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by leksak 10y ago
Absolutely, but that is part of the ethical qualm. You are perpetuating the use of Github as the dominant (code) social network by using it. If you continue to use it after Github has performed an act of censorship (or anything else that vi
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by leksak 10y ago
That was part of my point, I was not sufficiently convinced that the sampling was conducted over a satisfying number of different living situations. Rest is simply not a luxury that a lot of people can even concern themselves with as they h
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by leksak 10y ago
Beyond uptime concerns (which Github manages very well) is the fact that it is closed source, and whenever you use a closed system but that provides very good services for free you yourself is the commodity. Beyond that, dozzie's remar
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by leksak 10y ago
This may be a symptom of the hyper-connective world we live in today. You observe this phenomenon elsewhere outside of academia as well. There is an intense pressure to distinguish oneself from the greater body of people occupying the same
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by leksak 10y ago
I think Game Programming Patterns is an excellent read for learning patterns
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by leksak 10y ago
Thanks, I think I'm going to roll with this
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Ask HN: Least invasive way of page-view tracking
3 points by leksak 10y ago|5 comments
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by leksak 10y ago
I agree with Joel, I've worked in an open floor- plan, individual offices, shared offices, and even one open floor-plan where part of it was an actual store front. For me, happiness and subsequently long-term productivity has been dir
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by leksak 10y ago
"Altogether, 18,000 people from 134 countries made time to take part in what was quite a lengthy survey devised by Hubbub - an international group of academics, artists, poets, and mental health experts - showing perhaps what a pressin
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by leksak 10y ago
What does Chrome offer that FF cannot match currently? What kind of convenience improvements would you need to start using FF? Developer tools not withstanding.
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by leksak 10y ago
Seems like a pretty decent anti-malware approach! Make my machine appear to be a sandboxed machine -> get left alone.
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by leksak 10y ago
Wouldn't funding this be in the interest of mid-sized companies? Albeit it's not likely that they'll be targeted it seems like an awfully cheap insurance policy. By "they" I mean "a company". Seeing as the
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by leksak 10y ago
I was expecting to see the comedian for some reason.
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Lambdazen(github.com)
1 points by leksak 10y ago|0 comments
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I think the comparison to financial debt is leaky in the sense that a developer may ad infinitum cobble things around their ignorance, albeit not too performant or clean code, but there is no explicit accumulating interest. Yes, middle-sch
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Bring Edward home(amnesty.org)
3 points by leksak 10y ago|0 comments
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by leksak 10y ago
When he/she says high returns I'd imagine he/she is referring to monetary gains. So impact withstanding, a Nobel prize winner is awarded roughly 8 million SEK, which is 941320 U.S. dollars. Now, disregard their monthly salari
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by leksak 10y ago
Out of the Fortune 500 companies I'd argue that most of their founders are not introverts, but some of them comes from money which helps. Just because some introverts have seen success does not mean that all introverts starting a compa
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by leksak 10y ago
I agree, going after a professorship after getting a PhD is unlikely to cause you personal bankruptcy but creating a start-up might. Also, if your product is similar to another you may get caught in costly legal battles but this is unlikely
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by leksak 10y ago
What is he looking at to his right? Did he receive the questions beforehand and is reading his speech from a paper?
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by leksak 10y ago
The person that made this site would probably be sued if he/she sold a logo to a company that's too similar to existing work, arguably not before the company itself gets sued. Hence, for new companies it's a gamble as the leg
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by leksak 10y ago
These thumbnails are clean enough to be loaded into Illustrator and recaptured using the vectorize tool. Not sure about Inkscape. How much would people pay for such tracing do you think?
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by leksak 10y ago
It's funny that the article includes "you’re setting yourself apart from the snake oil peddlers of the world" as the writing and the surrounding web page makes me think of it as nothing other than snake oil.
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The US government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition (2010)(slate.com)
163 points by leksak 10y ago|98 comments
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by leksak 10y ago
Sounds more like a job than a side project.
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by leksak 10y ago
> Living expenses make up the majority of most people's living expenses True, true.
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The most ridiculous patch notes from 10 years of Dwarf Fortress(pcgamer.com)
2 points by leksak 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: At what time to post an “Ask” for maximum exposure?
12 points by leksak 10y ago|8 comments
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by leksak 10y ago
Write a chat server capable of handling concurrent clients, and write a front-end client in Ruby. You'll need a thread-safe FIFO datastructure, such as a queue, handle sockets, define a communications protocol (or borrow one, I'd
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Ask HN: What are your freelance contracts like?
2 points by leksak 10y ago|0 comments

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