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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I upvoted because I really hope to hear from someone who knows this stuff. Off the top of my head (as a non-expert), this sounds like a horrible hash function that is vulnerable to a plethora of attacks, but I don't know for sure. Why not j
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> If you're building a social network the cost of some potential data loss is probably much less than the savings in hardare, admin costs, development costs, etc. This also depends on what is being stored. I would be unhappy if Facebook
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
In addition to that flaw, the prices are nominal. Even if the real price were staying exactly the same, you'd still expect to see an positive slope on this line because of inflation. What a worthless visualization.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
It may not only be Cassandra, but it would not surprise me to find that the reason the VP was let go was because he oversold some architecture or combination of architectures as a panacea. When everyone else found out that Cassandra + whate
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> So few people use open source? Compared to closed source? As a function of time spent interacting? Yes. > Closed source is better at optimizing for user experience? Manifestly. Firefox is the only real counterexample I can think o
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The article is not specifically about bugzilla, but issue trackers in general.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I wonder what issues they are running into that a dark launch would not have found. As I have discovered painfully in my own projects, making big changes without a rollback plan is usually a bad idea, and it sounds like this is no exception
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Basically, this article is about optimizing the developer experience rather than the user experience. This seems to be a problem endemic in open source software anyway, which is why so few people use it.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Hmm, this actually works just fine for me with only NX client. What advantage does Xpra bring to the table?
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Provided it's actually true that vacations improve productivity, that's fine. Of course, that is the question . . .
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Then again, no amount of communication is going to completely negate the blow of someone with $200k or more debt who does not plan to earn enough to pay it off. There's a lesson in that . . . something like, "Don't buy expensive things unle
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
> That is a layman. So, are you a lawyer, or just a purveyor of FUD and ad hominems (literally -- you're saying I'm wrong because of some property about me rather than a weakness in my argument)? > It hardly seems more clear than th
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Mostly as someone who can read. My point is that unless you or anyone can suggest a rational argument against clarifying this policy's language, I'm just not going to worry about it, and I don't think anyone else should either. "Lawyers can
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Meh. The space of bad things google will realistically be able to do before and after the update is basically unchanged.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I suspect that it's not that Google's feelings on privacy have changed, it's just that they've opted for brevity over flowery language. Saying "we care about privacy" as an internet company is basically content-free, because everyone does i
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
It becomes easier for lay-people to understand.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Of course the biggest shortcoming of all is that breeding will quickly outpace the food supply and many cats will starve to death or die of other causes without having reproduced.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
No, that's not right, because the dollars you are already earning might not be taxed at the marginal rate.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
The only one of these that bothers me at all is the dearth of artists on the network. But that alone is plenty fatal. I guess I'll try it again in a month and see how uptake is then. I'd say it's extremely premature to say it will fail, tho
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Ask HN: open wifi?
1 points by houseabsolute 16y ago|4 comments
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
To put it simply: if you earn a dollar more of income, about forty percent of that dollar will end up going to the government.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Interesting. I've yet to discover said 720p content, though, and Apple seems to have it available now for all new shows.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
But we also have five additional levels above "senior software engineer," and there are a pretty large number of people in those higher regions. I'd say 150k is a bit above the "mid level" range, but it's certainly not above the 95%ile.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Disagree. The time and frustration of watching ads is worth more than 99 cents to me. Plus, Apple's selection is much better than Hulu's or Netflix's, and their resolution is 720p compared to the lower 480p quality on the other services. (N
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
In the spirit of picking things apart (because it is fun and edifying), let's talk about Microsoft's attempt. > Founded in 1975, Microsoft Nobody cares when you were founded. Now I think your company is old and out of date. > (Nasda
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I don't have much first-hand knowledge of that subject, but here is what I have read. docx: * Is horrifically complicated. * Is not likely to ever be completely implemented by any third party. * Does not accurately describe the b
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
I guess different things resonate with different people, but to me MS's line sounds tepid and uninteresting, while Apple's is something concrete that I can agree to.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Oh, well I didn't think any of it was silly. The magical bit might have been slightly over the top, but I agree with everything else they said.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
Cool, thanks for the info. I guess if it's splitting hairs, then Apple is at least reasonably justified in making the claim they do.
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by houseabsolute 16y ago
So, is HTML5 not an open standard either? I had understood that in the common parlance it was.

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