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by ff0066mote 15y ago
http://ycombinator.jpg.to/
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Is it louder? Is it heavier? Is it less able to stop and turn at a moments notice? Certainly innovative, but does this make things better?
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
Why does it matter who came up with the idea for bitcoin? The protocol and the code are freely available for anyone to review. I don't understand why people are pursuing a guy who didn't do anything wrong and doesn't want to be found.
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
This is heartening news because connectivity is becoming a commodity. Will anything come of it? Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers. I'm not worried about ever hitting that cap, but
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
I think the second part needed to be long to make your point clear. I think it worked. Since we aren't machines, sometimes we express ourselves in long rambling thoughts. That's okay and, when it's not we have Editors.
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
"Bigger is just something you have to live with in Java. Growth is a fact of life. Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endless
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
This immediately made me think of the line from Desiderata. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Full text on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedi
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
The researchers, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, have chemically re-engineered ecstasy by taking some atoms away and putting new ones in their place. That sounds like a nod to Mitch Hedburg's line about fixing o
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by ff0066mote 15y ago
I was caught off guard by the first line, where the author uses PHP as one of the examples of an environment out-of-touch with hardware issues. I started to learn how to program in PHP. Back then there was a sentiment that PHP and similar h
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I believe that section 1 contains mistakes. In the implementations of evens_only, shouldn't both of the places where modulus is used be preceded by "not"? This isn't meant to detract from the truth that "Beauti
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
My apologies. I've corrected my sentence to use the article "an" instead of "the".
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
That guy you know is doing the world a favor. This is an alternative: < http://www.google.com/images?q=guiyu%2C+china&#62 ;
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
One could argue that a filesystem which contains two files, one in ASCII and one in EBCDIC, is on the whole just single mapping of characters to numbers. Your point isn't well argued. What I'm suggesting differs in that it would use consist
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
This article presents some interesting consequences of using a unified map from numbers to glyphs for all the plethora of human languages. Perhaps instead of Unicode there could have been an established way to change character encoding mid-
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
You can still get hanged for stealing somebody's horse from where it is tied-up outside of a saloon in New Hampshire.
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Regardless, there is no reason we shouldn't continue to help them succeed (by being rational and decent).
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
The fact that we have to rely on the nature of bureaucracy scares me. It shows that rationality and human decency are failing. I do not believe that current attempts to control internet access and content are being micro-examined end to end
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Ah, I didn't think of that and it makes sense. Thank you.
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Not related to Drobo: I use a cron script which runs rsync each hour and synchronizes my / and /home/ with my /mnt/mirror/. Ever since I've set this up, I've had a reliable backup which I don't have to think about. I've even migrated my s
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Photoshop does that too. This method is different because it uses the data URI scheme to encode the (small) image as base64 data in the <img /> tag. No tables here!
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Tell HN: Turn small images to html for fun
2 points by ff0066mote 16y ago|2 comments
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
They forgot to mention that reinventing the wheel is, often, simply enjoyable. I'm currently writing a little javascript library to do Linear Algebra operations, even though one already exists. It's helping me to gain a better understanding
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
I've noticed a trend recently whereby social networking sites on the internet are becoming integrated into desktop applications, panel applets, and now you suggest integrating it into my browser? Personally, I like keeping my online social
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
I think he views his coded-creations as a form of self expression, or art. This is perhaps why he wants them to be treated with the same hands-off approach as his fiction writings. However, when it comes to code I think it's best to make kn
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
This is definitely a satire, but it's so deadpan that it was hard for me to pick up on until nearing the end of the video. Amazing.
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Oh, I'm not implying that they should provide any more results than they already do. I just thought it was mildly interesting. Google's brand has the aura of an unlimited wealth of information. People don't even see it as a means by which t
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
Please note the second part of this answer at the end of the paragraph. You are required to opt out of each website/app proactively. This is not good for those concerned with privacy. "To prevent your friends from sharing any of your inform
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Facebook: How do I opt-out of instant personalization? (in 1 + n steps)(facebook.com)
3 points by ff0066mote 16y ago|1 comments
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
I feel like this move by Facebook is opening up a ton of new opportunities for phishing scams. There are a lot of people who won't carefully check the address bar when, upon clicking something on a website which looks like a Facebook plugin
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by ff0066mote 16y ago
I just found this striking. It makes the sentence on the previous page sound rather grandiose. "Results 916 - 922 of about 642,000,000 for search terms. (1.46 seconds)"

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