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by icky 18y ago
I switched back to Ubuntu over this. (Well, this and the growing realization that I wasn't really in control of my own computer).
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by icky 18y ago
No, I would be very liberal in accounting for interview-nervousness. Now, if it appeared that the candidate had no idea how to solve the problem, that would be a different story.
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by icky 18y ago
3 simple steps for any company to protect its reputation online [partly covered in the article]: 1. If you must be stupid or evil, pick ONE. Don't try to be both or you will (eventually) get burned. 2. If you get caught, 'fess up, apologiz
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by icky 18y ago
Note that both of your ideas are in messy, heavily-regulated industries. Perhaps this fact may be partly responsible?
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by icky 18y ago
Time to screen-scrape like it's 1999!
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by icky 18y ago
Probably around age 4, although at the time, most of them had to do with aliens, robots, and dinosaurs.
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by icky 18y ago
> I was 4-5. I was drawing these grand fountains and water works systems and my grandfather looked at one and saw that water was flowing uphill and explained in basic terms gravity and the Archimedes principle to me. Good thing he was
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by icky 18y ago
> Would you rule out a candidate who doesn't know 0xFE ? If they didn't know it after a moment's thought, I'd cut them some slack; If they couldn't calculate it, with pencil and paper, in 10 minutes (and that's giving them plenty of ext
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by icky 18y ago
The usage is awkward, but the grammar is sound.
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by icky 18y ago
Boston says, "Ride the T, don't buy liquor on Sunday, and incorporate Dunkin' Donuts into at least two meals a day."
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by icky 18y ago
> Maybe the Internet will change things further. Maybe one day the most important community you belong to will be a virtual one, and it won't matter where you live physically. But I wouldn't bet on it. The physical world is very high b
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by icky 18y ago
Well, someone has to keep us safe from Spain!
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by icky 18y ago
In most scenarios where robots would be replacing human labor (especially in safety-critical areas like trucking), the engineering problems are a lot more tractable than the political ones. GPS-guided farming seems like one of the simpler s
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by icky 18y ago
Web 2.0 fails to produce "200 OK"...
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by icky 18y ago
(Because people can't stand the thought of robots touching their food with their shiny metal robo-claws!) Farming on private property is an entirely different scenario than having robot vehicles on public roads. I doubt he'd need anybody's
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by icky 18y ago
And the winner of "Startup most likely to accidentally eradicate human life" is...
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by icky 18y ago
It's really amazing how he can manage to draw the dinosaurs to look exactly the same from day to day. He must have a very steady hand.
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by icky 18y ago
> Do I get bonus points for not really seeing much point to the Singleton pattern when I read the GoF book? This comment entitles the bearer to one (1) Hacker News Bonus Point. Don't spend it all in once place.
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by icky 18y ago
I wasn't, but my Observer was...
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by icky 18y ago
Webkit is a fork of Konqueror. Konqueror may have merged in some nice stuff from Webkit by now... :)
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by icky 18y ago
Quiet. Isolation. Time. Tea. Find someplace isolated and quiet, and make a hot cup of green tea. Hold the cup in your hands for a while and just breathe in the smell of it. Drink it when you feel good and relaxed. Spend less time online a
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by icky 18y ago
HN is an elitist community, and it's that way for good reason, IMO.
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by icky 18y ago
> Where do u go for news when u've read all posts on the YC frontpage? "u"? I guarantee that if there were some even cooler place than HN for smart people to gather, I wouldn't ruin it by telling "u"!
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by icky 18y ago
Hiring a hitman would've paid for itself! ;)
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by icky 18y ago
As opposed to the rest of humanity, code-named "chopped liver"... ;-)
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by icky 18y ago
Why do you think this should be the case?
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by icky 18y ago
> How do you spend $44 million and not make money? Investing in Ning? ;)
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by icky 18y ago
This whole "buying and selling" thing is clearly outside of eBay's area of expertise...
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by icky 18y ago
I've had dreams where I was in my room and it was completely realistic, but for some minor detail, such as a digital clock reading " 4:63 am". Often, I will notice the impossibility, even "consciously" within the context of the dream, and
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by icky 18y ago
> sorry i didn't elaborate, it isn't a question of signing requests, kirubakaran posted a link below that explains the basics (unpickling can create objects and run potentially harmful methods) Parent poster meant signing the pickled da

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