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by forgotusername 14y ago
What now.. a heavily cybermilitarized nationstate so broke it needs to skim its own citizens' bank accounts? Advanced Persistent Phish? Trying to remember the last time I didn't read about some ultra-dooper-al-quaeda-cyber-virus. Seems an
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by forgotusername 14y ago
> their reputation lies in tatters Most of the brokerages who routed elsewhere last week were back using them as of Friday.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
They had >= $300m free cash as of June, that's how I arrived at the $100mish deficit.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'd love to know what qualifies you to throw a word like incompetence around here. My best guess is the reason it took 45 minutes to shut it off was due to a judgement call: burn through free cash, or take out all their customers too. Bear
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How to lose $440M, 100 shares at a time(nanex.net)
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Create a whitelist. The follow model remains, which eliminates spam. You only see updates from people you follow, and only mutual followers can correspond using direct messages If it wasn't 4am I'd spend time explaining why this is the mo
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Pretty sweet job considering it's advertising an e-mail app, although I was somewhat disappointed by the absence of unicorns.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
> We know where these panels came from. LG manufacture this panel for Apple. The last time I read this on HN, less than 24 hours ago, it was clearly branded a rumour.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Assuming Microsoft employees are ravenously pouring over your private folders seems a little short sighted: reliable skin detection is fairly easy to accomplish, which given a folder full of photos testing positive, might get a sample flagg
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by forgotusername 14y ago
The double dagger shouldn't appear prior to the dagger or asterisk, inserting unusual Unicode is confusing and detracts from this comment's readability. I appreciate the desire for flare, but this just looks daft appearing on a comment thre
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Feedback from someone that's previously (long before the devops scene exploded) looked at commercializing a system like this: Your UI should integrate monitoring and control using an actually visual interface detached from any underlying mo
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Non-ionising radiation, so assuming power level is low, very little.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
tl;dr your memcache branch fragments my consulting clients, you should use my memcache branch instead
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by forgotusername 14y ago
This is a wonderful piece of waffle, but I'm trying very hard to find any abstract or even remotely concrete idea that it would describe that doesn't in some way model our existing markets, which already exist in almost every conceivable fo
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by forgotusername 14y ago
$100m to maintain their current product doesn't make sense, but I imagine they're interested in growing (duh). Adding 100 developers and 50+50 sales/support guys could easily eat $25m a year.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
This isn't quite as slick as how word lens does it. Google's translation is likely better, but Word Lens superimposes the translated text back into place on the original image. Anyone tried to install it on a stock 2.3.3 Nexus One and been
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'd guess this minutiae was written in response to some unreferenced critique of their service, in reality nobody with sense would use TTFB as a useful measure of application performance. In fact measuring performance anywhere near the HTTP
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm engaging in what is commonly known as using one's imagination to make educated guesses at the possible electronic devices within an average motor vehicle (you know, that thing with wheels on it) where a real time clock susceptible to
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Engine won't start, service due 300 years ago. I'd be willing to bet $10 there's at least a few floating around with real time clocks, no idea what they'd be used for though. If nothing else there's always in-car navigation and entertainmen
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm imagining a whole bunch of bricked "classic" cars
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Differentiation is a huge selling point for the operators, and will likely remain so as the majority of regular users don't really care about the branding (or, if anything, may feel more secure seeing the operator's logo). What counts as ju
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by forgotusername 14y ago
My experience of Microsoft was that they're the most backward compatible source of technology around. Perhaps you could provide specific examples of breakage? It's funny that this should come up in a thread about PowerShell, a replacement
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by forgotusername 14y ago
These are still vulnerable to electronic countermeasures, not to mention plain old missile attacks on their requisite communications infrastructure (satellites presumably). I imagine if any modern power got into a real fight with the US, th
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I've never written code for these architectures, but my assumption was that a modern GCC will happily bodge this for you in software, so its probably only super ancient/exotic stuff for which the lack of ability to cast applies
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by forgotusername 14y ago
The ability to cast a function pointer to a regular pointer is an implementation behavior (supported on every machine you'd want to use, but nonetheless it's not standard C)
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by forgotusername 14y ago
> 3MW power So "not small" at a guess.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I think Google learned the hard way that selling to small users results in huge support cost (see also: App Engine, pretty sure that was the reason behind the price hike). Neither AE or GoogEC2 are the kind of services you can simply rely o
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by forgotusername 14y ago
This is actually a fair and valid point. On all but the most delicately configured systems, the standard configuration of basically all SQL databases does not occlude committed data loss during power failure due to the hard disk's write cac
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Google App Engine's SDK used to (still does?) use a very similar scheme.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
There's little need, Qt bootstrapped a new community-lead process a few months back, the project is independent of Nokia already (and there is sufficient critical mass in the user base to keep the project alive). As for major new developmen

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