qnaal

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   by qnaal 12y ago

   I wouldn't consider pos a very good usecase for bitcoin in general. Credit cards are specifically designed for a consumer environment, and even if bitcoin continues towards the moon, I don't predict physical paper currency is goin
2. 152.▲
   by qnaal 12y ago

   > Mac users, sending a zip file which also contains another zip file increases your chances of file corruption. We recommend that you de-compress all files first and create only one zip file. what the fuck?
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   by qnaal 12y ago

   To test on what audience? There are hundreds of things I'd rather be hacking than a personal copy of some forum software. > You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks. fuckin thing won't even let you have a conve
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   by qnaal 12y ago

   tags, respecting different votes differently, linking old conversations with new ones instead of 'archiving' them into oblivion... HN might be some sort of local maximum atm, but more experimentation is warranted on these fronts.
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   by qnaal 12y ago

   I just don't get how the simple 'hot' (or 'news') algorithm, only taking a single link's time elapsed and raw number of votes(?) into account, is the best we have for a community like this. And I'm not tal
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   by qnaal 12y ago

   Any artificial limit on intellectual property will reduce innovation, and we can only hope that targeted government efforts to regulate/legislate (eg patents) have a net-positive effect on the environment, for very specific reasons (eg
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   by qnaal 12y ago

   and yet it's been posted 6 times in the past year? well the photo of mel here in the comments is new to me so we'll see what happens...
8. 158.▲
   by qnaal 12y ago

   > the picture of Mel hacker bigfoot ???
9. 159.▲
   by qnaal 12y ago

   "intellectual property logic"
10. 160.▲
    by qnaal 12y ago

    THAT'S WHAT MOOT SAID
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    but would groups of mostly women be as aggressive as groups of mostly men? scientists get on this shit or I will come to your house and burn your degrees
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    I'll borrow this... straw man? to make a simpler point: > social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, tried to explain crowd behaviour as a paralysis of the brain; hypnotised by the group, the individual becomes the slave of unconscious imp
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    perl's Text::CSV http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/Text-CSV-1.32/lib/Text/CSV....
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    cpuid: ACTUALLYMILL
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    at least 40% more hipster than delicio.us
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    "breaks people into smaller groups" by "analyzing user behaviors and interests" I, for one, welcome our new artificial intelligence social media overlords.
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    Fearmongering- the internet is not going to be that easy to kill.
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    Pretty soon some part of the system is going to catch on that everyone else is as subtly creeped out by all this shit as they are, and the military industrial complex will have to surrender some of its tentacles.
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    now that they have dr dre as their new visionary...
20. 170.▲
    by qnaal 12y ago

    Or more accurately, as that wikipedia page mentions, March 1493- when Columbus got back.
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    by qnaal 12y ago

    perl6: super hyperdimensional prototype future programming language "It's not Lisp!"
22. 172.▲
    by qnaal 12y ago

    #rekt
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    finally
24. 174.▲
    by qnaal 13y ago

    and he's oh so healthy in his body and his mind
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    Hate to break it to you people, but rms was always right- the #1 reason why programming sucks is that everyone wants complete control over all of the bullshit they threw together and thought they could sell. Imagine an environment like a li
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    They are if you're saving formatted text in a tsv- thus all the discussion about this rather mediocre attempt to replace them.
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    How thoughtful and selfless of them- and they say this isn't a Christian country!
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    Sorry, I'm not very familiar with how the usb protocol works- but I meant, that not all OS-provided keyboard drivers support devices with up to 100-whatever simultaneous keypresses, right? I've seen keyboards with what looked like
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    Wouldn't want to confuse the user with references to non-microsoft-sanctioned documentation.
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    by qnaal 13y ago

    'USB spec'- so it's up to the keyboard driver your operating system provides to actually set the limit? And other than that, there's no artifact of the protocol that would hinder the development of such support?