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by jleader 15y ago
I think there are 2 issues here: digging deep to try to get a response from _why, and publishing his real name and employer. The first is debatable; exactly how much effort should a journalist put in to getting the story, particularly in a
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For people who say "C strings are null-terminated and you don't pass their length, get used to it", let me point out https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode... , which is part of the "CERT C Secure Coding Standard", an
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That's very cool, but the "submarine communications cable" article I linked to above claims that the repeaters are powered by DC fed through a single conductor in the middle of the cable, though it doesn't cite a source for that information
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The diagram of the Polar King cable-laying ship that gk1 posted here shows a "repeater stack" near the holds full of cable. I assume the repeaters are spliced into the cable as it's being laid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_commun
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I would assume it has more to do with how many intermediate places within the continent you want to connect to. If you're connecting two cities on the African coast, and there's really no infrastructure in-between that needs (will pay for)
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Developers are emotional about their tools because those tools enable them to create. Trying to use an unfamiliar tool can be unpleasant, in a viscerally emotional way, because little muscle-habitual movements don't have their expected effe
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I think the idea originally was that int would usually be the preferred "natural" size for arithmetic on any given platform. Longer sizes are available when you need greater range, and smaller sizes are available when you're trying to conse
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Regarding "cryptic abbreviations", do you know about "use English;"? It provides readable names for all the "ugly punctuation variables". It's included as part of the core Perl install. http://perldoc.perl.org/English.html
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Last December I submitted a Forbes article, "Lightscrewed: How Washington Whipped Phil Falcone"( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3382580 ) which described the big money politics on both sides, and also mentioned the economic argument th
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From the 2nd page of the article, quoting from the "Technical Working Group" (which supposedly included representatives from both LightSquared and the GPS industry): "the interfering signal at a distance of 500 feet from the [cell] tower [w
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Of the 4 library systems I am most familiar with around here: * One in a city of 36K people doesn't have refreshments, but is located on a street with lots of restaurants and at least 3 coffee shops within a block or 2. * One in a city of ~
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Isn't that what inter-library loan is for?
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When you say "separate ... dealership franchises", are you counting each physical location once, or once per brand? Around here, many dealerships carry multiple brands. Also, there tend to be multiple dealerships clustered together (probabl
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I had the impression that wars mostly break out when each side thinks they have the upper hand. While there are some instances of suicidal attacks by societies that have been backed in to a corner, I would expect that in most cases, the obv
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The Garages of Silicon Valley(everythingintheuniverse.com)
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So "women" is a collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are female, and "men" is a collective noun for a group of humans who are some mixture of males and females. There's no collective noun for a group of humans all of whom are m
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Note that eBay provides this sort of distinction, in the form of feedback history (someone who's got feedback from 100s or 1000s of transactions is probably making money at it), and people generally prefer to deal with the dealers and mid
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With sufficiently good automation, he could be running the automated search while he's out driving around on pickups/deliveries. The search could send alerts to his phone (SMS, email, dedicated app?). Eventually, you scale to having multipl
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The key question here is, when did they become aware of the theft?
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When I left Yahoo in 2008, they had such a "swat team", at least for software development (they called it a "tiger team"). Unfortunately, I don't think Yahoo's main problems at that time were technological. Maybe they needed a similar appro
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I think the GP was talking about belief in the usefulness (or reliability or validity) of Myers Briggs. Note that the MBTI doesn't just classify people into 16 categories; it classifies people into discontinuous binary categories along 4 ax
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Thanks, I'm not sure how I missed that!
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They mention Los Angeles Code Academy meetups, I live in LA and know some people interested in learning to code, and in an admittedly brief search I haven't been able to find any evidence of such meetups.
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Yahoo had opportunities to become what Google and/or Facebook are, but didn't. Putting aside the fact that Yahoo's still got more revenue than Facebook, and roughly the same net profit, it's not growing the way Facebook is, and it's only a
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by jleader 15y ago
My first thought was that more used fixies for sale might mean the trend was over in those cities, and the hipsters were all trying to get rid of theirs so they could buy glow-in-the-dark parkour shoes (I just made that up).
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My grasp of the details of bike terminology is rusty, but don't cruisers usually have a single-speed freewheeling coaster-brake hub, rather than a fixed hub? So when you stop pedaling on a coaster, the wheels keep turning freely, and when y
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It may be hard to determine who's registered a domain name, but if you're doing anything other than simply parking it, there are several points of attack other than the domain name registration (hosting and credit card processing being the
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Wait, are there programming languages where as a codebase grows, it doesn't get more complex? I've worked on reasonably large codebases in Perl, C, C++, Java, and Modula-II, and I'd say that in all cases, as the codebase grew, it got more
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Actually, in this case, we're blaming A for the acts of B, in B's role as an employee or contractor working on behalf and at the direction of A. In the case of SOPA, when a large user-generated content site is blocked because of one piece o
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Except that in 10 years, cars that can parallel park themselves will be 18 years old, and there will probably be drivers who have never parallel parked for themselves. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Parking_Assist_Syst... )

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