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by kika 13y ago
Science missions use 2mp CCDs mostly because of the sensitivity. The larger is the individual sensor ("pixel") the more photons it can absorb thus more electrical potential it can generate compared to the noise level. There's
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by kika 13y ago
Any book recommendation? I can say I know JS as a language sufficiently well (I can write basically anything on Node), but I almost completely lack a systematic understanding how the HTML+CSS and DOM work together (layout engine, rendering,
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by kika 13y ago
I hate HN. Instead of watching action flicks on flights I now read books picked up from HN threads. I've got Platinum Medallion this year and I'm still behind my reading queue.
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by kika 13y ago
Nothing wrong, but just a lack of muscle reflex. I've been using bash for what, almost 20 years?
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by kika 13y ago
Clicked on comments to say the same. When I discovered fish, I felt like "where have I been". But there's one downside though: I got used (used as in muscle reflexes) to things like ls -l `where something` and they do not wor
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by kika 13y ago
Hm, what about lynching a couple of Google engineers? Ethically superior or inferior? If inferior, then why? I'm actually genuinely interested though may sound sarcastic - I'm very curious where people like you draw the line betwe
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by kika 13y ago
App name: iED
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by kika 13y ago
When I was about your age I've joined IBM for 6 years. The work was great and I liked everything I did there (well, at least for the first 3 years). In the hindsight though I realize that I basically wasted these years.
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by kika 13y ago
> sterilize a city that carries rebellion deep inside its heart I thought it was called "law enforcement"...
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by kika 13y ago
IMHO, Reddit is just too big a community, there's no shared interest. Just too many people. I'm speaking about large subreddits like the one discussed here, /politics, etc. Also, there's no problem "seeing" ple
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by kika 13y ago
Controversially, this is what I love Reddit for. I (and I believe a lot of other HN frequents) live in a bubble. We rarely meet people outside of the bubble - ask yourself when did you speak IRL with a real racist, for example? I remember t
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by kika 13y ago
Hm, he's 8, so he can take Farsi lessons as well too.
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by kika 13y ago
"legally mandated inefficiency" is "corruption" in 3 words, right?
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by kika 13y ago
> I would also notify the users that their data was accessed, if it was legal to do so. And of course you'd also put up a warrant canary [0] on your website, am I correct? -- [0]: http://www.rsync.net/resources/
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by kika 13y ago
> who literally believe their English is perfected, There's no one to blame except yourselves, Americans (I speculate here). Especially in Bay Area or any other melting pot. You speak language remotely resembling English? We can un
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by kika 13y ago
Honestly I think that there's nothing national in this. It's just because the majority of the development work in India is being done in outsourcing. When you outsource you rarely pay for 'quality code', you pay for the
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by kika 13y ago
leading edge (marketing bs) -> bleeding edge -> bleeding etch. It's a very old joke, I've read it in Dr. Dobbs sometime in mid-90s.
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by kika 13y ago
People are doing this too. It looks dumb, but inside there're lots of interesting technical challenges. Some of the awe inspiring breakthroughs are often extremely boring technically. I started my career in the computational chemistry
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by kika 13y ago
I believe it's "staffing" as is, i.e. efforts to fill the open positions. It's not payroll.
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by kika 13y ago
This is just a classical definition of Communism by inventor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abil... I was taught this in school. Socialism, on the other hand, is "to each according to the
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by kika 13y ago
You'd always have the job to code the robot which would be able to take your current position :-)
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by kika 13y ago
I believe it means that flipping burgers do not require you to have any social skills (besides flipping a bird to your "manager" when he/she doesn't see it). And this position is very likely to be automated really soon [
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by kika 13y ago
With 15% you can have a seat in the board or at least some voting rights. Having that it would be more difficult to just dissolve the company without any real reason. But generally speaking you're right, thanks.
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by kika 13y ago
I'm not getting #1. Essentially, they're offering you a "founder grade" share of the company. Why not?
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by kika 13y ago
Well, luckily I didn't _need_ this backup, so I just deleted the bundle and started over.
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by kika 13y ago
BTSync could be installed everywhere, but it only syncs between the folders with the same key. So if only your computers have your key(s) then only they would have contents of your folder(s).
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by kika 13y ago
I can confirm that. I've lost a TM backup recently made over the (wired) network. The cable failed, backup in progress hung, TM volume remained locked until I reboot, I rebooted and sparsebundle got screwed up. TM started it all over a
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by kika 13y ago
The best example of British hiring PR is the mythical Shackleton ad: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." De
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by kika 13y ago
When you call some political leader a "butcher" you lie, because he actually doesn't work in a butcher shop and doesn't have a license? I linked to the wikipedia article about necklacing. Did you find any factual errors
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by kika 13y ago
Inspired me to put a tire around someone's neck, fill it with gas and light it up.

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