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by jkat 13y ago
"every self-respecting geek has one" I realize Jeff's just being...poetic, but really it's just an excuse to buy toys. Spend your money on what makes you happy. If more gadgets, or that 6th purse, or 20th pair of shoes d
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by jkat 13y ago
Heard many similar stories about extreme home makeover where property taxes would climb by 3-5x after the renovation, forcing people to foreclose. I'm under the impression that there was eventually a successful reform effort to have re
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by jkat 13y ago
"feeling great" != healthy; "not fat" != healthy A calorie isn't a calorie. The impact that 100 calories of vodka has on your body vs, say, 100 calories of Kale is significant. The body uses different strategies to
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by jkat 13y ago
With their supposed interest in expanded outside of China, does anyone know if they are hiring? To me it is, by far, the most interesting startup right now.
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by jkat 13y ago
I strongly disagree with it, but it's been stated a few times that it's ok to use downvote if you disagree (1). This is certainly not a new thing around here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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Html 5 gravity and sound demo(balldroppings.com)
2 points by jkat 13y ago|0 comments
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Patent reveals Apple's Virtual Currency: iMoney(coindesk.com)
1 points by jkat 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Where to find jobs with NGOs?
3 points by jkat 13y ago|1 comments
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by jkat 13y ago
21 character reset was generated via 3 separate functions each generating 7 characters each. 2 of these were old and weak, resulting in a URL that could be brute forced. Once discovered, they analyzed 3 years worth of logs to see who was ex
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by jkat 13y ago
As a bad but persistent cook, I'm convinced eating healthy is generally cheaper. A lot of the healthier food I eat is cheap: legumes, [sweet] potatoes and other root vegetables, broccoli, bananas, oranges, water, eggs, oats, frozen vegetab
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Study: Neurotics shine over time in team settings(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by jkat 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Does Music Feel So Good?(phenomena.nationalgeographic.com)
104 points by jkat 13y ago|50 comments
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Hetzner's new 2xE5-2620 128GB dedicated server(hetzner.de)
2 points by jkat 14y ago|0 comments
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by jkat 14y ago
Possibly pedantic, but this can't be described as reverse-engineered.
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by jkat 14y ago
Let's just say I wouldn't have wanted to be a tonsil in the 80s living in Canada. I assume it wasn't Canada-specific though, anyone confirm?
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by jkat 14y ago
A nice piece which stands in stark contrast to the alarmist and shallow FUD that so often accompanies this topic. It's amazing how little we know about nutrition and biology. A lot seems to come down to common sense: breast feeding is good,
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Startup Farming(vimeo.com)
1 points by jkat 14y ago|0 comments
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by jkat 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Hopefully we can agree that it still puts the US in a precarious public spotlight...not sure that the public will make as detailed a distinction as appears to be required.
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by jkat 14y ago
Does the US risk being seen as a dog with a loud bark but no bite here? If you're going to make pronouncements that hacking will be considered an act of war (1), don't you kinda paint yourself into a corner when you get hacked? (1) http://
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by jkat 14y ago
Depending on what side of Hanlon's razor you fall, the only conclusion I get from this is that they are either incompetent or dishonest. I have a very hard time believing that this issue remained unknown to them for years. As for the post,
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by jkat 14y ago
Would be nice to have the ability to set up some type of alert/notification.
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by jkat 14y ago
I didn't realize NuGet let you do remote path import. Nor that it was around in 2004. Nor that it's part of the C# language spec. Goroutine + Channels are vastly different than the TPL. The comparison is so far off that I can't even come up
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by jkat 14y ago
it's pretty common..it leverages github pages (1) which itself is powered by jekyll (2) (1) http://pages.github.com/ (2) http://jekyllrb.com/
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by jkat 14y ago
Except for the goroutine and channel, and the type system, and the package system.
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by jkat 14y ago
Was curious what happened if you inhaled it. Nothing specific on their site, but it does say: The coating has been found to be safe for use in nonfood contact areas of food processing plants. The coating meets FDA and USDA regula
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by jkat 14y ago
My advice: sleep in a room that faces sunrise and don't use blinds. I've noticed a world of difference between waking up naturally at 7:00 and waking up via alarm clock at 7:00.]
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Samsung's Super Bowl Ad mocks IP/copyright laws(youtube.com)
3 points by jkat 14y ago|0 comments
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by jkat 14y ago
The cost can be so out of whack that it can become cheaper to hire talent. Two things make this truer: the person might have spare time to do other things, and sensitivity to things that PaaS are poor at: raw processing speed, memory or SSD
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by jkat 14y ago
The delusion I have, which he didn't address, is that the price/performance ratio is atrocious. Sticking with Heroku, the $3200/m Ronin DB could essentially be a 1-time purchase if you are collocating, or 1/10th the monthly price if you go
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by jkat 14y ago
Link to "The Next Microsoft": http://www.minimallyminimal.com/blog/2012/7/3/the-next-micro... And its HN comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208

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