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by hnriot 13y ago
why not write a one line python program instead? I'd never use the shell for these kinds of things. Quickly they grow into more than something that a simple one liner can handle. Before you know it, you're reading from a CSV and s
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by hnriot 13y ago
it would also get one in trouble at many companies. Anyone's that's ever been through an acquisition will know that due diligence includes code scans - it's highly unprofessional to let cursing into a code base.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I would think the "why" here is obvious. People have their photos on their phones these days. Whether that makes sense or not, it's just how it is. People said 110 and 126 were stupid ideas too, but they sold well for years.
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by hnriot 13y ago
you mean like many writers and painters of the twentieth century? Hmmm, yeah, can't think of anything they've ever done. James Joyce, never accomplished anything, I guess Kerouac, Faulkner and Hemingway never did anything. And as
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by hnriot 13y ago
The obvious question would be why? I don't know Caché except what I read on wikipedia, but having worked with plenty of languages over the years it doesn't sound like anything you couldn't easily do in python with 100x readab
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by hnriot 13y ago
BS, web links can launch into apps, plenty already do it.
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by hnriot 13y ago
It's not that people have to find something to complain about, it's just accurate. It's ridiculous to say VNC can be implemented in 200 lines of JavaScript. Of 200 lines of any language. If the third party library does low le
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by hnriot 13y ago
the top review was by the man himself, Peter Norvig. That's very high praise indeed. I'd read it if it weren't about Lisp, a language that is bad for all the same reasons it is good.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I was hoping for some statistics. Rather than trying to convince people, it would be a far more compelling rebuttal if there was some data to backup the comment. Without data, it's just opinion, and that reflects on the one with the op
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by hnriot 13y ago
Obviously the bullet train is going to be a disaster, but if there were a high speed train (as in Europe) from SF to LA, I would definitely leave my car home and use the train. I'm only to happy to free up I5 for you.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Of course, the whole post is pointless and borderline luddite. I don't get calls every ten minutes, and don't play Ruzzle at dinner. Getting rid of his cell phone sounds like a substitute for not having any common sense or self co
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't see anything very distinctive. Aside from the usual colorful doors == sf startup, the place (from that photograph) looks just like any other startup space (except darker, but that's likely because it would have made taking
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by hnriot 13y ago
Having now gone publicly on record with this, I wonder what kind of lawsuits this might lead to down the road. I could imagine that any company pg sits on the board of would now have their lawyers scratching their heads how they are going t
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by hnriot 13y ago
* a name that makes it impossible to have an intelligent conversation around why? Is the word orgasm so scary to you?
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by hnriot 13y ago
neither, perfectly warranted, read his other comments that are written with great authority, but often substantively wrong.
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by hnriot 13y ago
It is not wrong. To make matters worse you'd need to look at the history books to better appreciate what indeed actually is "groundbreaking tech" and how it evolves. Science and technology is nudged along with micro breakthro
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by hnriot 13y ago
I have never understood why I can't get to photostream through this.
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by hnriot 13y ago
It's probably the same tech as the kindle cloud acceleration tech. Basically the server (cloud) accelerates the page by fetching all dependent objects in parallel on th faster network, then send the result over a single compressed chan
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by hnriot 13y ago
Teenagers don't use email. They use iMessage.
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by hnriot 13y ago
that's good 1:506 means you're not very unique. Unfortunately for me it says appears to be unique among the 3,229,643 - probably because I'm Chrome/Linux, my ratio basically means I can be trivially tracked across the we
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by hnriot 13y ago
I wonder how long maps.google.com keeps classic mode. I loathe the new maps, it's sluggish and trying to be too much.
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by hnriot 13y ago
This is 100% correct. This is an HR nightmare in the making. The guy will likely get a much bigger settlement from this incident than he would from getting laid off. Regardless of whether he violated company policy, the CEO had no proof of
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by hnriot 13y ago
"Have you ever noticed how places like Starbucks will go absolutely batshit if you take out a zoom lens (like a 70-200 on a Canon SLR)" no, not at all, maybe it's different in different parts of the country, but if you start
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by hnriot 13y ago
"num num" !!!! WTF, it's nom nom if you're going to be snarky, at least be right.
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by hnriot 13y ago
EVs are way too expensive currently with such awful range that for all but a few early-adopter wealthy people with short commutes they are impractical. It's great that people are buying them so we can climb the adopter curve, but until
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't follow the example given "the system flagged a line item where a professional billed a half hour for mailing." - that doesn't sound like an outlier to me, possibly the smallest billable time is half hour, or mayb
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by hnriot 13y ago
Totally agree, completely not important.
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by hnriot 13y ago
And the site completely sucks on the iPad. Can't even see the right most box
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by hnriot 13y ago
Isn't this simply addresses using a basic classifier, it would be easy enough to build a classifier from the HN API and then write a ux with sliders to balance the content, so if one group are interested in political posts (or comments
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by hnriot 13y ago
Isn't that true in general, 80% of tv is crap, 80% of photography, 80% of twitter/tumblr is crap, 80% of music is crap (country!), 80% of every human endeavor is crap.

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