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by heyrhett 15y ago
You can easily get a 10x gain in SSD reliability by using SLC instead of MLC memory. All for only 10x the cost of MLC.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Wow, this article is full of clear, coherent, well thought out points... and references!
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by heyrhett 15y ago
> It has been years since I had to go in the xorg.conf file You must have a pretty high general satisfaction for how your life is going. http://xkcd.com/963/
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by heyrhett 15y ago
If a co-worker told me that my function was "code smell" because it took 2 arguments, I would tell him that he needs more important things to worry about.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Honey badger is Naste, so Naste
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Newsflash: You can listen to things in your car
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Is the present perfect tense here more correct, or should it be the past tense, "Steve Jobs died?"
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I paid $10 to spotify, and I still wasn't as happy as I am with what grooveshark gives me for free. I have no idea if what grooveshark is doing is sustainable, but I've talked to others, and they concur.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
It's like Ask Jeeves, but for my phone in the cloud!!!!
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by heyrhett 15y ago
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
The most surprising part of this is that they didn't spring for an extra patent.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
The dream of the 90's is alive in portland: http://www.hulu.com/watch/205428/portlandia-i-dream-of-the-9...
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Duke Nukem Forever, you mean that established product with nearly half a million customers?
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Stop losing your bash history: sudo chattr +a .bash_history
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I love how the web is pretty much just a big printf statement.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I'm seeing this as a thinly veiled brag about how your wife makes an awesome mint chutney. :)
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by heyrhett 15y ago
If everyone in the world clicks that "one click petition" to protest the bill, what happens?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Behold! The power of hacker news!
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Do they accept bitcoin?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I think that this is aimed at on older generation. Maybe a younger generation can lean software development using super smash brothers. But seriously, maybe I missed out on the "life lessons" learned from Tetris, but the similarities desc
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Don't sell yourself short. But I agree, how many people are really having to make a choice between the two opportunities?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Sure, and people get parts in movies because they know the producer. But, the article is about Zed shaw, and I think the comparison to famous actors applies. I think it's a good point though, that maybe just because you aren't guaranteed t
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by heyrhett 15y ago
How informative and useful that you now know the word "didn't" was in a Billy Joel song! I've always thought that people who chose to use hypertext this way were seriously missing the point.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Other creative professions have this phenomenon too. In film, there are actors who audition for parts, and actors who have roles pitched to them. Everyone knows that being famous for your work requires a combination of talent, luck, and ha
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Wow, a lot of people are unhappy here. I suggest that you try the OpenMoko, if you want more freedom: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page I for one am extremely happy that google exists, and is pushing a linux-based, mostly free oper
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Weird. I see version v2.0.3, and the app store says that too. I tried rebooting the phone and using local wifi.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
What was hostile about it? I didn't notice any difference.
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by heyrhett 15y ago
How does one try out this beta app?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
Great job guys! It seems like there is an opportunity here to build a good testing service around selenium grid. Has anyone done that yet?
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by heyrhett 15y ago
I'd buy a service that only billed in jelly beans, if it billed enough jelly beans.

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