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by downer90 13y ago
Anything requiring third-party cookies, AND requesting an e-mail address not only stinks of spam-oriented advertising revenue, but also total disregard for user security. Even more telling were the options to sign in with services like Fa
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by downer90 13y ago
To sum it up, after 20 paragraphs: So: the technical reason we started counting arrays at zero is that in the mid-1960′s, you could shave a few cycles off of a program’s compilation time on an IBM 7094. The social reason is tha
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by downer90 13y ago
Well, here on HN, there's a different undercurrent of negativity. Keep that in mind, when you read through this thread, because it's an important distinction. On YouTube, what you'll see is a swirling vortex of stupidity from
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by downer90 13y ago
!hbl uB
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by downer90 13y ago
Best comment ever. The exact same words had formed in my mind, and then there they were, already written out for me.
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by downer90 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...
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by downer90 13y ago
Ballpark: Small business, less than 20 employees, and less than 5 years old, and started with unconventional debt (not bank loans). Bonus points to "startup" credentials when software development or new, emerging technologies are
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by downer90 13y ago
Seriously. I take major issue with devices that you can't cut the power to. As far as I'm concerned, that renders it as an eavesdropping apparatus. If I can't remove the battery, I'll never know when the microphone is tr