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by kevinh 13y ago
There's another article from the Guardian on the NSA regarding Tor in the #6 slot on HN. This is in the #3 position. I think you're overestimating the impact. Edit: This article is now in the #1 position. Flagging isn't hurti
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by kevinh 13y ago
It looks like yet another controller with some special, device-specific features (advanced haptic feedback) that will only be supported by their first-party games and a few novelty ones. I wouldn't buy one before trying it.
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by kevinh 13y ago
I switched to DuckDuckGo for search for one of the reasons you listed - Google felt the need to guess what I was thinking and it felt like, most of the time, it was getting it wrong ( especially with synonym search). One of DuckDuckGo&#x27
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by kevinh 14y ago
Neither her nor the other person should have been fired for this. People calling for them to be fired have been acting irresponsibly.
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by kevinh 14y ago
Can we not obsess about this like reddit is doing? This is entirely tangential to the purpose of this site. One article about this is more than enough.
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by kevinh 14y ago
I'm not sure how this is news. Every online only game goes down for maintenance regularly.
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by kevinh 14y ago
All of the JetBrains products.
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by kevinh 14y ago
It's pretty cool to see the source of this. Back when I used to play Starcraft I primarily played UMS maps (custom game modes) and several of them were based on using "bugs" in the game engine to surmount situations that appeared impossible
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by kevinh 14y ago
I lost respect for Wikileaks when they started editorializing their releases. Most notably the "Collateral Murder" video. I want to be able to form conclusions for myself without being told what I should think every step of the way. Assange
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by kevinh 14y ago
It's amusing because the opposites of some of these are things that bother me about Java. Having everything in one file? Messy. Not having categories? Sad. @optional is nice if you want to be able to degrade to a default case. Scoping is
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by kevinh 14y ago
A 60 minute hour is more evenly divisible than a 100 or 10 minute hour.
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by kevinh 14y ago
You can fire someone for owning a gun in most states. Gun owners aren't a protected class except for Missouri where a law was recently passed to make them one, despite no known cases of someone firing an employee for gun ownership. Interest
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by kevinh 14y ago
Sister? No. Former marketing director of Facebook? She probably should know the privacy settings. Having people at your company (or that used to be at your company) confused about policies is usually a sign that you should either clarify
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by kevinh 14y ago
With an infinitely long rope and an infinitely deep chasm there would not be substantial gravity pulling it downward to have perpetual motion.
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by kevinh 14y ago
I'm disappointed that none of the devs of games in HIBs have open-sourced their games since the first one. It was always fun to have a glimpse at the code. I guess the Lugaru source fiasco[0] may have discouraged other devs from open-sourci
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by kevinh 14y ago
Posting an article on a website isn't sensitivity. It just lets people gawk. Despite what pg says, this article does not belong on Hacker News. This has absolutely no relation to hacking in general. There are a multitude of sites that will
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by kevinh 14y ago
When Internet witch hunts started ruining the lives of people because they made one bad decision.
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by kevinh 14y ago
I don't think native speakers is that meaningful of a metric in this case. Fluent speakers is the more interesting case and as far as I can tell, many more people are fluent in English than in Spanish. Additionally, the average income of fl
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by kevinh 14y ago
The reason it's great to be a young developer is all the press it garners. Even a mediocre game will earn a top spot on HN if it's programmed by a young person.
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by kevinh 14y ago
It's amusing that jwz brings up the California Proposition system and says that you should vote no on everything when that itself is an uninformed statement to make. Even if you want to keep the status quo, simply voting no on every is n
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by kevinh 14y ago
Looks great. You've chosen some nice samples (like showing that format specifiers are handled).
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by kevinh 14y ago
I think most people can tell the difference, but I also think people don't care about the difference. Increased resolution on the iPad (which can only run one process at a time) really isn't that pressing of a concern. It's the same reas
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by kevinh 14y ago
I think having a few samples of some strings (maybe "ok", "cancel", and a more complex string) would increase the number of purchasers. As it is now, I have no idea of the quality of the translation or even what languages are supported. Ot
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by kevinh 14y ago
That's a bizarre critique. It's just more likely she would be working on youtube ad code than self-driving cars or augmented reality sunglasses, which most people would consider less constructive than a social network. Additionally, I thin
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by kevinh 14y ago
I'd largely agree with you with regard to Systems Hungarian Notation , but Apps Hungarian Notation has made my job much easier when talking about whether data is sanitized/unsanitized (or other similar distinctions that fall under the same
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by kevinh 14y ago
This would have been much more poignant had: 1) This been posted on October 12th 2) We were still discussing the anniversary of Jobs' death on that date. As it is right now, of course people are discussing the death of Jobs and not Ritchie
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by kevinh 14y ago
There's a difference between buying food, a necessity, and an app, a luxury. And when you use your McDonald's example, you're assuming that the person you're conversing with is willing to pay $5-$9 for a meal at McDonald's. Many people wh
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by kevinh 14y ago
Seeing all of the (TM)s and (R)s has always annoyed me. When I look at it I always feel an undercurrent that it represents everything stereotypically oppressive about a corporation. Is there some legal reason for placing them up there (req
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by kevinh 14y ago
I remember when they promised it would be out by 2009 [1]. I guess it's to be expected when you're working on Valve time. I was starting to wonder if the project would get released before Valve either dumped or completely renovated the So
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by kevinh 14y ago
I seem to have broken it here: http://wikiloopr.com/List%20of%20minor%20planets:%2075001%E2... Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_75001%E2... That is, however, a weird Wikipedia page. It seems like the

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