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by mustpax 17y ago
I totally agree. I was really annoyed by the distraction until I discovered that I could just drag it into the [X More] group under my labels. No more pesky buzz reminders for me!
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by mustpax 17y ago
My favorite treatment of that Garden path sentence, is this Dinosaur Comics strip: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=204
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by mustpax 17y ago
What you say might be true, but you're not making an argument so much as you are just name calling. If you don't find anything in the argument to respond to, it's better to not respond to it rather than fill HN with such vitriol.
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by mustpax 17y ago
"I have a cd walkman and a burner already, and besides that now that I don't have a dotcom job anymore I need that $400 to pay car payments and rent." This forum post practically dates itself.
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CCZE: the robust, modular log colorizer(freshmeat.net)
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by mustpax 17y ago
The analogy to "security through obscurity" is flawed. Open security works when there's an obvious way a secure system should behave, say, make it infeasible to open a lock/decrypt data without the correct key. In Google’s, case the correct
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by mustpax 17y ago
Maybe the refresh button should just try another A record. Most of the time when a page is not responsive I'll give it a couple refreshes before I conclude it's dead. (Or maybe some browsers do this already.)
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by mustpax 17y ago
The answer is simple really. They want to: A) push their now-free QuickTime X player, along with the H.264 codec. B) push consumers towards consuming more video through iTunes instead of other, um, ad-hoc channels. I love VLC, but I can see
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Replacing Init Scripts with Supervisord(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
1 points by mustpax 17y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 17y ago
You are clearly in the right. But a bit of advice: skip the whole look and feel issue* and stick to copyright infringement. Their code is exactly the same or highly derivative of Plurk code. This is pretty well-worn copyright territory, I d
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by mustpax 17y ago
From a PC Mag article on the same tool: "The technique is impressive and useful, but not all it may seem. First, it recovers the encryption keys from a physical memory dump file which must be generated separately with other software (for in
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Ack - better than grep, a power search tool for programmers(betterthangrep.com)
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by mustpax 17y ago
Posting you resume on a jobs site does not necessarily mean you are actively looking for a job. And I highly doubt an employer would fire someone just for having their resume publicly posted. Besides, if you’re employer is that fickle, mayb
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by mustpax 17y ago
I believe students get SO careers memberships for free. They only charge non-students. I think they mostly want active job searchers, but $100 does sound a bit high if I just want my resume out there.
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by mustpax 17y ago
They don't even need to go that far. They can just ration supply, forbid stockpiling and fix the price to artificially low levels. This was occurring as recently as last year all over the world when commodity/food prices spiked. Anywhere yo
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by mustpax 17y ago
With caching I don’t think you can assume any values are sure to never be used again. Yes, there are some situations where circular references to DOM elements and the like will cause reference count based GC engines to leak memory. But an u
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by mustpax 17y ago
The article contains a single anecdote about someone not looking for work due to unemployment benefits. How does it follow from this that such benefits are extending the recession? Is the author saying that unemployment benefits keep consum
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by mustpax 17y ago
I don't know what definition of memory leak the author is working with, but a real memory leak occurs when all references dynamically allocated chunk of memory are lost without free()ing the memory. An unbound cache does not fit this defini
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by mustpax 17y ago
Why didn't Google use IP addresses too? Because doing so poses its own problems that a big company like Google doesn't want to deal with. For example, shared offices often use one IP address. If someone locks safe search there, it is locke
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by mustpax 17y ago
The flag button should be added to the regular thread view for comments as well. For the kind of trolling tptacek is talking about, downmodding really isn’t sufficient.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Ok, as clueless as he is, not even Mark Cuban can believe Twitter and Facebook live updates are going to supplant search engines. They serve completely different purposes. Traffic from each source is almost completely independent of the oth
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by mustpax 17y ago
+ operator does use StringBuilder. But it will use a StringBuilder for each string expression. Take the following piece of code: String foo = ""; for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { foo += "x"; } The inside of the for loop
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by mustpax 17y ago
And ironically enough, it ends up being easier to write test harnesses with dynamic languages because it is easier to mock things up. With languages like Java, the inherent rigidity requires all sorts of ugly ugly reflection hacks, and fact
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by mustpax 17y ago
It's natural for an SEO to be concerned with organic results appearing over the fold. It's the part that SEO's manipulate to their profit. The rest of us should take a step back and think about actual quality of the results. Now there are a
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by mustpax 17y ago
In that case, I don't understand why we are celebrating the soul-crushing mediocrity of these Fortune 500 companies. If anything Mr. X's letter made AA look pretty good, and I fail to see what super-secret strategic plans he was airing eith
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by mustpax 17y ago
You can also jump to the last buffer in Vim with the command :b# To view all open buffers: :ls
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by mustpax 17y ago
The Comcast two-tier traffic throttling system enforces different quality-of-service levels. Internet packets to and from a specific subscriber are assigned 'Priority Best Effort' (PBE) queueing by default, and the traffic rate is throttle
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by mustpax 17y ago
Maybe this is why Twitter works. You only see those you follow in your stream. You can't opt to see everything someone else is seeing, mostly because their platform can't really handle that sort of fan-out yet. But the basic idea of whiteli
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by mustpax 17y ago
The prime number detector is quite clever. It reminds me of the number based logic constructs from Godel's incompleteness theorem. It's essentially maps a mathematical concept to a string and operates on it. For any unary integer greater th
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by mustpax 17y ago
The peculiar thing about these brilliant hacks is that they challenge our assumptions about what's allowed to such an extent that they feel dishonest. That isn't because there is anything amoral about them. Social interactions are a kind of

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