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by mustpax 17y ago
That's one way to look at it. Another way would be that lower production volume for matte screens means higher per unit cost, so they have to make up for this with the additional $50.
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How Dropbox saved my command line(paksoy.net)
4 points by mustpax 17y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 17y ago
Corrected again :) Thanks.
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by mustpax 17y ago
It would be more helpful if you actually described what ZSH does differently that solves the problem without manual configuration.
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by mustpax 17y ago
If you can extract computing power out of IP checksums, you should be able to extract a lot more from cryptographic handshakes, like say SSL. Is this SHA1 valid? Let’s ask Amazon.com. (Actually I think they run an MD5 variant of SSL, but
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by mustpax 17y ago
That makes a lot of sense, thanks for pointing these out. I'm updating the article to reflect these corrections.
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The poor man’s Bash Tab-completion(paksoy.net)
31 points by mustpax 17y ago|13 comments
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by mustpax 17y ago
You've got it exactly right. There's even a term for such "excess liquidity" that everybody knows: inflation. The Fed Funds Rate is supposed to rein in this kind of behavior, but I wouldn't hold my breath for the next couple months.
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by mustpax 17y ago
First of all, I would strongly recommend you read Doug Crockford’s, JavaScript: the Good Parts . JavaScript has a lot of quirks and rough edges, but please do not try to use a language in a professional capacity without learning it first.
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by mustpax 17y ago
“If someone can build multibillion-dollar businesses out of keywords, we can build multihundred-million businesses out of headlines.” Wow, what a truly epic misunderstanding of what search engines do. The thinking goes: Google is just a bus
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by mustpax 17y ago
Yes, I agree it's worth clarifying the labels on the buttons. Detailed info what unsubscribe involves might be useful as well. I'm just brainstorming about the implementation concerns behind this feature.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Like I already explained: you have to treat all further email to the current address as spam after you unsubscribe. You completely ignore what I wrote and repeat OP's point without making an argument.
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by mustpax 17y ago
Think about it this way: when you attempt to unsubscribe, you are in effect telling the mass marketer that this is a live email address. As in, there's an actual human being reading these emails. Such live email addresses are very valuable
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by mustpax 17y ago
I wouldn't even go as far as to say she's a moron. She clearly only cares about hitting her talking points in her speeches. As a result, she has absolutely no concern for depth and nuance. This single-minded demagogy is the most disturbing
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by mustpax 17y ago
How feasible would it be to load all your CPU cores and the GPU at the same time? Could you just fork off a thread for each core with some SIMD instructions? With 2-8 cores combined, they should be able to give you at least a 10% increase i
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by mustpax 17y ago
$28k-30k profit last year and $6,200 profit this year to date and he's asking just $20k-25k total for the business? This just sounds too good to be true. When have you ever heard of a healthy business being sold for just 2x the annual profi
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by mustpax 17y ago
They should just fold the functionality into their API. Add an optional URL field to each tweet, and then within the message the URL can be referenced using Markdown like syntax: [link body][1]. Only the link body text would count against y
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by mustpax 17y ago
I make bootable clones of my laptop hdd with SuperDuper. I use 2 drives and an external SCSI drive enclosure for this. This way, I have a weekly copy and a daily copy. And when my laptop hdd fails I can switch over to a good copy with no do
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by mustpax 17y ago
It is much longer than an essay, but I would highly recommend Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology . Now as inspired as the text is, it is not a light read. But not all meaningful scholarly work needs to be written like a popular
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by mustpax 17y ago
SpaceX already got a large contract with NASA to haul cargo up to the International Space Station when the shuttles retire in 2010. So it seems that even the government admits that these guys can do it better for cheaper: http://news.bbc.c
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by mustpax 17y ago
Just as saying “no offense“ does not immediately render a comment inoffensive; stating that his comments should not be construed as misogyny, does not negate the fact his comments really are misogynistic. I don‘t want to get all politically
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by mustpax 17y ago
Debit cards aren't half bad. You have to use your PIN to spend money, makes a thief maxing out your CC harder. In most parts of Europe, you also don't have to pay %15-20 on top of every meal at a restaurant out of obligation. Tips really ar
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by mustpax 17y ago
The fact that they're passing the data back with an image tag instead of an XHR request also suggests the same to me. If this was some leftover debug code, I wouldn't expect it to be that sneaky.
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by mustpax 17y ago
This might sound dumb, but I always thought database tables used some sort of hash table like implementation with O(1) retrieve times on indexed columns. Don't b-tree indexes imply that we're looking at O(log(n)) retrieve times instead? If
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by mustpax 17y ago
If you're gzipping/deflating your HTTP connections, 100 304 response headers are not going to be your bandwidth bottleneck. Even if you are not, a 304 response has at most like 200 characters in it, 200 x 100, 20 kilobytes in headers respon
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by mustpax 17y ago
If you're looking for a way of bundling resource requests for arbitrary file types into single HTTP request, there is already a feature in the HTTP 1.1 that allows you to do this; it's called HTTP Pipelining [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
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by mustpax 17y ago
I disagree about the short term bump part. Quant trading algorithms, like most stochastic trading approaches, lose their effectiveness over time as the market internalizes them and as knowledge dissipates naturally (not necessarily through
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by mustpax 17y ago
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has quite a thing for Linux and OSS in general. Check out his articles here: http://blogs.computerworld.com/sjvn I mean, I derive no pleasure from using bloated MS software myself (cough Outlook cough), but this
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by mustpax 17y ago
While I agree with you about cover letters and HR people, I think most amazing stuff should fit in a resume. I’ve definitely included relevant academic projects in my resume and have gotten great traction from them. Generally speaking, if i
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by mustpax 17y ago
Have you heard if this thing called the robots.txt file? To get all those pesky, content-stealing search engines off your lawn, all you need to do is put the following two lines in your robots.txt file: User-agent: * Disallow: / Th

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