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by miahi 14y ago
They will grow, and not in a good way. These are automated requests, and RIAA and the others don't really care if a percentage of them are not correct. The problem is that if your site was in these lists, and you actually have a fair use, y
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by miahi 14y ago
To start encoding at different times with each core you would need a really fast (read: expensive) storage (every core will need a steady stream to compress, if you have 64 cores you need a storage that can handle 64 parallel requests reall
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by miahi 14y ago
Many people use laptops that don't have enough power to handle two OSes. I just switched from an i5+SSD Thinkpad to a Xeon-based workstation and the difference while running the same VMs as before is huge.
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by miahi 14y ago
Equal access doesn't mean free access. And I'm sure VW would not sell the domain "ihate.volkswagen" for any kind of money.
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by miahi 14y ago
On the other hand, getting a big company their own TLD can be easier to maintain. For VW, having everything under the .volkswagen TLD means they don't need to have 100 different domains for each country (like volkswagen.com, volkswagen.co.u
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by miahi 14y ago
There was a HN post or comment about this a while ago. What if the $50 guy you called to wash your 80k car scratches the paint? The company probably cannot get insurance for such damage, so they will have to pay you a paint job for $10 or w
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by miahi 14y ago
It's probably safer to keep it in a VM until you have a finished product.
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by miahi 14y ago
As InclinedPlane said, Enums are more DRY and less error-prone. Even if you have to parse a String to an Enum, you only have to do it in one place (in the Enum definition), and then you only work with known objects. Also, if you want to ref
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by miahi 14y ago
String in Switch statement I don't see this as an improvement. A good practice is to use Enums for case/switch. Using String is harder to maintain.
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by miahi 14y ago
Developer CEO thinking = "How do I make this work?" Sales CEO thinking = "How do I get his money?" For many tech people, the product is the goal - getting some techie thing going. The other things (like: funding, getting some type of custom
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by miahi 14y ago
The most annoying is that scrolling can change the article without warning, and scrolling in the opposite direction may or may not return you to the article you actually wanted to read. Maybe it depends on the browser, but I have the same b
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by miahi 14y ago
qz.com is the only site that made it to my router's "block sites" list just because of their awful and random UI.
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by miahi 14y ago
What's really annoying is that most of the time you see this kind of comment there is no explanation why 10 was chosen.
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by miahi 14y ago
Same for VMWare. More than half of the VMWare Workstation 8 is protected (an many of the unprotected ones are 3rd party, like zip.exe).
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by miahi 14y ago
I don't think HN or the Internet is anti-patents, but anti-stupid patents and anti-patent trolls.
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by miahi 14y ago
Word on the (Mexican) street is that they just destroyed the competition, leaving one big cartel that could be linked to the president.
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by miahi 14y ago
I would say "springs" is a pun referring to the actual springs inside the relays, switches and valve sockets.
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by miahi 14y ago
Not really. The Japanese have a hygiene tradition, so new cleaning devices are highly thought of.
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by miahi 14y ago
Do you also have an antibacterial pencil or notebook? Did you buy your car because it has an antibacterial steering wheel? http://articles.latimes.com/1996-11-21/news/mn-1397_1_cleani...
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by miahi 14y ago
I think it's just because the Japanese are really obsessed with cleanliness and others are not.
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by miahi 14y ago
What was your motivation?
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by miahi 14y ago
On the other hand, they were paid. Hard work trumps having nothing to eat.
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by miahi 14y ago
I don't think the designer who stole the clock (and cost Apple $21M) is still with Apple. This is damage mitigation, not paying for the actual value. But for Apple design is everything, so it's not a noticeable dent in the budget.
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by miahi 14y ago
The article doesn't say what the -Xms was. If you set it to less than Xmx, the VM will increase the memory size only when it's really necessary - it will issue a GC before trying to increase it. A GC on a heap of 100M objects takes a while.
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by miahi 14y ago
Cable supports even more. I'm on a 150Mbps cable modem now and it's nice. Too bad the upload is limited to 6Mbps.
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by miahi 14y ago
It is usually against the company's policy, and sometimes you have to sign some kind of NDA about it. But it's also providing a kind of "comfort zone" to the employees - if you don't speak about it you assume everybody makes almost the same
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by miahi 14y ago
I like the Pro Mini because you can have it in 3.3V version, easier to interface with low-voltage devices like sensors and GPS chips.
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by miahi 14y ago
Horrible site experience. The article cannot be read on Android (or at least on the default Android 4 browser) because it jumps to other articles as soon as you try to scroll.
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by miahi 14y ago
There is no pure energy generator. All the generators are transforming one form of energy to another. The chemical energy from gasoline is transformed to heat (thermal energy) + mechanical energy + other forms of chemical energy (CO, CO2 an
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by miahi 14y ago
I find the "social" needs of animals very interesting. I own a rabbit and most of the time he doesn't like petting and will run if you want to catch him, but if you leave the room he will follow you and go to sleep in a hard to reach corner

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