ilitirit

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by ilitirit 17y ago
Andrew has been kayaking and is six miles from the nearest town. He hears on the WBZ4 radio station that the damn has broken upstream and that the river is about to flood. Spelling and grammar mistakes reduce your credibility.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
This doesn't really seem like it belongs on HN...
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Franz Kafka - Metamorposis Roald Dahl - James and the giant peach
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Not so much a bug, but this incident cut my lifespan by about 5 years or so: I was fixing an account balance on a customer's master database. Any change that happens on the master gets replicated to 30 branches, usually at 10 minute interv
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I don't understand why he mentioned this. I understand software bloat to describe the situation that arises when unnecessary features added to a program increases it's size and/or decreases performance, without providing significant user
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> If you say something I don't like, I can sue you and you have to prove that every tiny detail of what you said is factual. Personally I don't have a problem with that. After all, you have to be very sure that you can win otherwise yo
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by ilitirit 17y ago
In the USA the burden of proof is on the person being slandered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> And sorry to nitpick, but nothing deflects light. Light is absorbed, transmitted, and emitted. If it is emitted in the direction from which it came, its called reflectance. Sorry to nitpick even further, but IIUC the angle (not the di
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Depending on how you look at it, humans are machines.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> He says it might be due to the fact that he is totally non-plussed by beautiful women (since he has no sexual interest in them) I was somewhat nonplussed by this statement until I read this: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/nonpl
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Understanding Moore's Law(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ilitirit 17y ago|0 comments
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'd prefer to see the number of karma points hidden, rather than the user name. The user names don't really interest me that much, and I tend to forget them very quickly.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
GM Script that enables foldable comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747786
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> BTW, I program in both C# and Java all the time. So do I, so you can drop the holier than thou attitude. In case you didn't know, refactoring plugins for VS do exist, and I use them. But you're just comparing one aspect of the IDE
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Greasemonkey script that adds collapse/expand links to HN comments
5 points by ilitirit 17y ago|0 comments
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by ilitirit 17y ago
This works in C#: public static void SomeMethod([Optional, DefaultParameterValue(false)] bool param)
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Ask HN: Collapsing HN comments?
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Language wise C# was than Java from day 1, but the C# toolset and build model are why I prefer C# over Java. I have never had to spend ages trying track down a "class not found" error in C#. Nor have I had to deal with version clashes betw
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I just finished my first bit of private consultation work. Basically I told the guy I'd do a website prototype free of charge, and if he's happy I'd continue with the "real" work. He was so happy with the prototype has wanted to use it in
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I created a callback from PowerBuilder to C++ by using some PBNI (like JNI, but for PowerBuilder) trickery. Basically, the PowerBuilder application ran and loaded the external C++ library to handle expensive calculations. From the C++ DLL
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by ilitirit 17y ago
The best way to avoid traffic jams is to adjust your speed according to the person in front of you by accelerating smoothly and decelerating without braking . Sudden stops cause traffic waves. http://trafficwaves.org/ It's best just to
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by ilitirit 17y ago
Finally I understand why women are repelled by me.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I uninstalled AVG ages ago. The resource consumption was what did it for me. As for the other complaints, they're not really such a big deal once you learn how to deactivate features that you don't need, and to set it so that AVG doesn't
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by ilitirit 17y ago
> The biggest surprise was a geeky girl I had known was now beautiful Is ugliness a prerequisite for admission into geekhood?
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by ilitirit 17y ago
To everyone else, I was a geek for the first few years of high school. I was also bullied for a while. Till the day I fought back. Busted the fucker's lip. Nobody bothered me after that, and fewer people thought of me as a geek. I hadn
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by ilitirit 17y ago
This is was published two years ago. For interest's sake, has anything changed since then?
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'd actually prefer a choice between summarized and full content. I've got The Guardian's feed on my phone, but it's awkward browsing it because of the lengthy articles. I'd prefer a summarized feed for mobile devices.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
But please please look for ways to live your life so that when you die, the fact will be discovered not because some irc channel regulars notice your longer-than-usual absence. Why? If I preferred to live my life alone, then it wouldn't
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I'm not so sure there was a fine involved. From the comments: Guys, get your story straight. There was no 24 million € fine. That figure is the value of the subject matter of this injunction verdict as determined by court.
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by ilitirit 17y ago
I wouldn't read too much into his style. This is par for the course for The Register. eg. Street View solves Dutch mugging Google in good deed shocker http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/19/street_view_mugging/

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