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by eric-hu 15y ago
> But I think looking at a friendship from the angle of how it can benefit you and make you a better person is a somewhat selfish metric upon which to judge the quality or value of a friend. I was put off by the article in a way I could
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Their page now is at least magnitudes more informative than it was a few months ago--when I first saw a Raspberry Pi reference on HN. I went to their page looking for an about link. I'm not sure if I found it or no
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by eric-hu 15y ago
You're welcome! The current version looks better. I would add that the flag adjustment should also factor in honeypots seen. This version will punish flaggers (good or bad) with a large flagging history who've seen no honeypots. -(1-(f/(t
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Am I missing something with the second formula? h = (f - v)/(s * t) The perfect flagger would have v = 0 and f = s. His total flag score is t = s + x, where x is the number of non-honeypots flagged. His score would be: h = s/(s * s + s *
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I'm sticking to my keyboard for near-future development as well, but I hope some more people explore in this direction. It'd be really cool to see this program or similar ones evolve. Maybe one day, I might be able to code high level prog
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by eric-hu 15y ago
From what I understand, many websites now use "soft deletes", where they cut out the ability for users to see/modify data. It remains intact on their servers though. I really don't agree with this, but I can't deny that there's value in th
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by eric-hu 15y ago
> A company doesn't have a single conscience. Insightful: while it's seemingly simple and obvious, everyone I know has fallen prey to the opposite belief, myself included.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
For people that have done this with success: how many times of closing an app do you consider a "few" times? Wouldn't you need to repeat this enough to make the result statistically significant--or is it more like a rule of thumb?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
It'll be in (essentially) the same orbit, so it'll be drifting past the other satellites nice and slowly. What are the range of velocities of objects in graveyard orbit? I wasn't able to find these numbers directly on a quick google sear
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I'm very very reluctant to call those mistakes. From the author: > I didn't get too upset here; I expected us to do poorly. After all, we'd spent all of our development time in actually building something people want, not on scaling up
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I know what you mean about dropping words. If Google did group by brackets, it was a feature I never learned (though I haven't browsed the guide too often). That search style reminds me of Craigslist. What's interesting is that I pasted i
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I switched to using just my monitor when using my laptop at work for this reason. It worked all right in 10.10 for me, but switching to 11.04 caused some issues when having 2 screens at a different res. As I understood with my googling, it
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your frustrations? I have used DDG and found it to be amazing for some searches early on. I felt the same about Wolfram Alpha. Both still seem awesome in their own way, but I haven't been frustrated enough to sw
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Ask HN: How do you learn a new language or library?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Since I didn't know what it meant, maybe some others might be in the same boat: > Forum shopping is the informal name given to the practice adopted by some litigants to get their legal case heard in the court thought most likely to prov
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by eric-hu 15y ago
08:39 PST: the page says it's removed for me. https://www.americanexpress.com/us/admin/
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Italian law is very unlikely to extend outside the borders of Italy. I see this as analogous to why Google can serve up content about Tiananmen Square outside of China without any repercussions
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by eric-hu 15y ago
This could actually be a pretty neat feature to install on a server for clients so that they can change/add text content on the server without having to contact a dev (and without having command line access). Once set up, it could be as sim
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by eric-hu 15y ago
What you said reminds me of something I read from edw512's book ( http://edweissman.com/53640595 ) > Buyers of software products, like small children, hear one word more than any other: "no". "No, it can't be done." "No we don't do th
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Does this mean there's a business opportunity waiting for someone to make Rails friendly to Japan's programmers?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I'm a gamer too. I also value a well-thought-out game, but I posit that the Zynga game players on Facebook are after something different. I think Zynga, or at least their industry, is here to stay. There seems to be far more room for 'con
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by eric-hu 15y ago
This makes me wonder if there was some backroom deal to give Facebook an edge over Google+.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
That does seem to be an interview technique used at some companies. It comes with its own set of problems, though. What if someone asks a friend for help or pays someone to solve the problem in its entirety? If your problems aren't unique
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by eric-hu 15y ago
This. Putting people into space is very expensive compared to putting unmanned instruments into Low and Medium Earth Orbit. Our nation isn't doing well financially right now, and I see NASA's priorities as logical. They're getting a lot mo
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I figured he'd be well compensated, but wouldn't this mark the end of his career as a high level executive?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
There's a popular series of Ruby on Rails tutorial videos called Railscasts. Someone decided to textualize all of them--Asciicasts--because text has the benefit of being easily searchable. For me, I went straight for the doc so I could a q
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Relevant snippets: "diego.ca...@gmail.com, Sep 19, 2010 ... In my case, I've been forced to suddenly stop my work ... with node.js because it cannot handle more than ~140K websockets concurrent connections ..." "erik.corry, Nov 2, 2010 The
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by eric-hu 15y ago
"What’s normal for time off varies from country to country but a reasonable guideline is 30 working days per calendar year, excluding local public holidays." They say what's considered reasonable in one of the rules. My personal take is th
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by eric-hu 15y ago
"Zagat Survey ... in 1979 as a way to collect and correlate the ratings of restaurants by diners." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagat#Rating_system Admittedly I haven't tried as their site runs off a "pay to see the full content of this r
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by eric-hu 15y ago
To get Google's attention, they just need to patent the idea of a 50% off coupon.

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