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by njr123 13y ago
DDG doesn't actually have their own search engine though right? They are using Yahoo/Bing on the backend?
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Sean Parker and Silicon Valley’s noxious taste for narcissism(medium.com)
14 points by njr123 13y ago|6 comments
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by njr123 13y ago
Are you trolling? 5 to 10 years ago?! Windows 7 already came out 4 years ago. Windows XP is 12 years old, and audio already worked perfectly then. Hell, I can remember using Win 3.1 almost 20 years ago, and the audio there worked pretty w
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by njr123 14y ago
I found that duolingo is actually not that good for advanced students - everything I saw on there seemed to be focused on learning by translating phrases into English. Thats pretty distracting once you get past a certain level.
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by njr123 14y ago
Java and .net/c# are not really that similar any more. Just to pick one example, Java doesn't have an equivalent of LINQ
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by njr123 14y ago
I think that might be more of a problem with translation? I read it more as 'the smaller cons might prefer not to have women attend', not that they would ban them. But German is not my native language, so can't say for sure. Original Germ
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by njr123 14y ago
Is it really true that the web app was getting no traffic? I know quite a few non-tech people that use it to follow blogs
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by njr123 14y ago
As they mention in the article, if the user is using an onscreen keyboard, then the trace essentially amounts to a keylog. And since on screen keyboard usage would have very distinctive patterns, if you had a large enough dataset, you shoul
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by njr123 14y ago
Oops. I mean Earnings.
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by njr123 14y ago
> But I'd bet an equivalent post about what could happen to a startup when a young new hire comes in would get uber-flamed. Because thats not the equivalent. The equivalent would be an old established company hiring someone young to com
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by njr123 14y ago
Isn't EBIT 'Income before interest and taxes'?
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by njr123 14y ago
Its been a while since I watched that episode, but that was built with a steel superstructure surrounded by lego right? The lego was only partially load-bearing?
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by njr123 14y ago
I think cutlery is probably the worst possible example to illustrate the argument. The cheapest cutlery you can buy is still works 90% as well as the best, and they last approximately forever. I've never in my life been eating something and
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Why OS/2 Failed (Part 1)(theregister.co.uk)
6 points by njr123 14y ago|0 comments
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by njr123 14y ago
From the article it doesn't sounds like it was anything to do with the db. Looks like they were processing the logins using GET instead of POST, unaware it was logging all the requests. Then the log files ended up on an ftp server for anyon
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by njr123 14y ago
These things are not really on the same level. Google usually gives more than a years notice, and always has a way to export your data. These guys are shutting down in the month and it looks like the only help you get with your data is a
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by njr123 14y ago
I love working with the sort of people you describe, but they are pretty rare, and they don't send out emails like this. I've worked with people like the OPs emailer (not because I got such an email, just because I needed a job), and its
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by njr123 14y ago
What happens more often to me, is that the pull request gets ignored. The gist.io [1] repository itself is a perfect example of this. 5 open pull requests, most of them now more than a month old have been completely ignored. https://github