metageek

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by metageek 16y ago
But making investment decisions while playing Defender is harder to justify.
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by metageek 16y ago
He probably doesn't know, because it wouldn't be on a résumé.
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by metageek 16y ago
It can't be set to 256 because it's only 8 bits. (Edit: on reflection, if you know enough to know about the forwarding chains, I'm sure you know that TTL is 8 bits. Sorry.)
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by metageek 16y ago
> It was a serious and looming mistake for the web to rely so critically on the identities of content publishers How else are you going to make a decentralized identifier?
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by metageek 16y ago
More likely an indicator of whether the candidate's supporters have a sense of humor.
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by metageek 16y ago
Actually, it's present in both of them.
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by metageek 16y ago
It looks fine on my Firefox (a 4.0 nightly build).
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by metageek 16y ago
> Thus the first cyber-activists were able to use this decentralized architecture and Usenet (developed in the USSR in 1982) ...what? Newsgroups[1] were developed in the US, in 1980. [1] Not all newsgroups are Usenet; Usenet is the set
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by metageek 16y ago
> No, it's a functional purity argument. I'm pretty sure it's a reference to the fact that combining macros can be risky; one of the risks is variable capture.
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by metageek 16y ago
Very cool. I wrote an Ethernet driver for an OS I did for my master's thesis, but there's a lot more complexity here I didn't have. (For one thing, my OS didn't do SMP, and I was using old cheap network cards, so I didn't have multiple qu
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by metageek 16y ago
> This is similar to the digital billboard panels on the sidelines at sporting events. Yes, those are called Jumbotrons. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Jumbotron
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by metageek 16y ago
But git will let you do a diff to see if someone made manual changes.
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by metageek 16y ago
At the past few companies I've worked at, managers have definitely tried to get employees to recommend people, and have offered substantial referral bonuses. (Less than a recruiter would get, but still a nice chunk of money.)
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by metageek 16y ago
0xDEADBEEF
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by metageek 16y ago
> Secondly, negotiating an offer is the quickest and easiest part. It hardly consumes any time at all by comparison to the amount of time and effort invested just to get to the point where there is any offer at all. I'll buy that; the
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by metageek 16y ago
Seems like this is a violation of Twitter's obligations under the ECPA to ensure that someone's private communications are not delivered to a third party.
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by metageek 16y ago
Nah, bricks stay put.
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by metageek 16y ago
The two codes are probably because the banks distinguish between merchants that take cards online and those that only accept physical cards; the latter get charged less, because they're a lower risk. (At least, that used to be the case.) W
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by metageek 16y ago
I know it's an innocent typo, but I love the idea of Psypal. That's when they use psychics for fraud detection.
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by metageek 16y ago
When I worked on Akamai's DNS server, I was told that most ISPs cached much more aggressively than we told them to. We would set TTLs at...I want to say 5 seconds...because we were directing traffic based on real-time network conditions; b
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by metageek 16y ago
Http-equiv is just a way of specifying an HTTP header in your HTML, so they really should.
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by metageek 16y ago
> The Nook Color is great in all ways except one: video. That, and the WiFi on mine was flaky; a couple of times per day, it would drop out, and not reliably come back until I rebooted. That was the main reason I returned it.
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by metageek 16y ago
I believe they have announced that they will allow it, in the sense that they won't impose any measures to prevent rooting. Given that, I would expect them to check in a year or so to see whether they need to change their mind.
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by metageek 16y ago
It may depend on the amount of RSI damage your hands have taken. I've played with iPads at the Apple Store, and I can't hold it comfortably for more than a few minutes. By comparison, I can hold my 6" Sony Reader (or the Nook Color I had f
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by metageek 16y ago
> I had a Kia that did the job for 230,000 miles. If all you want is transportation, it does the job. Thanks for the datapoint. I drove a rental Kia once, and it was...not totally crap, but lacking in fit-and-finish (e.g., the steerin
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by metageek 16y ago
It seems to be a common opinion on Hacker News that you shouldn't write a comment just saying "I agree"; that's what the upvote arrow is for.
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by metageek 16y ago
One difference is that MS also has a free command-line compiler.
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by metageek 16y ago
But the HTML is not the program; it's the machine that runs the program. In that view, the tape being finite is just like the tape (RAM, disk, mercury delay lines) of a physical machine being finite.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yes, that's in the article: > If your idea is good enough, competitors will pop and try to crush you.
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by metageek 16y ago
> They mistakenly believe that skilled immigrants take American jobs away. The opposite is true: skilled immigrants start the majority of Silicon Valley startups; they create jobs. This is relevant only if you assume that no native wou

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