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by po 16y ago
Cute, but that heart is a bit busted no? Maybe try this technique: http://css-tricks.com/examples/ShapesOfCSS/
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by po 16y ago
If by academic in nature you mean grounded in reality instead of a bad analogy then yes it is. Now that we've decided not to view the problem through the lens of personal or corporate finance we can look at the problem as it is: macroecon
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by po 16y ago
Stop thinking about government spending as if there's a magic money fountain and start thinking about it like it's your own money. Yes, it would be great to spend twice your income on a better car, but the mere fact that it would be a grea
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by po 16y ago
What do you do when there are serious ethical considerations with running your test suite?
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by po 16y ago
I would say you dodged a bullet. This guy's repo is fast becoming a gag: https://github.com/msporny/dna/network/members Also, he explicitly released it under the Creative Commons Public Domain License. Incidentally, I wonder if that has a
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by po 16y ago
You know... what would be interesting is if he convinced his parents to submit their data and then he had his data as a merge commit.
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by po 16y ago
I think being the group who is asking all submarines to surface is very different than being the submarine captain. I agree patents suck but it's an unavoidable reality of the current US patent system. If the patent exists, it exists. Stick
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by po 16y ago
Yeah I saw your comment there. I find it fascinating that the two groups using twitter that look "grafted on" are Journalists and Software entrepreneurs. Both groups are early adopters of twitter. I see those two grafted on bits as bridges
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by po 16y ago
I've used Paul Irish's boilerplate and I can attest that even if you decide not to adopt it outright, you can learn a lot just by reading through it. HTML5 is one of those ever-changing technologies where what was once considered common-pra
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by po 16y ago
Yeah and it doesn't work very well: http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/deported-s-... This woman snuck back in a few times after being deported by using "special tape." I really wonder how special the tape is. On the other h
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by po 16y ago
Bitcoins provide an interesting technology platform around which to build a currency, but trying to use them directly as currency is only slightly different than using Monopoly money, and the differences aren't relevant. The differences
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by po 16y ago
Except bitcoin has no way of marking a coin as "lost" so if you did generate that combo, everyone would be in agreement that it already belongs to a lost wallet.
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by po 16y ago
This is a great writeup Robert. Thanks for the overview. What were the primary factors that signaled it was time to move to AWS for you guys? What else were you considering at the time?
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by po 16y ago
More like a moped actually. :-) Where is the point in cycling if you don't have to use your own muscles to ride? Because sometimes you have the energy and sometimes you don't. Sometimes you're ok with sweating and sometimes you aren't. So
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by po 16y ago
This makes no sense. I've seen women in skirts blasting up a hill by my house with a kid in a bike seat that would leave me huffing and puffing at any speed. They don't even have to get off the seat. The enhanced pedaling makes you stronge
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by po 16y ago
Seems kind of overdone. You can barely use the sidewalk in Tokyo without getting knocked down by a middle-aged woman with a huge sun-visor, a bag of groceries and two kids strapped to something like this: http://us.sanyo.com/Commercial-ene
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by po 16y ago
I like ZeroMQ but this slideshare doesn't deliver any substance at all. For an overview, skip it and check out the white paper (if you can call it that) cowritten by the same guy (Pieter Hintjens) instead: http://www.zeromq.org/whitepapers
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by po 16y ago
Personally, I'm of the opinion that any web agent that could possibly puzzle through RDF triplets should have no problem understanding our APIs, in any case. …or native human language.
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by po 16y ago
Jeez guys, cut them some slack. It's a nice demo that happens to use a lot of features that aren't widely available yet. The various browser vendors are never all going to sync their release schedules for new features. Now that we have some
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by po 16y ago
No, I'm agreeing that you're right that the cap is effectively unknown. I missed that footnote (shame on me). My point is that even with an unknown cap, the license rates are predictable for the foreseeable future: Free under 100k u
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by po 16y ago
That's a good point. Here is the payment history: The maximum annual royalty (“cap”) for an Enterprise (commonly controlled Legal Entities) is $3.5 million per year 2005-2006, $4.25 million per year 2007-08, $5 million per year 2009-10, an
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by po 16y ago
Sure but the license itself does imply that. The price licensees pay is pro-rated based on usage but is also capped at 6.5 million until 2015. The license will be renewed every 5 years but will not increase more than 10%: The first term of
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by po 16y ago
Getting started is 100% free. It seem's like it's the actual talking to other people that you have to pay for. If not bait-and-switch, these weasel words are certainly misleading. I can only imagine what the bounce rate is when you put th
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by po 16y ago
As an aside, I don't buy the arguments of "they shouldn't be mentioning Bing." I do buy that argument but only for mass media PR type stuff. The market leader can only give attention and raise awareness to the followers. The thing is i
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by po 16y ago
A Cynical Theory: anyone with the power, money and government connections needed to disrupt Wall St. will choose instead to join Wall St. when the option is given to them. Fight the good fight or join the party? Those who aren't willing to
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by po 16y ago
You're right to some extent... which is why I said I can't think of any practical solution. I disagree in that I think the biggest bar is not the judgmental nature of it (we're all being judged anyway) but the fact that it would be a ton
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by po 16y ago
I was just imagining how different hacker news would be if there were tags on each comment/post indicating what levels of disagreement hierarchy are contained within. I can't imagine a practical way to implement it but imagine the effect it
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by po 16y ago
You should tell your coworker that plenty of bugs don't cause stacktraces. In fact, most of them. :-)
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by po 16y ago
Thanks, I added it in there. Mostly, we announce as a category on our blog: http://blog.makeleaps.com/category/hacker-news-meetup/ We use Doorkeeper as our registration/signup tool. It's pretty nice and the guys who make it are cool. :-)
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by po 16y ago
I was particularly surprised by the behavior of the tab key: https://github.com/rsms/kod/wiki/Indentation In a nutshell, if you press tab while anywhere on a line, it indents. Shift-Tab de-dents the line. After thinking about it a bit, I

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