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by jsnk 12y ago
Canadian consumers need to open their eyes about how their beloved local retailers and their government are guaging them shamelessly. Canada and US has pretty much no difference in infrastructure in transportation, yet Canadian consumers pe
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by jsnk 12y ago
Yes definitely a first world problem that will throttle you and your family's existing social life, unsettle your children affecting their education, and probably lower your living standard substantially (cause living small hole in SF.
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by jsnk 12y ago
I am thinking about switching to iPhone 6 after using my Nexus 4 for two years only because of poor battery of Nexus 4. Unlike some other iOS users' and ex-Android users' claims, I never experienced any significant lags or bugs in
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by jsnk 12y ago
This looks awesome. Pretty much exactly what I need. Do you think this will work fast enough with databases with a large number of records? Some tables in my rails app have 1 million + records.
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by jsnk 12y ago
Handful of Android apps (WeChat, KakaoTalk etc) already had this feature. It's just Hangout that was late.
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by jsnk 12y ago
Not sure which firms you worked with, but from my experience, all the numbers I've seen are accurate down to the last dollar digit. There's simply no incentive for any party involved to misrepresent the figure. Why would companies
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by jsnk 12y ago
I think people in finances know of even more extreme example of calculator monopoly. My dad still uses HP-12C, a financial calculator made by HP in the 80s ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-12C ). He's been using th
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by jsnk 12y ago
I don't think anyone is denying the overarching influence of Freud which is enormous, but popularity doesn't confirm or deny validity of his claims. Astrology is popular, but no one consider it to be science.
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by jsnk 12y ago
That's an inspiring story. Can you share what you are working on in Toronto? Toronto is my hometown, so I like to hear about projects coming out of that city.
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by jsnk 12y ago
"Zero to One" by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
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by jsnk 12y ago
Most of the websites, especially bloggers, prohibit contents being scraped and duplicated into other media such as this app. The app creator should try to get the consent of the bloggers before anything else. Otherwise, definitely an app I
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Repository of DMCA takedown notices made on GitHub(github.com)
1 points by jsnk 12y ago|0 comments
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by jsnk 12y ago
I am surprised that NodeJS on Mysql is much faster than on MongoDB. Is this expected? http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r9&hw=pe...
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by jsnk 12y ago
As a developer, on top of 8 to 9 hours of work, I spend 1 to 2 hours reading technical books and coding on a usual weekday. Weekends too are spent on working on side projects. I can do this now as a twenty something, but in my 30s and 40s w
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by jsnk 12y ago
That's cause you haven't tried the whisper. Try: say -v Whisper "Dun hate"
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by jsnk 12y ago
Here is a more critical reading of Piketty ( http://business.financialpost.com/2014/04/10/terence-corcora... ). One thing that surprises me when I read reviews about Piketty (I haven't read the book) is th
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by jsnk 13y ago
Yes, we get it, but repeatedly stating "A language is a tool, not an identity." every thread about X programming language adds nothing to the conversation. 1. Learning a new programming language or a framework requires a significa
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by jsnk 13y ago
I don't want to specifically say this site is good or bad, but I've had really bad experiences with sites of this sort. Essentially, sites of this sort were all just recruiters trying to farm up candidate contacts, and all you are
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by jsnk 13y ago
Repost from 18 hours ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7583256 )
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by jsnk 13y ago
I wrote about this problem here ( http://serv.github.io/blog/2014/02/20/unfortunate-state-of-m... ). Mobile Web sucks because there's an incentive problem. No one really has strong incentive to make m
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by jsnk 13y ago
I use both RSpec and Cucumber often, and easiness wise, I think Cucumber is just easier to write. RSpec verbs and scoping still messes with my head, and I always have to debug why the tests are breaking.
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Did Brendan Eich (@brendaneich) close down his Twitter?(twitter.com)
3 points by jsnk 13y ago|1 comments
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by jsnk 13y ago
The system is so corrupt that even an honest business that just wants to make healthy profit by serving customers have to dirty their hands with politicians and legislators to run a legitimate business.
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by jsnk 13y ago
A French economist and statesman, Frédéric Bastiat ridiculed government protected industries in the same manner as OP in 1800s. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat#Econ...
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by jsnk 13y ago
Most likely a mistake or an advertising ploy.
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by jsnk 13y ago
Sorry, Docker noob here. I have a Rails project that has a lot of customized features. I have tons of Cucumber tests that require browser (haven't tried to run it headlessly) and they take about 40 minutes to run. I would love to use s
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by jsnk 13y ago
Thanks for the info. I do hope this man has a case against Newsweek.
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by jsnk 13y ago
I will forever mark the name, Leah McGrath Goodman and Newsweek editorial staff in my mind as a toxic journalist and TMZ-styled publication after this event. Granted, I don't think Leah McGrath Goodman and Newsweek did anything illegal
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by jsnk 13y ago
If salaries are so hard to judge, why is it that people think it's obvious when there is a studying saying there is supposed wage gap between sexes? It seems like the skepticism goes only one way, which is when the study says that wage
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by jsnk 13y ago
>After the inception of quantum computers that actually work in our world, gazillion times faster and what not, what will happen to the cryptocoin mining world? Cryptocurrencies probably will be least of our worries. We may have to rethi

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