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by kahawe 15y ago
I have seen an airflow system in a newly built house to keep all rooms supplied with fresh air even without opening windows or doors and I think it is a fantastic concept - at least when considering the house was built outside the city. I t
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by kahawe 15y ago
I was looking for a pendant to the "Bedouin" there. What about the Gobi desert?
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by kahawe 15y ago
I am honestly wondering what the average temperature in a Bedouin or Mongolian (sorry, for lack of better term) tent is and how one could apply this to troop tents in the desert in general and ultimately save on A/C and fuel because many ge
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by kahawe 15y ago
I hate to do this but: it still beats having to deal with the airlines...
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by kahawe 15y ago
Quite common here in Germany/Austria: e.g. Nestlé ice coffee/espresso... either in aluminum cans or plastic bottles.
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by kahawe 15y ago
I was talking about mongo and couch, not MySQL.
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by kahawe 15y ago
As someone who has worked in young, small and medium, old and larger companies: I wouldn't use mongo/couch outside of non-critical webapps even if I was paid to do so and for my own (cynic) understanding, it is as much a "database" as a fol
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by kahawe 15y ago
Also, do not forget or underestimate the cheek-in-tongue "Nobody got fired for buying Oracle" in this case.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Is it possible HN has a very strong bias on web developers? Because in "serious business" or at least in my case in finance, you almost always find Oracle and DB2 being the leading DBs and maybe Sybase and maybe-maybe mysql or mssql but har
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by kahawe 15y ago
My point was: you cannot simply just like that loose money without any trace of what happened... it's not like you can just "DELETE FROM accounts" and it is totally un-tracably gone. I would trust more in the people who design our SWIFT and
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by kahawe 15y ago
One more thing about this... you can use about the same kind of explosives on buildings and bridges just varying amounts and methods of application. Whereas screwing over the whole banking system of north USA like that requires the kind of
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by kahawe 15y ago
> Logic bombs planted on those systems will delete all the backups once they’re brought on-line. All of it gone. Forever. I am wondering how this is going to work, considering most financial institutions have cold-standby back up sys
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by kahawe 15y ago
In my opinion, this is not a "neat trick", this is simply not-so-subtle blackmail and brute-forcing and it is far, FAR from "respectful" but go ahead, show us how you get a meeting with Steve Jobs and the president, Barack Obama, using this
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by kahawe 15y ago
My main gripe with this article is: it heavily mixes symptoms of social anxiety, chronic shyness, downright rude behavior and the "typical" traits hacker are said to have... and then calls it "introvert". The real reasons other people see y
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by kahawe 15y ago
I think it really boils down to "Start!" and to the fact that what you might see as "so talented" in other people is actually just the result of them having spent much more time on X than you have - meaning that you can do or learn practica
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by kahawe 15y ago
Is there a way of having one's account completely deleted from paypal by request? Through the support website? I only found a link for "close account" and I cannot use it since my account has been "limited" and I have no interest in sending
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by kahawe 15y ago
Well, at least Mr Francis Tan and thenextweb.com won't have to worry about their accounts' safety anymore... since they will definitely get frozen ASAP.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Ahhh, see-through aluminum now where could they have possible come up with that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_materials#Met... And clearly, staring right into the blaring sun at around 9k ft up in the air is going to mak
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by kahawe 15y ago
Web 2.0 for me was mainly about user-generated content like blogs, wikis, social networking etc. You could do a lot if not all of that before as a tech and not-so-much tech but chances were that you did not. "Blog" made it hip and cool for
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by kahawe 15y ago
I think the point he made that "the internet is stale" resonates heavily with something I have always been feeling and wondering about the twitters, myspaces and facebooks... the whole "web 2.0" shenanigans. Those were by no means "new inve
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by kahawe 15y ago
I don't see how this has anything to do with "Linux" - if anything, it shows how powerful google/the internet and the open source community is since nowadays you can expect to be spoon-fed a solution for almost every problem you can come up
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by kahawe 15y ago
And he came at the right time to the right place - with an operating system for a new platform that would prove to be more widespread than all platforms before.
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by kahawe 15y ago
You have got to be kidding me... the same idea has haunted us Europeans not too long ago! The (then) Minister of Family Affairs (,Senior Citizens, Women and Youth) sold it as "fighting against child pornography" and despite every serious ex
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by kahawe 15y ago
I find this a bit of a moot point. Could Bill Gates really code? Yea, probably. Does it really matter? Not that much as we like to believe. Right time, right place, right people on the team and whatever other circumstances you might want to
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by kahawe 15y ago
This has already been submitted a bit over 2 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=620698 Any suggestions? It does have a certain relevance now since Apple is much more widely successful and given their recent announcements.
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by kahawe 15y ago
tvtorrents to the rescue! and no, I don't think this is stealing since the shows were paid for already anyway.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Coming from the idea of "utility computing" and Grid, I always found the "cloud" hype interesting and now it is fascinating how Apple has claimed it. This is "storing your data somewhere/anywhere in the cloud/grid" vs. "storing your data on
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by kahawe 15y ago
This sort of reminds me of Audion and iTunes back in the day - though there was no Music or App Store back then. http://www.panic.com/extras/audionstory/ " That's interesting, because honestly? I don't think you guys have a chance. " " It
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by kahawe 15y ago
European who loves watching USA TV shows: it can literally take YEARS before very successful US shows make it to (non-pay) TV over here and quite often they are not being shown at all. I was honestly surprised "Dexter" was on regular German
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by kahawe 15y ago
I strongly doubt half of those "VIPs" are actually taking care of their twittering/facebooking themselves so at best you reach someone actually working directly for said "VIP".

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