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by dwyer 13y ago
> when visiting a city. Click tourist and avoid So you're too good to be a tourist when you're a tourist? You sound like a hipster. > click hipster and go there Oh wait... But in all seriousness, if I go to Rome, I want to s
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by dwyer 13y ago
People seems to think that ``social network'' was a term thought up in Silicon Valley 5 years ago to describe Facebook or any other place on the internet where people are social. In fact, it has nothing to do with either. It comes
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by dwyer 13y ago
TFA: due to the temperature reliance of Peltier tiles, the flashlights worked better in colder temperatures (tested at 41 degrees Fahrenheit). The flashlight still worked in warmer temperatures (50 degrees, for instance), but the colder th
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by dwyer 13y ago
In that case, "Why it saves you time?" should be "How does it save you time?" That was the only line in the piece that screamed "non-native English speaker" to me.
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by dwyer 13y ago
What's really interesting here is not that a $1199 Macbook Pro outperformed a bunch of sub-$1000 PC laptops, but that the $429 Acer outperformed the rest of them, including the $2199 Macbook Pro.
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by dwyer 13y ago
url: "test.html", is clearly not equivalent to var age = document.getElementById('age').value; var wpm = document.getElementById('wpm').value; var sex = document.getElementById('sex').value; var queryString = "?a
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by dwyer 13y ago
OR you could try a simple "excuse me" first. I try reserve the unprovoked belligerence for Plan B, but I guess I'm just classy like that.
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by dwyer 14y ago
I too have been to every I/O, but the only year I ever got dibs on tickets was '10. I believe that '10 attendees who solved the puzzle on the t-shirts they gave out got dibs for '11, but I know of nobody who got dibs for '12.
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by dwyer 14y ago
Way to nitpick about goto while completely overlooking the obvious buffer overflow.
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by dwyer 14y ago
Skeuomorphic realism certainly didn't start with the iPhone. Anybody who has dabbled in music production knows it's been around since the 90s. Here are some pieces of software I've been using for the better part of the last decade: https:/
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by dwyer 14y ago
> at the moment, I can't even find many clients at this rate All the reason to charge more. If you have lots downtime between clients then you should make enough during your uptime to compensate for that. There are other benefits to out
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by dwyer 14y ago
1. The worst case for fibonacci is not exponential, it's actually O(fib(n)). 2. The recursive function `fib_helper` in TFA is actually iterative in an TCO environment. Read it closely. There's only on recursive call at the end, not two. `ba
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by dwyer 14y ago
I realize you wrote this quite some time ago, but I hope you're now aware that sh has range built-in. % echo {13..24} 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 % echo {24..13} 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13
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by dwyer 14y ago
> why should a developer (who could pull in 100-200/hr or get salary + significant equity at any number of startups, based on the qualifications you're looking for) put in his or her time for nothing Because programming is still fun for
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by dwyer 14y ago
If apt-get is the wrong way to install Rails, it sounds like a problem with Rails. Just whose responsibility is it to keep the version in the repos up-to-date anyway?
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by dwyer 15y ago
> it’s a surprise this group has not turned on each other already. The author must not have gotten the memo.
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by dwyer 15y ago
>Remember we are based in Singapore. There are quite a few government funds for entrepreneurs to tap into and most importantly they don’t take any equity at all. The more I learn about Singapore the more I like it. Also, given the quali
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by dwyer 15y ago
Hi Stephen. Congratulations, it looks great. I can't wait to play around with it. Quick question: have you any idea if it works with django-nonrel or if it could be ported to a non-relational database? I've thought building a CMS on App Eng
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How to find a short domain name(zegup.com)
154 points by dwyer 15y ago|78 comments
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by dwyer 15y ago
Interesting. I've often read discussions about how S-expressions could be made more readable. I never contribute much to such discussions because I've never had a problem with S-expressions. This is a neat idea though.
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by dwyer 15y ago
>You can publicly watch one of their projects; this is similar to "liking" something on facebook. >If you commit "too often", people will get annoyed and unwatch you. So don't watch projects you're not interested in watching and
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by dwyer 15y ago
I wouldn't say it's designed to filter out honest people, it's designed to filter out people whose past drug use could be a liability. Is it really so ridiculous to assume that anybody can honestly answer no to those questions? While mariju
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by dwyer 15y ago
Depends on what you consider respect of privacy. If you mean any provider that doesn't use software to scan your email for keywords, then that rules out any that incorporate a spam filter, and I can't think of any that don't. I personally d
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by dwyer 15y ago
Finally! Somebody who understands me! Now I certainly don't think retro design is "crippling" the basic OS experience. I personally find the whole desktop metaphor to be silly and outdated and not so useful for a generation that has grown u
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by dwyer 15y ago
Let me guess: Android fan tries Nexus, doesn't like it switches to iPhone, etc. etc.? Somehow I don't think "Android fan tries new Android phone and likes it" would be as newsworthy.
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by dwyer 15y ago
>Apple surely has an enormous stockpile of software patents, but their lawsuit activity has been pretty limited. Yes, $100 million on lawsuits in one year is pretty limited. http://www.itproportal.com/2012/01/24/apple-spent-staggering.
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by dwyer 15y ago
Hacker News double standard: * A company like Zynga who runs a completely legal business and employ thousands of people with good wages and benefits by copying game concepts is generally considered evil. * A torrent tracker or file locker t
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by dwyer 15y ago
>Go Daddy You must be new here.
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by dwyer 15y ago
Good points. I'll also add: * They automatically screen new uploads for copyrighted music. * They don't monetize videos unless the uploader is invited to become a partner and opts in, which requires a human screening of the partner's conten
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by dwyer 15y ago
I think it's a bit of a stretch. The FBI had been investigating the MegaEmpire for years. If anything, their plan to legitimatize their business was a reaction to the inevitable raid, not the other way around. Conspiracy theories make great

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