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by kurige 14y ago
I've wondered how certain programs get around these restrictions. I use Boom[1] on my ridiculously quiet laptop. The program you download from MAS is more or less a shell. It guides you to download and install the actual sound drivers that
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by kurige 14y ago
If you are < 30 then it's not racism. It's profiling. The fact of the matter is that most young foreigners in Tokyo are complete hooligans. They're there because their families are on business or in the military. They freely roam one of
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by kurige 14y ago
> Does this tell us people will do anything to save a bit of cash? No. It’s telling us that people will do almost anything to get same-day releases – and that they’re willing to both pay wads of cash and break the law at the same time t
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by kurige 14y ago
It can be used as an adverb though.
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by kurige 14y ago
The US middle to upper class generally seems to look down at McDonalds as being a place where the poor, fat, or simply lazy go to eat. That's just not the case in other countries. I can only speak for Paris and Tokyo, and the very upper cla
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by kurige 15y ago
Just a wild shot in the dark here, but could it possibly be because of an increasing number of people have access to the internet? "Programmers on the internet" has reached saturation, but the total number of people searching for things on
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by kurige 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (US, Japan) Pretty much anything relating to desktop application development. Experienced C/ObjC/C++ developer. If you've got a windows, mac, or linux application idea you'd like to see developed, shoot me an email for
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by kurige 15y ago
An officially sanctioned "controlled burn" of marijuana is generally a part of any officer's training, for exactly that reason. (Not kidding.) They need to be able to explain how they can identify the smell if asked in court, even if they'v
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by kurige 15y ago
Care to share? I'm a mac developer and I just recently dropped support for < 10.6 in all of my apps.
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by kurige 15y ago
Unless I'm missing some detail of what you're saying, HipChat already does that. I regularly drag screenshots into a conversation. Hipchat uploads them to S3. There is a size restriction, though, which I've run up against more times than I
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by kurige 15y ago
I noticed that as well. Just glancing through the code it looks like they're going to have to add rudimentary configuration management before that can happen. Right now every piece of pertinent information about how and where to connect is
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by kurige 15y ago
Maybe... they want a job and need the money? Not everybody here at HN seems to realize that negotiation is not always appropriate when your first priority is to get a job . Thankfully I've never been in that sort of situation, but I've cer
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by kurige 15y ago
That's awesome! Bizzare correlation, but awesome. How did you graph the data? Did you enter the time series data manually?
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by kurige 15y ago
1. Take historical end-of-day market data for a stock market index fund and graph it on Google Correlate. 2. Find out what terms closely track said index. 3. Set up an auto-trader that responds to changes in the search frequency for said t
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by kurige 15y ago
It's interesting to think about what the perfect balance is, when sites like reddit, quora, and stack overflow all use "social influence" as a means of motivation. But that same driving force slowly drives the quality of the content into th
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Why HN should continue hiding vote counts: social influence makes us dumber(pnas.org)
4 points by kurige 15y ago|1 comments
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by kurige 15y ago
... and he never came out. </obligatory-joke>
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by kurige 15y ago
... unless you have to sue them for the funds to sue them.
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Why does wine brand popularity not follow a power law distribution?(gamedevblog.com)
5 points by kurige 16y ago|6 comments
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by kurige 16y ago
one could make an argument that it broadens the educational experience or whatever While I tend to agree with your point, the truth is that undergraduate study is not about specialization. There is a trend in that direction, but in
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by kurige 16y ago
I also find it interesting that a few defunct microsoft webpages (such as http://popfly.com ) redirect you directly to bing. Naturally, you'll follow the wikipedia or equivalent link to figure out what's going on. I doubt this would genera
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by kurige 16y ago
A JSON parser (of sorts) in roughly 150 lines of C code. I'm not the author. https://github.com/quartzjer/js0n