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by furyg3 16y ago
It would be a very nice thing to do, especially for people who made a yearly subscription payment less than 6 months ago. That being said, if I were a dropbox subscriber and my ISP (or government... ::shudder::) blocked dropbox, I would k
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by furyg3 16y ago
Do people want long URLs to be shortened if they fit in the tweet? I don't know if that's true...
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by furyg3 16y ago
For comparison, reddit has four people (I think).
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by furyg3 17y ago
:) I don't! I think this video is absolutely awesome, and I deeply, deeply wish that I could trade in my current line of work to make these videos for a living. That being said, I can't replicate Chrome's load times as seen in that video :
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by furyg3 17y ago
Back in the days of Friendster, I thought "Enemyster" would be a nice feature for social networking sites. In addition to selecting your friends, also select your enemies. The system can then recommend connections between people who hate
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by furyg3 17y ago
I'm not quite clear on what's being 'tested' in these videos. The idea is give a practical visual comparison of really, really fast things to google chrome loading a web page. Because it's so practical, you don't need a tesla coil to dupli
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by furyg3 17y ago
I've always wondered why this isn't used... perhaps because if you can't figure out site:whatever on google you're not a hacker? Still, it's easy to implement and certainly better than nothing.
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by furyg3 17y ago
How does the PC communicate with the IIe? Serial?
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by furyg3 17y ago
> Their current goal is usually just to make sure it runs at all. Indeed. I'm the lead of the "IT Staff" at a small non-profit (~70 users) running mostly on second-hand desktops. Two-thirds of our staff is unpaid, usually interns who
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by furyg3 17y ago
I find it slightly amusing that these two statements are in adjoining paragraphs: The trouble is that we will never hear their discontent because Apple employees are forbidden from blogging, posting to social networks, or other things that
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by furyg3 17y ago
Funny, but no. :) I met most of my expat friends at the beginning of their visa processes (vacationers or students who want to stay, or fell in love with someone here), so I don't think survivorship bias plays a role in my own observations
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by furyg3 17y ago
Errrrmmm. If you're an American with a degree, it's pretty trivial. It's certainly trivial when compared to what people have to go through to get into the US. I know a lot of people who have relocated to NL (me), UK, DE, or FR. 1. Ameri
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by furyg3 17y ago
That's with regard to a crime, however, not a school policy. You may very well be allowed to die your hair blue, have a "legalize weed" bumper sticker on your guitar case, or an explicit novel in your backpack off campus, but if you do any
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by furyg3 17y ago
Four hours though. Can a police officer detain you for so long without arrest? How far does that go?
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by furyg3 17y ago
Compare that to The United States Postal Service (aka snail mail) that delivered just over 200 billion total packages in 2008. Wow. Go USPS. I'm sorry, but delivering 200 billion physical objects is so much more impressive than nearly
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by furyg3 17y ago
Nowadays it's being used for good there, as well: http://www.labenevolencija.org/en/current-activities/great-l... A friend of mine is doing some research with them, and I've had the pleasure of meeting several people involved with the org
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by furyg3 17y ago
So... they're trusting information provided by the user's browser (referral links, cookies, javascript... whatever) to determine whether or not the article should be displayed to the user.... This makes me want to pat the NYT on the head
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by furyg3 17y ago
OT: Why must the Japanese TV always have a little box in the corner showing the reactions of random people (presumably random famous people)? Would your average Japanese person not realize that parallel parking a car at 30mph is amazing,
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by furyg3 17y ago
Irrelevant... neither does building public roads.
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by furyg3 17y ago
Not to mention it would completely reverse the role of immigrant children in the classrooms. A decade ago (maybe still) there was a debate in California: what's the best way to educate Spanish-speaking kids? Do we start immersing them in E
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by furyg3 17y ago
I wonder how they would affect areas frequently under large swaths of the rings' shadows.
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by furyg3 17y ago
Our support for HTML5 is an early experiment, and there are some limitations. HTML5 on YouTube doesn't support videos with ads, captions, or annotations [...] I think I speak for everyone when I say: YouTube... do not fix these bugs!!!
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by furyg3 17y ago
You know a shoelace knot is good when you decide to have kids specifically to increase the knot's chance of survival.
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by furyg3 17y ago
I can't find that anywhere on NPR's site. Got a link?
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by furyg3 17y ago
Actually, I was rather surprised with how forthright they were about it. They could have easily said "he left to peruse other opportunities" and not leave me thinking about any budget problems/disagreements, beyond the standard "non-profit
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Ask HN: "So... What happened to the last guy?"
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by furyg3 17y ago
Exactly, I lived in a house full of bachelors for 6 years (4 of us), and we had exactly the opposite problem: there were tons of cups/plates/bowls/pans (everybody brought their own to the house), but none of them were ever clean and in the
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by furyg3 17y ago
This is BS. A relative of mine has many rent-homes in the Fremont/Newark area, 3-4 bedrooms, nice homes in nice areas, for around $2k a month, including utilities. You don't have to live in Palo Alto or SF just because you work there.
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by furyg3 17y ago
In NL this isn't the case. I popped over to Belgium yesterday, took out €50 from a Fortis ATM (my bank is ABN Amro), no charge. I was in Istanbul for New Years, using HSBC's ATMS, no charge. When I go back 'home' to visit family (the US),
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by furyg3 17y ago
I'm from the US, never really liked checks, and then moved to Holland (where they simply do not exist) and was amazed. You have 4 ways to pay for things: * Transfer from your online banking. You need the other party's account number, their

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