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by noaharc 17y ago
Female
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Ask HN: Albums or songs?
3 points by noaharc 17y ago|3 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
Why don't you want to live off savings? Taking 2 months to make something impressive seems like money well spent, to me.
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by noaharc 17y ago
First-mover advantage is about network effects, not compound interest.
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by noaharc 17y ago
I guess I just use the 2 Ps, but I am wondering: Do some debuggers let you run until error, then step backwards? That seems like it could be very valuable, to me.
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Alternative to Rotten Tomatoes(metacritic.com)
1 points by noaharc 17y ago|0 comments
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Artistic, high-resolution desktop wallpapers(caedes.net)
5 points by noaharc 17y ago|3 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
By what measure is peoplesign more secure? You have 6 choices in 2 menus -- even a robot that is completely stupid will pass 3% of the time. I know that in the past some captchas were broken at rates of 30-40% (Hotmail, I think). Is this
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by noaharc 17y ago
I'm also curious.
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Death can be inspiring(economist.com)
1 points by noaharc 17y ago|0 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
They do parse natural language. In fact, that was one of the biggest problems they had to overcome, and is the main reason they currently have no plans for creating different versions for other languages. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archi
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Amazon's Web Services Go To School(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by noaharc 17y ago|0 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
That is what I was thinking, but I think telnet really does the trick. This is nice just because it gets around the by-hand formatting on telnet.
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Web service that makes/displays HTTP request/response (includes POST, TRACE, headers, etc)(web-sniffer.net)
13 points by noaharc 17y ago|5 comments
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Microsoft Pink is a Touch Screen Mobile Phone(labnol.org)
1 points by noaharc 17y ago|0 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
I think slides are a pretty poor communication medium outside of presentations (and much of the time within them).
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Ask HN: How do I automatically write to DB when App Engine memcached is about to expire?
2 points by noaharc 17y ago|2 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
I think it's a well-written article, but he fails to acknowledge the economic principle of free-riders. I think it destroys his argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
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Rate My App: Build Time = 60 Minutes
1 points by noaharc 17y ago|0 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
Actually, we're doing a lot better now than we used to be, as IQ scores seem to be increasing over time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect I bet we'll keep on muddling through.
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by noaharc 17y ago
"Undoubtably" is also spelled incorrectly.
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by noaharc 17y ago
This guy seems to be forgetting that books are just about irrelevant to public discussion. By the time Larry and Sergey die, that will be even more true. Google will be the sole curator of a collection of oddities and amusements from a by
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Ask PG: Why aren't URLs in the HN submission text clickable links?
2 points by noaharc 17y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why do I have to type print "x: "+str(x) in Python?
6 points by noaharc 17y ago|13 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
I fully expected this to be an article about piracy going the other direction.
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by noaharc 17y ago
Agreed. We use it in one of my classes this semester, and it's very handy.
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by noaharc 17y ago
Brain-computer interface. Once we get that, everything else (except power generation) is irrelevant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-computer_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
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Ask HN: Why is Python so strict about automatically casting differently typed literals?
2 points by noaharc 17y ago|3 comments
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Tell HN: How to stop Firefox tool tips from disappearing automatically
1 points by noaharc 17y ago|1 comments
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by noaharc 17y ago
Well I think that's the idea. It lets you choose related movies based on specific aspects of the seed, so that what it returns is as well-tailored to your appetite as possible. Just giving a seed is much more difficult (see: Netflix Prize)

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