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With content deals, I feel like Can-Con is to blame. Can-con is the law that a percentage of content must be Canadian in origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content I personal hold Can-con responsible for the fact that Call Me M
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I too have used that approach, and the only problem I've found is because I'm still used to taking in a large mass of low calorie raw foods, if I'm in a situation where the type of food I'd normally eat isn't available, then I have the capa
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trying to write out documentation on how to use something is as helpful as TDD in some cases for the "making you figure it out before you start". Where TDD shines is giving you a tiny testbench to see that your implementation is heading in
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YAML is the easiest combination of human and machine readable that has been implemented (so far). http://yaml.org/
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I wouldn't use it, but I think that getting the domain name and setting up a demo site like that is great idea. Good execution. Kudos.
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MacAffee thinks it's ok http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ureddit.com
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Trend Microscan reports ureddit.com and it's favicon.ico as suspicious. URL Blocked The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy.
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I had a hard time understand it as well. I interpreted it as the Peter Principle also applies to software rising to the level of it's incompetence, not just people.
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I hadn't realized that autoconf used M4. M4 is amazingly hard to work with, mainly because it uses ` and ' as delimiters, making it very hard to even read unless you have syntax highlighting set up to show those quotes as different characte
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Ask HN: is there a "Yesterday's HN" app?
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I've often thought that Starbucks should sell fractional shares a long with their coffee, thus becoming the biggest ponzi scheme in history.
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The movie analogy is interesting, because you can see the way people have evolved techniques to handle the grossly different movie products: rotten tomatoes aggregates professional reviewers to give a general score imdb lets people see the
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Weird, Outwitters is listed as free on the one man left website, but iTunes has it as $0.99
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Interesting idea. I wonder if anyone has stepped up to prevent the chilling effect of DMCA takedown notices? It seems like a non-profit could handle this role where they act as a proxy where the victim of the notice asserts they have copyri
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I thought I read somewhere that because of the neuroplasticity reduction in the brain as you age, that as people get older they are less accepting of change and trend towards conservatism. I can't find a good article to back that up with, t
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The scariest thing about this infographic is that it made me realize that for the majority of people in any election, how it impacts their taxes is their only concern. I would guess that the soundest strategy for any party in any country wo
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As others have pointed out, your infographic is missing data (Rmoney hasn't released a detailed plan) and the design downplays this fact to hide that the numbers are likely not factual. That does not seem apolitical. (I'm not an American, s
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Why don't they show something like "4 of your friends" read this answer without identifying the friend? They would need a lower threshold were you would need a minimum number of friends before this feature would kick in to keep the data ano
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of course, the real problem is that Apple will read this rumour and then get the idea of implementing these screws to lock consumers out of their devices and achieve the utopia of "no consumer serviceable parts".
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The best tech support guy I've known always wore dress shirts plus ties and had a psych degree instead of any kind of tech degree. He's since moved on to becoming a personal trainer, another profession where understanding human motivators r
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Over the last 15 years I've had 3 hard drive failures and 0 burned houses. ymmv
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The simplest solution I've had is to keep a notebook where I for every page I write down the security questions and my answer. This is done because I have a bad memory, not as an attempt to salt, but it is a good point that we should try to
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I've noticed this divide for a long time, but the way I've always plotted the axis is "urban" vs "rural". urban - accepts a certain amount of chaos for the benefits of reducing redundancy, wants to centralize code, reuse via shared centrali
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Valve's statements about Windows 8 usability were mirrored by Blizzard. The source engine is faster under OpenGL on Windows as well , not just Linux. So It's an OpenGL vs Direct3D debate, not Windows vs Linux. "Is all this noise just saber
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In the context, Marx isn't about politics. Marx is about economics. Talking about economics without referring Marx at all seems disingenuous. The article is a post from the Valve's economies blog.
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for the people who are arguing "but what about the right to bear arms"? The wikipedia page has some interesting discussions about the history and analysis of the 2nd amendment. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Con
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Here's the wikipedia page on gun-related deaths statistics since some people are writing "where's the beef?" comments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re... US has a score of 10.27 per 100,000 Canada has
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Maybe more local business should be using these ads? Facebook captures location + interests.
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I haven't been following Ouya since the initial hype, but wasn't one of their initial talking points that they would only allow free games? I guess they're doing paid games now: "But that’s not the end of it: We’re promising to deliver Fina
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I really don't understand why they don't do netflix premium with per-movie rentals for $4-5 per streamed movie. Given that all the big box movie rental stores have died, this would make them a player vs iTunes and Amazon who manage to have

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