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by miguelpais 16y ago
It was not the high-quality of the "a" on the right that was exaggerated, it was the low quality of the one on the left. The "a" on the right is fine, it is there to represent the kind of image in which you no longer are able to detect pixi
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Do not call the Russians then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Wouldn't that cause a tsunami?
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by miguelpais 16y ago
To be honest, I didn't believe in the FizzBuzz situation when I read it. I didn't believe that it was possible to exist such a group of programmers who couldn't do a simple code like that. Assuming such a group doesn't exist, I'm all for ha
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Exactly. The comment I replied to was asking for something less trivial, while this is probably all you have to do to identify the candidates who can't code. The FizzBuzz problem is at least one order of magnitude easier than this, and stil
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Wasn't the big discussion all about how easy the task was, and how unable were the perfect-CV people to complete it?
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by miguelpais 16y ago
Also check out this video about the situation in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C_roXUPYbs But the thing is certainly happening in other countries too, like the recent situation in France where in a couple of months there were 24
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by miguelpais 16y ago
It should be googleable on this version of google though: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker
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by miguelpais 16y ago
In my country for long there were no such problems because the government imposed the proihibition of fisherman to go out to get some kinds of species during their mating and growing time. That way fish was allowed to reproduce and grow. Ev
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by miguelpais 16y ago
I think the system is being overrated both in the article and in your comments. I'm from Portugal (but that doesn't mean I'm an authority on the reality of my country, as I haven't been involved in this kind of situations and didn't experie
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Gotta love de virtual credit cards I use to buy stuff online (since I don't have a credit card, that's the only way I can buy online).
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by miguelpais 17y ago
I'm also trying Ruby on Mac OS X and I can't run any java simulations. Always throws a Bad Version number in .class file exception. I think I have the JDK, but anyway the most recent version on the Sun's website is not available for Mac OS
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Am I the only one to think that "social news" websites, from the perspective of the content publisher only work when the site is small enough? I mean, the quantity of information being submitted to Digg, and maybe Reddit, is so huge it roug
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Don't you just think these news about hacks from China are getting way to frequent? The attack on Google was said to be a way to get access to the accounts of free rights activists, but they also attacked several other US companies. The rea
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by miguelpais 17y ago
I think Yahoo knows it can't compete with Google in search results, so why creating a page where the only thing you can do is experience crappy search results and nothing else? At least this way they're attracting a niche of people who do l
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Using Ruby to fetch iTunes library artwork via Last.fm(miguelpais.com)
2 points by miguelpais 17y ago|0 comments
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by miguelpais 17y ago
I'm not really into what Google Voice can do, but I've been wishing for so long that SIM cards could just aggregate n phone numbers, each one being like a separate inbox. And then you could just apply filters to turn off certain phone numbe
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by miguelpais 17y ago
This is rather disturbing. I didn't live through a dictatorial government in my country, but 30 years or so one that was ruling for about 50 years was put down. The worst thing about a dictatorship is not the censorship itself that will cut
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Also checkout this screencast by Railcasts. It may show you how the vulnerability can be exploited a bit more clearly to those of you who are possibly thinking "how the hell can they pass more parameters than the ones I have in my form". h
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by miguelpais 17y ago
For that price you can usually just buy the real book brand new from the new & used section of amazon.com. I've been saving some good money with that. If you just be careful with the feedback ratings and not really trust the lowest pric
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Unbelievable the difference between the 6500 downloads a day that guarantee the second place on the rank and the 30 downloads a day that a guy in a blog post shared on HN a couple of months ago said was making is app stay the top30: http:/
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Hacking the 24 Game(miguelpais.com)
4 points by miguelpais 17y ago|0 comments
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Clearly the main issue of the post is the answer to the interview question. Although I think it's a very good answer and that to me it would probably mean I would be hiring a guy which is humble, which always views his knowledge has somethi
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Yes! I was going to ask if anyone used it, and what did they think of it, because there's been a long time since I don't work on a windows machine on a daily basis, but at the time I did I used Avira. I was just wondering if after the years
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by miguelpais 17y ago
It marvels me how can psychologists get anything out of that. Most of the cards just look like butterflies. Anyway, if the cards are public there is no reason for them not to be at wikipedia. I also didn't know the images were always the sa
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by miguelpais 17y ago
I don't see a reason for these useless and throwing life away experiences if the purpose is just making the astronauts used to isolation. I kind of get it if it's to study something psychological, but we have so many prisoners in almost the
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Oh please, just stop writing stuff about what is not known yet. All these pseudo journalist are taking Google OS as a great success for granted and ridiculing someone who uses a safer and smarter approach of just not predicting the future.
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Err... That's ridiculous. Although important, that's was not promoting peace, it was promoting a revolution. And why should the creator of the platform receive the credit for its user content? If it was not Twitter people would be doing the
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by miguelpais 17y ago
I think people are expecting so much more then what I think Google will in fact produce. I may be wrong, but I just expect Google Os to be something to be used in a pc with small hard drive, some good networking capabilities small disk and
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by miguelpais 17y ago
Why do I think this will fail on the Mac?

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