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by markokocic 14y ago
But you would need at least 30 Heroku dynos to handle that reliably ;)
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by markokocic 14y ago
> What am I missing here? A refund to affected customers? The fact that they apologized and accepted the blame does not change the fact that they knowingly degraded performance of their oldest and most loyal customers and forced them to
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by markokocic 14y ago
It could be easily implemented that you have your own "hidden submissions" page that will let you review what you have hidden, and "unhide" when you change your mind. "hide" could even work as a downvote, which we don't have now for submiss
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Poll: Would you like to have "hide" button for stories
29 points by markokocic 14y ago|46 comments
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by markokocic 14y ago
Yes
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by markokocic 14y ago
No
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by markokocic 14y ago
> 1. Once Germany was a leading intellectual, scientific, and engineering powerhouse. Academic titles still have some cultural significance. It might be a kind of a relict. Why past tense? It still is a powerhouse, especially in enginee
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by markokocic 14y ago
Another option for developers is to just install JDK directly from Oracle site[1] instead of going to java.com. [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...
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by markokocic 14y ago
Neither is fork or pull request something that you can't do easily without Bitbucket and Github, but people still use them mainly because those two sites make it easier for them to fork a project and keep the fork up to date. I guess it's a
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by markokocic 14y ago
> But if so, would the other board members care either way about Ubuntu/Linux? Of course they would care if it brings profit.
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by markokocic 14y ago
I would go as far as to say that title changing by admin is lying to the users. Submitter decided on title, submitted with that title, and suddenly, 20 minutes later, the title is changed while submitter name stays the same. That created fa
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by markokocic 14y ago
Thanks for the tip. I created a real poll here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161302 . I'll delete this if possilbe.
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Poll: Do you find article title changes annoying?
98 points by markokocic 14y ago|38 comments
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by markokocic 14y ago
Yes, very annoying.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Somewhat annoying.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Not annoying at all.
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by markokocic 14y ago
I did't notice.
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by markokocic 14y ago
I don't care.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Somewhat annoying.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Not annoying at all.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Yes, very annoying.
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by markokocic 14y ago
What's up with those submission title editing lately? There was nothing wrong with the original one, and the new one is so "inspring" that I wouldn't even click there unless for checking is this yet another title edit.
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by markokocic 14y ago
That's where one single rule helps: use only tabs for indentation and only spaces for alignment.
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by markokocic 14y ago
Nothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places. But imagine that someone in Brazil give his child a name like: Vukašin, Milutin
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by markokocic 14y ago
Well, if you live in a european non english speaking country and you hear people giving their children names like: Tarzan, Sandokan, Dell Boy, Superman and Ronaldo it's easy to wish that giving names is somehow regulated. As someone said, c
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by markokocic 14y ago
You don't even have to know anything about typography. Without knowing anything about any typeface, after guessing and comparing the results of first few, I was able to nail 13 of 14. I guess that anyone who knows anything about typography
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by markokocic 14y ago
Shen is the new version of Qi. Qi is not developed anymore.
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by markokocic 14y ago
By the same analogy, downloading multigig torrents is also not a victimless crime, since it also reduces bandwidth available to those that paid for their internet access? Heck, even downloading anything reduces bandwidth for everyone else,
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by markokocic 14y ago
Nothing stops you from playing a few seconds with Chrome inspector or Firebug if you really need to see the answer. If I weren't too lazy I would probably make a Greazemonkey script to remove the login overlay, but since I visit that site o
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by markokocic 14y ago
Wow, didn't know she was a daughter of Lord Byron, the famous poet.

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