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by jswny 10y ago
I don't really understand the outrage. The parties are not part of the government, they aren't held to the same requirements for fairness. The caucuses of the parties are supposed to help them gauge the public perception of their
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It really is sad that we all just can't appreciate a company like Uber giving us insight into their internal engineering choices. So many people on here think Postgres is so perfect that if you don't like it you must be using it w
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by jswny 10y ago
When did he say that it was a terrorist organization?
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by jswny 10y ago
> Then visit /r/all and a completely different picture will be painted for you as the sites most popular content is a mixture of pornography, racist jokes passed off as being subversive and political ranting. This is just false
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Pooper: Your dog's poop in someone else's hands(pooperapp.com)
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Are people just downvoting this because they think Europe is in the wrong?
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by jswny 10y ago
I tend to feel the same way. These types of things are inevitable, you are never going to stop them from happening. However, when debating this point, I have a hard time defending my point when someone else says "so should we just not
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by jswny 10y ago
That would be the second one! Oops, thanks for your correction, I'm not so sharp all the time :)
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by jswny 10y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086223 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091933 Similar discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12086769
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by jswny 10y ago
Totally agree. I love the idea in concept, I'm just quite wary of Facebook being the place that implements it.
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I'd say that most students running Linux opt to install their own development environment so installing the VM for them really isn't an issue. Either way, it's much easier for the professor to spend a class showing people how
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Agreed. In a lot of my college courses, the professors provide a VM which is completely set up for development. That means that anyone who just wants to start programming can use the VM while everyone else who wants to setup their local env
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by jswny 10y ago
I'm still not sure how I feel about implementing a layer over the Bitcoin network like this instead of just fixing the inherent flaws with the protocol. Especially when said network is being pushed by the company Blockstream which is k
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Commit messages: Document “why” not “what”(sleepeasysoftware.com)
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Trading durability for performance without NoSQL(tqdev.com)
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TDD Studio: Open Source Alternative to NCrunch(github.com)
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Volumetric Rendering: Raymarching(alanzucconi.com)
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Trezor 2.0 Hackathon(eventbrite.com)
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by jswny 10y ago
Yes, SVG files have come a long way and are quite useful for this type of vector graphics. However there is something so satisfying about knowing that your vector art fits into a single div and comes purely from CSS. Amazing work. These are
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Important to note that they only left these transactions out of report data sent to the SEC. It's not like they were not honoring the transactions or that some people were missing money.
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by jswny 10y ago
This "anyone can get SSL from CloudFlare for free" concept sounds great on the outside but really it might do more harm than good giving the illusion of security. The backend traffic needs to be SSL encrypted as well or else the g
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by jswny 10y ago
Even if has no problem with copyright I fail to see how naming something like this the same name as a very popular product can do anything except make it harder to find. Nobody's ever going to find this thing in Google unless they go t
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Rare US version of the N64’s disc-drive add-on unearthed near Seattle(arstechnica.com)
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Valve denounces third-party gambling sites but isn’t ready to block them(arstechnica.com)
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Bug bounties and automotive firewalls: Dealing with the car hacker threat(arstechnica.com)
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"Guccifer 2.0, the hacker who breached the Democratic National Committee, has released a cache of purported DNC documents to The Hill in an effort to refocus attention on the hack." Once again, this hacker, whoever he is, confirms
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by jswny 10y ago
I think Google is moving backwards in the messaging field. I've been trying to deal with having GroupMe, SMS, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram for years. The last thing I need is more fragmentation yet every time a Google mes
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How to run the native Ubuntu desktop on Windows 10(zdnet.com)
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An Architecture for Millions of Things(blog.cityboundsim.com)
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I think it would be really cool to have some type of audience participation built into a system like this. One of the parts that I hate most about watching the news is that I know I'm watching a singular viewpoint, and that nobody else

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