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by niggler 14y ago
You can just parse (new Error).stack: var __LINE__ = (new Error).stack.split("\n")[1].match(/:([0-9]+):/)[1];
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by niggler 14y ago
I think OP wanted ⌘ and ⌥ spelled out (command and option respectively)
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by niggler 14y ago
The latter (and if I were the CEO of that company, I probably would give the guy a new laptop, especially if the posts resulted in an influx of customers)
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by niggler 14y ago
The storyline is: Laptop stolen, police report filed, laptop shows up in Iran, owner shames the people in possession of laptop, owner realizes he attacked the wrong person when readers and commenters pointed it out, owner realized the peopl
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by niggler 14y ago
"The people who now have my laptop have been good enough to get in touch and therefore the tracking software has done it’s job. " (emphasis mine) Astroturfing round 2
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by niggler 14y ago
I'm curious about these (5 as of the posting time) people that are over 90
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MOxie: polyfills for XHR and HTML5 File API(github.com)
2 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
This is stellar marketing. What this says is "we can find your mac or iphone, even if it shows up on the other side of the planet"
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by niggler 14y ago
"underpaying a bunch of H-1B visa holders or something" That's true when they don't have the money. Now that they do, increasing the wage makes it harder for startups to hire qualified people.
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by niggler 14y ago
Ultimately the axe to grind is not with these people. They seem to be folks who bought the product at the end of the day. It may have changed hands multiple times, and shaming these people isn't justified, Though I should admit that I'm s
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by niggler 14y ago
there are literally hundreds of codepages http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/
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by niggler 14y ago
Best comment from the thread: "Friends don't let friends use Windows + Bitcoin."
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by niggler 14y ago
Same thing happens on the equity markets, with the difference being pocketed by the exchanges (they'll pay .29 cents per share to liquidity providers and charge .30 to liquidity takers)
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by niggler 14y ago
I'm not familiar with the cost structure, but if there were a per-transaction cost then it would be: which is more, paying x% + y once on 1 BTC or paying x% + y a hundred times on 0.01 BTC? Clearly the latter is more, assuming of course tha
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by niggler 14y ago
"So you work for an entire year, working nights, weekends, and they will take %15 off the top? At 200/hr, if you gross 400K they're taking 60K?" Your view is very myopic. If your best alternative without them is 100/hr or even 150/hr, then
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by niggler 14y ago
" basically TeX for music rendering." Tex for music rendering does exist: musixtex http://icking-music-archive.org/software/musixtex/musixdoc.p...
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by niggler 14y ago
Who is satoshi nakamoto?
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Feynman on 'Why' questions(youtube.com)
3 points by niggler 14y ago|0 comments
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by niggler 14y ago
So then what happens if twitter also fail-whales?
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by niggler 14y ago
"JavaScript has exceptions" But I miss those colorful exceptions like javax.management.modelmbean.InvalidTargetObjectTypeException :P
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by niggler 14y ago
my duckduckgo-fu is failing me: could you enumerate the possible values?
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by niggler 14y ago
Hermaphroditism is incredibly rare, but there are recorded cases (including cases of births involving hermaphrodites: according to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621 there were 11 reported cases of fertility in true hermaphrodite
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Pregnancy in a hermaphrodite with a male-predominant mosaic karyotype.(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by niggler 14y ago
it happens: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394621
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by niggler 14y ago
(obligatory comment regarding the fact that gender isn't necessarily a dichotomy) How about both (hermaphrodites) or neither?
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by niggler 14y ago
Take a peek at the headers: $ curl -I https://raw.github.com/Polychart/polychart2/develop/polychart2.standalone.js You will see Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff This is a deadly c
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by niggler 14y ago
Some sites like forbes.com are notorious for blogspam. I don't have too much familiarity, but all of the venturebeat posts that I have seen were indeed blogspam. I wanted to know if I was the only one who felt that :)
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by niggler 14y ago
In your estimation, how frequently is venturebeat blogspam? Is it at the same level as forbes.com?
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by niggler 14y ago
" By offering a full refund" They only singled out the 71 people and offered to refund them if customers reached out to instacart. If they were really committed to making customers whole, they would proactively refund the charges and refun
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by niggler 14y ago
"At least XLSX is an open and documented format." The documentation diverges from the excel implementation in so many places that there's a special document (which itself is incomplete): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd922181(v=o

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