lucumo

52 ms·

571.
by lucumo 17y ago
Domains that require www need to die.
572.
by lucumo 17y ago
> The mega laptop is a dead evolutionary path, because it does its two priorities badly. It's not a good portable, and it's not a good desktop because you have fixed eye position and no configuration opportunity. While this is true, t
573.
by lucumo 17y ago
> Damages, whatever. Terminology is really not worth fighting over. That's like saying "Cars, bicycles, whatever. Terminology is really not worth fighting over." There's a difference between the two. > There is no conceivable way
574.
by lucumo 17y ago
Request by pg to not use this script: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789469
575.
by lucumo 17y ago
Damages, not fines. It's supposed to compensate Verizon for the losses it has suffered, due to the wrong-doing of OnlineNIC.
576.
Rock Band. Guitar Hero. Why They Are Doomed.(jeff-vogel.blogspot.com)
21 points by lucumo 17y ago|29 comments
577.
by lucumo 17y ago
It does have similar protections. If not by UK law, then by EU law. The 5th would not save you, though. See the similar discussion in the duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=756774
578.
by lucumo 17y ago
Lambdas and recursion are only a small part of the decision for a programming language. There are many, many deliberations in picking a language. Availability on the target platform (cheap web hosters?), availability of libraries, familiari
579.
by lucumo 17y ago
The project page: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ No need to link to Slashdot.
580.
by lucumo 17y ago
> a couple of posts You spammed about every thread you could find. Not a "couple of posts", you made over 20 of those... On top of that, you're reposting a question that you asked earlier on your own and that got killed: http://news.
581.
by lucumo 17y ago
> No, I was questioning whether you had considered his arguments at all Ah, yes. No, I wasn't trying to disprove him. I just gave a different approach to the issue. My mind is not made up on this subject. I've been a programmer for to
582.
by lucumo 17y ago
Well, I think that there is a very important human reason to keep sticking to 0 as the start: convention. It has always been this way. Changing it would cause a whole lot of weird bugs. To be honest, I think one reason why this grew is prob
583.
by lucumo 17y ago
Not that I know of. Normal people and programmers do not count the same way. | last | | rank | count ------+------+------- sheep | 2 | 2 sheep | 1 | 1 sheep | - | 0 ------+------+------- array |
584.
by lucumo 17y ago
> Did you read Dijkstra's article? Yes, I did. Does it hurt to offer a different perspective? I feel it doesn't. Approaching a subject with an open mind or from a different angle tends to be good for discussion. Offering a contradicti
585.
by lucumo 17y ago
> Well, the rest of the world also starts at 0 Yes, they do, when they have no elements. But if an array has an element 0, it actually has 1 element, not 0. Whereas if I have a sheep 1, I have 1 sheep. There is no sheep 0. I think it
586.
by lucumo 17y ago
For my MSc thesis I'm programming some stuff for the Cell B.E. processor. It provides AltiVec vector instructions which allow quick parallel computation. It's great for getting nice speed ups, but it requires a lot of thought and bit twiddl
587.
by lucumo 17y ago
Is a similar thing available for other countries?
588.
A Conservative’s Road to Same-Sex Marriage Advocacy(nytimes.com)
6 points by lucumo 17y ago|2 comments
589.
by lucumo 17y ago
Just FYI, I have flagged it. Probably many others have flagged it as well. Either the mods haven't seen it yet or they disagree with the flagging. Of course people should flag. But calling them noobs for not flagging when you have absolut
590.
by lucumo 17y ago
The problem with flagging is that it doesn't kill the submission once that has hit 10 points. So at this point you're only flagging to attract moderator attention to it. This article has been around all day now, and if moderators haven't se
591.
by lucumo 17y ago
Just get on down to where the music flows.
592.
by lucumo 17y ago
I don't particularly care for the captcha. It annoys me and I'm assuming Paypal has protected against brute-force login attempts differently. It's not like captchas fully protect against those anyway. Paypal really is much more polished. Th
593.
by lucumo 17y ago
And has a disaster for a user interface. Once every three months I have to file a tax report and that's when I log in to see each transaction for those three months. Their history form has a "[Go]" button and a "[Search]" button. I press th
594.
by lucumo 17y ago
The problem with morals is that they are different from person to person. If you want to have a debate on copyright law, I'm perfectly happy to have it, but I don't think anyone should rewrite copyright law based only on their own morals. A
595.
by lucumo 17y ago
Pointers can break easily. It's entirely possible to add or subtract from a pointer, which drops you in a different memory area. This isn't possible with anonymous functions, making them more safe. It's the same with references vs. pointers
596.
by lucumo 17y ago
Not completely as scary as it sounds. The scientists have also created a test to discern between real and fake, but still. Scary.
597.
by lucumo 17y ago
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that the owner of that site doesn't have permission to have that story on his site. Edit/Elaboration: This is pirated content. I don't think pirated content should be spread on a site like HN. It's very
598.
by lucumo 17y ago
I suppose it's quite hard to cross a border without some kind of ID.
599.
Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really Disappear?(wired.com)
91 points by lucumo 17y ago|51 comments
600.
by lucumo 17y ago
Not only the oldest participant, but also the only participant old enough to have been around during the IE monopoly. And then there's the people just parroting each other without any first-hand experience. This is not proof. This is not ev

More ›