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by chroma 13y ago
I realize this sentiment won't be popular, but I feel it must be said: I'm glad he's happy, but it's sad that this man didn't live up to his potential. There is an unimaginable amount of suffering in this world. Aro
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by chroma 13y ago
This is a difficult point to make. I'm surprised you didn't use a throwaway account. I've been assaulted by peers. I've had drugs slipped into my drink. One time, someone put a gun to my head and robbed me. After these e
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by chroma 13y ago
I didn't know there was a new study. Thanks for linking to it. It looks like there's a meta-study too: http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/SD_PPIG_2009...
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by chroma 13y ago
Let's say I grant the author his points about harming gender balances and programming culture. That still doesn't address the most important question: Is it true? Is programming an innate ability? It's unclear whether program
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by chroma 14y ago
105 self-immolations in the past two years. Zero suicide bombings. This is an excellent example of how religions give their hosts different propensities for violence.
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by chroma 14y ago
I'm pretty sure your example is illegal under current laws. Photographing someone from afar doesn't require a drone. Replace "drone" with "telephoto lens" and you'll still draw the ire of law enforcement if you go around taking pictures of
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by chroma 14y ago
I hit start and 90% of the time nothing happens. The other 10% of the time, Flash crashes. I'm using Chrome stable on Ubuntu 12.04. I have no extensions besides Adblock Plus. This is the only page I've encountered that crashes Flash on my c
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by chroma 14y ago
Bless you, Captain Hindsight! I assume you shorted or put INTC to profit from your insight. Seriously, this post-season quarterbacking helps nothing but your own karma. The people in charge of Intel are intelligent, incentivized, and they'v
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by chroma 14y ago
I see 11 invitations to "read more". Thanks, but no. I waste enough time as it is.
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by chroma 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by chroma 14y ago
Did it? I thought Rackspace was using OpenStack. And there was that PR debacle migrating Slicehost accounts to Rackspace Cloud. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2510300 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515650
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by chroma 14y ago
I congratulate the Mailgun team and I wish them all the best, but Rackspace's previous acquisitions bode ill for the future of Mailgun. Rackspace acquired CloudKick in late 2010 and Anso Labs in February of 2011. Both teams must have been p
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by chroma 14y ago
(I personally think women in director positions are a good thing because an all-men board obviously can't consist of the best people available) I don't want to turn this into a flame war about gender, but this does not seem obvious to me.
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by chroma 15y ago
If you're patting yourself on the back for already having backups, do as the site says and practice restoring! It is a common mistake to set up backups but never test that they actually can be restored.
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by chroma 15y ago
It looks like most of these people are making less than minimum wage. (feigned gasp!) I'm glad they're making money somehow, but it does annoy me that laws are preventing them from pursuing a lot of other jobs.
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by chroma 15y ago
When movie/game night is at my place I'm going to say, "Welcome to my next-generation movie theater."
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by chroma 15y ago
I think the OP's point is that Su Mecks are rare today, but they will happen more often as technology can save more people. Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death seems to have fewer edge-cases than our current cri
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by chroma 16y ago
Kudos for your correct prediction, but if these same arguments were made by someone in their late 40's, would that change their truth value?
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by chroma 16y ago
It would change my career and retirement planning quite a bit. I'd retire early. I would forget having kids, since I wouldn't be around to support them after their mid-teens. Think about it from the flip side: If you knew you were going to
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by chroma 16y ago
Even though there's no current treatment for early-onset Alzheimer's, I'd certainly want to know if I was at risk. I'd live my life much differently if I thought my brain would rot at age 50. Not knowing if you'll get an untreatable disease
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by chroma 16y ago
OS X, iOS, and WP7 pick reasonable defaults that most people are happy with. The same is not so true for GNOME. For example: http://static.arstechnica.com/gnome3/apps.png Fonts are only anti-aliased, not sub-pixel rendered. The app names
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by chroma 16y ago
Not very long ago, people couldn't explain why things fell to the ground at 9.8m/s^2 instead of some other acceleration factor. The answer now seems straightforward to us. You can't tell the difference between an irreducible fact of nature
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by chroma 16y ago
Have a war. Whoever loses has to keep Fresno. Disclaimer: I got this silly idea from someone else, but I don't remember who or where.
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by chroma 16y ago
I don't know of a complete fix, but a start would be to rank based on upvotes in the past hour (or 2 hours, or whatever works best) instead of since submission. This would allow links submitted days ago to end up on the front page if they w
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by chroma 16y ago
The original video link ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo ) was submitted 5 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954315 ). Then a slightly different url ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j...
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by chroma 16y ago
The original source of the image ( http://www.verysmallarray.com/?p=1056 ) was submitted 12 hours ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1971974 ). This is one thing about HN that has annoyed me. If a submission doesn't get voted up quic
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by chroma 16y ago
If you're willing to say anything to make the other side look bad, why should anyone give you credence?
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by chroma 16y ago
...flash competes with the App store. I don't think that's at all the case. Flash is mostly used for rich content on web pages. If it competes with anything, it's new browser features like HTML5. One could make the argument that Apple is
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by chroma 16y ago
...it will only be a matter of time before the percent of Flash enabled browsers falls enough that web developers need to start using more appropriate standards-based techniques. I agree with your prediction, but I'm not sure it will be a
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by chroma 16y ago
I used 20Mbit in the example because that's what I have. I'm on Comcast, which has a soft cap of 250GB/month. I'd have to watch a movie every day to get close to their limit. A 10Mbit connection would double the download time to 60-80 minut

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