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by lusr 14y ago
Agreed; the title of this post is horribly inaccurate and the article is fluff that has been repeated over and over every year in every magazine and newspaper. I don't understand why this is receiving any attention at all; it seems most
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by lusr 14y ago
According to the article the valuation is $750m, that means they probably purchased 12.5% for $100m. To generate a 2% return on $100m @ 12.5% implies $16m of distributable profits. Assuming 40% of GitHub is net profit (a generous estimate
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by lusr 14y ago
GitHub recently announced Subversion bridging: https://github.com/blog/1178-collaborating-on-github-with-su...
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by lusr 14y ago
Good point; a physical key is just as good as a password and has the benefit that people will treat it properly.
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by lusr 14y ago
What's wrong a simple "Okay sir, before you can drive away with your new car you need to pick a password. And before anybody can service the car they'll need your password so please don't forget it, but if you do you can always provide pro
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by lusr 14y ago
You're doing exactly what JackC is talking about. You're deciding your way of enjoying and loving music is the only way and anybody who does it in a different way is an imposter. Ironically, by my definition, that makes you a hipster :))
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by lusr 14y ago
A fair point but (a) my observations are still accurate (just scratch 'client') and (b) going off-topic, it makes me question the management structure at Facebook (re: recent post on HN) where they end up building a complicated set of featu
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I said it's one of the most buggy web applications I've ever seen. Maybe your experience differs, but I cannot see how that invalidates my experience. I don't really understand your point about
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by lusr 14y ago
Facebook's client is one of the most buggy pieces of web software I have ever seen, whether on mobile (iOS) or desktop (Windows - Chrome/IE/Firefox): * pages frequently don't refresh correctly (content is missing) * changes to your profile
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by lusr 14y ago
Just because you cannot set all variables outside the body to equal does not mean you should have a free-for-all.
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by lusr 14y ago
Physical inequalities - not mechanical.
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by lusr 14y ago
I wonder what the limits are here in the long run. Will we be able to print cooked steaks or will cooking still be required? Will we be able to print a cooked steak, with off the shelf materials from the grocer for a reasonable price? Will
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by lusr 14y ago
I was not aware of that. This is an interesting counter-point to caf's observation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188432
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by lusr 14y ago
Yes, as I understand it (I'm no expert though), we can't distinguish between the background noise of the universe and an encrypted alien signal. I believe the main problem has to do with all the various possible sources of background noise
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by lusr 14y ago
That's a good point. In effect, if we look at this from the perspective of the OSI model, you're saying that whereas the application layer may contain encrypted data the lower layers may contain structured data. So the logical question th
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by lusr 14y ago
Yes, I believe that images (encodings of electromagnetic radiation of particular wavelengths) and audio (encodings of mechanical waves of pressure) are universal concepts aliens are also likely to be familiar with, whereas understanding the
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by lusr 14y ago
I don't think there are many different ways to encode meaningful information. We all live in the same universe and I see no reason to believe that intelligent alien life won't be intellectually quite similar to us. While tricky without co
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by lusr 14y ago
It's an invalid argument because not all projects are alike. Facebook and Wikipedia are indeed very successful projects but they have a massive advantage over the types of projects I deal with in enterprise environments. For instance: - t
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by lusr 14y ago
You seem to be blinded by some serious Microsoft hatred. "Microsoft Randomised Brand Name(TM)"? "Office" is "random"? I suppose you think "Apple" or "Linux" or "Ubuntu" or "Sun" or whatever it is you are a fan of is less random? Ano
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by lusr 14y ago
"It's just a vast array of disorganised links, or more precisely, a whole bunch of vast arrays of disorganised links, with no sign of any rational information architecture or even basic scannability." What a ridiculous statement. Of course
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by lusr 14y ago
Although the fonts in Chrome render very poorly on my machine whereas in IE9 they look great...
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by lusr 14y ago
I don't even understand how the parent expects people to know what is normal without posts like these to provide (admittedly anecdotal) data.
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by lusr 14y ago
While I think credit cards have great benefits (see stevenwei for an excellent summary), getting the card does have a consequence in my experience: every card I've ever had has an annual maintenance fee (perhaps not the case in the USA?).
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by lusr 14y ago
I've seen some of Dan's great photos before and it's awesome to be able to learn from him. Some of the advice he gives are things I've learned myself and explained to people before, and much of it is also new so I'm pretty excited to get t
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by lusr 14y ago
That article mentions Stuxnet once and draws no relationship between the killing and the virus.
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by lusr 14y ago
Surely there is a massive selection bias in this approach?
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by lusr 14y ago
I also came here to suggest a Markov chain generator using your data. I know nothing about music but it seems your analysis also needs to include information about timing (A is followed by B within X ms, C within Y ms, etc.) and some sort
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by lusr 14y ago
YouTube is of a different class of complexity as faced by enterprise developers integrating millions of lines of code across disparate systems.
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by lusr 14y ago
Not sure what your criteria was for your list, but something I found interesting is this fact about the city I live in: "Despite the relatively dry climate, Johannesburg has over ten million trees,[22][dead link] and it is now the biggest
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by lusr 14y ago
Ironically, I struggled to read this article on a mobile device (iPhone) because it hijacks the horizontal swiping which occurs while I scrolled and kept redirecting me to a different article.

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