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by krisdol 13y ago
Sequential downloading defeats one of the primary goals of torrents: to make rare data common. If only one peer has chunk ae986f6ea789 of a torrent, it makes sense that you'd want to download that chunk first in case the peer disconnec
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by krisdol 13y ago
I agree, and it depends. In super high-demand, low-supply markets like Manhattan and San Francisco, I opt for the hotel over Airbnb. The price difference is usually minor, and the hotels in these cities often have better amenities than the
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by krisdol 13y ago
vim users, but of course. vim 1 - emacs 0
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by krisdol 13y ago
Driving from Westchester to Manhattan is 1.5 hour drive in slow-moving traffic to a city where parking is almost dollar a minute. Taking the train is 20 minutes, with bathrooms, often times wifi, and comfortable seats. Subway is usually abo
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by krisdol 13y ago
Why in heaven's name did you try that in production?
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by krisdol 13y ago
While much of this is true, I feel like all complex web applications require almost all of this sort of maintenance. I don't see how rails is any worse in this regard than Django. If you can't afford to address the security concer
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by krisdol 13y ago
Your office janitors, cafeteria workers, street cleaners, waste disposal workers, coffeeshop baristas, taxicab drivers, bus drivers, teachers, day care workers, post office workers, food servers, chefs, etc. can't afford to live there.
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by krisdol 13y ago
the text-editing part of Unity3D is pretty terrible, and I do most of it in vim. But it is good for viewing models and moving components around without building your own model viewer or mouse-driven Entity-System editor
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by krisdol 13y ago
Any game made with anything can run on steam. I use libgdx because I prefer to do more coding, and because it's FOSS
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> I would like to know what this "privilege" is all about. I'm a tech worker who makes a very good salary. Am I privileged? Yes. So am I and so is most of the audience here.
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by krisdol 13y ago
You're right, I should not have worded my comment in such a way because I did not want to start an argument around that particular topic. To better phrase it: I feel that the problems being solved with software on this community, while
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by krisdol 13y ago
Does anyone know of a community of tech professionals (such as hackernews) that isn't full of these libertarian types? Maybe one populated by driven to solve problems facing communities and the under-privileged? I like a lot of the tec
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by krisdol 13y ago
Yeah, fedora runs it, too.
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by krisdol 13y ago
>Am I the only one who thinks that the failures were intentional - that the whole mix-up is a passive-aggressive way of herding the USA into eventual single-payer? Probably not the only one. I don't think they were intentional, but
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by krisdol 13y ago
When a few individuals own all the land other individuals have to choose between selling themselves short for others' gain, or starving. The whole anti-authoritarian thing goes out the window when property laws need enforcement.
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by krisdol 13y ago
When a company lowers costs, it doesn't cut prices, it increases profits. Luckily cell phones still have some competition, but the TV/Monitor market is price colluded to hell. Higher wages and better benefits benefit the consumer.
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by krisdol 13y ago
The problem is that society's support system is nearly non-existent. If people have to do less work to create the same product, they should be awarded with more time away from work to enjoy their life. But without some ownership over t
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by krisdol 13y ago
It's a bucket. I know most of Wired content is just low-brow astroturfing anyway, but this is ridiculous. It's a plastic fucking bucket.
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by krisdol 13y ago
Dark Souls 2 is a sequel to Dark Souls, which is a semi-sequel to Demon Souls. All of them are "trial by death", so to speak, and you can pick up Dark Souls on Steam today if you want a taste of it-- though I'd recommend just
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by krisdol 13y ago
Yeah, you're assuming each of 7 billion people will even have a share of one bitcoin. About half of the 7 billion people today live on less than $2.50 a day, and I don't see how extreme wealth inequality could get anything but wor
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by krisdol 13y ago
What company is doing the advertising? Are they subject to FCC regulation? Seriously though, there being no ASIC hardware for ltc mining yet means it's "ASIC-proof" in the same way that it not raining in New York today means
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by krisdol 13y ago
just a minor nitpick, but bitcoin is also fiat currency.
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by krisdol 13y ago
You can edit them to your heart's content though. I have never had an issue, but I use the "Default for XWin" setting. There are about a dozen other keymap templates available by default, though.
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by krisdol 13y ago
Huh, that's interesting. I can't say I've encountered that need before though; it's much more valuable for me to have many panes of different files open at the same time (or two locations of one file), rather than an &qu
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by krisdol 13y ago
HN libertarians don't like to be made to feel academically inadequate. Startups care not about this art crap, and the author is obviously not aware of unpopular sub-genres of rock, many of which kick Chopin's ass, so to speak.
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by krisdol 13y ago
I'm not suggesting that you upgrade to 2.0, or anything drastic, but does this mean you don't install the security updates? Build 448 included important OpenSSL fixes, and no functional changes or deprecations occur during these m
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by krisdol 13y ago
That really depends on what version of windows was out when you grew out of your early teens. It is still around, absolutely, but I feel like the typical hn reader browses wisely enough to never encounter it.
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by krisdol 13y ago
I believe that is the price if you've previously had a license that is now expired or about to expire. If a new version is released within the year of your subscription, you can upgrade for free. The price is lower for upgrades so that
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by krisdol 13y ago
The problem I have with that is that the things asked for affect myself and a significantly large number of ethical and/or law-abiding individuals and businesses. If revealing this info would help the enemy, and if many of us would ben