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by gdl 16y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
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by gdl 16y ago
Number one would be my choice unless I had some reason (ie family) that necessitates going for the more "practical" second option. Assuming you're a youngish bachelor that can comfortably get by on the lower salary / benefits, the startup s
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by gdl 16y ago
The traditional answer here would probably be to recommend the book "Elements of Style" by Strunk and White, so I'll do that in case you're not already aware of it. It's short, easy to read, and focuses on good style and common grammar mist
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by gdl 16y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but what are the advantages of this over simply enabling HTTPS for everything? Performance, maybe, but Google has been often-quoted these past couple days calling that a very small issue. It sounds like you're s
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by gdl 16y ago
"Your privacy is our top concern." ...later... "A cheating spouse's cell phone armed with Honey Location gadget can tell a thousand proven facts and can help you on the road to finding the truth." Ahh, delicious irony.
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by gdl 16y ago
I'll second this. I haven't looked through it myself, but have heard it praised many times as an example of exceptionally clean and efficient code.
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by gdl 16y ago
There's nothing here that suggests to me that Google is weak in the republican market; all it shows is that they are not in the top ten favored brands for that side. No other Internet companies are listed on the republicans' side either, so
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by gdl 16y ago
You ask for our thoughts, then make a point that if we don't like / understand him, don't bother posting because nobody cares. So is there a point to this other than to have a bunch of people say he's awesome and feel that they have great
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by gdl 16y ago
>> by that logic, you should never donate books to a library, since it is effectively costing the author sales. Precisely. Should authors and publishers be paid by everyone that wants to read their work, or should the books be avail
40.
by gdl 16y ago
...which then results in a few people reading the library copy rather than buying their own, so that he effectively stole a book for personal use and discouraged multiple sales by other people who would have otherwise bought copies. His a
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by gdl 16y ago
College-aged people are grown-up enough to live their own lives. I know it would be painful to see one's child getting involved with PHP, but in the end that should be their own choice to make.
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by gdl 16y ago
Successful founders are already edge cases, and these grants won't be handed out to the stereotypical "dropped out to play World of Warcraft" population. If someone is capable and driven enough to attract these sort of awards, I wouldn't ex
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by gdl 16y ago
I would click ads in theory if I happened to notice them and was interested. But so many sites become horribly slow and unuseable because of ads that I have used multiple methods of blocking them for years. And even when ads do show up my i
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by gdl 16y ago
Informal reasoning: in a=b, the 'a' and 'b' are merely placeholders that act as pointers to the same underlying value, so they can be used interchangeably. It's no different than referring to "seven" and "the integer directly following six"
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by gdl 16y ago
You can make real polls with a built-in voting system once you get to some karma threshold (I don't know what). Or you could make a general "Ask HN" type post and have people leave responses. Your way (as I interpreted it) was to leave "yes
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by gdl 16y ago
I use NoScript and enable JavaScript only on sites that it's needed or actually helpful. It's partly a security measure and partly to make sites load quicker on a slow connection by avoiding a bunch of analytics and other bits that do nothi
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by gdl 16y ago
I liked this. Simple, concise, and good info. But... do you really have to use a 453KB .png for the header background ( http://uxmovement.com/wp-content/themes/gothamnews/images/bl... )? Surely you could create a similar effect using a fe
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by gdl 16y ago
This doesn't seem to clearly identify anywhere what it is that is being measured; everything is based on a "latent factor for consumtion of alcohol" that is said to be standardized, but never given a proper definition. The closest I could f
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by gdl 16y ago
I have a 4GB Sony (I think) that I bought a few years ago. It has always corrupted bits of data here and there (think a few dozen lines of random noise in the middle of some code) so I pretty quickly learned not to use it for most things. I
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by gdl 16y ago
Let us all pray that it doesn't agree with you.
51.
by gdl 16y ago
Of course those digits are random, they're straight out of pi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman_point
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by gdl 16y ago
It seems too eager to go through year and day pages, and doesn't always hit the optimal path: Mike Godwin -> Godwin's law -> Adolf Hitler it gives: Mike Godwin -> 1956 -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler Also strange i
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by gdl 16y ago
> solving this problem is something I'm quite excited and passionate about I'd say that's your answer. If it's something that interests you, you're going to pushing that much harder towards the goal, which makes a crowded market less of
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by gdl 16y ago
Awesome. I've been a longtime random.org user but have always complained about the lack of a Comic Sans interface. It seems my prayers have finally been answered: http://randint.com/labs/comicsans.php (My first Comic Sans number was 17 -
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by gdl 16y ago
That sucks. I've used TrueCrypt for Windows and LUKS for Linux, but have never been a Mac guy so I haven't looked into that side of things. Google suggests that your main options are OSX's built-in FileVault to encrypt just your home direct
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by gdl 16y ago
I haven't had the pleasure of dealing with border agents, but I would assume that they'd leave you alone as long as everything looked normal at a casual glance. A couple example suggestions for that: 1) TrueCrypt let's you change the bootup
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by gdl 16y ago
While we're at it, I'm pretty sure this one is obligatory: http://cakesy.com/886e854a5 The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better?
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by gdl 16y ago
All things being equal I wouldn't expect 50/50, but there are a lot of variables to consider beyond a simple time measurement: Does the cofounder have amazing skills or other benefits to the company so that he's worth more than might be exp
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by gdl 16y ago
The interesting bit with Perl is that so many people don't realize it's pass-by-reference because the standard idioms for starting a function copy the aliased "references" by value, which then act just like in any of the other languages.
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by gdl 16y ago
Machine code can be decompiled too, even if not as cleanly. It would slow down efforts to make an unauthorized fork of the software as a whole, but anyone curious enough about individual bits and pieces could still see exactly what's happen

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