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by pluies 16y ago
Just in case, the full text: These journalists, they got it all wrong, I tell ya. They’re waiting for a spectacle, where intrepid new entrepreneurs launch an insurgent website (bookface?) and the disaffected masses desert Facebook like rats
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by pluies 16y ago
I've heard about Plan Do Check Act before, but isn't it just a glorified/marketing version of the whole scientific process? Design studies to test hypotheses (oftentimes educated guesses), conduct said studies, analyze the results to draw t
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by pluies 16y ago
I can understand the desire to hack on that, and props to you Swizec, for creating something and sharing it is always cool, but... Well, the final result is quite mind-numbingly narcissistic. I guess it fits current trends in social website
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by pluies 16y ago
Already discussed in-depth on the blogosphere and Hacker News; see for example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2090678 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2100689
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by pluies 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation. :)
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by pluies 16y ago
If Apple were to only include full support on new devices, it would feel the wrath of the entire tech press, not to mention organizations like Consumer Reports and Greenpeace. Not really, no. For example, h264 is hardware-accelerated on n
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by pluies 16y ago
Soo... What I get is: John McCarthy is the inventor of Lisp, the language we all tell ourselves we'll learn one day. Lisp is used in Emacs macro. However, I honestly don't get what's going on here. Is that a subtle troll against Perl? Just
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by pluies 16y ago
Especially when it comes from a website which sole purpose seems to promote tea and sell tea-related products. (Not that it's a bad thing per se, of course.)
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by pluies 16y ago
This is all kinds of awesome. The "old" exposé was The Right Way™ to do it.
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by pluies 16y ago
> "Last time the @ceoSteveJobs account made headlines it was because it had confused the UK's Daily Mail enough to publish a post quoting it as the real Steve Jobs account" Oh, come on . Any serious magazine should check its sources. T
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by pluies 16y ago
"Someone has already made reference to the Mechanical Turk HIT under the answer in question. And the answer has been “collapsed” because of the policy violation, which means that no matter how many upvotes it receives paid or unpaid it won
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by pluies 16y ago
The article is very critical of Rémi Denis-Courmont, but isn't it Apple's own fault in the end? They're the ones who decided to make the App Store license incompatible with the GPL.
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by pluies 16y ago
And yet this is still a brute force (or dictionary) attack. WPA-PSK is still secure as long as you're using a long-enough, randomly generated secret.
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by pluies 16y ago
> And if you really don't want the job: "Take a call during the interview from a girl you just started dating and sweet-talk her." Priorities, priorities... :)
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by pluies 16y ago
And the author's sideburns were pretty impressive as well. ;)
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by pluies 16y ago
Very good advice indeed. Looking forward to putting it to practice on New Year's Eve! Your point #2 reminds me of a HN comment that said something along the lines of "when I meet someone, I assume this person has a secret and it's my job to
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Show HN: low-tech email-based reminders(remaildr.com)
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by pluies 16y ago
It wouldn't be the first time Google acquires an influential/"cool" business without a business model, à la YouTube (which apparently isn't actually profitable yet, years after it was created).
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by pluies 16y ago
The expression is "without further ado", broadly standing for "without any more fuss", and not "without further adieu". "Adieu", borrowed from the French word for "farewell", doesn't make any sense at all in this context. I know it's nitpic
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by pluies 16y ago
railsforzombies.com used Skywriter. I don't really know how the guys at Envylabs integrated the code or if they modified it at all, but the end result was definitely awesome.
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by pluies 16y ago
Maybe the Mono project is more nimble because of the very limited number of applications running on it? Especially compared to the JVM.
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by pluies 16y ago
That's an interesting take. However, Tim Berners-Lee is English (born in London), and the CERN is located in Genève, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. In French, 'w' is pronounced "double-vé" (quick & dirty phonetic translatio
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by pluies 16y ago
Well, that and "large squads of banana sex workers"...
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by pluies 16y ago
The article is interesting, but dear... The picture he uses is awful. The basic composition is fine, but the blatant overuse of HDR is incredibly annoying. Sorry for the off topic, but I had to get that off my chest. :)
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by pluies 16y ago
CHDK is an awesome hack. Last time I've heard of it, no DSLRs was supported, only PowerShots. It looks like they managed to get custom firmwares working for the 400D, 550D and the 5D mkII — still all very alpha stage, but that's very good n
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by pluies 16y ago
Ouch. This is bad. It illustrates how much of a pain SQL injections are, if they can affect the GNU project which has some of the most incredibly talented hackers worlwide... Props to them for having a working backup strategy though.
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by pluies 16y ago
12/19. Oh well, at least I had Ada Lovelace. :)
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That story is stupid, and the authors are a pack of idiots.
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by pluies 16y ago
Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby. You may already have heard of it, as it's a classic in the Ruby community. It feels more like a work of art than a mere programming book, but you'll learn an awful lot while reading it. :)
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by pluies 16y ago
> The consensus in the field is that there's somewhere between a thousand and a million technologically advanced civilizations just in our own galaxy. Wait, what ? Admittedly I am no expert on the subject, but I'm pretty sure there is

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