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by freditup 10y ago
While I hate ads as much as anyone, and use an ad-blocker myself, surely there could be some measure of illegality in the other direction also? Or put another way, surely consumers don't have a legal right to access Facebook without ad
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by freditup 10y ago
But aren't interactions with nieces/nephews usually filtered through their parents, until they're grown up? Maybe it was just this way for me, but I didn't have many real interactions with my aunts/uncles until I gr
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by freditup 10y ago
What counts as a crime though? Is reading anti-government articles a crime? Is viewing women in bathing suits (say you were shopping for your wife) a crime? Is unintentionally viewing a NSFW image on Reddit a crime? It would be interesting
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by freditup 10y ago
The quote at the beginning of the SO question you linked to, one of the top-25 questions of all time, is so ironic given the current state of SO: > We believe that Stack Overflow should not just be a resource for very specific technical
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by freditup 10y ago
Don't know why people are downvoting you, your comment was grey when I read it. I see nothing that makes your comment invalid and I think it contributes to the conversation. Perhaps it's not the popular opinion, but in a lot of ca
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by freditup 10y ago
Thanks for the elaboration on your thinking - as far as I can tell, PostEverything is sort of an "anything-goes" op-ed section [0]. I fully agree that this would be a horrible "news" piece! [0]: https://www.wa
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by freditup 10y ago
Why do you think it's unprofessional for the Washington Post to publish this article? I personally don't see anything particularly wrong with it so I'm curious as to what you find unprofessional about it.
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by freditup 10y ago
Curious what your estimate of a 50th and a 99th percentile developer salary is for a new grad? And do you mean a 50th percentile CMU grad, or a 50th percentile CMU grad developer, or just overall?
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by freditup 10y ago
Sexism, racism, homophobia, jingoism, etc are all considered unacceptable and politically-incorrect, but for some reason condescension and unjustified attacks are A-okay when it comes to certain regions of the US. I don't really unders
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by freditup 10y ago
Does anyone have a recommendation for resources to learn more about (ethical) hacking and penetration testing? I have some knowledge of common web vulnerabilities like XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, etc, but have very little knowledge of network
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by freditup 10y ago
I've often taken a drink or a snack from the office for later in the evening or the next day. Never considered that this might be frowned upon. On the other hand, taking large quantities of items frequently seems like an abuse of a per
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by freditup 10y ago
I'm not familiar with his work, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by freditup 10y ago
I was in downtown Camden, NJ once a couple years ago, being given a tour by a black pastor who's focus was on helping the poor of Camden turn away from drug addictions. (Point being, he knew the city very well, and knew its drug proble
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by freditup 10y ago
What does Walmart do to create an environment where theft is easy and common? Seems like they do things about the same as any other store (from a shopper's standpoint).
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by freditup 10y ago
There was a previous article[0]/discussion[1] on HN that contained a similar map of proposed high speed rail lines. This previous map made less sense because it encouraged building out new HSR lines across the vast expanses on the Amer
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by freditup 10y ago
That seems... surprisingly cheap. $6600 could also get you a small apartment for two months in NYC, about 10% of the way to the TSA randomizer app, or a lawyer for a day. Sending something to Mars is by far the most incredible of those thin
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by freditup 11y ago
I didn't realize this was now a feature, and I couldn't find a blog post on it, so thought others might be in the same boat and wanted to share this.
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by freditup 11y ago
Could you elaborate on how this is more understandable to a novice than the typical C program? My guess is that neither is immediately understandable, and that the C program is clearer to someone experienced.
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by freditup 11y ago
Surprised the website didn't list installed fonts anywhere. Fonts, alongside with other device details, can be a great way to fingerprint a browser/user. Edit: Actually, I believe you need Flash or a Java applet to actually get a
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by freditup 11y ago
There actually is for Buzzfeed at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11362796
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by freditup 11y ago
But they are weaknesses when designing a languages to compile to wasm. I love TypeScript and the Microsoft team has done a fantastic job with it, but that doesn't mean it's the right tool for this particular job.
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by freditup 11y ago
A couple of comments based off of the first ET poster/ad in the article: * Atari games like this cost $40? That seems expensive! * Why did Pennsylvania residents have to call a different number? * Funny that a point of advertising was
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by freditup 11y ago
I actually find that the use of "!" over "not" improves readability. English words tend to all blend together and take more time to parse, whereas a nice "!" token is easy to recognize at a glance. That being s
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by freditup 11y ago
I would argue the last "good" chart example, a chart of mass-shootings per president, is misleading as it compares four two-term presidents (Obama, W. Bush, Clinton, and Reagan) to a single-term president (H.W. Bush).
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by freditup 11y ago
It's a tough issue. Having every line of code be exactly 100% consistent isn't a bad thing, in fact, it's a good thing. But, I question if it's worth the time, effort and frustration to do this. I feel it could be better
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by freditup 11y ago
> Remember: reading your mind is part of every team member’s job. That’s how they stay proactive! > Did someone on your team do something differently than how you would do it? Reprimand them! They might tell you that it works just fin
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by freditup 11y ago
LEDs are great, and I'm happy they're gaining popularity and their price is coming down. But I'd rather have kids break a 20 cent lightbulb instead of a $5 bulb. Still, a lot of LED bulbs now seems to come in plastic casing,
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by freditup 11y ago
This is a huge point. When I was young, I broke many lightbulbs playing sports in my basement. Regular old incandescent lightbulbs were perfect for this scenario - cheap to replace, not chemically hazardous if broken, and not turned on all
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by freditup 11y ago
Animations have also been a pain point for me - part of the problem being the lack of SMIL support in some browsers as well as differing behavior and support with regards to CSS animations.

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