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by lorax 15y ago
Talk about an overly dramatic headline, the "post that killed Bitcoins"? but the submitter isn't even sure if the arguments are valid? (And has hacker news turned into bitcoin news? it seems like there are several bitcoin links a day)
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by lorax 15y ago
If you are in the UK, how do you know which people you aren't allowed to publish stories about? How do you know if a super injunction is in force? Are they published somewhere?
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Lost Springs, Wyoming, population 1(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lorax 15y ago|0 comments
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by lorax 16y ago
Wow, 3%. At $7.99 a month, your credit will be 24 cents.
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Different styles of photomosaics you can make(intellithoughts.wordpress.com)
1 points by lorax 16y ago|0 comments
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Tips for making photo-mosaics(intellithoughts.wordpress.com)
2 points by lorax 16y ago|0 comments
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by lorax 16y ago
I hope someone writes down all the answers (questions?) and feeds them into google so we can have a Google-Watson showdown. (Oh, we need a third contestant, how about bing too).
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by lorax 16y ago
Hard to say if it was the first or not. It may have been "Here's my list of interesting web pages (most of them were probably links to other peoples lists of interesting pages, very recursive.)" I don't think the word meme existed then e
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by lorax 16y ago
From the article: "many, though admittedly not all, courts have held that contacting former clients regarding a change in employment constitutes a solicitation. See e.g., Merrill Lynch v. Schultz, 2001 WL 1681973, *3 (D.D.C. 2001) (noting
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by lorax 17y ago
So, two people of equal intelligence, wealth, ability to work long hours, etc. are in a field... who is more successful? The one who spends a lot of time doing repetitive tasks or the one who automates those. As I am pointing out now, the s
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by lorax 17y ago
There are places like that. It's called "corporate housing". take a look at oakwood.com. They have apartments in lots of cities around the world. A company would contract with them then on short notice could say "I need an apartment in
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by lorax 17y ago
The article mentions the possibility of an attacker feeding a hash specially designed data to cause all the keys to map to the same bucket. Perl implemented a fix for this attack years ago. If too many keys map to the same bucket it rando
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by lorax 17y ago
He mentions a couple of times about dithering, saying it is "blending nearby colors". I have heard notebook displays also use temporal dithering where they quickly change the color of single pixel and your eye merges it into an intermediat
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by lorax 17y ago
I haven't heard of this case before, but it sounds like a newspapper figured out who the anonymous blogger was and the blogger sued to keep them from publishing his name. This isn't like the court is forcing him to reveal himself (which is
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by lorax 17y ago
I found the blog linked to this page (which looks like it uses the css) really hard to read on my monitor. They letters were too small and close together. There was even one word that I couldn't tell if it was worn or worm until I highlig
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by lorax 18y ago
18 chars not enuff
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by lorax 18y ago
I tell people I'm a computer programmer, most of the time that's enough. Sure, that doesn't really tell them what I do, and sure, their eyes would glaze over if I talked about debugging or memory management, but so what? I don't really kn