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by redstripe 10y ago
The US has sustained the fiction that terrorists are going to attack "real soon now" and people still accept it like some existential threat. Meanwhile we're onto the 15th year of toddlers killing parents with their own handg
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by redstripe 10y ago
In burnaby $1500 will get you a 2 bedroom. For $2500 you can rent the main floor of a house. http://vancouver.craigslist.ca/search/apa?bedrooms=3 $125k is a great salary for Vancouver. It probably puts you in the 95% p
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by redstripe 10y ago
Maybe twitter should hire tptacek's company for a security eval.
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by redstripe 10y ago
When the system becomes so corrupt that people who would be hurt by whistleblowers can control legislation, the test of "legality" doesn't hold as much meaning anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-ga
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by redstripe 10y ago
This claims the differences in language and culture provide enough friction to keep people from migrating efficiently throughout the union. This seems at odds to me with what has happened in the EU (especially Britian) - many who voted for
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by redstripe 10y ago
What kind of monetization plans do you have? I've considered doing the same for EQ, but it looks to me like the subscription based WoW sites that provide game analytics aren't very actively developed. And WoW would probably be the
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by redstripe 10y ago
This is the google M.O. - optimize all processes through cheap machine learning and heuristics and accept that some people will get screwed along the way. The number of people that can be served at very little cost without any human involve
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by redstripe 10y ago
It's not that mercenaries may revolt. It's that people are less likely to support war if it will affect them personally. The is a spectrum for military participation: conscription -> volunteer professional -> mercenery. With
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by redstripe 10y ago
I'd like to see an additional question asked: How did you go about designing the interface of your app? I'm blown away by how good these and so many "show HN" entries usually look. Everything I've put online is func
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by redstripe 10y ago
Can you give some examples of where a country defaulted and was worse off? I think most recently Iceland defaulted and they seem to be doing alright - but maybe given it's size it doesn't really count.
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by redstripe 10y ago
I'm not going to argue that it isn't bad, because it is, but it does have tab completion - not sure what you mean there. Also, you can use F7 to browse your command history - that may help a bit.
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by redstripe 11y ago
I find it interesting that the Google, Apple and especially Amazon have become very successful by going against the orthodoxy of the last few decades which was outsourcing everything that wasn't a core business because you can't p
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by redstripe 11y ago
Do you mean 1. you trust them to be more knowledgeable or 2. you trust them to be less serving than an outsider? I don't think anyone is arguing with 1.
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by redstripe 11y ago
Under "filter preferences" there is an option for "Allow some non-intrusive markerting". Is that what you're talking about?
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by redstripe 11y ago
There's something I don't understand in these comments. Why is everyone interested in language comparisons instead of the huge difference between EC2 and bare metal?
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by redstripe 12y ago
They actually pat themselves on the back over this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Hr...
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by redstripe 12y ago
Which is why it should be done in the most outrageous fashion by someone who cares about privacy. Maybe that's what is needed to get people to realize just what the next decade or two have in store.
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by redstripe 12y ago
$52 million revenue for a state with $28500 million in expenditures is a drop in the bucket. However it looks like they spent $770 million on corrections - probably with a sizable portion spent on drug enforcement. Or would drug related in
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by redstripe 12y ago
Love it. I hope this gets popular. And sort of sad because people seem to be able to do more then 10 minutes at a time without alt-tabbing to HN or lolcats for pointless distraction.
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by redstripe 12y ago
Are you suggesting the NSA should be a government funded QA department for large corps and open source? For commercial software the companies who are not finding these bugs on their own are to blame. For open source, the cheapskates who moo
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by redstripe 12y ago
I believe this is part of "vPro" in intel marketing speak. Yes, many consumer CPUs have it. Intel provides pretty good feature lists by CPU if you want to avoid it: e.g. http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?s=
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by redstripe 12y ago
How can someone far exceed expectations more than once or twice. Aren't the managers just bad at judging expectations at that point?
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Improving Author Name Indexing and Searching(slideshare.net)
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by redstripe 12y ago
As a side note, since many people here use python, VS has great Python integration: http://pytools.codeplex.com/
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by redstripe 12y ago
Would you say that in countries were voting is compulsory (like say Australia) the politicians are not idiots? I don't think the problem is that too few people vote.
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by redstripe 12y ago
Does that mean HN runs in a single process and doesn't do any concurrent request processing? That's pretty impressive if that's the case.
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by redstripe 12y ago
How did he run afowl of paypal?
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by redstripe 12y ago
Yes, prices frequently fluctuate on many products. Luckily, there are a few sites that provide historical info and alerts. e.g. http://camelcamelcamel.com/The-Garbage-Collection-Handbook-M...
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by redstripe 12y ago
In terms of job availability it's been dead a long time. I see a single job posted on craigslist every 6 months in city with 50 daily job postings. Part of the problem is the kind of corporate windows CRUD apps that Delphi excelled at
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by redstripe 13y ago
Sorry, what is meant by back office?

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