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by oozcitak 16y ago
Awesome work with company info. But instead of looking up the home page I feel it may be more relevant to look up the about pages. For example for orders@dynadot.com Rapportive tells me: > Extends your domain by one year. T
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by oozcitak 16y ago
> Languages like Java, Ruby, and C# all make the mistake of allowing any type at all to hold null. Just a little nitpicking here. In C# integral types cannot hold null unless explicitly declared nullable [1], ie. int x = null; /
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by oozcitak 16y ago
WAL is quite exciting indeed. And most of the items listed as disadvantages of WAL [1] are probably non-issues for most people; except maybe: > 5. It is not possible to open read-only WAL databases. The opening process must have write
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by oozcitak 16y ago
This is why the author says that they are dangerous: > The right questions set you up for real success or failure. You never know whether a clue leads down a bunny trail or to genuine insight.
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by oozcitak 16y ago
From the comments: > I idled on TPB irc channel for probably 5 hours before I pasted those usernames/md5′d passwords. I also checked the major rainbow tables and available Md5 decryptor sites to make sure they weren’t easily reversible,
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by oozcitak 16y ago
Ditto on space constraints. Note also that in urban centers existing structures also include underground electricity, water supply, gas, phone lines, etc. which are usually very costly to relocate.
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by oozcitak 16y ago
Additional bridges not only increase the cost of the interchange, but also its size. To allow for a 5 m vertical clearance for the bridge, you will also need approach and exit ramps. If your maximum allowed design slope is 5%, you will need
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Refashioned rat livers could boost transplants(newscientist.com)
1 points by oozcitak 16y ago|0 comments
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by oozcitak 16y ago
> Secondly, it is google that is asked to pay taxes, not youtube. No, the linked Turkish article says that they informed Google Turkey about the taxes Youtube owes since Google is the parent company. And I don't think you can tax the
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by oozcitak 16y ago
According to the article linked in the first paragraph (in Turkish) they are required to pay taxes for the ads of Turkish companies YouTube shows to its Turkish visitors. EDIT: It is stated in the original article as well: > As a conseq
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by oozcitak 16y ago
This instantly reminded me of Pastafarianism: http://www.venganza.org/
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by oozcitak 16y ago
Extrapolating from this little story, René Sommer probably touched many souls along his life's journey. This, in my opinion is as important as his contributions to the computer mouse. Thanks for the nice story. Rest in peace René.
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by oozcitak 16y ago
What is meant when using grams as force units is actually the gram-force (which is not part of the SI units). But the -force suffix is typically dropped in informal speech, so gram appears to be used as both a mass and force unit.
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by oozcitak 16y ago
For the metric headed readers like me: Dry weight: 113 kg (250 lbs) Pilot weight: 64 - 109 kg (140 - 240 lbs) Measures: 152 cm high x 167 cm wide x 152 cm long (5 ft high x 5.5 ft wide x 5 ft long) Rotor size: 52 cm (1.7
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by oozcitak 16y ago
I understand you. But there is a slippery slope. Here is an example to support my argument. Koran says that you should leave off your business every Friday for the Jumu'ah prayer: "O ye who believe! When the call is proclaimed to prayer on
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by oozcitak 16y ago
> "But not showing a religous figure on television has no effect apart from a negative one among the group. I see no harm in respecting this." You are making the "Peyote-Popping Native" argument: http://lesswrong.com/lw/24o/eight_short
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by oozcitak 16y ago
Koran prohibits idolatry only. Physical depictions are prohibited in hadiths not in the Koran. From Sahih Muslim: "Verily the most grievously tormented people amongst the denizens of Hell on the Day of Resurrection would be the painters of
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by oozcitak 17y ago
They can get quite wide and deep. See spree's network graph for example: http://github.com/railsdog/spree/network
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by oozcitak 17y ago
I like thinking of the voting arrows as a volume knob. If I like someone's comment, I turn up the volume a bit. For me, voting doesn't have to do with agreeing with the poster. I tend to upvote comments if I believe they add some value to t
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by oozcitak 17y ago
It's interesting to compare the Chile earthquake with this. The ratio of the energy released in the two earthquakes is over 15,000. Yet the ratio of casualties is about 12.
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by oozcitak 17y ago
This one is probably specialized for some PDAs. Also this: http://www.google.com/xhtml
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by oozcitak 17y ago
Try: http://www.google.com/mac/
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You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof(lesswrong.com)
55 points by oozcitak 17y ago|50 comments
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by oozcitak 17y ago
Being new to git I found this document very helpful. git stash was new for me, and I am glad to have learned it.
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by oozcitak 17y ago
I thought the attack was against the application. The article talks about the security of the raw data in the database. I missed that on my first read. Sorry for that.
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by oozcitak 17y ago
How? Basically, it’s slow as hell. Is that it? bcrypt is good only because it is slow? In that case, why don't we use whatever we like (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512, SHA-3, etc) and add a sleep(500); just before the call? It is guaranteed
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by oozcitak 17y ago
Such articles leave me with the feeling that there are probably a couple hundred people on earth who truly understand cryptography. The rest of us either blindly follow them (good thing) or try to understand and apply the algorithms ourselv
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by oozcitak 17y ago
That was the best iPad review I read since the launch. What makes us say "meh" is exactly what mom needed since she first laid her hands on a computer. I could remove all functionality from her computer, leaving just the browser and she wou
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by oozcitak 17y ago
I wasn't asking for advice, just wondering if any HNers had been in a similar situation. We don't have the Christmas holiday (I'm Turkish) although we have other holidays to more than make up for it.
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Ask HN: Have you given up your dream for your dream job?
11 points by oozcitak 17y ago|14 comments

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