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by noamsml 16y ago
I love the way it organically divides conversations, much like real life, based on "georgaphic location".
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by noamsml 16y ago
I feel like the problem with this is that sleeping with someone for money is not inherently unethical, i.e. it hurts no one. Certainly, if you were to replace it with "kill a person", the spread of answers would change significantly.
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by noamsml 17y ago
I'm not voting for this only because I've seen it on HN before, but if you haven't, it's a true must-read.
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by noamsml 17y ago
So it can be read with the iPhone?
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by noamsml 17y ago
Pretty sure that's the same thing as proving P=NP.
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by noamsml 17y ago
> Apple's making the right business decision now and I don't think you can fault them for that. Yes, I can. Restricting developers' rights isn't a valid business decision. That's like saying Highway robbery is a respectable income sourc
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by noamsml 17y ago
What sort of fucking joke is this? Saying that some sort of karma game should determine developers' freedom to use the tools necessary for the job? That not supporting a certain platform merits an artificial limitation on the platform? Plea
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by noamsml 17y ago
This makes a whole lot of sense. You can;t really ask for money from Google to keep them as the default search provider unless you're willing to change search providers.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Upvoted for a nice collection of tools for composing man pages, and the ruby-man gem, even though some of the information is rather basic. Also, because I didn't know about the cheatsheet project.
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by noamsml 17y ago
It's called Google Chrome adblockers.
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by noamsml 17y ago
I think YAHT is sorta decent in that regard. In the fourth chapter it teaches you enough to do something, and then it ramps you up a bit. It's still really confusing, but it's better than usual.
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The Fear is Paralyzing (Translated)
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by noamsml 17y ago
Is it just me, or are the YouTube html5 videos of degraded quality on the Linux Chrome beta?
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by noamsml 17y ago
Does anyone get the scheme joke on that page? The only thing that comes to mind is that I think the (cond) construct used there doesn't exist in pure scheme.
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by noamsml 17y ago
I'd say the most obvious metric would be whether it evens the distribution of comment scores.
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by noamsml 17y ago
If you have a bad IP address, why not disconnect and reconnect? On many connections that should give you a new address (unless you've got a static address).
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by noamsml 17y ago
Unless you accidentally publish your private key online (longshot, but still).
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by noamsml 17y ago
Ouch. SQL injections and plaintext passwords? Someone hired their nephew to do backend programming.
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by noamsml 17y ago
This will just drive away sources.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Ugh, not the "real men" argument again. Real programmers use the tool that is best to the job, rather than using one that appeals to their bravado.
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by noamsml 17y ago
Aurgh. Mockups!
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by noamsml 17y ago
I'm starting to think Randall Munroe was right about piracy: I'd rather be a criminal and know the media I have is under my control than stay legal and have someone reach out and quietly delete (or, in the future, modify) the data on my mac
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by noamsml 17y ago
I see your point, and it's a valid one, but then again, Boo managed to work around it.
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by noamsml 17y ago
> C++ avoided reflection Not really, its architecture simply didn't really support reflection. C++ actually lets you do almost anything imaginable and then some. Overall, though, I agree with the premise in part. Certain languages (Java
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by noamsml 17y ago
If it's sold in boxes, it should work well on many machines, otherwise it's going to get bad publicity, but you're right that if it's bundled with machines, it only needs to worry about some hardware (though it still needs to worry about al
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by noamsml 17y ago
1. The kernel doesn't include proprietary drivers (though I suspect Chrome OS's kernel will), and may not include some obscure drivers, but it does include drivers for lots of hardware makers, and not generic ones, but specific ones (ipw *
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by noamsml 17y ago
I think he means "good OS that works on lots of machines well".
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by noamsml 17y ago
> Wrong. They are using the linux _kernel_ which does NOT include drivers for all (or any) hardware devices! Ugh. The kernel includes the drivers either in the kernel image itself (hence monolithic) or (more likely these days) as module
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by noamsml 17y ago
Just random braindump from reading the article: > 1. It’s very hard to get all the hardware makers to create drivers (or create them yourself) for your OS. This is simply wrong, because Google isn't building an OS from scratch; they're
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by noamsml 17y ago
I know, doesn't that sort of defeat the point?

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