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by eblume 14y ago
That's actually what got me to close my FB account. I was tired of getting emailed birthday spam because FB knew my birthday, so I changed it to April 1st and forgot about it. This April, I got about 10 or 20 'Happy Birthday!'s before I pos
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by eblume 14y ago
We do the same doing some terabyte-scale data processing. We try and load all of the shared state in to a read-only structure ahead of time, then fork off the workers. This way, copy-on-write memory architectures get the advantage of only p
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by eblume 14y ago
When can I use my HTC One X as a replacement for my credit card? Call me when that happens, until then I see this as just another PayPal. Unless we're already there, but some short internet searches found nothing but misleading blog post ti
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by eblume 14y ago
My understanding is that anyone can do it if they provide a validation study showing that the IQ test directly correlates to job performance and doesn't discriminate on other protected statuses. My understanding is also that the number of c
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by eblume 14y ago
It's important to note that those 'share by email' things are something the sharer specifically checked - it's not checked by default. If the shares are unwanted, I would complain to the person sharing them (although one imagines the email
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by eblume 14y ago
There is (subjectively) a marked deterioration of comment quality on front-page discussions in the past few days, I feel. I have also noticed that HN articles are getting linked on reddit more frequently (I use both networks, but for highly
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by eblume 14y ago
I couldn't get past this part: Even geeks can’t handle folders in folders Hierarchical file systems weren't invented because it was ancient times and they were the easiest thing to produce. Hierarchical file systems were invented b
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by eblume 14y ago
I agree completely. The integration between G+ and all of the other Google apps - particularly on my android phone - is really, really slick. Great stuff. Even if I never posted on G+ I'd still like having it around just for the contact man
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by eblume 14y ago
Interesting - I have the exact opposite experience. I was amazed at how easily I could integrate multiple accounts in to one interface and switch between them seamlessly. But it sounds like you had an unusual (I hope!) experience, so that c
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by eblume 14y ago
I'm still new to HN in general so this is probably a a rather mundane/ignorant comment - apologies - but why is this at the top of HN at the moment? There is no content in this post, no useful points, no specific examples of what is wrong (
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by eblume 14y ago
This will definitely lead to more people using Postgres on their OS X setups, but what I wonder is whether it will lead to an overall better quality of development. Let me try to articulate my point, but I could probably use some help: I su
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by eblume 14y ago
When you tie a chrome browser to your google account, configuration gets shared across machines. I'm not sure how handy that is if you're often on machines you don't control, but for my use case (where I work with 3-4 different machines eve
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by eblume 14y ago
This is a very good point, and one I think the author completely missed. I use bloom filters in an application at work and was very interested to hear about this, wondering if some sort of hybrid might be useful. But when I saw that the has
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by eblume 14y ago
I think you meant CERN, not LHC there. LHC was built rather recently, the web has been around far longer.
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by eblume 14y ago
I'm not sure this counts as a constructive comment, but an interesting anecdote anyway - an early coding partner of mine once wrote a procedure he expected to run once exactly every second by continuously polling the time in a while/do_no
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by eblume 14y ago
That was my thought as well. If I need to buy some fancy hardware and swing it around to play a game... I'll probably just go buy a practice foil and sign up for a class instead!
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by eblume 14y ago
Personally I use Chrome Nanny[1] for this sort of thing, but it's a pretty interesting idea. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cljcgchbnolheggdga...
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by eblume 14y ago
Issues of the domain name aside, I think the entire project is a bit 'fuzzy' in that the kinds of problems that will be posted here aren't easily lent to this sort of 'spare time' coding. Working on someone else's project is something that
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by eblume 14y ago
Probably more relevant material taught (well) than in my 4-going-on-6 year education right now, too.
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by eblume 14y ago
Oh wow - this is really interesting. I just released a VERY similar program called `gmail-safe` yesterday. I was going to do a Show HN sometime today. If anyone is interested, here is the URI: http://eblume.github.com/gmail_safe/ Note tha
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by eblume 14y ago
Yeah, that seems like a no-brainer to me. Even my company's small 2-person software 2-person QA team has a release test to make sure all debug parameters are shut off. The software won't even run if a debug parameter is on without some spec
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by eblume 14y ago
This sounds neat, but I want to ask others here as I am not (yet) a Cocoa developer - is all Cocoa code this ugly? In these short examples I honestly can't fathom what is happening due to the syntactic 'oddities'. Maybe my C-variant-fu is n
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by eblume 14y ago
Where I've worked, invoicing gets sent to another system that does retain data (I think forever).
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by eblume 14y ago
A lot of companies (or at least several I've worked with) have policies that emails must not be kept for more than one or two months. I gather in-house exchange servers helps to enforce that. I was told that this is because such a policy al
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by eblume 14y ago
Fantastically thorough research, the kind of stuff I love to read. However I can't help but feel the much less impressive other answer "Use Levenshtein distance, here is the link." (paraphrased) is the better answer. The long-winded answer
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by eblume 14y ago
Too true - we also had a marketing department for an entire year before we had said product. Now I certainly understand that you need a marketing department before the product launches - but consider that at a time when development was in f
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by eblume 14y ago
I work in biotech and this is rampant there - our company changed names three times before we ever had a product (or any revenue at all). These were not small name changes, either - they redecorated the entire office to the new company co
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by eblume 14y ago
Definitions notwithstanding, I tend to prefer the term 'AAR' (After Action Report). I had a manager in an early campus IT job that had been in the Marines, and he enforced a strict mandatory-AAR policy for anything even remotely complex. It
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by eblume 14y ago
Good point. My training said no full names, but that was because we were directly associated with a specific product/analysis, so any full names would associate the patient with a particular health... thing. A name by itself, you are quite
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by eblume 14y ago
In this case, probably yes. Might want to remove the post, it's a fairly major violation. Often, names alone wouldn't necessarily constitute a violation as names are generally not sufficient to count as personally identifiable information..

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