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by ergo98 16y ago
Terrorists aren't as inhuman and single-minded as you've been essentially brainwashed into thinking. They have the same motivations as most other human beings. In many cases the "harem of virgins" is a Western ruse, and really they are look
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by ergo98 16y ago
Works wonderfully in FF 4b7. It's a pretty simple model and I'm on a high end machine, so that isn't all that incredible (like a side-scrolling canvas demo), but it's neat.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were relatively tiny nuclear bombs. The results were absolute devastation of the sort that most nations rightly don't want to endure. It isn't world-ending apocalyptic if North Korea launched its entire arsenal, but i
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by ergo98 16y ago
The more survivable a nuclear war is perceived to be, the more likely nuclear war becomes.
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That actually adds some slightly negative overtones to it -- each choice you make is reallocating away from the other fine charities. Even if it's accrued per tab, the probability of them hitting their maximum is virtually guaranteed, so it
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by ergo98 16y ago
By community I mean user base. I'm not talking about outliers. I am talking about the majority of the user base, with few exceptions. To put a bit of a bigoted statement into this, let me say that traditionally Microsoft had several develop
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by ergo98 16y ago
I love .NET the platform -- the VM is absurdly efficient (almost too efficient, making egregious algorithm choices functional), and C# the language is superb and absolutely first class. There is nothing that shames either of those contender
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yet you did. Remarkable that.
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Every thread eventually ends up being about PayPal, doesn't it?
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I was fully aware before he decided to come barging in Do you mean the thread having nothing to do with you where you responded to my post with- "Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it s
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by ergo98 16y ago
How utterly boorish. If I could delete the submission I would because I see zero productive value in it, and I'm a bit shocked at the stunning narrow mindedness of so many. My motive was simply to have a discussion about web security as it'
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Input type="password" Needs to Grow Up(blog.yafla.com)
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by ergo98 16y ago
6. Not simplifying complex queries through views Number 6 needs to be used with discretion. When you reference a complex view, you are in essence making use of a stored query snippet -- there is no magic to the view, and unless you've mat
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by ergo98 16y ago
Why did you ever trust Gawker? I don't mean "trust that they won't compromise it" (though in this case it's a salted DES password -- on the gradient of exposures, this one isn't terribly high for anything but ultra-simple dictionary tests l
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by ergo98 16y ago
Comment deleted as you simply are irrational, and in my opinion financially ignorant. I have no vested interest in the PayPal issue, yet it remarkably seems that every bad story I've heard is the same tale of incredible financial irresponsi
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yeah, Sencha did this to get their name out there. Not really sure why they are necessary, though, given that ACID scores, HTML5 test results, and performance numbers are known by everyone.
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by ergo98 16y ago
The bit about iOS barring JIT is technically incorrect. I've shot that one down before so I won't bother now, but when Apple gets around to adding a JIT, miraculously that overarching constraint will disappear. However yes the GPU absolutel
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by ergo98 16y ago
If they have a problem with the benchmark (personally I think SunSpider is a garbage benchmark) they shouldn't use it. They definitely shouldn't include it and then include a completely unsupported (and technically irrelevant) trump stateme
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by ergo98 16y ago
It remains incredibly disappointing that Android still doesn't support SVG (including in 2.3), however I discount this article immediately as it comes from AppleInsider. It's like listening to Gruber talk about Android. Though what's the de
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by ergo98 16y ago
Agreed about the hour over 15 minutes. I can understand that they don't want people essentially renting apps for free (which is what was happening with a lot of casual games). On the flip side I bought a racing game recently and not long in
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by ergo98 16y ago
The "Android is free" bit is remarkably foolhardy, so it is surprising that it appears in so many articles. I've heard that Microsoft charges somewhere in the range of $10 / unit for Windows Mobile, generally for an image that you quite lit
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by ergo98 16y ago
Interestingly if you were paid by credit card directly, you wouldn't have seen a penny for months. During which time your buyer would have challenged the charges, you wouldn't have gotten paid...same story. It sounds like you completely mis
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by ergo98 16y ago
Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it suits your rhetoric. This sort of trollish nonsense has no place on HN. I built a banking AML system (not for PayPal, which is a company that I have zer
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by ergo98 16y ago
There's a complete lack of detail in this story, and the wikileaks bit almost seems like an aside looking to cash in on some of the wikileaks sympathy. It's humorous how bitchy people are about PayPal -- do this sort of stuff with your bank
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by ergo98 16y ago
Google was sued without any details of where and how they actually infringe on the patents (which is often the case for blanket patent infringement claims -- sue everyone and see who settles). There is no double jeopardy or anything of the
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by ergo98 16y ago
Indeed. When I signed up, however, it was the only option, so I have a legacy with it.
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by ergo98 16y ago
Not sure about this. Hotmail accounts are like Facebook connect accounts, and I use mine for xbox live, MSN messenger, among other Microsoft services. Yet I haven't used Hotmail in years, and when I did I'd always get the "we deleted everyt
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by ergo98 16y ago
Consider his bias, though. Carmack's ideal world is one where everyone has one console, one phone, and one PC. Android offers him nothing but extra pain over the possibility of every human being carrying an iOS device. What's good for Carma
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Personally I am perplexed why Gruber's opinion of Android or the Android ecosystem has any relevance. He can wax poetic about new iOS features and iOS brilliance, singing to his choir, but he has no perspective or relevance to preach abou
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by ergo98 16y ago
Wikileaks has not been charged with any crime anywhere in the world, let alone been found guilty. At a very minimum wikileaks is distributing copyrighted information without authorization. Technically they can be taken completely down via

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