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by r4vik 14y ago
Good stuff @dazbradbury, you've got 100x more inventory than the last time I looked, how did you pull it off? Big partnership or have you started scraping (doesn't look like it)?
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by r4vik 14y ago
direct link to what's new: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9...
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by r4vik 14y ago
You're right to have that concern, I won't block a site if it's doing that but practically it's not an issue. I've yet to encounter one that requires opt-in before setting cookies.
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by r4vik 14y ago
>> 7) don't discriminate based on gender or sexual preference, even though it may be legal to do so in your locality do you feel like this is a big problem in the startup world?
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by r4vik 14y ago
this is why I always sign in with twitter over facebook. No spam
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by r4vik 14y ago
first pull request merged. look forward to many more :)
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by r4vik 14y ago
interim solution, add this to your adblock plus rules: https://github.com/r4vi/block-the-eu-cookie-shit-list and send me patches when you find a site with a cookie warning
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by r4vik 14y ago
I guess all the hate stays here but judging by the explosion of programming memes, some hacker news people are having fun over there.
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by r4vik 14y ago
easy enough to sniff their local time with javascript though
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Montage and Ninja are released(generatedcontent.org)
2 points by r4vik 14y ago|0 comments
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by r4vik 14y ago
I actually own the domain modernperl,net, for trollish reasons actually (www.modernperl.net redirects to Ruby) but if anyone wants it / wants to do something useful with it. I'd be happy to transfer it to you for free.
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by r4vik 14y ago
Haukur, thanks for your kind offer. I'm really tempted as Iceland is one of the few places in the world I really want to see but haven't done so yet. I'm wondering, what are the living costs, that's the part that concerns me about Iceland.
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by r4vik 14y ago
agreed. 20 mins from Waterloo is certainly not safe
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Hacker Friendly Summer Retreat Locations
1 points by r4vik 14y ago|5 comments
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 19 Notes Essay—Stagnation or Singularity?(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
61 points by r4vik 14y ago|9 comments
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by r4vik 14y ago
it's just xmpp, just download an iOS XMPP client and you're all set. Same with FB chat.
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by r4vik 14y ago
I'm pretty sure Chatroulette solved the dick problem to, using image recognition. If you get your dick out you get sent to permanent dick purgatory with all the other dick wranglers. It seems to work. Dick hit rate has gone down from 1 in
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 17 - Deep Thought(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
90 points by r4vik 14y ago|12 comments
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Searching for substrings in a massive string(williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com)
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 12 Notes—War and Peace(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
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by r4vik 14y ago
don't forget Clojure
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by r4vik 14y ago
excellent news, I thought Jython was dead.
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by r4vik 14y ago
because I don't want to sign in with facebook.
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by r4vik 14y ago
Controversial but I'm going to say it anyway, if my site looks messed up in IE I feel bad for you son so I copy&pasted html5shiv. I've never tested it in IE, if it works for you then cool. If it doesn't or is slow. Well install another
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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay(blakemasters.tumblr.com)
100 points by r4vik 14y ago|14 comments
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by r4vik 14y ago
He releases his books under GNU FDL, so they can be remixed. But I assume he doesn't want people changing his blog posts. Makes sense to me.
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by r4vik 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - London, Front-end designer/developer (remote work possible) Award-winning UK campsite booking site Pitchup.com is looking for a front-end designer/developer with expert HTML/CSS/Javascript skills. Front-End Stack: jQuer
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by r4vik 14y ago
Built this over the weekend, to play with heroku mostly. Stack is Django / Python / Coffeescript / lesscss. Must say, Heroku has blown my mind at how simple it was to get going and I was even using a custom python/npm buildpack.
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Show HN: A Pintrest clone for code snippets (using gist)(gistrest.pckl.me)
2 points by r4vik 14y ago|1 comments
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by r4vik 15y ago
Just get a digital photo frame that does rss, point it to your flickr account. She doesn't need to do anything, latest photos will show up on her frame

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