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by cdr 12y ago
I guess if your point of comparison is "Google search, Apple App Store, Monsanto, Boeing" the poster market on Amazon is "small fish", but this guy was the former director of Art.com (fired because of the price-fixing in
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by cdr 12y ago
My whole life, I've been able to reliably cause myself sleep paralysis. I just have to wake up facing a bright point light - like leaving the light on in a room before attempting a nap. (Diffuse bright light like sunlight doesn't
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by cdr 12y ago
Sounds not dissimilar to the "bid/turn towards/turn away" terminology in Gottman relationship theory.
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by cdr 12y ago
The combat in Dark Souls was amazing. The hitboxes were so finely tuned you could just about dodge by a hair. The Artorias boss fight was the most fluid battle I've seen in a game, though maybe Bloodborne can top it. The PVP was absolu
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by cdr 12y ago
Any example of what the "Netlify callout" for the free hosting looks like?
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by cdr 12y ago
Xi Jinping's authoritarian bent is frequently reported on in the press, from even further restricting the actions of the National People's Congress to ordering the strictest crackdowns on the Internet in Chinese history. Also, you
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by cdr 12y ago
You don't have to live in a 3rd world country to get 2 mbps. Plenty of places in the US get that kind of speed, where the only non-wireless ISP is liable to be the phone company providing DSL straight out of the 90s.
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by cdr 12y ago
And with 30 days notice - not fun in an overheated rental market. In Denver as few as 7 days notice, if the rental is monthly. http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_27709567/apartment-dwe...
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by cdr 12y ago
Apple must not be using the top-tier Samsung M.2 SSD; they can write at 1500MB/s+ and read at 2100MB/s. 1024MB/s is nothing. Now that SSDs are moving to using PCI-E lanes instead of SATA, we'll probably see quite a speed
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by cdr 12y ago
The slicker MtG speculators are running things like http://www.quietspeculation.com/ . They generally have pretty intense interest in the subject though. Identifying an opportunity seems difficult without some minimal inter
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by cdr 12y ago
Interesting that it stops at Pokemon Yellow - maybe that's all that was known at the time. It seems like any video game where you can corrupt memory is potentially "Turing complete" - which is many of the old console game as
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by cdr 12y ago
As far as analysis, I believe this is the course I followed awhile back on MIT OCW and found quite good: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... "Introduction to Algorithms" (2005) but
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by cdr 12y ago
> The fact that a card like Tarmogoyf goes for $200 shows that Modern is far from unpopular. Tarmogoyf is a really poor example. It's popular in every format in existence, including Legacy and even Vintage. Modern is not solely driv
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by cdr 12y ago
This seems like a poor time to claim Wizards has solved speculation. Five years ago you would've been on firmer ground. Thanks in part to Wizards aggressively growing the number of players and former addicted teens now being in their 3
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by cdr 12y ago
Wizards actually came this close to doing away with the reserved list a few years ago. Abolitionists within the company actually got promos printed that violated it, so the issue eventually came to a head. There was a dramatic meeting and
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by cdr 12y ago
Euler is more like math problems that can be solved with programming than programming challenges. Very neat, but decreasingly useful for programming practice past the first 20ish.
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by cdr 12y ago
25% of your salary for 2 years is not a crapload of debt?
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by cdr 12y ago
Gretzky retired in 98-99. It did take 15 years, but NHL hockey implemented rules to make the game less brutal and it seems to be working. Players crashing into each other head first is not an inherent part of the game like it is with Americ
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by cdr 12y ago
Pets are pretty dang expensive. Potentially thousands of dollars a year in vet bills, and hundreds in food, just to start. I had friends when I was a kid who had pets die because their parents couldn't afford vet bills (not very respon
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by cdr 12y ago
Yes, stole. As repeatedly evidenced - most recently with the Gemalto documents - the NSA far prefers to obtain keys surreptitiously than to go through the trouble of legally compelling corporations to provide them.
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by cdr 12y ago
What year would "yesteryear" be? My much-abused 2008 Gateway is still running like a champ.
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by cdr 12y ago
Yes, Windows 10 requires having 7 or 8. Still free.
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by cdr 12y ago
Microsoft itself has provided Windows installation media for download since Windows 8, including Windows 7 media. All you have to do is read your key off BIOS or the sticker. And of course Windows 10 will be a free download.
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by cdr 12y ago
For me, Chrome uses half the memory of Firefox for the same number of tabs. If you're having memory issues with a browser, your problem is almost certainly extensions - the #1 culprit being AdBlock [Plus]. Give µBlock a try. (The reaso
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by cdr 12y ago
Subsidized? You can get inkjet printers for as low as free. Keurig machines cost $100 and up, for something equivalent to a $20 coffee brewer.
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by cdr 12y ago
All you have to do is watch the HN comments on any thread that (even tangentially) mentions women. There's no shortage of of existing programmers / old gamers that are virulently hostile.
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by cdr 12y ago
The other commenter covered the blackhat SEO / Google smackdown. As far as the people: http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-cofounder-resigns-ove...
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by cdr 12y ago
PG defended scribd (much as InstallMonetizer), including automated scribed links on HN, even as it was hijacking people's content and widely loathed.
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by cdr 12y ago
I dunno, there's a few contenders. Scribd was pretty bad. RapGenius was pretty bad in terms of the people. Edit: Oh, and Quora, even if that wasn't much more than YC lending its name.
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by cdr 12y ago
LifeFactory is just normal soda-lime glass, AFAIK. They can shatter from drops of a couple feet.

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