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by pork 15y ago
Thomas, this is totally irrelevant, but would you consider yourself one of those "older" developers? I'm intimately familiar with your comments, but I have no idea how old you are.
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by pork 15y ago
No, that too, but the downloading makes the hammer come down heavier.
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by pork 15y ago
Try not to be so literal. My implication was that any service that lets a user download copyrighted material for free is bound to be terminated by the labels, and that is largely what is happening.
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by pork 15y ago
Very cool, but please don't drop out of university. For the vast majority of students, this is a decision that will come back and bite you in the ass when whatever you quit Uni for comes to an end.
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by pork 15y ago
All the arguments for the legality of Grooveshark aside, it is ridiculously (read: Napster-like) easy to download high-quality MP3s from the service for free. Yes, there are rippers for Youtube and other services, but the quality of downl
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by pork 15y ago
No, just ironic.
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by pork 15y ago
Excellent, trenchant point, and also why RMS gradually needs to fade away from the EFF (only). You can't have a belligerent and extremist mouthpiece and be taken seriously in law.
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by pork 15y ago
I was initially a little worried because he was showing signs of being a paranoid schizophrenic, but then I remembered that I was on the Internet and probably shouldn't be surprised.
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by pork 15y ago
What a well-timed post, particularly since reading a bizarre takeover of another thread by a single person who comes off as a bit paranoid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420845
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by pork 15y ago
Who the HELL are the MODs you speak of? Accumulate 500 karma and you too can downvote.
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by pork 15y ago
Opera is at 329, not 9.
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by pork 15y ago
I would really be interested to know how many of those computer scientists are also google employees.
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by pork 15y ago
O(n) only applies to non-comparison based sorts; for comparison based sorts that might be used on "items" the lower bound is indeed O(n.log n)
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by pork 15y ago
> flight prices and schedules for a flight query as these are also search results and they are more useful (and prettier) so not only do I find nothing wrong with it but I find it to be the right way to go. Certainly you might not find
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by pork 15y ago
They are the dominant player in a large market (online advertising). If they exploit the dominance of their product specifically to stifle competition, we have a Microsoft-esque situation where the question might have been "how exactly is i
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by pork 15y ago
I was a part of Occupy Oakland, and even though we had the worst police action, I completely agree with oldstranger. It became bizarre when Berkeley students earnestly urged everyone to help the other protestors "find a place to sleep tonig
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by pork 15y ago
That's very enthusiastic and I applaud it, but could you perhaps provide some more substance beyond an open source frontend. How can we use the API? What benefits do you think exposing an API would provide? What are the capabilities of your
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Chicago-area "Big Data" analytics firm raises $108 million(chicagotribune.com)
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by pork 15y ago
Interesting! Reminds me of the criticism leveled against Freakonomics, and it's genuinely the first time I've heard it applied to GEB. What you're saying is obvious and makes perfect sense, I wonder if we're both missing something, or if Ho
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by pork 15y ago
Switched over after the elephant cull, haven't regretted it at all. Clean interface, and very easy flow for new domains. Only gripe is that they don't have a mobile site.
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by pork 15y ago
Can't we dispense with the inflammatory and misleading headlines, PLEASE? As before, FB is selling space on your timeline, not the contents of it. This is comparable to the targeted ads Hotmail (if I recall) used to insert into outgoing e
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by pork 15y ago
> Now suppose someone had asked you: "do you want legislation against these foreign illegal drug sellers?" Surely you'd say yes. Heck, I'd say yes. Let me stop you there. I'd say no, because I feel that in many matters, especially th
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by pork 15y ago
That's utterly irrelevant. I find elephants in the wild beautiful, worthy of protection, and not as far from endangered as you think. It's my personal opinion to find elephant hunters equivalent to scumsucking reprobates, and to direct my d
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by pork 15y ago
That didn't bother me as much as the elephant hunts, to be honest.
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by pork 15y ago
I don't see how SOPA is "circuitously" related, since YC deals with Internet companies and SOPA is damaging to fundamental bits of Internet infrastructure. IMO, it's no different from the PETA/fur manufacturer analogy in that the viewpoints
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by pork 15y ago
If you think about it, hunters are rarely invited to wildlife fundraisers, fur clothing manufacturers to PETA meetings, and creationists to NAS meetings -- all because of opinions expressed by each party. Dissent is part of a modern life, a
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by pork 15y ago
Thanks for an extremely illuminating explanation. I may be wrong, but it almost sounds like long polling and other alternatives are preferable to Websockets because of the added complexity. Stories like this also make me feel fortunate that
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How Facebook REALLY makes its money(facebook.com)
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by pork 15y ago
This one might be a bit of a stretch for "modules you should know about". Perhaps appropriate for "how npm is on its way to becoming CPAN.
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by pork 15y ago
If you have tons of data (logs, for example), on the order or tens or more terabytes, and want the benefit of SQL in addition to MR to query and crunch that data offline, you can use something like Hive which runs on top of Hadoop, gives yo

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