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by piramida 16y ago
Nice read from an insider of the patent wars (Jonathan Shwartz, former Sun CEO): http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis... He describes why the (software) patents are really needed today. In short: to defend the comp
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by piramida 16y ago
I can see what FB does right - identity and other apis are good, but the site itself has very poor usability, unfortunately. Author's point - that you usually have no idea where your message goes and who can see it - is one thing that makes
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by piramida 16y ago
what is twitter?
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by piramida 16y ago
Yeah and this cough medicine from Bayer was working fine with some side-effects: http://www.bonkersinstitute.org/medshow/bayerheroin1901.html
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by piramida 16y ago
The problem here is that as soon as you build a platform in the sea and declare yourself independent from any country, you have to be able to protect it, too. Because nothing would stop someone from taking over your highly intelligent platf
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by piramida 16y ago
If your home line is down and nearby cell stations are not operational, then what? Pigeons? :)
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by piramida 16y ago
the bug in what exactly? possible to disclose?
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by piramida 16y ago
The user database is centralized (from a talk that lead Skype engineer given couple of years ago), so I too wonder how would a traffic routing nodes affect signing in. I am sure non of the client code has their user database credentials...
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by piramida 16y ago
Can you prorate? I.e. give the pirates the service but on a first-come first served basis, basically allow them to use one server if the capacity allows, if not, display that "free version has limited access". All paid customers are on sepa
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by piramida 16y ago
Find it interesting, too. 'We need a dedicated person with lots of experience to work full time with uncertain perspectives on a problem that unknown "we" who probably have done nothing before believe has lots of potential. We will probably
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by piramida 16y ago
Also I found interesting that the geek students considered this trivial formula a revelation. Does fall out of the context of the brilliant hacker culture :) When we needed a ranking system several years ago, I came up with this in half an
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by piramida 16y ago
it is easier to compromise windows, but better distributed tools on linux. tough choices even for ddosers :)
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by piramida 16y ago
And he also spent time to spam this thread up to the front page of HN, what an amazing douchebag!
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by piramida 16y ago
I have 25gb pics without video, storing in folders by year-place or year-event, and having all that stream to picasa + google online storage (cheap, 5$ per year for 21GB). This way you have all pictures online to annoy friends from any comp
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by piramida 16y ago
Coming from C++, this is very similar to what all C++ compilers do internally (i.e. name mangling). Python just opens a possibility to access that "mangled" names directly, which should never be necessary unless you are doing some metaprogr
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by piramida 16y ago
Click on your username, set "noprocrast" to yes, then you will find yourself often staring at the "Sorry you can't view this site" text but you will get more productive. You can even select how long you want to work between reading HN there
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by piramida 16y ago
I had to answer Python/Python/what the project requires, just to be realistic. Not every organization jumps of joy hearing "python", some (who have no idea) perceive it like a perverted bash scripting. So have to use C/java/php depending on
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by piramida 16y ago
Wait, no one else thought that these are variations of the Bacardi logo first? I must be drinking too much...
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by piramida 16y ago
So some people still use built-in memory allocation for large-scale memory-intense projects like mongodb eh? Pity that, they should have looked at why exactly memcached (and any other sane piece of memory-write-erase intensive application)
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by piramida 16y ago
No, I'm listening to too much Jon Stewart in fact, but it has nothing to do with where the things are headed. Read up on CNGI if really interested.
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by piramida 16y ago
Agreed on general point, however the sad truth is that Internet is soon to become Chinese (with their ipv6 progress and economic status), so we better be ready to translate .com rules into chinese to be good citizens ;)
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by piramida 16y ago
Sounds similar, been in the same situation, to understand yours better one question that needs a honest answer - do you like what you are coding? Are you interested in the end result? In my case, switching over to a project that I was reall
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by piramida 16y ago
And you will trust the person who buys stolen laptops to call the amount of money (s)he wants for it? I bet it will be very close to retail price :)
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by piramida 16y ago
Once I found and enabled anti-procrastination I find myself arriving at the "sorry" page 4-5 times per day, getting back to work instantly instead of wandering off on a knowledge hunt. Definitely one feature which makes HN the great site it
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by piramida 16y ago
Technically, it is not a pony but a falabella horse which is a miniature horse originating from Latin America. I know that it is somewhat irrelevant :) But many people have them as pets.
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by piramida 16y ago
Not quite a trackball, but apple released a separate track pad not that long ago. There are two input devices that Apple does way better than most - keyboards and trackpads. Magic mouse was a complete disaster, unfortunately.
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by piramida 16y ago
Was the site just HN'd or article withdrawn? "Error getting pubarticle, Please call the system admin."
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by piramida 16y ago
this is a holywar topic of course, but why would anyone regret if python frameworks are superior in almost every possible way? ruby is a fun language and rails is a fun magic framework suitable for pet projects but when your codebase become
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by piramida 16y ago
Non-destructive lockpicking is a sport these days; burglars would use bumping or other destructive technique like crowbar (with a much shorter path to success) since they won't care about the clean result. Maybe only relevant for spies/inte
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by piramida 16y ago
Your understanding of life and things never changed before? Recall your beliefs 10 years ago. Now imagine 30 years passed - there is a very good chance that your desire to live will be strong. You will be miserably calling your current self

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