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Criminals find the key to car immobilisers(newscientist.com)
5 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
I asked a similar question a few months back and got some pretty interesting responses: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1584988
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by icey 16y ago
I wonder if it would have gotten a better reception if it was "RelatedStoriesBot" instead of "DupDetector". I used it as a way to find more comments on a topic, and liked it pretty well for that. Of course, I liked it when RiderOfGiraffes w
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by icey 16y ago
From the comments, it looks like it's up to around $3900 now.
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The RepRap can now print transistors(blog.thingiverse.com)
2 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
Too bad hackerdating.com is taken ;)
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by icey 16y ago
Surely many successful marriages have started by finding each other on dating sites, right? I don't think anyone is suggesting diving in to a full-blown partnership on the basis of what you see on a webpage.
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by icey 16y ago
I would be happy to have whatever conversation you'd like over email. There's not much point in bickering like this here.
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by icey 16y ago
Okay, but just so we're clear: This is missing parts of the conversation.
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by icey 16y ago
Okay, then why are people responding to me at the bottom of the log when I haven't said anything in it?
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by icey 16y ago
This is missing parts of the conversation; but seriously Jacques, I've got no appetite for making this about you. We both agree that it's easy to phish people. I disagreed then and still disagree now that the right way to do that is to emba
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by icey 16y ago
That's how it's being spun now, and perhaps in the email that went out today that I have not been privy to (probably because I voiced my disagreement with the idea at the time). That's not how it was being discussed at the time.
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by icey 16y ago
He was discussing it in channel. How is that different than a publicly held conversation? I only happened to catch it because I switched into my client for a minute while doing a deployment. This was not a private conversation.
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by icey 16y ago
I did respond in channel; I'm not sure what your problem is with that.
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by icey 16y ago
No, he did not contact me about it at all. It was being discussed in irc. I told him I thought it was a terrible idea there, but since it was still being pursued, I posted here.
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Plead HN: Please be careful with your information
93 points by icey 16y ago|75 comments
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by icey 16y ago
It's a cultural difference. In the US, people refer to the named entity (is). In the UK, they refer to the collection of people that make up the entity (are).
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by icey 16y ago
Here's a faster way of telling if you're dealing with a toxic (corporate) customer: See how they react when you say "no" to something. This is them on their best behavior too; if the reaction is nasty then you have your answer.
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by icey 16y ago
Maybe the article got changed, but the article I read says this: my “day job” [...] is a co-owner of a marketing project management business
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by icey 16y ago
Judging from the sibling responses, it would appear that I live a grammatically sheltered life.
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by icey 16y ago
It could be a regional idiom, like "ain't" or "y'all". I'm in the southwest, it seems like people mostly use "news english".
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by icey 16y ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to; I don't know anybody that uses "could care less".
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by icey 16y ago
Regarding your aside: A fearful populace is probably significantly more likely to stockpile.
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by icey 16y ago
It's like that old joke - if you want to save an endangered species, you just have to convince everyone that it tastes good.
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by icey 16y ago
Sorry, let me clarify. It makes it hard for me to make money using their platform if I have to pay them $50 / user / month. Clearly it's very profitable for Salesforce.
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by icey 16y ago
I was just checking out force.com and left pretty quickly after discovering they want $50 / user per month. Makes it pretty hard to make money that way.
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by icey 16y ago
I thought it was a parked domain as well when I first saw it. I'm definitely interested in hearing people's thoughts on the actual offering though. [Edit: So far pretty unimpressed with their attention to detail. Registering for a "free" fo
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by icey 16y ago
Why not just say "Brendan Eich" in the title?
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MonoTorrent: Writing a profiler for mono(monotorrent.blogspot.com)
2 points by icey 16y ago|0 comments
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by icey 16y ago
An aside: How bad is Erlang's string handling in practice? I primarily write server software, and Erlang would be a pretty good fit for much of what I do... but I also have to munge a lot of text pretty regularly, and I've been a little sca

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