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by omni 13y ago
So you're gambling your project on the ridiculous assumption that nobody at Vine reads Hacker News? Good luck with that.
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by omni 13y ago
I want to clarify that the students themselves never end up giving Hacker School money. If a company hires a student through Hacker School, the company pays a recruiting fee to Hacker School. Students pay nothing.
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by omni 13y ago
You're missing the point. EC2 specifically didn't work for them because they were constantly spinning up new instances and killing old ones, so they were repeatedly incurring the minimum one hour cost. If your business model doesn
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by omni 13y ago
Every single post about JavaScript is filled with people in the comments talking about how much they dislike JavaScript. Not sure that's a great example.
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by omni 13y ago
Look, I'm not even disagreeing with you. I never said StarCraft is as deep strategically as Chess is. I think Chess is certainly more strategic. I also happen to think StarCraft is a much more interesting game because it has tactical,
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by omni 13y ago
Like girvo said, I meant that it's not unfair. If you think surprise attacks and imperfect information don't add strategic depth to a game, then we have nothing left to discuss.
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by omni 13y ago
A 4 pool isn't a sucker punch. It is a highly risky opening strategy that almost always ends the game very quickly. If your opponent does not scout it quickly, he is very likely to lose. If he does, you are very likely to lose. The exi
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by omni 13y ago
I think you might be conflating the terms "troll" and "asshole." If you show up to a subforum on SA and start actually trolling people by posting spam or a bunch of NSFL images or something, you'll get banned pretty
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by omni 13y ago
Yes! 29% of the current batch is from outside the US. https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/25-who-comes-to-hacker-sch...
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by omni 13y ago
You'll be fine. If you like programming and it sounds like Hacker School would be fun, you should apply. The minimum experience you need to have a good time and learn a lot is very low, and if you're writing a book on Clojure web
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by omni 13y ago
Grabbing a stat off of Wikipedia, almost 18,000 people died in drinking-related vehicular accidents in the US in 2006. Maybe attempted murder is a little extreme, but I think negligent homicide would be right on the mark. http://
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by omni 13y ago
I think this is a typo in the article. If you remove the parenthesis right before log, this should work. You're using the dot form to chain log onto js/console. When you write "(log" instead of just "log", it t
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by omni 13y ago
Cooler generally means bluer, while warmer means orange-r. f.lux definitely makes your display orange-r.
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by omni 13y ago
There is exactly one building taller than this. So not only is your comment unconstructive, it's wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_th...
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by omni 13y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with the second example. What do you think it should do?
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by omni 13y ago
Skype has a competitor called Google Hangouts that works just fine in the browser. Word has a competitor called Google Docs that works just fine in the browser. Desktop-only apps need to adapt or get left behind.
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by omni 13y ago
Hearsay and strawman arguments don't make for an intellectual discussion.
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by omni 13y ago
Can you point me to an article that explains why you would want JOINs in a NoSQL database to begin with? I thought the entire point was to denormalize your data. I keep seeing this point brought up, but it reads to me like a misguided compl
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by omni 13y ago
They spent a lot of time in their announcement talking about how they know that model is terrible and how they've tried to address its shortcomings using haptic feedback. Presumably, the final product will be nothing like thumbing over
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by omni 13y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and I read it as "Fuck you."
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by omni 13y ago
Pretty much every video game from at least the last three decades has "[used] sound...to ratchet up excitement." I would hardly use the word "offensive" to describe this.
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by omni 13y ago
The pricing seems a lot more reasonable than I was expecting, at $300/yr + $29 per delivery (pickups are free). Are there any competitors in this space, or is this a new concept?
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by omni 13y ago
And you're waking up this morning to go to your job curing cancer and inventing nuclear fusion, right?
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by omni 13y ago
Put quotes around the whole thing and Twitter will think you're just another 13 year old girl who thinks she's clever by incessantly quoting literature.
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by omni 13y ago
For reference, I was seeing about 80% CPU load from btsync and 20% from the driver talking to my hard drives.
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by omni 13y ago
Thanks! I saw some references to it scattered about but was sort of turned off by the team-centric presentation. Are you just using it for your own personal stuff?
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by omni 13y ago
Yeah, that would work just fine. The only issue is that you want the ownCloud machine to have local copies of the data, so either you'd want it in the cloud (super expensive) or you'd want your own beefier-than-a-Pi machine to ser
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by omni 13y ago
Shameless plug: I just did exactly this over the weekend and wrote about how well it works here: http://blog.travisthieman.com/ec2-for-23-cents-and-your-own-... Short version: BTSync is awesome, ownCloud makes the Pi strugg
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by omni 13y ago
Because a cyclist needs to do very specific things during an emergency brake to avoid being thrown over the handlebars, so an automatic braking system would probably injure / kill the cyclist.
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by omni 13y ago
The reason why fragmentation occurs is irrelevant. The negative effects of fragmentation on developers and their user bases will still exist even if your platform is fragmented for "good" reasons.

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