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by ratsbane 15y ago
This is great news. I'm a happy T-Mobile customer and I've had bad experiences with AT&T and its predecessor, BellSouth, in the past. I don't want to be forced into AT&T. Question: What can we do to support the government's effort
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by ratsbane 15y ago
There are opportunities even when the tide goes out, even the chance to find things on the beach which the sea has left behind.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I read the previous comment as a reference to Swift: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal and, as such, not intended to be offensive.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
One of the few defenses society has against this kind of abuse is the Streisand effect - their attempts to suppress this kind of speech only make it have more effect. Because of that I'm all for giving this kind of story more exposure.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Higher Order Perl. It's not just an excellent Perl book - it's an excellent programming book. Even if you don't plan on coding in Perl, HOP may change how you write in Python, etc. Also, the pd
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Scripting Layer For Android (SL4A): http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/ Though for stuff you're going to distribute it's much better to go native, bite the bullet, and do it in Java.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Better to know in advance, sure, but he's saying if someone forgets to bring a paper or pen to a meeting that he might be unwilling to work with that person in the future. Knowing these terms in advance, I think I'd decline to work with hi
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by ratsbane 15y ago
250 kw ? If something shorts that's going to make a spark people will notice!
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Nose up to slow down: altitude = stored energy
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Is Microsoft even trying any more?
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by ratsbane 15y ago
How many dollars in wallets came from programs like the Department of Defense and the TSA? And how many came from programs related to research and teaching?
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by ratsbane 15y ago
You still can't use A regular expression to parse HTML. Of course you can use a set of regular expressions and some other logic to parse HTML. There's shouldn't be anything surprising about this post.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I didn't mean to mock you and I really did like your comment about how do we profit from this. That really is the important question for HNers. That and "how do we fix it."
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Certainly corporate IT guys sometimes take the flak when stuff breaks, but the really good* corporate IT guys manage to turn major breakage into a justification for a bigger budget. "...blame the big software and infrastructure providers,
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by ratsbane 15y ago
The corporate mindset is the problem. They've got to get away from the hubris of thinking their software testing process is so special or better than the community's. Although it's a pretty cushy assignment. I'm sure plenty of bigcorp PMs
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I had to look this up because I was thinking otherwise, but now I believe you are correct - it is just inconsistent between runs: http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/each.html says "Hash entries are returned in an apparently random order. T
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by ratsbane 15y ago
If your assumption were true I'd guess it wouldn't make any difference. The problem with your question is the assumption that the two versions would be the same - unless one was a copy of the other or both were copies of a third. The orig
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by ratsbane 15y ago
How much photo data do you handle? How long do you keep it?
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Having all aggregate phone location data available for comparison would be useful in balancing that. If you could compare where people are to where they're searching for you could figure out what new places people go to and what places the
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by ratsbane 15y ago
It concerns me a lot when someone asks me to sign something with a lot of boilerplate or "it's just CYA.". Even if it's for a friend, you never know when the company's going to be sold or your friend isn't in charge any more and all of the
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by ratsbane 15y ago
I just accidentally down voted this when I meant to up vote. IPad, small arrows, big fingers. Sorry about that. [edit] not that I completely agree, just that I think it's an idea worth more exploration.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
There's also Loss of Tail Rotor Effectiveness[1] (LTE), caused by the tail rotor entering a vortex ring in much the same way the main rotor is affected in settling with power. LTE will cause a helicopter to yaw sharply in a direction oppos
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by ratsbane 15y ago
And rbanffy's tweet: "Because we all know two bricks float better than one."
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Given the typical size of houses in Palo Alto, 5 founders to 1 house might be more practical :)
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Thank you. That is a very nice offer. I wasn't specifically looking for a getaway but that is a very appealing idea.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Done and done. European castle sounds great. I'll be looking for announcements.
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by ratsbane 15y ago
This is a great idea. I wish I could apply for this one and I hope there are more opportunities like this. (I can't do this because of schedule commitments, but if it were two weeks later I'd be sending in my application.)
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by ratsbane 15y ago
Wardrive is available for Android and it's open source: https://github.com/topgenorth/wardrive-android It uploads to WiGLE.
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Consider mobile devices as a swarm of sensors. If there are enough devices in an area with barometric pressure sensors, perhaps the data they provide could augment existing weather forecasts. As far as I know the Xoom is the only device w
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by ratsbane 16y ago
Sitting right behind that propwash with no windshield isn't going to be fun either. Even if you're cruising at 70 the wind is going to feel more like 140.

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