dfranke

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by dfranke 18y ago
I'd consider DH slightly more important.
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by dfranke 18y ago
There is at long last now a 64-bit Linux build of Flash 10 beta. http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libfla...
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by dfranke 18y ago
I think it might be time to experiment with giving a down arrow for stories. Maybe it would even be enough if you just gave it to editors, so they have a less severe alternative to killing stories.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Nope. Fail. The only hit it found which was actually me was my home page, and that way down in the list. Not terribly impressive since it's the first hit if you Google my name.
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by dfranke 18y ago
What about Washington? :-) (Ok, technically Washington didn't live in the White House, but you get my drift)
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by dfranke 18y ago
The week is young. It's up over 100,000 now.
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by dfranke 18y ago
The news.yc editorial cabal keeps its membership secret. Just email PG.
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by dfranke 18y ago
The UI screenshot looks like a Vista knockoff. For the love of FSM, why would anyone knock off Vista's UI?
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by dfranke 18y ago
Is this site crashing Firefox for anyone else?
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by dfranke 18y ago
There are three ex-presidents, two of them living, who I think would have consider more Google juice than a conspiracy of YC startups.
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by dfranke 18y ago
If you're going to be creative with a kid's name, you should do it with the middle name. Then it can be up to him whether he wants to use it. My parents gave both my sister and I middle names of Fox, and when she started college my sister
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by dfranke 18y ago
To the home government. And while self-defense typically connotes imminent grave bodily harm, it is also typically plead only when one is accused of inflicting the same. In a country with rule of law, in non-imminent situations one is exp
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by dfranke 18y ago
It occurs to me that it would be a fascinating test case if a charity like this one were to be tried for bribery and plead self-defense.
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by dfranke 18y ago
And no bribe was offered? Undertaking a project in an area like that without being willing either to shoot or to bribe government officials strikes me as naive.
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by dfranke 18y ago
Why so many dismayed comments? Hackers should be celebrating. Microsoft and its products are the antithesis to everything software and software companies ought to be. We've been waiting decades to see the empire crumble. Now that it's f
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by dfranke 18y ago
I missed a dot. It should be http://transit.511.org . Past the edit deadline unfortunately.
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by dfranke 18y ago
For the bay area, this exists. http://transit511.org
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by dfranke 18y ago
Eight monitors, but only a single-core CPU?
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by dfranke 18y ago
Sometimes it's particularly fun to read clueless 1-star reviews of classic books. ISTR there was a 1-star review of Newton's Principia complaining that he bought to help him with his high school physics course and it was way too confusin
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by dfranke 18y ago
BS Math + CS, 2007.
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by dfranke 18y ago
It seems "ClownCo" isn't quite turning out like we expected. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5972
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by dfranke 18y ago
/. uses tagging for this and I think it works well.
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by dfranke 18y ago
I could tell you with considerably greater confidence whether or not it will snow in Boston ten years from today.
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by dfranke 18y ago
> Think humanity will make it that long? Whatever is around in six billion years is going to be as different from us as we are from bacteria.
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by dfranke 18y ago
That's okay, as long that effect is roughly equal in every period of increasing unemployment. This and many other factors make it meaningless to treat unemployment additively, e.g. to say that 8% unemployment is "twice as bad" as 4%, but i
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by dfranke 18y ago
I don't get why people think Obama is in so much danger of assassination. Why a greater chance than any other president? Is it just that he's young and therefore reminds people of Kennedy?
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by dfranke 18y ago
Looking like a tank would be an improvement. Regular car? Most of what you'd find in a junkyard is more attractive.
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by dfranke 18y ago
There are probably key-loggers designed to be placed inside laptops, but, not being a black-hat, I've never seen or looked for one. In any case, it'd be a lot more difficult. The cop would have to be trained in how to perform the installa
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by dfranke 18y ago
Key loggers can be tough to beat. While getting a software key-logger past me would be laborious (set BIOS password-reset jumper on motherboard, enable CD boot in BIOS, boot from rescue CD, figure out my RAID settings so you can mount my r
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by dfranke 18y ago
Oh, sorry. I parsed the precedence of "summary:" as binding only to the first sentence :-)

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