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Cyberwarfare take 2: new virus found in Iran(ynetnews.com)
1 points by maayank 16y ago|0 comments
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Syrian troops and tanks storm protestors in a new attack wave(english.aljazeera.net)
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by maayank 16y ago
Indeed, I was also reminded of WG. Alas, while it seems that information technology-wise we delve more and more into a cyberpunk world, health-wise and body modification-wise we are still not there. Where are my grafted muscles and commodit
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by maayank 16y ago
Actually, that's interesting: did the stuxnet event made the demand for security in such system higher?
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by maayank 16y ago
Do you succeed doing that with sensible savings, health care, etc.?
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by maayank 16y ago
meta: now that only the poster can see his/her post's score, others can't tell if a post with a question interests many in the community or not. Previously, edw519 (or others) could gauge using the question's score the community's interest.
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by maayank 16y ago
living on the 70th floor => living on ground floor why?
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by maayank 16y ago
I admit I don't have the statistics to back it up, but from my perspective Scala already gained massive mindshare in the set of programmers who both already use Java and actually care about new programming features. Is it already the defac
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by maayank 16y ago
Note to future corporate overlords: if you are going to develop a possible successor to a wildly used programming framework, don't do it in secret for two years while other efforts (Scala, Clojure, Groovy) are gaining massive traction and a
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by maayank 16y ago
I don't think that's a problem for everyone (I aim for linkedin/facebook separation for these reasons)... Nevertheless, you could filter by the "hide this post from" list, weights of friendship (amount of likes, views, etc.) and other stati
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by maayank 16y ago
The first question is not mine, but a quote from the article. But I never knew of Adioso and it seems quite neat! So thanks :)
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by maayank 16y ago
How cool would it be if you could type "flights to somewhere sunny for under $500 in May" How cool would it be to receive suggestions for flights in May with clusters in my social graph as destinations?
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by maayank 16y ago
Asking this on HN is not unlike asking in a drugs den how to quit crack-cocaine
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by maayank 16y ago
Could be that I'm missing something, but the dark versions don't seem to be the same as in solarized: http://ethanschoonover.com/img/solarized/solarized-screen-ja...
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by maayank 16y ago
and the marquee and frames based website :) Be sure to scroll to the bottom, where there are a geocities affiliate button, the omni present (at the time) under construction gif, guestbook, netscape and ie 3 buttons, and green-led counter. B
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by maayank 16y ago
Any chance someone can pull an Eclipse Color Theme version? (pretty please :)
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by maayank 16y ago
my thoughts precisely. (warning: very strong language) http://www.youswear.com/index.asp?language=Russian (xui==hui)
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by maayank 16y ago
But isn't that obvious? Isn't that basic supply-demand? (All but the 'don't invest in currency-unit tied business' advice)
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by maayank 16y ago
in the night, while the lights in the room are on, open something white in your computer (i.e. a document). Take a piece of white paper and compare it to the white document on the screen. The correct setting is the one in which the backgrou
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by maayank 16y ago
Why? what are the main differences?
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by maayank 16y ago
I recently heard on Israeli news that he sacked most/all of the cabinet after the revolution in Egypt, but that it's almost an annual event in Jordan so it's not necessarily a direct result of the recent Arab spring of nations
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by maayank 16y ago
Additionally, protests also in neighboring Syria: http://www.haaretz.com/news/international/at-least-23-said-k...
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by maayank 16y ago
"You better have just one utility and regulate it well." [citation needed]
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by maayank 16y ago
it's a pun on Marx's book title, Das Kapital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital
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by maayank 16y ago
maybe it's a location thing... I have some online presence and as you say, get tons of such offers here in Israel on LinkedIn/email.
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by maayank 16y ago
It's not as if they offered him a concrete offer to create the next hot DRM component, just a generic offer for a generic software engineer role. If he would have gone down that path they would have had multiple interviews, mutual checking
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by maayank 16y ago
Regarding the article, s/identity/ego/g In buddhism, when speaking about ego and being egoless this is partly what they are talking about. Regarding the scientist example, I think the generalization is that for good identities we need to se
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by maayank 16y ago
Microserfs seems relevant... I know this is what the OP asked, but remember there is more to life than work work work (not to mention, to someone else's business) http://www.amazon.com/Microserfs-Novel-P-S-Douglas-Coupland/...
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by maayank 16y ago
weierstrass and more: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/3591/mathematicians-who-we... http://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-a...
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by maayank 16y ago
a. does it mean that the velocity of earth's rotation changed? b. and thus, by virtue of relativity, time (for us earth people)?

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