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by po 16y ago
We asked Hitwise to run similar data for the US market. The numbers show a marked increase in social media traffic to Apple.com and a drop in search traffic on November 16th, but not enough for the former to surpass the latter. Looking at
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by po 16y ago
When people ask me about "computers" I often remind them that it's the only skill that will allow you to work in just about any industry. Art, hard science, medicine, whatever... If I were a blacksmith in a mediaeval village I would make su
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by po 16y ago
Doesn't have any of the streets by my place in Tokyo. Google's maps of the area show every building and streets that are no wider than a foot path. Confusingly, it also shows tons of streets as dead ends. Two dead ends will almost meet when
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by po 16y ago
We lug around 100,000 retro virus sequences inside us; all told, genetic parasites related to viruses account for more than 40 percent of all human DNA. Our body works hard to silence its viral stowaways by tying up those stretches of DNA
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by po 16y ago
There's also a funny story about Jobs trying to build their own disk drive instead of using Sony's: Quick, hide in this closet! http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
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by po 16y ago
I blame github.
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by po 16y ago
Do you have any plans for doing form building capability in backbone? I was trying backbone out and I found that to be a part that I would like to have in there. I was trying to figure out the best way to get it done. I'm thinking something
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by po 16y ago
They don't eat those.
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by po 16y ago
Sqlite is often used as a quick and dirty database by projects that don't want to burden their developers with the setup overhead of mysql or postgres. It's a tiny, rock-solid executable that stores data in a single binary file and supports
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by po 16y ago
Here's good audio of that voice. Listen to Capt Sullenberger calmly tell the tower "we're going to be in the Hudson" http://www.exosphere3d.com/pubwww/pages/project_gallery/cact...
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by po 16y ago
Also of interest and in a similar sort of spirit: Bup: Git based backups - https://github.com/apenwarr/bup
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by po 16y ago
Maybe you should just think of it as the NoSQL version of sqlite3 but with added version control.
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by po 16y ago
You seem to be implying that there is no such thing as a bad attempt at a trade. This would probably be true if all trades were rational but I am saying that the very act of asking for a trade biases it to going through, even if it is a bad
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by po 16y ago
I commented before going to bed (I'm on tokyo time) so I missed a lot of the developing commentary here. As I said, I think this could be useful to overcome a specific personality flaw. I think a lot of us here can probably identify with gr
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by po 16y ago
Although… on second thought, it would be good training for startup founders.
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by po 16y ago
I could see this as being useful for the horribly timid, but it would be annoying if it was employed by the general population. There is the underlying idea that if you aren't being rejected, then you aren't asking for enough. I know plenty
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by po 16y ago
Even better than this article is the author's call in the comments to stop using "fag" and "faggot" and replace it with "sag" and "saget"; references to the Full House character. "You're such a saget" I could get used to that.
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by po 16y ago
And right after that: The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a "lead-like shine" on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the up
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by po 16y ago
The fact that it's not obvious is also a good point. I recently brought up the documentation issue on the mailing list and received a pretty encouraging response from Mr. Kaplan-Moss himself: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developer
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by po 16y ago
Isn't that pretty much exactly what is delivered? Here's the comments app for example: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/ For tagging you have a choice between django-tagit and django-tagging. Mingus for example to
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by po 16y ago
It is definitely part of the workflow. I don't see how having it separate makes it any less of a part of your workflow. Git is also a part of my workflow. No harm in having it be separate. The advantage to keeping it separate is it allows S
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by po 16y ago
Python can be used to write procedural, functional or OOP. It's a multi-paradigm language which means it's up to you to give the code the structure you think is best for the problem. For instance wikipedia has an example of the same problem
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by po 16y ago
Cargo that is loaded on to passenger planes should be subjected to the same level of security as passenger luggage. It should be more. It's more costly for a terrorist organization to put a bomb on a plane they also have to ride on. You h
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by po 16y ago
Looking at the leaderboard, the relationship between high ranking hn members and average comment quality seems fairly weak to me: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders This is probably due to the fact that some people spend a lot of time co
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by po 16y ago
ah.. Progressive taxation. You're a commie liberal aren't you. ;-) (don't worry, I am too) Inflation may be a problem some day, but for now I think it's under control. The leader board is still at a human understandable scale: http://news.
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by po 16y ago
I'm not sure how your troubles here equate to a criticism of OOP. What language paradigm are you most familiar with? Procedural? Functional?
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by po 16y ago
…but if we remove downvotes, they will just stay at 1 instead of getting downvoted. Later they will still be able to shoot up. They will only get flagged if they are actively in the wrong spirit of the community. (spam, abuse, etc..) The co
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by po 16y ago
Flash message appears on yoursite.com and does not appear on the page that is loaded after the form is submitted. Oops. Doesn't really seem like an oops to me. State breaks the internet. You submitted a form. That presumably changed the
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by po 16y ago
And while everyone should have learned by now that there’s always some privacy risk when interacting online, hopefully the installation of Force-TLS will at least put less of a damper on today’s stint at your local “free Wifi!” boasting ca
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by po 16y ago
Each request should get the same "logical" response. There is nothing wrong with the content varying with each request. A resource that represents "The last 10 items processed" will always contain just that, even if the response is differen

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