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by nekopa 11y ago
I was shocked the other day when I went to grab FileZilla from SF, and my virus scanner tagged it for malware. I hadn't realized it had fallen so far as to bundle crapware. SF used to be my goto site for looking for weird open source s
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by nekopa 11y ago
I bet if you tried that the design of the gearing and transmission systems would be super complicated though.
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by nekopa 11y ago
Actually I take back my comment about the photoshopping diminishing the piece. After reading a comment on the reddit thread complaining about the perspective being off, I can see that by 'shopping it they've given it a somewhat un
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by nekopa 11y ago
No problem, this finally made me sign up for an imgur account.
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by nekopa 11y ago
Ha, I did the same and applied my horrible photoshop skills to it... http://i.imgur.com/V6MvYMM.jpg
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by nekopa 11y ago
here you go: http://i.imgur.com/CpSpgZI.jpg I've tried (quite badly I must say) to highlight the 2 features that seem to be more prominent
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by nekopa 11y ago
You are right. Interesting, yet somehow it diminishes the piece a little in my mind, as obviously they composited the final image, whereas I imagined standing over the piece as if it were on display. Love the piece still though.
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by nekopa 11y ago
This takes me back to a time when I was 17, and I applied for a job at a funeral home in London- it was offering a ridiculously high salary. It was my first time having an interview where one person sits off to the side and watches you, whi
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by nekopa 11y ago
Normally most Robin Hood movies start off showing the bad guys, the Sheriffs men, stealing from the poor. It takes a while for Robin to show up, and it seems that in real life, this will never be the case - as $3.9 billion worth of seizures
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by nekopa 11y ago
This sounds like the beginning of a modern day Robin Hood movie.
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Great pic. Would you mind telling me the setup you used o take it? I currently have a DSLR with only a 300mm lense and have yet to get a photo of the moon that nice...
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by nekopa 11y ago
This reminds me of a sentence in Moby Dick: "Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. "WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL. "BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN." Published 1851. The more things change, the
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by nekopa 11y ago
Not really. The 'just because HN is mad' makes it sound like all the people here are boycotting Lenovo for irrational reasons. I don't think HN is 'mad' at the company, they just have some legitimate concerns.
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This is a strange comment. Most people I see on HN like Lenovo because of the quality of their machines. Where I can see a purchasing manager or head of IT against them at the moment is because they surreptitiously installed software whic
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by nekopa 11y ago
That is the best reason. I am glad HN has people like you who are not afraid to put yourself out there and reminds us all that this is what being a hacker is: doing stuff for fun and learning.
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by nekopa 11y ago
I recently switched to using vagrant for devving under windows and I have to say that I am really enjoying it at the moment.
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by nekopa 12y ago
Not really a quitting story but... My girlfriend had a god awful marketing job a few years back, and the new director was a bit of a sleaze. (Trying to book them in the same room on a business trip etc, etc.) Anyway, he seemed to be quite p
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by nekopa 12y ago
Simple fix: If I cannot run a game I paid for anymore, give me a refund for the initial purchase price.
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Hah! I hopefully still own one of those. (I left it with a friend when I moved from the US to Europe 10 years ago, I really should look into how much it would cost to have it shipped here.) I could really be a super hipster if I could figur
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by nekopa 12y ago
It's a long term game plan. I found that by substantially raising my rates, yes, work was slow in the beginning. But as time and my rep spread, I now find myself at a comfortable level of work, and gre at money as well. If the trajecto
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by nekopa 12y ago
Thanks for that. In case anyone else is interested, they now have it set up as a self-paced course here: https://class.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about
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by nekopa 12y ago
Would you mind telling me which MOOC you did for SQL? I am quite rusty - (~10 years since I did any serious SQL stuff) but I am finding it is coming up quite a lot now for me.
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by nekopa 12y ago
I don't view it that way. If anything, finally some of Facebook's money is going towards an end I like. Remember that he is not working on Facebook, they just gave his company lots of cash and get to say they own it.
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by nekopa 12y ago
I am also from the training/teaching area too, and I must say that the people who denigrate other methods usually seem to be the worst trainers. Great trainers/teachers know exactly what you are talking about - what is the best
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Actually, to quote the article: The first bank contacted almost immediately with me and I respect National Bank of Greece for that. The second bank took another approach.
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I normally respect the things you say on here, but for once, I do have to cry "Citation". If you would be so kind, can you list some of the lots of new browsers that have been released?
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Off the cuff, doesn't a company being in a market change the market? Especially if they're doing well, i.e. Apple changed the smartphone market...
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by nekopa 12y ago
I have an experience to share with you: I taught English a a car factory for a year once, and the director of the paint shop was one of my students. He was describing the process for painting a car, and telling me that the hardest part was
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by nekopa 12y ago
Don't get me wrong, I hated Flash as much as anyone else. And yes it required a plugin, but it was ubiquitous, and did run everywhere. Plus it allowed people to make rich games and apps. I even remember someone developed a DB connector
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by nekopa 12y ago
Fixing the warts of the web is not the hard part, the hard part in designing a "better" platform is achieving adoption, that would require an act of god as there is no coalition powerful enough to make it happen through human vol

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