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Donut math: how donut.c works (2011)(a1k0n.net)
121 points by shrikant 13y ago|22 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Bellard: Prolific hacker? Yes. Entrepreneur? Not so much... (As an aside: a former French entreprenuer that immediately comes to mind is Jean-Louis Gassée who founded Be Inc.)
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WinGrooves - A free Grooveshark Windows desktop application(wingrooves.com)
3 points by shrikant 13y ago|1 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Michael Hartl's immensely popular Railstutorial.org was registered thru GoDaddy. (Definitely doesn't use them for hosting though, as per http://builtwith.com/railstutorial.org )
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Mobile Gaming and the Pyramid of Scarcities(tech-thoughts.net)
2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Netflix runs swimmingly well on my Ubuntu setup using the Pipelight plugin in Firefox. I haven't touched my Windows VM in forever!
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Resolutions(penny-arcade.com)
6 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
This sounded... difficult to believe, so I thought I'd read the actual report on the Pew website.[0] They seem to use "social media website" interchangeably with the actual apps in question, and their methodology writeup does
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by shrikant 13y ago
Literally 3 seconds on Google for "lead cost benefit analysis" yields this 1985 study by the EPA: http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eerm.nsf/vwAN/EE-0034-1.pdf/$...
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Google considering making its own computer chips (independent.co.uk)
7 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
What?? I don't have access to a Windows install right now, but the last time I used ST3 on Windows, it took a heck of a lot longer (~2-3 seconds) to start up than Notepad2. For micro-edit sessions, Notepad2 is unbeatable.
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language, turns 26 today.(perl.com)
2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
Blimey Charlie, I definitely wasn't expecting this discussion thread to be Godwinned.
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Google Caught Funding Slew of Right-Wing Front Groups(progressive.org)
2 points by shrikant 13y ago|1 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
CyanogenMod has this killer feature called Privacy Guard which you can enable on a per-app basis. It allows you to use the app and lock it out of unwanted permissions without breaking the app functionality.
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by shrikant 13y ago
Android Firewall doesn't do what you want? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jtschohl.a...
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by shrikant 13y ago
Neither did Nelson Mandela, if that's what you're implying. To wit, the Church Street bombing (which is presumably what you're referring to by the Pretoria car bomb) by the MK happened in 1983. That's 20 years after Mand
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Visits to porn sites tracked by hundreds of companies(ft.com)
2 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
You actually can flag comments -- you just need to click on the "link" to the comment and the "flag" shows up (if you have some appropriate karma level).
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by shrikant 13y ago
Colin actually set up a novelty account/bot that did this, but stopped after a few people had a bit of whinge at him. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DupDetector
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by shrikant 13y ago
Appears to be using cubic bezier CSS3 Transitions. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Using...
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How to share data with a statistician(github.com)
70 points by shrikant 13y ago|40 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
I've seen this usage in the wild a few times. It makes me twitch just like when someone types out "FireFox".
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by shrikant 13y ago
Courts in France have never bothered about jurisdiction when it comes to the Internet. See [1] and [2], for e.g. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo ! [2] http://news.yahoo.com/french-court-
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You guys still use SQL Server 2000? Really?(sqlskills.com)
1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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On Western media's response to Mangalyaan(jalsajilpa.tumblr.com)
1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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Custom timelines in TweetDeck(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by shrikant 13y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 13y ago
> I get the impression there's a certain group of people who read lists like these online or in a book somewhere and go about mimicking them without understanding the underlying prerequisites. As a somewhat of an aside, I notice thi
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by shrikant 13y ago
I submitted it to HN, having originally come across it on http://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful (very nice subreddit btw.. and a massive timesink.)
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by shrikant 13y ago
Ah yes, the days of dealing with directories named "PROGRA~1". Good riddance.

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