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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I have been thinking the same thing for a while now. I imagine they're great to create prototypes with and start up with, but as someone posted to my inquiry yesterday ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3011227 ), they're too expensive
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Small curiosity: Is Arduino used purely by hobbyists, or is it being used in the industry anywhere?
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I understand that spoofing one's identity is an easy enough task with tor, fly-by-night VPS's, etc., but when transfer of money is involved, could not security experts set up "honeypot" traps to get at the origin of these attacks? By seeing
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IBM's Watson supercomputer to diagnose patients(computerworld.com)
4 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|1 comments
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
If instead of a constant rainbow, you use a gradient that changes colors from left-to-right, that would have been a better visual indicator.
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S&P downgrades Google on Motorola deal plans(news.cnet.com)
2 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
It's very interesting that you're in a way encouraging that the veil that is there concealing the process of food manufacturing ... remain there. Because that is something that sensible environmentalists argue against, as everyone could sta
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
For something like an image hosting or pastebin site, isn't that possible a privacy concern? I'm curious, what is the standard practice for the storage of static media - where are the static files (text/images) stored on the server, and how
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1548013 (many comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1106846 (2 comments) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873902 (no comments)
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Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages(mod.gov.sy)
349 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|47 comments
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Power outage? Interesting -- Linode also went down today because of power outage: http://status.linode.com/2011/08/outage-in-fremont-facility....
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
The journalist here was Nicholas Schmidle -- who was interviewed by Newshour and talked about how he got the information: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGwWg4hlK0#t=5m04s (deep-linked to 5:04)
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Leaked Cable reveals Hillary Clinton suspecting LulzSec to be related to Hamas(pastebin.com)
6 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|3 comments
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Dow Jones CEO Hinton Resigns (online.wsj.com)
2 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
News Corp. owns quite a lot of things - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Co...
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I'm not sure why so many people jump to calling members of these groups "script kiddies" -- perhaps because it's in the vogue and makes one feel more important than others? It's been shown that a few of the 0days these guys are using are fr
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
The birthplace of many groups that have ruffled more than a few feathers has been 4chan (Anonymous, lulzsec, etc.). I think a place that actively encourages anonymity and contrarian thought is surely something to worry about for any governm
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
It should be okay in this forum for him to mean "worse choice within the realm of reason" when he says "worse choice" without explicitly saying it.
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I recall seeing a spreadsheet of ycombinator graduates (sorry, can't seem to find it now - will link it when I do) and noticed that a significantly large percentage of its founders were ivy league/1st-tier school graduates. I bring up this
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I am thoroughly unhappy about good .com domains being squatted. I can't say how many times a perfectly good domain that I would have liked to start an internet service on is being squatted with a page of "contact me if interested in domain"
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
I don't know about the screencast as I've never watched it -- but the pragprog text 'Version Control Using Git' is certainly wonderful: http://pragprog.com/titles/tsgit/pragmatic-version-control-u...
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Yeah, I think a solid color or a soft-going gradient layout that contrasts well with the colors of the site's body would work well.
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
The site could do with a little UI improvement. Background-vs.-body contrast is rather harsh on the eyes.
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Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store (youtube.com)
16 points by jimmyjim 15y ago|0 comments
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Because Thailand or Indonesia isn't the future, China is. Your time and experiences as a whole will be more valuable in many aspects if they're spent in China. Consider: 1) Exposure to the Chinese language -- Mandarin, the _most spoken_ in
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
You can always vote for more than one option on HN polls. Try it out.
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
> I know but the rent is low The rent is low in Shenzhen ? That comes as a surprise to me, I'd been led to believe that it was in fact the most expensive city in China. Can you please expand on this? Perhaps share some numbers relating
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
If the future is played in such places, that isn't a great reason for him to visiting them now -- not to mention the huge language barriers in undeveloped or rural areas. I think his time will be more beneficially spent in Shenzhen, if
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Yep, that was a math fail by me. I realized shortly after posting that - but not in time enough to remove the comment. Sorry.
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by jimmyjim 15y ago
Hrmm, 25%? I purchased the Linode 512 package a while ago... and installed an Archlinux image and had it use 100% of the storage capacity. Now, Linode's manager is reporting that I have 80% full... (instead of 75%, as this post would have

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