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by firemanx 15y ago
My experience in China has been a little different. You certainly see divides along economic lines, but there are tremendous ethnic divides in China that aren't talked about outside the country, and often its these ethnic divides that crea
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by firemanx 15y ago
Actually, I think one of the new features addresses the file refreshing issue. I don't know for sure yet (in the process of upgrading right now), but its mentioned in one of the New and Notable articles.
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by firemanx 15y ago
I was thinking along those lines as well, though the first language that came to my head was actually c# (my second thought was D). It may not be listed due to it's precarious position in the world, but it answers the majority of the point
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by firemanx 15y ago
I'm sure the families of police officers who've died protecting others would disagree with you. I understand the dissatisfaction with the things that have happened to law enforcement over the years, but it is a far, far cry from being the s
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by firemanx 15y ago
I don't know about innovation - I can't think of anything off the top of my head that has been innovated by the criminal and/or darker sectors of society. I can certainly see a massive demand for certain innovations (that are later created
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by firemanx 15y ago
This sounds like kind of a sarcastic comment, which it probably is, so I'll just point out that I don't think they're using patent or copyright law here to sue Google, but rather the domain of trade secret law, which SHOULD be there - not j
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by firemanx 15y ago
Wow, that's incredibly simple! We've been looking at using ESPER at work to do correlative analysis and aggregation on telephony events that go through our system, but figured the configuration of that system would be fairly complex. This
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by firemanx 15y ago
I found this really helpful. I'm a little surprised at the inconsistency of the asset pipeline deployment though. I guess we're all supposed to use erb templates if we intend to use it and include images in our stylesheets? It strikes me
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by firemanx 15y ago
Responded, then saw your post - I don't know if the shower tile boards are the same melamine that we used, but they probably are. We bought some chalkboard paint awhile back and discovered they now have a magnetized version as well, which m
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by firemanx 15y ago
We built an entire whiteboard wall (8 x 16) for less than $20 - just go down to Home Depot and pick up sheets of melamine, I think we got em for $8 or so a sheet (the sheets we bought were 8x4). Attach them to a wall and you've got an inst
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Ask HN: Web Hosts or Colocators who peer with AWS?
4 points by firemanx 15y ago|1 comments
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by firemanx 16y ago
I can certainly understand the perspective that ultimately the responsibility for the loss will have to be borne by the folks who didn't do their homework or didn't take enough care in their backup strategy. However, that wasn't the asserti
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by firemanx 16y ago
I really don't get this philosophy. I've seen this a lot recently in various discussions on HN, and I'm honestly dumbfounded. How do you justify this line of thought, that negative action against someone, done deliberately, is not the per
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by firemanx 16y ago
Do you have any proof otherwise? I've developed software on numerous platforms, and the Microsoft stack was incredibly stable, and performed better than any Ruby/PHP/Python stack I've worked with. I prefer to do most things in Rails these
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by firemanx 16y ago
It's a retail business - they are inevitably tied to the price they get from the manufacturer, and compete extremely strongly with a million other places, big and small. That really limits the margins they can make. Some retail businesses
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by firemanx 16y ago
This makes me immediately thing of the 5 Love Languages: http://www.5lovelanguages.com/ The Cliff's Notes version is that every human inately responds with various magnitudes to 5 love "languages" - ie, they have specific methods of expre
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by firemanx 16y ago
I disagree - if you head out to any small or medium sized "town" (my own, for example), you'll see the same kind of social bonding, loyalties, and cohesion amongst the people at organizations and even between organizations themselves.
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by firemanx 16y ago
I've noticed several games that can at least track the plane of your hand. My wife and I were playing some volleyball in Kinect Sports the other night, and it definitely was mimic-ing the movements of how we held our hands (ie, palm down,
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by firemanx 16y ago
Regis out of CO - http://www.Regis.edu . Check out the college for professional studies. I'm currently doing a combined bachelors / masters in CS, all online. It's spend, but a decent education.
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by firemanx 16y ago
What are the security limitations of AppHarbor? I see that they support NHibernate via custom security, but could I also run NHibernate Search / Lucene.NET, or is the filesystem locked down like Heroku?
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by firemanx 16y ago
I really like what they've got there, unfortunately it seems to be iPhone only :(
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Ask HN: Good Mobile/Online Diet Planner or Calorie Counter?
1 points by firemanx 16y ago|2 comments
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by firemanx 16y ago
Has anyone bothered to ask the question of "public domain for who?". I would assume that works created by the US taxpayers (via the government) would be public domain for US citizens, but is there a clear cut definition of them being publi
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by firemanx 16y ago
As a counter point to your first item - the government now doesn't really tell you who you can and can't marry, at least from a religious perspective. However, in the US at least, marriage is often done both religiously and legally, which
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by firemanx 16y ago
Considering that value is an abstract concept - ie, ultimately (in usual business dealings), its determined by how I "vote" with my dollars and not some empirical physical rule, I think the concept of "fair market value" in the case of emin
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by firemanx 16y ago
Intelligence operations, such as this, don't use NDAs when performing contract work (at least not in any project I've ever seen). There's no reason for NDAs - they have a robust, developed clearance infrastructure that assures a much stron
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by firemanx 16y ago
The work described here isn't something that would be classified FOUO, or likely even just "secret". This would be at a minimum TS or most likely SCI. As such, you don't just sign an NDA to do work on a project like this - you go through
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by firemanx 16y ago
Actually, for some games, Steam will do that too! I don't know when the released it, but if you look in your Steam Library, if the game has a little cloud icon next to it, your saved games and other settings will be shared between computer
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by firemanx 16y ago
The point wasn't that he wanted to kill him, I think, but rather that if Assange's own views don't respect rule of law and governance, the resulting outcome of those kinds of beliefs is vigilante justice. Essentially pointing out the "you c
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by firemanx 16y ago
While I support the idea of people educating themselves (and I would also recommend the reading list you provided), who can guarantee 100% that they are free from propaganda or brainwashing? Especially given the vast amount of information e

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