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by jtheory 14y ago
I'm using HighCharts specifically because of their support for IE6/7 (using VML). http://www.highcharts.com/documentation/compatibility
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That sounds pretty good, actually! I do love good peanut butter. It can be even cheaper than $30/month as well, since the manufacturer allows local production of the paste (in peanut-growing locales) with no license fee payment required.
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Gene selection isn't that simple. Population members aren't useless to preserving genes once they're done having babies. Elders use and share collected knowledge (particularly skills that take a long time to master), care for babies while
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Yes, this -- manufacturing Soylent at scale (including a well-managed supply chain with much-lower-than-consumer pricing) would make it far cheaper than it is now to make. Also consider that Soylent isn't primarily optimized for price, but
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It doesn't say that, though -- he perceives "wisdom" as senselessness and something with no "eternal meaning", in contrast to the simple pleasures of daily life, which (apparently unlike wisdom) have supernatural approval and eternal value.
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I like swype, and the new swiftkey flow (basically swype + swiftkey), but even with 2D querty it's frustrating how often either of those misinterprets what I'm trying to enter. If it got still less info -- particularly as this is being deve
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You should sample the work of writers who take pride in the quality of their writing & ideas, not just the latest "100 tips to success in business" book. So much of the writing we read is written by amateur writers who are professionals
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The advice is relative to the sleeping habits of the target audience. The author talks about servants as if they are assumed, and in his example case of an average day, the person gets up at 9am, and goes to sleep by midnight. That's NINE h
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Why? That seems to be making a very different point (and not a very valuable one, in my opinion).
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If they put a hard limit on "continued use", what would it achieve? Probably a few more sales, but at the cost of forcing some current users to stop using their product (if they can't afford the full version yet), or waste time jumping th
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A related point about learning -- pointers, data structures, etc. -- tough concepts are tough because they're unfamiliar. For whatever reason, some things will come easy and some won't; that does not mean you should avoid the ones that do
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The trouble is they're working with a very limited UI. Lockout after X attempts (as another comment mentioned) is a terrible idea, because that makes it a simple DoS mechanism. But forcing a delay, for example, is tricky -- how do you notif
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It's worth noting that security/safety and convenience are almost always in opposition. There are probably cultural trends as to where different groups make the trade-off (I've never dug into it), but the principle is the same everywhere. Y
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by jtheory 14y ago
Ahem: > Two-thirds of his total intake came from junk food. He also took a multivitamin pill and drank a protein shake daily. And he ate vegetables, typically a can of green beans or three to four celery stalks. And of course, "he lost
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by jtheory 14y ago
Speaking of breastmilk -- I don't know about this guy's particular formula, but I can chip in that my daughter was solely breastfed for 9 months or so, and it was pretty clearly extremely efficiently processed. I wasn't eager for her to s
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by jtheory 14y ago
I think the idea of using a ring for this purpose is that you never need remove it. It would have to be pretty durable, of course, but then you'd basically leave it on while swimming, sleeping, etc. (like the standard approach to a wedding
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by jtheory 14y ago
I must say this isn't nearly as funny as much of the Verity Stob posts, but no problem. Mostly I was amazed to see that the same horrible bug in Notepad++ that seriously bit me once (the text replacement buffer silently truncated... aargh
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Well, it doesn't give the original attackers any knowledge they don't already have. Any other malicious parties might find it useful.
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... Are you replying to an earlier version of the comment above?
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This was interesting to read, though I wonder why the author gets so many negative reactions when talking about wood fires... do so many people actually have fireplaces nowadays? Personally, I want more details... most of all because I swit
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by jtheory 14y ago
I don't know the Freakonomics methodology, but I'm pretty sure the analysis you're making isn't useful. We're talking about choices an individual homeowner can make. Those choices are "install a pool" or "keep a gun in the house". To unders
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by jtheory 14y ago
It seems like every other day we get a new article on Java problems, all written for non-technical readers. I know there are new 0day exploits appearing -- but I have no idea what's actually required to activate them. Oracle's oh-crap patch
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by jtheory 14y ago
That's debatable, to be sure, but do you have a similar example from an HN discussion? I don't think I've ever seen a mean post in the context of an HN discussion that wouldn't have been improved by removing the meanness, or simply deleting
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by jtheory 14y ago
This isn't a thin skin problem. Mean comments are a waste of space; they take up the space on the page where actually valuable content should be. I've always hated the "grow a thicker skin" comment, regardless -- it shifts the blame onto th
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Ah, I was looking at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287 ...which admittedly doesn't have a great discussion, but it's not worthless. The one you linked, though, is worth highlighting as a completely useless discussion
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Then take the time to teach them about it, and why it's worth picking up. Everyone wins in that scenario.
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Out of curiosity, where's the discussion the OP is talking about? I do think meanness is worth calling out, FWIW, though in my experience HN discussions are better than most I see online (though far from faultless, of course). ...which in t
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Sentience adds significant value (like far better risk avoidance than instinct can provide) with no magic involved. The whole point is not that the eagles plan would be foolproof -- just that it would be a hell of a lot smarter than the pla
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My primary rule for commenting is to document anything likly to be unexpected or counter-intuitive to someone else on their first read of the code. You don't always need to "document the why", because often it's obvious enough (with a well-
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These solutions assume that the spammers have human beings who are actively checking that their spamming effort worked on your forum. I have a forum where I've been battling spam for years, and since the beginning all external links have be

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