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by joshmaker 9y ago
"A spokesman for the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries whose pollution the agency is supposed to regulate" sounds like it
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by joshmaker 10y ago
The Atlantic (theatlantic.com) | Front End Developer | Washington DC (ONSITE) | https://goo.gl/iHLq6y he Atlantic is a digital-first media company with over 150 years of history and 30 million online visitors a month. Found
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by joshmaker 10y ago
Considering Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to head the CIA, has said "the proper outcome" for Snowden would be "a death sentence", things are unlikely to get better for Snowden in the next administration.
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by joshmaker 10y ago
Except the Russians have been implicated by more than just the government, its been backed up by multiple independent internet security firms. Also, the Bush administration that supported the Iraq war has kinda been out of power for a while
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by joshmaker 10y ago
Is trying to stop a country from obtaining nuclear weapons in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty really morally equivalent to interference with a democratic election?
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by joshmaker 10y ago
> the US government accuses Russia of hacking the DNC, either because they have some kind of proof (unlikely) "two competing cybersecurity companies, Mandiant (part of FireEye) and Fidelis, confirmed CrowdStrike’s initial findings t
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by joshmaker 10y ago
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by joshmaker 10y ago
We only truncate the captions on mobile and only if the are longer than a set number of characters. If I recall, the thinking was that the captions might be pretty long on some galleries and we didn't want to detract too much from the
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by joshmaker 10y ago
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by joshmaker 10y ago
According to this slide their "real world" tests of PyPy didn't live up to the benchmarks, and in fact showed "no clear improvement" compare with cpython http://www.slideshare.net/KevinModzelewski&#x
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by joshmaker 10y ago
The Pyston team at Dropbox has a presentation where they say the "real world" performance metrics aren't as good for PyPy as the benchmarks would suggest, allegedly slower than cpython on many metrics. http://www.s
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by joshmaker 11y ago
There seems to be an interesting tension between Hacker News readers who complain about ads and those who complain about paywalls -- realistically the money to pay for journalism has to come from somewhere, right?
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by joshmaker 11y ago
Where in the article does it say that? > In its note, Google said that the product has received a good level of traffic from users but, when it came to revenue and activity, it “hasn’t driven the success we hoped for”. That sounds like t
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by joshmaker 11y ago
> raise error("groups number is too large") Oh, I hate that kind of error message. Why couldn't it be something useful like raise error("groups number is too large " "(you have used %d
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by joshmaker 11y ago
Identity theft and credit card fraud are victimless crimes?
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by joshmaker 11y ago
While we're talking Python best practices, I highly recommend using an `else` clause to keep the code being 'excepted' to one line: def handle_login(): try: ph.verify(hash, "s3kr3tp4ssw0rd") except
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by joshmaker 11y ago
Interesting read, but there is something a little odd about an article that describes Emperor Hirohito as "merely a figurehead" but later casually mentions that Hirohito had the power to surprise General Tojo by naming him prime m
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by joshmaker 11y ago
> Other pop novelists, like John le Carré and Tom Clancy, may flavor their work with a few real-world scenarios and some spy lingo... This seems like an unfair characterization of Carré who actually worked as a spy for both MI5 and MI6 a
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by joshmaker 13y ago
Who would use a dictionary for a point? If it's a 2D grid, you are only going to have two axes and by convention x-axis is always first, and y-axis is always second. Perfect use case for a tuple. point = (0, 0)
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by joshmaker 13y ago
If we say facts are irrelevant and we're just going to go with our "gut" or our initial opinion, then what's the point of having a discussion?
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by joshmaker 13y ago
Truth matters in discussions as well as the news. If we can't bring fact and reason to discourse, what's the point? Also, I'd hope the Hacker News community has at least a slightly higher standard for itself than 4Chan.
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by joshmaker 13y ago
>It doesn't much matter if it's really true or not. The real question is whether it's plausible or not. God lord, is that really the standard we want to use for any news source (even social news aggregation, such as Hacker
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by joshmaker 13y ago
> We did eventually get bodies, but only fairly recently. While living giant squid have only been filmed recently, their bodies have been washing ashore and studied for over a hundred years. >It wasn't really until the 2000'
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by joshmaker 13y ago
> It's not a vacuum system ... I don't understand where people are getting this idea. http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachme... Page 12: "The pressure of air in Hyperlo
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by joshmaker 13y ago
>Of course types and structures are useful but why do I need it in my database as well as in my app ? Do you write bug free code 100% of the time? I'm pretty good, but I definitely don't. And when there are bugs in my code, I'm grateful
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by joshmaker 13y ago
The two features they list as "extra" by going with them are automatic backups and updates, both of which are hosting features, not software features.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
The Atlantic, Washington DC, full time on-site designer and devs We work in a fast paced continuous deployment environment on three main websites – TheAtlantic.com, TheAtlanticWire.com, and TheAtlanticCities.com. With 20 million monthly uni
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by joshmaker 14y ago
If I bought an apple at the grocery store and it turned out that half of it was taken up by the inedible core, I'd feel pretty ripped off.
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by joshmaker 14y ago
When I was in China I noticed that English language versions Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were freely available in bookstores. The educated elite seems to be allowed to read or watch things that the Chinese government would surpress from g
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by joshmaker 14y ago
- 8 chars: 84 minutes - 6 chars: 1.2 seconds All of which demonstrates the importance of requiring longer passwords. Also, keep in mind that these are maximum times required to crack a password and not the average times.

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