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by cocoa19 9y ago
Most people in Latin America, and India have it. I also have plenty of African friends that use it. Not sure about Europe, China uses WeChat. The reason is that cellphone carriers used to charge you by the message (I speak from experience i
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by cocoa19 9y ago
I was thinking of that analogy as well. With weapons, you can claim it is for self defense. I guess some people will argue that releasing ransomware will make software developers study the different types of attacks, so they increase securi
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by cocoa19 9y ago
The problem with cashing out early is that you are doing something equivalent with timing the market, which is really difficult to do. The best minds can't successfully time the market every time. The best behavior in my opinion is to
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by cocoa19 9y ago
I just learnt about Vultr by reading all comments here. Vultr has a $2.50 option that DO is lacking. This looks better for simple webpages. I've tried GoDaddy cheap hosting product, but I was turned off by all the spam I get in my emai
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Why don't Macs have Intel stickers(howtogeek.com)
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by cocoa19 9y ago
It would be nice if the article told you how many successful missions SpaceX has launched. I see failed mission articles on HN every once in a while. I have no idea if this is business as usual, or SpaceX is a company with serious quality i
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Sounds like legacy source code. The law needs some serious refactoring.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Great point. Would it be beneficial to create "open databases"? Instead of having companies own data (Google/Facebook), all data resides in public databases. This would work for services that do not need sensitive data and ca
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Unnecessary meetings.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Geez. Spend $3,000 on luxury laptop, can't afford a $100 external monitor.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
On the news: "Techcrunch employees bribe Chinese officials". That kind of negative PR can destroy companies.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Please don't hate yourself, how would you have known Bitcoin would reach $9000? That kind of thinking leads many people to speculate (not investing). I consider speculation to be in the same category as gambling.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Yes, it can be done. I don't know about Go, but this is already done for other languages. In C/C++, you can override the memory allocation functions (malloc, delete, new, free, etc) based on the type of heap objects you are going
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Have you found a plug-in that handlea autocompletion/find references/go to definition as well as SlickEdit or Eclipse? I tried ctags and a few others for autocompletion, etc. They were super complicated to install and use. Also th
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by cocoa19 9y ago
In America, I would prefer to use a debit card or cash, but many credit card issuers offer 1%-3% cash back, meaning, they give back 1%-3% of the purchases you make. That amount adds up over time.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
My dopamine hit: I read HN instead of checking Reddit, FB, Twitter, etc. I am addicted to HN.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Care to elaborate what bits of Clean Code are damaging? I've read it and I thought it has some good ideas. It's the #3 most discussed book on StackOverflow. However, I've been downvoted on HN for recommending something the bo
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by cocoa19 9y ago
I second this. For more info about why usually code comments are a code smell, I recommend reading the Clean Code book (Robert Martin), the chapter on Comments.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
I used the term "authorization number", but that was misleading. The real name is issuer scripts. It is used by card issuers to update the card parameters (chips have memory). According to EFT lab, these are 16 functions which inc
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by cocoa19 9y ago
This is partly perception. With a magnetic card, after you slide your card, you can put your card immediately in your wallet, while the Point-Of-Sale solution authorizes with the electronic payment host in the background. With a chip card (
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Not according to Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing: An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative
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by cocoa19 9y ago
Sourceforge got desperate for money and they started modifying installation packages to contain crapware, an example is FileZilla. I try to stay away from sourceforge since then.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
This technology reminded me of 24 (TV series). The plot of season 2 has Jack Bauer prove a Cyprus recording between a terrorist and high-ranking Middle East officials was forged so the US president would start a war.
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by cocoa19 9y ago
I remember when ruby was the hot tech a few years ago, frowned upon by conservative developers. I learnt ruby back then. I'm glad ruby is now recognized as a more mature ecosystem that does things well, even though it is one of the bor
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by cocoa19 10y ago
I've wondered why everyone and their moms are pushing people to study computer science and STEM, but you don't see the same push for physicians.
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by cocoa19 10y ago
I'll add that companies have two incentives to favor cash: 1. Tax evasion. 2. Avoid paying the usual 3% charged by credit card issuers for each transaction. Number 1 is specially pervasive in developing countries.
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by cocoa19 10y ago
Why don't you see Moore's law progressing beyond 3nm and maybe even stopping at 7nm or 10nm?
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by cocoa19 10y ago
That's tough, given a lot of people work 9-5. Easier to time your exercise before or after that.
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by cocoa19 10y ago
One thing I haven't seen discussed. Would we need some sort of population control with UBI? Even if robots produce all basic necessities for human life, the earth cannot sustain unrestricted population growth, which is a possibility. I
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by cocoa19 10y ago
It's difficult with a free market. If income goes up for everyone, people can spend more on basic necessities. Robot owners will make prices higher to maximize profit. A few solutions: 1)Have the government set prices for basic necessi

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