much better now.