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by niggler 13y ago
trigger-happy, i guess. Given that "Porn" definitely implies a much larger scale than merely "video streaming", I think the title change does a disservice
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by niggler 13y ago
"at the time no one else had reported problems" How do you know others didn't do the right thing (by emailing info@ycombinator.com) ? AFAICT emails sent to the address aren't publicly available.
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by niggler 13y ago
As we have seen time and time again, internal consistency is for the plebeians
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by niggler 13y ago
I'd recommend you review what happened last time a mod edited a post involving CoinBase: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387
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by niggler 13y ago
The article explicitly says "For the sake of simplicity, in this series of posts, we assume that the argument is positive and we allow the function to round any which way if the float argument is exactly in-between two integers." As a resul
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by niggler 13y ago
The point is that turning down an acquisition is a gamble (past performance is no guarantee of future results). That's not "positive" or "negative". People remember the success stories but oftentimes don't think of the failures ("survivor
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by niggler 13y ago
How are multiple cores handled? For example, with node.js, the standard way to scale is to run multiple instances (but according to https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... only one instance is run). I wonder how t
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by niggler 13y ago
Does Cygwin GCC include the same set of posix headers as Unix GCC?
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by niggler 13y ago
"Pure sitespam, this." Forbes.com as a whole is spam. I'm genuinely amazed by how many articles get upvoted. I guess whatever anti-voting-ring measures in place here can't compete with forbes employees :/
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by niggler 13y ago
yesterday's discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636233 EDIT: wow has wired always been this bad? 16 trackers/ads according to ghostery, 20 according to disconnect
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by niggler 13y ago
Linux Desktop refers to the entire package, not just the underlying plumbing. OSX is MacOS built atop a BSD variant.
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What is the best variant of coffeescript?(slant.co)
1 points by niggler 13y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 13y ago
tl;dr: never underestimate "reader's tacit or criminally negligent acquiescence." 'If you honestly say: "This is good with <product>, this is bad with <product>".' In order to evaluate the veracity of the claim, you have to
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by niggler 13y ago
'I refuse to write "seeking work" in capital letters under my real name' SEEKING WORK is not the same as OUT OF WORK. The former admits cases where an opportunistic person with a job is looking for something to do on off-hours.
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by niggler 13y ago
Human nature. People get burned when they assume honesty and find that counterparties are dishonest. It's harder to get burned if you go into business or other intellectual relationships without expecting honesty. And I think, push come t
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by niggler 13y ago
Ultimately most of the technical differences boil down to a single tradeoff between performance and reliability. In some use cases, you have many transactions against a data store that won't be modified once it is set. In a case like that,
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by niggler 13y ago
Do you honestly expect a product or company blog to give an unbiased account of the product or company?
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by niggler 13y ago
Lets be fair here: this is on mongodb.com, so of course mongodb will be hailed as the third coming of Christ.
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by niggler 13y ago
One of the many compile-to-JS languages. Or just using emscripten.
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by niggler 13y ago
Original document: http://3taps.com/images/pics/430_138734862-Judge-rules-in-fa...
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by niggler 13y ago
"Maybe it is some new kind of link bait." Ghostery shows one analytics package, Disconnect shows 4. Trying to rack up pageviews for future ads?
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by niggler 13y ago
Do people use README or README.md for README files formatted in markdown?
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by niggler 13y ago
"Apple gets most things right in terms of hardware." Applies to Macs as well.
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by niggler 13y ago
About.com paid out $800, a few small companies paid $100, but Northrop Grumman took the prize for paying out $9300 Although not explicitly stated, I think there was a minimum requirement of $100 to get a payout from a given company. Checks
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by niggler 13y ago
AllAdvantage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage Back when I was in middle school (on AOL)
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by niggler 13y ago
What does gccTLD stand for?
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by niggler 13y ago
Can someone more familiar with COPPA give a summary of the requirements?
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by niggler 13y ago
No discussion of C switch statements is complete without a reference to Duff's device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffs_device
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Google Paying Mozilla Almost $1B for Firefox Search: Why?(pcmag.com)
1 points by niggler 13y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 13y ago
Isn't Mozilla corporation (not foundation) for-profit? Edit: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation it is for-profit

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