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by niggler 14y ago
GUI != UI parent comment is arguing that the command-line interface is nontrivial, which is a fair criticism. Contrast with 'cp' or 'mv'
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by niggler 14y ago
How is a story killed after a few minutes (not the auto-dead filters)? Does it happen when a story receives a certain number of flags? Does it require moderator intervention?
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by niggler 14y ago
Another post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492145 was flagged and killed after not even 10 minutes on the front page
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by niggler 14y ago
I tried to order in january 2012 and they said back then that they replaced the free physical books with free CDs. Now it says: Note: We are no longer offering the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manuals on CD-ROM. H
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by niggler 14y ago
When will perl6 become the standard perl?
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by niggler 14y ago
Does Dropbox even own the trademark to 'dropbox' or 'drop box'? I remember OSX had 'Drop Box' in the ~/Public folder since OSX Jaguar
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by niggler 14y ago
Hmm that must be recent. I have CDs from January 2012
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by niggler 14y ago
I learned by working through the software developers' manuals. Many years ago, they used to ship them as physical copies. Nowadays they just send CDs. PDF copies: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/architectu...
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by niggler 14y ago
"But they are pretty consistent." Discussed last time there was a front-page article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428402 I pointed out that "Coinbase (YC S12) hires first engineer" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5011361 d
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by niggler 14y ago
"Yet there it is, still available through a simple Google search." Let's say, for some reason, you have some information from a site you own that you want to remove from Google search. How long does it take to remove it?
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by niggler 14y ago
"Their reputation is nuked." If someone was looking to leave coinbase, who else provides a similar service?
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by niggler 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that were edited out. It has happened in the past with other criticisms of coinbase.
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by niggler 14y ago
Did anyone actually try this with real money? Does the model include transaction costs and market impact effect?
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by niggler 14y ago
"I'll wait for a court to decide if a crime was committed" Regardless of the court outcome, an issue like this shouldn't be treated as 'Silicon-Valley-drama news'. Speculation? yes. Accusation? Yes. Drama? Seems inappropriate here, esp
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by niggler 14y ago
Original post was from January, enough time for a change
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by niggler 14y ago
SLA: "4 hours of guaranteed fault repair time, and email support is included for now." First time I've seen it stated this way (and not the traditional uptime percentage)
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by niggler 14y ago
'Silicon-Valley-drama news' I think you probably want to rethink that statement. Rape is not a "drama" to the victims
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by niggler 14y ago
This was quickly flagged off the front page. Why? Is this an issue that should be swept under the rug?
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by niggler 14y ago
If objectivity is strongly negative, so be it. You'd ask similar questions if Resig wrote an article of PNaCl without testing it himself.
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by niggler 14y ago
Please proceed. Explain how a discussion of performance by someone who didn't actually perform the test is somehow trolling or evil. I'd say the same thing if Resig used Google or Microsoft marketing material rather than running the tests.
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by niggler 14y ago
Thanks for replying. "I did not run performance benchmarks on my system because Asm.js does not yet support OS X (which is my primary OS)." Given the relative percentage of web developers who use OSX (which is certainly non-trivial), wouldn
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by niggler 14y ago
Maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned here, but I'd expect a discussion of JS performance to be coupled with a performance test conducted by the author . Is that too much to ask?
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by niggler 14y ago
Other than rehashing the exact arguments and diagrams presented in the mozilla marketing material and including an extensive "interview" with a mozilla engineer: - I would have expected him to have tried it. There's no evidence in the post
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by niggler 14y ago
Wow, Mozilla is making a really big marketing push for asm.js.
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by niggler 14y ago
It's the same type of gamesmanship that explains why Facebook was worth 100B at one point: the marginal price is multiplied by the number of units outstanding. There is no guarantee that every BTC can be cashed out at the current price (or
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by niggler 14y ago
When someone steals physical dollars from a bank branch, none of the bank accounts are generally affected. This is the 'trust'
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by niggler 14y ago
USD used to be backed by silver (and it was explicitly stated -- see http://www.ebay.com/itm/1957-1-Dollar-Bill-Payable-in-Silver... for an example) Nowadays the power of the US government backs the dollar.
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by niggler 14y ago
"Database access error, please retry later"
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by niggler 14y ago
Some enterprising person will provide that service (for a fee, of course)
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by niggler 14y ago
Spammers? Gaming the karma system? If those parts were open, it would be easier for spammers to take advantage

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