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by hnriot 14y ago
It's not exactly difficult to find? If you have the attention span of a goldfish, I suppose the time it takes to reach the demo might be a challenge but the typical hn crowd can actually read, unlike most forums :)
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by hnriot 14y ago
It's US hosted, but it's certainly used by people in many countries, what does it even mean to say it is a US site? The network makes geography meaningless. PG could host it in Sunnyvale or Singapore and none of us would notice or care. Ok
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by hnriot 14y ago
"spheres" makes a few strewn rocks sound more supernatural or alien. The article talks of high powered people and rituals, but in all likelihood it was just something utterly mundane, like trying to make cheese.
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by hnriot 14y ago
Yes, but today as I was leaving work it told me there was heavy traffic. There wasn't any way to reroute so I used google maps and this time it told me traffic was light and gave a different commute time. All happened within a minute so it
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by hnriot 14y ago
I think it's a co-incidence, for me it shows snow capped mountains, and I'm in San Francisco. We don't have mountains, or snow anywhere short of driving a few hours.
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by hnriot 14y ago
yeah, by the time I've remembered to open Google Now and slide up the cards I would very likely have realized what I might have forgotten. For me, it's only showing the local weather, which I can see out my office window. And besides, this
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by hnriot 14y ago
How can you not go crazy doing the same thing over and over? My first commercial software project was in BASIC, back on a Commodore PET, it was a billing app for a shared telex system, but there's not way on earth I'd want to be still using
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by hnriot 14y ago
How is it awesome that it told you to leave, when in fact you had already left? Shouldn't it have alerted you before you left?
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by hnriot 14y ago
OSX is unix??? It already comes with the standard set of tools. And what's a unix hacker doing complaining they need to recompile their toolset?? Whimp :)
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by hnriot 14y ago
People already have geocodes, it's their address. Nobody wants yet another address.
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by hnriot 14y ago
We have libc, besides the arch is probably a bad example for engineering. Maybe civil, but the wheel would seem like a better example of a fundamental engineering component. I also think you are being disingenuous to software engineering. T
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by hnriot 14y ago
It doesn't take much brain power to walk into RadioShack. And the money to be made in crime is way more than developer salaries. The new frontier for crime is bitcoin fraud.
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by hnriot 14y ago
When it's actually got a foundation in math, it stops being a racist trope and becomes a valid scientific inquiry. Sexist? Overly sensitive would be one word for it.
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by hnriot 14y ago
It took 7 hours for the thugs to reach the daily ATM maximum limit? How do you buy expensive goods with an ATM card? That sounds completely bogus to me.
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by hnriot 14y ago
Nonsense! You're eyes adjust to very low light levels, far below what a 60W bulb outputs in lumens.
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by hnriot 14y ago
There's no benefit to wasting time typing. Being a developer should assume a basic competency of typing, but anything that saves typing is a good thing.
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by hnriot 14y ago
... unless you're in guantanamo bay
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by hnriot 14y ago
what a dangerous precedent you are setting, PD friends acting as judge and jury. Laws change, and there are often subtleties to a law that make rash statements made by some PD friend with likely no more than a GED about "clear guilt" absurd
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by hnriot 14y ago
and if you didn't know this going into an interview, you probably had no business going in the first place. It's not a trick question, it's as much a part of quality software development to ask the right questions as it is to start hacking
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by hnriot 14y ago
* cardinality of the array. Maybe there are a million entires, but only 3 distinct values. keeping an unsorted set of distinct values might, in this case, be a much better solution that a sorted index. No mention was made of data cardinalit
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by hnriot 14y ago
you have to build it and store, so the footprint of this data structure has now increased. If the array of numbers is mutable, the index also needs to be a modifiable structure (like a tree).
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by hnriot 14y ago
Given that this is illegal, either they're making it up, or this is why they are no longer an admissions officer.
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by hnriot 14y ago
They also get a nice job at google and probably relocation to somewhere warmer.
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by hnriot 14y ago
I disagree too, and it seems by the many comments that say how satisfying this is, that others find this fun. Obviously it would need a little more to make it a game, but just like Osmos which is simple physics and a simple concept (absorb
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by hnriot 14y ago
Apple iCloud, for example
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by hnriot 14y ago
Rather, it's just another example of the uk becoming more and more of a nanny state.
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by hnriot 14y ago
So, like google except not anywhere near as fast? I tried it, the results were ok, I didn't see any result that was better than Google (or bing). I'm suspicious of anything that starts out by saying search is broken. It isn't. All these thi
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by hnriot 14y ago
This is the same bunch of <i>professionals</i> that brought you the Waco siege. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
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by hnriot 14y ago
Is it really any different when the mob is the FBI?
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by hnriot 14y ago
Being screamed at isn't so bad. Lets say you are working on the moon landing in 1968, it's a year to go and the management are screaming at you to fix the floating point processor so they can actually hit the right spot on the surface. Woul

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