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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Yeap. One of my roommates from college worked at HP during the Itanium development.. it was great on paper but customers didn't want it or need it. The bigger picture is throwing everything away every few model years isn't "i
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
I used Authorize.net circa 2010 at a large cell phone manufacturer for processing micropayments. They changed their API without notification and it broke payments for a few days, and it was really crappy considering they were supposed to be
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
In the US, a new DeLorean isn't all that expensive compared to typical "jelly-bean" vehicles that are the most common. Back in 2005, I narrowed down a vehicle purchase decision to a new DeLorean, an used Lotus Elise or a new
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Yeap. That's where I sent my roommate from college to learn performance driving; a Korean dude with a CS degree from an UC turned California highway patrol (CHP) officer. (How many cops has anyone ever run into understood Big-O notatio
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
echo $NICK | s/80mph/88mph/
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
FWIW, Banky's hotel in Bethlehem: 182 Caritas Street Bethlehem, Palestine http://www.walledoffhotel.com reception@walledoffhotel.com https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?whereami=1&query=31.719...
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Banksy unveils dark nativity scene at his Bethlehem hotel(timesofisrael.com)
3 points by campfireveteran 7y ago|2 comments
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
US police can also be videotaped stealing money for their personal enrichment and not be prosecuted. https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accu...
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
"Lying" is dishonest clickbait. Presenting a mobile browser with an UA identical to a desktop one is standard practice.
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
There ought to be a standard "caniuse" features discovery API rather than parsing UA's or oodles of platform quirks/detection "magic."
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
They'll surely find evidence h. erectus ran Android in an archaic app store up until 100k BCE. Tablet computing way back.
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Ask HN: Workable Docset Browser on Mac?
1 points by campfireveteran 7y ago|0 comments
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Startups co-founders/first-employees pay less and have fewer perks, but no one can hide in their own cube corner at that size and have deliver excellence if they want to survive. If it were me, I would insist on equity, be it co-founde
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Thank you, kind person.
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
A billion-dollar idea: a combination pseudo-outrage, crybully, political correctness, troll, flaming and keyboard warrior pre-filter. And for 2.0: a micropayment cost to comment that adjusts based on social reputation and identity verificat
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
I wonder if it closes before it opens, and then the hours change at random? Maybe you even leave before you arrive while spending 3 hours seeing the whole thing? It should be unstuck in time, at least.
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Disclaimer: I don't subscribe neatly to a particular political label. Commercial social media platforms have way too much power to put their thumb on the scale, i.e., manufacture consent and subvert democracy to whoever pays them the m
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
0. Embrace 1. Extend 2. Extinguish (or at least Exhaust Energy on Extraneous complexity through Engineering design-by-committee feature creep) (But never Excellent Enginerding, unless trying to gain status at a conference.)
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
If you have substantial liquid wealth, the best ways to hide it include art (portable/small objects with stable/increasing prices) and foreign real estate in desirable areas in municipalities with strong property rights.
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
At first, I thought it said edible PDF, but I didn't think a closed format would taste very good.
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Self-sabotage and buddy-sabotage are pernicious flaws of attitude, belief and habits that exist in all people to varying degrees. This baggage is likely the greatest source of failure when fundamentals aren't an issue. I can't pro
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Right/left is the best divide-and-conquer wedge issue found so far, exploited by media corporatists to atomize people further from each other in the name of money, while the real division is between the have-way-too-muches and the have
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
I remember that earthquake. I was 11, home alone, doing algebra homework on the kitchen table with the sun setting behind me. It started as a vibration that then turned to seem like gravity went sideways in a paint shaker for several minute
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Encrypted "borrowed" DRM books that self-destruct after a certain period of time (like many of those historic tech books on Internet Archive) are garbage and a waste of my time. I'll either borrow the real thing or steal a DR
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
When I was a kid (circa the mid-1980s), there was a real Korean war F-86 Sabre in the middle of a sandpit and a steel labyrinth maze that was shaped like a skyscraper with about 8 levels (tall: 13 ft/4 m, wide: 10 ft/3 m, deep: 3
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Just like recycling bins, that's only the virtue-signaling parts of the story. It is vital to discontinue nearly all petrochem uses of fossil fuels and leave much of the rest of it in the ground. This implies: - massive expansions of r
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Define "works." My mother had an intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke about 5 years ago, leaving her with severe trigeminal neuropathic pain and hemiplegia. If she doesn't have 900 mg (3x 300 mg) of gabapentin 3x a day, she exper
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
Btw, here's probably the only actual cat IIIC landing video on YT: https://youtu.be/gthcuZV8agI
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by campfireveteran 7y ago
YT urls can be shortened like this: https://youtu.be/d-ruFmgTpqA ^ I saw this in my feed before this HN article.

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