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Ask HN: How did you migrate to the country you are living in now?
57 points by hippo8 11y ago|69 comments
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by hippo8 11y ago
Came here to post exactly this. I was once trying to implement A* and his explanation was what helped me understand it properly.
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Why I Dislike Apple(cs.ubc.ca)
2 points by hippo8 11y ago|0 comments
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by hippo8 11y ago
Can someone explain why oracle is doing this? This is not good for their brand name, this is not good for Java. A large number of people use Java because of android app development, what is oracle trying to gain out of all this?
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How actual users feel about your cumbersome password policies(reddit.com)
6 points by hippo8 11y ago|2 comments
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Go(lang) Books(github.com)
7 points by hippo8 11y ago|0 comments
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by hippo8 11y ago
Won't this make research data from universities even more harder to access? Hope this network becomes more accessible to the public.
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by hippo8 11y ago
But the fact is no matter how much money and effort you put in to it, someone determined enough will find a way through. What most people don't realise when it comes to computer security is, the foundation on which our modern systems a
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by hippo8 11y ago
Not sure if this is the same thing, Around 12 years ago I was playing on the street with my friends, and got hit by a speeding motorbike, I remember seeing the motor bike coming towards me, I remember all the details it was so slow, but I w
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by hippo8 11y ago
So what is new? Not trying to be funny or anything, I am genuinely interested.
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by hippo8 11y ago
AMD has to stop naming their products like this. I mean look at Intel, i3,i5,i7. I can at-least guess which one's better. Yes I do understand that Intel too has many different names that caters to different markets, yet somehow Intel’s
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Testing Web Apps in Go(markjberger.com)
1 points by hippo8 11y ago|0 comments
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by hippo8 11y ago
The problem is, when you look at non technical users most of them care about, how shiny their new laptop looks. Or that they can play candy-crush on it or browse facebook. Not many people unfortunately I notice, care about their own privacy
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by hippo8 11y ago
Bought a m3800 recently, one of the best laptops I have owned to date. Currently I am running ubuntu on this beauty and its running without any problems. If only Dell could improve a little bit more on the battery life.
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by hippo8 11y ago
Everytime I hear Lenovo I hear superfish. It's really unfortunate that I do not feel I could trust these guys any more.
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Mozilla's page talking about privacy has Google analytics enabled(shapeoftheweb.mozilla.org)
152 points by hippo8 11y ago|101 comments
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by hippo8 11y ago
When I meet a function and I have no idea what it returns, the lazy thing I do is foo, bar := someFunc(baz) int(foo) Most times the conversion does not work and I see a nice little error with the type of foo.