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by cakeface 17y ago
"Microsoft was not immediately available for comment on the NSA's participation in Windows 7's development." - This totally sounds like someone sent an email, waited 5 minutes, and then posted this article.
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by cakeface 17y ago
I did too. The second time reading it seemed so much longer .
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by cakeface 17y ago
Is there any way to tell if you have code that has been added to the components directory?
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by cakeface 17y ago
The title of the post is exactly the title of the article, so I'd say it is very representative of the article. That the answer to the posed question is "no" is not misleading.
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by cakeface 17y ago
Don't you mean Phoenix?
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by cakeface 17y ago
Is this basically an RFC for HTTP version 2?
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by cakeface 17y ago
I agree, it frustrates me too that the W3C has moved away from XML for the HTML specification. I feel like HTML5 takes 1 step forward but 2 steps back. There are some great semantic tags and I love the multimedia support, but the move awa
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by cakeface 17y ago
"which tags implicitly close others" - stuff like this makes me cry. What is the benefit of a format that allows such complicated rules for parsing the document? Flexibility like this on the input is just increasing complexity of the rend
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by cakeface 17y ago
Its great to see companies sharing what they've learned from experience about system architecture. So many times this sort of stuff is very difficult to plan out and the only real way to get it right is through experimentation. Having fir
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by cakeface 17y ago
There is no link with computing as in running a program. The link is the perception changing technology that lets us accomplish previously difficult tasks in a simple manner.
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by cakeface 17y ago
I develop java applications on Windows. Within my company there are at least 3 other software engineers that are doing web development targeted towards deployments that are not on windows servers that still use windows as development box
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by cakeface 17y ago
It seemed to me that a large part of their argument was that foreigners were required to pay inheritance tax on the value of all US assets, even though they weren't us citizens. That doesn't really seem fair to me.
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by cakeface 17y ago
Another thing that they aren't taking into account over S3 is power costs, physical datacenter rent costs, and bandwith hookup. Still its probably a lot cheaper but important to note that they are comparing apples and apple cider.
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by cakeface 17y ago
Yeah, I tried to make a bookmarklet for "Add to Bookworm" and ran into that problem.
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by cakeface 17y ago
If you want a nice epub reader I use http://bookworm.oreilly.com/ .
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by cakeface 17y ago
Yes, when I read his critique of fluent interfaces I realized that he is just disagreeing with everything to be contrary. "fluent interfaces are setters in disguise. So, Stephan, which one is it?" - he is not actually critiquing the fluent
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by cakeface 17y ago
I love that there is another reference to Born to Run on HN. I think that the book appeals to the hacker in us with the way Chris McDougall ignores any pre-conceived notions of running and just starts looking for what is the simplest ans
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by cakeface 17y ago
Isn't wikileaks sort of all about publishing technically illegal documents. It may be illegal in the letter of the law to publish, but if you expose illegal behavior that was actually causing harm to society then its ok. I'm not sure that
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by cakeface 17y ago
Actually it does mean that C# is a better language now . If you are developing new applications then all the compromises that were made to shoe horn in new features don't matter to you. You just want something that works well and is simp
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by cakeface 17y ago
It seems to me that they are making way too many crazy assumputions. They are assuming that a civilization that can make a probe that lasts 50 million years would only send out 8 probes? That seems to be the wrong mentality. I would rath
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by cakeface 17y ago
Boil 2 cups of water. Turn heat down to 3. Add one cub of rice. Stir once and then cover. Turn heat down to 1-2 when it starts boiling again. Wait 10 minutes, maybe turn it down again if you are in the kitchen. Turn heat off and wait 5 to 1
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by cakeface 17y ago
The book referenced in OP called Born to Run talks about the Tarahumara a lot. Its a really interesting story and I'd recommend the book to anyone.
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by cakeface 17y ago
I run around Boston on sidewalks and in the road and it doesn't tear up your feet too bad. The first few times I had a couple of blisters but lately I've been fine.
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by cakeface 17y ago
Awesome! I'm so glad someone posted this link. I read Chris McDougall's book Born to Run recently and it was really eye opening. As a long time runner I felt that the key to avoiding injuries was good running shoes. The idea that no r
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by cakeface 17y ago
I'm definitely not a big fan of Techcrunch but I kind of agree with them on this issue. They have these documents, there is information in them that would be interesting to the general public, they should publish them. It seems like they
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by cakeface 17y ago
"The authors of the policy forum also cite a study by the National Academies of Science that concluded reprocessing will be extremely expensive." Won't storing it be extremely expensive for a lot longer? Is this a case of costs now versus
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by cakeface 17y ago
(1+0.9999...)/2 = 1 (or .9999... if you prefer)
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by cakeface 17y ago
I really didn't understand the pyramid scam part of this article, but many of the other points that it makes are totally true. My company got bit when they disabled access to the php source code without warning back in the fall. We had cu
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People pay to hunt pirates on Somali coast(ananova.com)
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by cakeface 17y ago
I've been using Firebug 1.4.0b2 with Firefox 3.5b and it works well. I use the Firefox nightly builds so I've turned off plugin compatibility checking.

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