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Japan’s nuclear reactor overreaction(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
23 points by lt 16y ago|40 comments
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With hacking, music can take control of your car(itworld.com)
1 points by lt 16y ago|0 comments
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by lt 16y ago
Yes, it's possible. See project HiJack: http://eecs.umich.edu/~prabal/projects/hijack/
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by lt 16y ago
The odds of it being real are not looking too good. Apart of all the handwaving on how the override work, there's many others technical issues with it. For example, videos played from the camera roll wouldn't be outputted to the audio jack.
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by lt 16y ago
The contact info in your profile is a gmail address. If google decides to wipe your account and give that username to someone else, do you think it's wrong? How's it different?
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by lt 16y ago
I could have used some context in that page. For a moment I was thinking it was referencing actual black boards sarcasticaly.
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by lt 16y ago
A few of them, yes. The rest are newly-created accounts and others (like billshander) are around 3 month old but with shady comment history. Interesting. Edit: I suppose the occam's razor explanation is that someone emailed (or twitted) the
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by lt 16y ago
I know, I'm from the real world too. It's a perfectly valid argument - there's a vast amount of C# samples and examples out there. It's also pretty much directly mapable to VB.NET given they share a runtime and type system, so it only reall
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by lt 16y ago
It's sad that one of the arguments in favor of C# is that it makes copy-paste programming easier.
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by lt 16y ago
If PG would add a checkbox to our profiles to make the saved history public, I'd check it.
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Is SQL the x86 of business?(blog.izenda.com)
2 points by lt 16y ago|0 comments
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by lt 16y ago
There's also the fact that there's multiple candidates for one position. You might have been a good choice, but someone else had more experience, or another diferential.
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by lt 16y ago
Good luck in your next project.
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Worldometers - real time world statistics(worldometers.info)
5 points by lt 16y ago|0 comments
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by lt 16y ago
Everything2 is older than wikipedia, and has always been like that.
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by lt 16y ago
Susprisingly well explained for something that involves math, biology and physics. Made me laugh: The flag manifold, she notes, in addition to providing mathematicians with pure joy, also happens to be useful to physicists (...)
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by lt 16y ago
I love Beyond Compare: http://www.scootersoftware.com/ Even though it's commercial I gladly payed for it. It's really fast, does a great job on aligning automatically, easily lets me isolate blocks or do manual align, has rules for compar
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by lt 16y ago
Note this is from 2008. His about page says: 2010 | MAR I’m officially out of bankruptcy Which sounds like he's come around of losing the US$18mil he mentions in that article. His about page is really impressive. Lots of failures and lots o
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by lt 16y ago
The 3G connection from my iPhone is my primary modem at home. With an unlimited plan and pretty good signal, it works pretty well for what I need. The funny thing is that when I need to download something bigger than 20mb from the App Store
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by lt 16y ago
This really looks like something I could use. I'll give it a try!
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by lt 16y ago
I've been using that for while as my primary HN frontpage. Can't live without it or the extension highlighting unread comments.
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by lt 16y ago
I think the main issue there is that the trunk is not stable, not that people forked off unstable points. We only land tested, verified code in the trunk. Each trunk revision is pretty much a separate release. Features are developed in feat
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by lt 16y ago
I got Code, from Charles Petzold, Code Complete (finally!), and Gamestorming. I prefer to get my fix on specific tecnologies online.
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by lt 16y ago
True. Didn't know that one either, thanks.
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by lt 16y ago
More interesting than a guy drawing monsters, is the site UpHype itself. Besides a lot of "I'll spam your site/service on twitter/fb for $8", there seems to be quite a few designers and artists offering logos, voiceovers and other potential
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by lt 16y ago
Just bought one and it worked just fine. edit: it explicitely says it's only for e-books and videos.
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by lt 16y ago
Here's the full list: http://oreilly.com/store/ebooks-complete.html Any recomendations?
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by lt 16y ago
He's not saying that piracy isn't wrong. He's saying that the act is called copyright infringement, not theft.
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by lt 16y ago
Charles Stross has a written an interesting piece about this in his blog: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-e...
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by lt 16y ago
This seems to be his site: http://videolla.com/

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