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by chime 12y ago
Maybe passing on files to children is not something most people will even have to worry about because social media stores everything forever. Once we've shared our life's worth of holiday photos with our kids on Facebook or G+, th
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by chime 12y ago
> How did this make the front page of HN being a problem which has already been solved and well documented for almost 200 years? Not to knock the author, as they put in some time apparently, but was just curious. Zeller's Congruence
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by chime 12y ago
My method goes counter to the article but still ends up with the same result - higher rates with the added advantage that I KNOW it is the highest possible rate I can charge and not worry if I should charge more or less. Here's my simp
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by chime 12y ago
Don't feel bad. I finished 1.5 years of MBA and dropped out when the university showed how little they cared about me. Originally I signed up to get an MS in Innovation Management (startups, new business tech., corporate finance for IT
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by chime 12y ago
Indeed. You can test it on Verizon by doing a Google search for: ip It should give you your mobile's IPv6 address.
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by chime 12y ago
Precisely. I am trying to see the "complex" moral dilemma part of this issue that Wikipedia claims but I can't. For a fixed price, people should get a fixed speed - on wireless or broadband. That's it. Every byte of data
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by chime 12y ago
Invariant to scale and rotation in JS on mobile? That's fantastic! I just tested the Red Laser native app on my phone and it can handle scale/rotation too. But I never thought about rotation for the Red Laser app and always tried
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by chime 12y ago
Call me naive but I completely believe sama and yishan. Everyone's trying to find the "real" reason because we're all so used to companies lying or trying to save face in every non-positive situation. Too many times the
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by chime 12y ago
Another article on the matter: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/12/rosetta-and-philae-g... Like they said, here's hoping that it doesn't land on a boulder or a slope.
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by chime 12y ago
> If, after reading this, anyone is still nodding their head and entertaining the idea that their internet company is in the same league as Blackwater, then they have some pretty strange value judgments. We can get really philosophical a
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by chime 12y ago
cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem cough
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by chime 12y ago
I wonder how big of a project would it be to port all of GNU/Linux to Rust. Here's a start: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882211 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/mast
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by chime 12y ago
> How much would you pay for that hot new subscription service, to fund the level of baseline quality you get from the NYT? I don't know about you, but even $5/week doesn't sound completely unreasonable. I don't know.
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by chime 12y ago
Love that channel. Add to that list: https://www.youtube.com/user/computerphile
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by chime 12y ago
I live at 7ft asl. People think I'm kidding when I say I will most likely sell my house due to rising sea-level.
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by chime 12y ago
Over a decade ago, I wrote something similar (but not as advanced) that I still run on any Windows machine I use - http://chime.tv/products/hotchime.shtml When I switched over to a Mac as my primary machine 4 years ago
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by chime 12y ago
Just signed up. I am probably your ideal user. I work 100% on 1099, I buy my own health insurance, and I wouldn't mind paying you if the service was a net gain for me. My thoughts: 1) The sign up form has a First________Last name field
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by chime 12y ago
This isn't an issue of using clean toilets with plumbing vs. open fields. This is using a porcelain port-a-potty with no plumbing vs. open fields. Plumbing is the real issue, not the actual toilets.
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by chime 12y ago
> I realize exit/liquidity was/is the bigger reason for tech IPOs already, but it seems somehow unnatural to completely abandon the role of financing. Not sure where I'm going with this. This is a big deal. It used to be t
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by chime 12y ago
Not all downloads are equal. There are far too many iOS games to make a profit. Had he spent the same amount of time/effort/budget making a productivity tool that catered to a niche market, he could have easily made a net profit.
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by chime 12y ago
Abbreviations are convenient. I'd rather type .psd than .photoshop or .m than .module.
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by chime 12y ago
What was the difficulty in making the camera unit watertight? I'm guessing a simple solution like transparent globe would cause reflection problems but why couldn't each camera be housed in a rubber-tight casing? The lens could be
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by chime 12y ago
> A REST API must not define fixed resource names or hierarchies (an obvious coupling of client and server). Servers must have the freedom to control their own namespace. Instead, allow servers to instruct clients on how to construct app
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by chime 12y ago
> IMO your data is actually worth much less than $10 because most of what advertisers are paying for is eyeballs / your attention, not your data. The data tells them which eyeballs to target.
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by chime 12y ago
What I learned from this list is that Louis Gray is pretty good at picking promising companies.
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by chime 12y ago
If the creators of this project are reading this thread, I hope you don't take the criticisms here too personally. I don't know why nearly every new project on HN gets completely ripped apart nowadays unless it's some clever
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by chime 12y ago
No images but https://www.readability.com/articles/rs8nq3xr is readable. I use rdd.me all the time just for this purpose.
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by chime 12y ago
If it's as easy as using 'strings', then isn't that no different than releasing a 0day?
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by chime 12y ago
It's the correct British spelling - http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/fulfil?... The author lives in Netherlands so he uses the UK spelling 'fulfil' instead of US 'fulfill&#x
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by chime 12y ago
I love http://flightphp.com/

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