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by shaddi 17y ago
This is a good point -- I'm several years your younger, so I guess I have plenty of time time ruin my vision between now and then. :) That said, in my family vision seems to either go early or stay with you forever. My brother has been wear
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by shaddi 17y ago
Something I heard years ago was that people who live in cities are more prone to be nearsighted because their eyes never focus on objects far away. Because of this, among other reasons, I always try to make sure that my computer is position
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by shaddi 17y ago
A bit offtopic, but their UI for realtime search really irks me. To see what this article was talking about, I did that search for "Jonas Brothers". I'm greeted with News results, music results that I can start playing, 3 web results, this
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by shaddi 17y ago
Does anyone know of a similar service to connect designers with developers for open-source projects?
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by shaddi 17y ago
A bit pedantic, but those are generally inductive loops, not pressure sensors.
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by shaddi 17y ago
He does say explicitly that he's not being altruistic. My take is that this is a tip for startup owners who are planning to give some of their wealth to charitable causes after their death. He suggests a way to do this (financial hack, if y
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by shaddi 17y ago
Maybe the point is it is an /internal/ yardstick. You get to decide which one suits you!
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Comcast to acquire NBC(money.cnn.com)
3 points by shaddi 17y ago|1 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
As mentioned in the comments on the article, this is a vulnerability that exists not just on Windows, but any system that makes snapshot backups (OSX Time Machine, for instance). I would even argue that this is a vulnerability with any un-e
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by shaddi 17y ago
Much of computer science may not be interesting to /you/, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting generally. I am sure there are lots of things you find interesting that wouldn't appeal to others.
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by shaddi 17y ago
There is a professor at my university who is known for doing something like this. He says for every exam that if /no one/ writes anything on the exam, everyone in the class will get an A on the exam. But, if one person writes anything on th
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Staying Sharp: Straight Razor Shaving as Life(artofmanliness.com)
1 points by shaddi 17y ago|0 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
This was already discussed and debunked: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878046 Basically, the conventional fan is in the base. I am more impressed with the marketing spin than the product itself.
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by shaddi 17y ago
This article seems to defeat its own point. The visual with companies' logos on the visible spectrum ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/philgyford/56867986/sizes/o/ ) shows that multiple companies can claim the same colors with no problems. I d
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by shaddi 17y ago
I mostly use my email. Gmail provides several features to make this easy. I know a lot of people say "your inbox is not a todo list", but I say to hell with that. Email is a good aggregator of information for me, since I can add things to i
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Ask HN: Anyone have experience with Parellel Python?
2 points by shaddi 17y ago|1 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
The linked article is a bit ambiguous, but remember that electricity is a subset of a country's total energy needs.
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Ask HN: How do you decide where to direct your charitable giving?
4 points by shaddi 17y ago|3 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
There was a great article about this very topic two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=912141
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by shaddi 17y ago
Regardless of validity in your mind, religion is an important aspect of the lives of billions of people on this planet. The GP was not preaching or preying on anyone -- the phrase "if what I have said rings true at all in your heart" is an
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by shaddi 17y ago
I really like this idea. However, I'm not sure if it is solving the trolling problem. Most troll comments I've seen come from "throwaway" accounts -- one post, and then not used again. These trolls presumably don't care about being able to
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by shaddi 17y ago
I think story submission is a really important way to add to the HN community. New users who can contribute what the community thinks are interesting articles are valuable users. Plus, if new users cannot vote until receiving a certain karm
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by shaddi 17y ago
Obviously it is for this purpose, but the fact that it exists doesn't mean it was used properly in this case or that their change notice was updated in a timely fashion.
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by shaddi 17y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the issue. Google wouldn't know to treat Dropbox "special" just because they switched domains. "dropbox.com" hasn't been around long enough in its current incarnation for it to be "clear that [it] isn't a random site
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by shaddi 17y ago
Because they just switched domains (getdropbox.com to dropbox.com), they haven't built up a positive reputation on their new domain yet. As a result, only a handful of instances of malware being served by a user can get the domain blocked.
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by shaddi 17y ago
Dropbox claiming not hacked, mistagged by Google: http://twitter.com/Dropbox/status/5610900563
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Dropbox.com blocked as a malware site(dropbox.com)
9 points by shaddi 17y ago|2 comments
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by shaddi 17y ago
Fair enough, but I have to agree with the GP. Sure, your average MIT grad may be pretty good, but some of the most talented and impressive people I know come from (decently ranked but not super prestigious) state schools. Hiring from one po
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by shaddi 17y ago
>Free software is supposed to improve with each new release. Take OS X, which gets faster. Cleaner. Better. Funny, my experience has been just the opposite... (before you downmod: I'm referring to 10.6, and yes I know it's been fine for
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by shaddi 17y ago
Very cool looking! I am going to consider using this for an upcoming project. One of my most significant criteria for using a library is its API and documentation. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, but I had trouble finding API.txt

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