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by khc 12y ago
I used to be concerned about this, and then I realized: if Amazon revokes my access to the e-books/movies I legally purchased, I will just go download pirated copies. Why do that kind of backups myself when the internet is already doin
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Why are we importing our own fish(nytimes.com)
1 points by khc 12y ago|0 comments
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by khc 12y ago
Unless you want the space to be pre-allocated
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by khc 12y ago
"It's a rare condition called chimerism, with only 30 documented cases worldwide." It's very rare but not THAT rare.
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by khc 12y ago
"Instead of commenting and giving feedback we like, share and +1." And yet the article has a "Share on Twitter" button but no way to comment.
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Flight mode on(christianheilmann.com)
3 points by khc 12y ago|1 comments
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by khc 12y ago
LWN: https://lwn.net/
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Australis Performance Post-mortem Part 4: On Tab Animation(mikeconley.ca)
36 points by khc 12y ago|16 comments
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by khc 12y ago
apparently: http://blog.jdlh.com/en/2009/02/12/1234567890_day/1000000000...
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by khc 12y ago
That's only talking about the Alibaba site itself. They own several gigantic websites that in the consumer business (taobao, t-mall, etc).
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by khc 12y ago
This reminds me of my college days. At Statistical Computing Facility at UC Berkeley, a grad student and I (I just finished 1st year at the time) built a web-based spreadsheet for tracking students' homework and exam scores. We called
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by khc 13y ago
it's resuming from suspend
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by khc 13y ago
I randomly ran into someone working for the movie association in Hong Kong and he told me that they regularly scan forums looking for links to copyrighted materials. From time to time they do find links to Dropbox and Google Drive, and the
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by khc 13y ago
Why is this ridiculous? Without Apple/Google, how would you distribute and market your apps?
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by khc 13y ago
Probably WorkSpaces is not designed to be active 24/7. Desktop CPU usages are also usually much lighter than server usages.
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by khc 13y ago
you seem to think that in 3 years there won't be 5" watches...
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by khc 13y ago
That seems to be a very sensible thing to do though. Consider that there are 153 Chinese nationals, the number of relatives waiting at the airport is probably at least couple hundreds. Since the event is ongoing and they have no idea how lo
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by khc 13y ago
> The next div class="asContentParagraph" discusses Placeholder fail
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by khc 13y ago
So the trick is: lie to existing manufacturers to get the schematics, build simplified/more manual machines, use really cheap labors, and probably lower the profit margin? Reminds me of knockoff products but then it's probably a p
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by khc 13y ago
The cotton was 1/40th of the cost: "10g (less than 0.5oz) of cotton, which at the time cost 10 paise (£0.001), should sell for 4 rupees (£0.04) - 40 times the price"
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by khc 13y ago
late reply. It doesn't necessarily mean donating to charities, but if you want to directly hand out money then you'd have to do some due diligence (not so different from doing due diligence on charities). It'd also be helpful
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by khc 13y ago
How is this different from whitetruffle?
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by khc 13y ago
I don't remember where I read it, but someone famous once said "for most people the best way to do good is to make a lot of money and then give it away" (or something to that effect). I couldn't agree more.
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by khc 13y ago
I've played with systemtap around 2011/2012, with RHEL 5 and versions of Fedora at the time, and I could easily get it to kernel panic. I went on to their irc channel to report the problems and got some fixes, but in the end it st
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by khc 13y ago
when you reapplied with the same startup, how much did you tweak the idea or was it mostly just a change of interview strategy? In other words, why did you reapply thinking that you will have have a better chance to get in than last time?
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by khc 13y ago
> There's also a lot of handwaving on memory usage in the FAQ. Totally. Reading the FAQ reminded me of https://xkcd.com/386/
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by khc 13y ago
From the FAQ: "Also a security issue with dynamically linked libraries are executables with the suid flag. A user can easily run dynamic library code using LD_PRELOAD in conjunction with some trivial program like ping. Using a static e
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by khc 13y ago
if you can rely on gcc, cleanup attribute is probably the best you can do. The solution in original post doesn't cope with "break", "continue", "return" (and of course, "goto", but I don't r
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by khc 13y ago
jcloud recently became part of apache: https://jclouds.apache.org/
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by khc 13y ago
"As stated above, the history features of version control systems mean that simply removing the tokens and then committing the result is not enough. If you can, you might want to consider revoking the keys that have been made public, s

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