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Online bullying – a new and ugly sport for liberal commenters(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by sequoia 13y ago|2 comments
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by sequoia 14y ago
If this decision is so clearly and unequivocally not his to make, why did he promise to do it in the first place? Is he stupid or a liar? I don't think he's stupid.
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by sequoia 14y ago
My statement that wars were started "without congressional approval" may be wrong. That said, I still do not believe that it's outside the president's power to shut down gitmo. As many other commenters here have pointed out, he could simp
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by sequoia 14y ago
Ha! This shows up in pop culture in the game Star Control II (awesome game btw): spoiler alert | You are travelling thru space encountering an ever-increasing number of what appear to be robotic ships with whom you can briefly interact be
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by sequoia 14y ago
Somehow it strikes me as odd that the executive can go around starting wars, one of the most costly (blood & gold) behaviors a gov't can engage in, and one that explicitly requires the approval of congress, without congressional appro
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by sequoia 14y ago
'Someone deserves the right to a defend himself in court and face specific charges before being thrown in a dungeon for life, being tortured and denied even the right to die? Ha- what a naive perspective.' It must make you feel very clever
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by sequoia 14y ago
Sonic the Hedgehog: special tube levels. First thing that came to mind :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UfIMMS9O0o
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by sequoia 14y ago
I'm really confused by the title, in particular the "on Mt.Gox" part. Was he "on Mt.Gox['s website]" when he came across this applet? He makes it sound like the exploit was on mt. gox. If he got a trojan on a third party site that compr
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by sequoia 14y ago
+-------------------------------------------------------+ | SECURITY WARNING! | | You are attempting to walk down a dark alley, | | which could be dangerous. Only walk down
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by sequoia 14y ago
Yes, Apple is very sinister & cunning, but I have devised a defense to even their most devilish hardware-standard-defying scheme: 1. Don't buy one. I wanted to add an SSD in my DVD slot & upgrade the RAM, so I bought a Lenovo and pu
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by sequoia 14y ago
http://noexcuselist.com/everything See the "Languages" section. I've used duolingo for Spanish review; it's pretty good. Honestly the best thing about it is the UX: you get little bite-sized exercises you can go thru as fast or slow as y
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by sequoia 14y ago
> It seems that if you want to make a probability based game you ought to have at least a working knowledge of the basics. People have been making games of chance since long before advanced mathematics. Being a statistician doesn't nec
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by sequoia 14y ago
I meant to suggest that comparing php-raw to Rails is apples & oranges- not "you must benchmark in a way that benefits larger frameworks", just "please acknowledge that LCD tests like this inherently cast Railsy frameworks in a bad ligh
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by sequoia 14y ago
> This exercise aims to provide a "baseline" for performance across the variety of frameworks. By baseline we mean the starting point, from which any real-world application's performance can only get worse. I disagree with the implicati
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Ask HN: How do you (employers) hold on to millenials?(twitter.com)
1 points by sequoia 14y ago|0 comments
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by sequoia 14y ago
> Try to tune out the negativity. I know it's hard, but just think of it as "systems analysis applied to people". Hahaha... this is a joke, right? This reads like a caricature of someone being patronizing. In case it's not a joke, let
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by sequoia 14y ago
Agreed, this is incredibly annoying and has tipped the scales for me to "not worth the effort." It's as tho facebook attempted put a technical blog post in a status update and only used @tags or something; the content does not fit the form
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by sequoia 14y ago
>I firmly believe that any student who wants to learn will learn. Well sure; people overcome all types of adversity to learn, produce, and excel in the world. A child from the ghetto may strive to succeed and go on to be a chess grand
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by sequoia 14y ago
> I get to vote on whether the fire station gets a new truck whether or not I've ever been a fireman, whether or not I've ever driven a truck, and whether or not my house has ever been on fire. But you don't get to vote on what kind of
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by sequoia 14y ago
A trucker is speeding down the highway along with a few other trucks. He sees blue lights in his rear view mirror and pulls over. "Officer, how can you pull me over?! There were at least 1/2 dozen other trucks going the same
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by sequoia 14y ago
4chan has a very similar dynamic vis-a-vis ephemerality and lowering social inhibitions. On 4chan nothing is saved (internally) and threads disappear minutes after people stop posting actively in them. This was the first thing I thought o
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by sequoia 14y ago
You're right. OP should make this clear in the post which complains about people stealing the design . I didn't read the copy.
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by sequoia 14y ago
OP is going overboard with the accusations. http://www.capta360.com http://www.creativegerms.com/about http://pearlwebstudio.com ^None of these people are "copying" him, at least visually. OP did not invent links with vertical scroll
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by sequoia 14y ago
0. Put local config files outside of webroot or other publicly accessible directories, include programatically. 1. Disable swap/backup files in your editor (or write them to a different location)[1] 2. Git ignore or SVN ignore swap files an
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by sequoia 14y ago
I'm curious how this plays out; a woman rating app seems inevitable if this one takes off, and that will be a can of worms.
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Rate Men with Lulu(mygtn.tv)
1 points by sequoia 14y ago|1 comments
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by sequoia 14y ago
I wish I could see it :( Link from us homepage: http://global.blackberry.com/blackberry-10.html?iid=us:bb:de... Internal Server Error - Read The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your requ
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by sequoia 14y ago
Please give more specific reasons than "it's bad." What's wrong with pointing out UI elements to new users? For what it's worth Facebook does this routinely with UI changes.
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by sequoia 14y ago
It seems like the tooltips are pointing at nonrelevant locations. http://screencast.com/t/oCGgYh9ytwMx Is this a flaw in the tool or this implementation? It doesn't seem to work well with different viewport sizes.
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by sequoia 14y ago
You are correct. It is wrong -very very wrong- to view programming advice as suspect merely because the content is offered in a language you don't speak. EDIT: I am wrong. See below.

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