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by sfk 13y ago
One reason may be that bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.
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by sfk 13y ago
Analyzing the copyrighted contents of third party non-Gmail users - who did not consent to such an analysis - for profit.
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by sfk 13y ago
Is this the book that evolves a student-grading application over 300+ pages? If so, I honestly do not understand why people call this book concise . If you know C already, the pace of the book is so slow that you'll lose interest.
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by sfk 13y ago
C is used in such applications precisely because it is one of the few languages that allow you to reason about things like stack usage. Try that in Python, Ruby (or ML for that matter).
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by sfk 14y ago
Display technology has been stagnating for decades. The "retina" display (if it is as good as promised) might be the first display that matches the quality of ancient IBM flexview displays or rarities like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org
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by sfk 15y ago
I'm not talking about you or your company, but a lot of Starters are excellent bullshitters. They have an idea that is the equivalent of "Lets go to the moon" and leave it to others to build a Saturn V rocket. The latter of course is just a
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Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by sfk 15y ago|0 comments
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by sfk 15y ago
Does anyone here think HN's markup is meant at all to be inspirational? Yes, it's one of the most usable and beautiful sites on Internet.
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by sfk 15y ago
My sincere apologies to Eric Schmidt, and thank you for the information.
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by sfk 15y ago
The 15-year-old fanboys are downvoting in realtime again. Who else has time to guard threads so closely?
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by sfk 15y ago
And? Perhaps it is not the life goal of the majority of people to push advertisements to their fellow human beings. If the criticism came from Knuth - fine - but Eric Schmidt? Who is he to make such a remark?
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by sfk 15y ago
Much better article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/facebook-riot-calls... "Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Latchford, Warrington, used his Facebook account in the early hours of 9 August to design a web page entitled The Warring
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by sfk 15y ago
Could someone explain why most recent websites look as if the members of the target audience are five-year old children? This is not a troll - I'm honestly wondering if anyone actually likes such a "design".
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by sfk 15y ago
Why would a server that only runs ssh and qmail be less secure than Gmail? Why would I need a password recovery system? Remember that Gmail had a sysadmin reading the mail of users: http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalke
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by sfk 15y ago
The depression and anxiety scores are complete fabrications. Why is this nonsense voted up so high? Also, some of the comments smell of astroturfing.
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by sfk 15y ago
What an arrogant posting (presumably by a web developer). Go write some mathematical software or anything serious at all and you'll find soon enough that typing is not even remotely the bottleneck.
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by sfk 15y ago
I don't think that you necessarily will get jail time. The new law elevates theft of entertainment services to the same level as theft of other services. In practice, I think theft of services is mostly punished by a fine. But in theory ,
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by sfk 15y ago
In other news ( http://www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en008.html ): "Use of a JAPAN RAIL PASS is strictly limited to the signer (hereafter "you") only." Surely an outrageous clause like this one can only be the product of big corporations and co
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by sfk 15y ago
I'm not sure that I understand. You have just demonstrated that the algorithm does not work.
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by sfk 16y ago
Well, he funds scribd, which has a substantial amount of illegal content. I don't think he should complain.
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by sfk 16y ago
The intellectual contortions used to justify piracy continue to amuse. Unbelievable that this gibberish is at 10 points.
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by sfk 16y ago
Could someone explain why "being on Github" is synonymous with "contributing to open source" in some circles? The Github projects are a very small part of the open source universe. You can easily build *BSD or LinuxFromScratch with a substa
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by sfk 16y ago
Words are cheap. Go and help the cleanup crews on-site.
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by sfk 16y ago
http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/x2 HTH
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by sfk 16y ago
Not sure if it is the main market, but you can still run OpenVMS on HP Itanium servers: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/index.html?jumpid=/go/openvms
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by sfk 16y ago
Those are highly biased reports. Moreover, all the issues raised in these reports apply to big open source projects where women are claimed to be excluded. For argument's sake, let's assume that this is true. What about individual projects
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by sfk 16y ago
An interesting piece of information nonetheless. It is almost as if lisper knew the author personally...
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by sfk 16y ago
Excellent advice. Reminds me of Greenspun's tale of two servers: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/05/18/ruby-on-rails-...
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by sfk 16y ago
Try reading the article. The author lives in the US and refuses to buy from Amazon US. In short, he (and many other people in this thread) are complete hypocrites.
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by sfk 16y ago
"It was listed on Amazon US as an import that would be available on Feb 15th, but only in CD form. I'm not buying plastic just to rip the files and throw it out." What a hurdle indeed.

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