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by shutupalready 12y ago
Yes, thousands of them in the context of listening to songs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I'm going to offer the contrary advice that hiring by employee referral is not a good approach, for these reasons: 1. Your genius employee does not necessarily know lots of other geniuses. In fact, he might not know anybody. Yes, there
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> The amendment would block the NSA from using any of its funding... Why is the legislation is written to cut off funding as opposed to making the act itself illegal? In fact, why not do both, i.e., deny the use of funds and make the
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by shutupalready 12y ago
May I ask how much cash--more or less--you were prepared to throw at him? Also, did they guy who contacted the TrueCrypt author mention any dollar amounts?
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> where are all the success stories about RPI in the educational arena You're right; I don't see success stories in education. But so what? The RPi is a huge success as a prototyping tool, as a platform for one-off devices or
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by shutupalready 12y ago
tl;dr: Pilot in 1947 sees unidentified objects that fly in a saucer-like fashion, i.e., flew "like a saucer if you skip it across the water", and reporters are chastised for inventing the term "flying saucer". But if loo
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by shutupalready 12y ago
What you're saying is that you can tell a police officer that you're innocent 50 times, but if you say that you're guilty even once , it's that one that counts. Cops do that because people make conscious effort to look
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by shutupalready 12y ago
joblessjunkie means the original article's site. Pinch-to-zoom works fine on HackerNews on an iPad, and the HackerNews font is nothing unusual. Regarding HN being too wide, why don't you narrow your browser window? Personally, I l
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by shutupalready 12y ago
There's not a single mention of taxes in the article. I don't think that the average employee is aware that an entrepreneur/founder/self-employed person can save a lot of tax if they structure it right and are meticulous
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Please do tell us about what he said! I did upvote, but that doesn't communicate our desire to hear the story. This is one of those rare situations where a "me too" post serves a legitimate purpose.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> A note on the technology behind this: For iPhones, Open Garden harnesses Apple’s Multi-peer Connectivity Framework While it sounds like the iPhone has a secret new radio transceiver inside, it's actually based on existing WiFi a
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> There's nothing to leak Yes there is: A million snippets of recorded phone conversations from Vodafone or whatever telecom would really shock you if it included your voice. > it's the public's indifference to th
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by shutupalready 12y ago
This surveillance apparatus is built and operated by programmers and engineers. It goes against the beliefs of 90% of programmers and engineers that I know. Software people tend to place very high value on privacy and due process, and they
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by shutupalready 12y ago
As a very long-time reader of Cringely[1], he's been both spectacularly right and wrong in his predictions and his inside information. However, even when he's been wrong, he's given me a completely different perspective on pr
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> uninformed people that will overpay for their crappy service/software Those are executives over 55 who haven't kept up with technology. The reaction among founders under 40 would be exactly the opposite: Contracting anything
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> Humans are the weakest link in any crime machine... And humans are the weakest link in any corporate machine, by having allowed the crime in the first place. According to the article, " The heist begins with a phishing e-mail de
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> (I mean, I will anyway. I just want to know if you mind.) That's an excellent way to ask for permission while being clear that you don't need permission. I'm always wary of asking for permission in situations where it&
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by shutupalready 12y ago
zifij, zokob, ... Looking at graphs, this could be a convenient way to generate short, pronounceable, easily-spelt, yet uncommon names for a new product or service that you want to launch.
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Thank you. I get "Not currently available on BBC iPlayer" when I try to play it, but I did find the same video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E4P... I linked to the time w
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I've never seen a photo or visualization that gives a feel for the size of the area at the summit of Everest. There are thousands of photos taken at summit of course, but it's always someone standing on the summit himself, so you
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Perhaps they are exploiting the smart card (a.k.a., chip card or EMV card) interface. (The magnetic stripe is pretty much obsolete in the rest of world outside of the USA.) A commenter on the Krebs site make the same point about the smart c
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> if I'm reading wikipedia correctly, there are only 62 connections For others, here's the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_nerves I'm surprised that it's so few (31 pairs of
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> All trade data, even HFT sourced, is available from exchanges. You mean it's available to government regulators, but not to the general public, correct? If stock and option trades are part of the public record, there are lots
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> no one can downvote submissions, regardless of karma Why is that? What's the logic of allowing downvotes on comments but not on articles. (My question has no bearing on this particular article, which I found quite interesting.)
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Is this discovery and the Oh-My-God particle related? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle )
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by shutupalready 12y ago
I think there's something to be said about "headline blindness" (like "ad blindness"). I also came here to ask what platforms were supported, and I read the entire article and watched the entire video. I even search
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by shutupalready 12y ago
> anonymous donors should be encouraged This story is disturbing in that it shows how little financial privacy we have left in the US (and Western Europe and Canada too). Just look at the incredible lengths these guys went to: http:&#x2
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by shutupalready 12y ago
The presence or absence of period is enough for Google Translate to create entirely different translations! My link above doesn't have a period at the end. HackerNews cuts off the period from the end of the URL it seems. So clicking on
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by shutupalready 12y ago
Looking at that piece of Latin->English translation, the word "United States" caught my attention. How did it get there? I tried to narrow it down. This is the minimal phrase that gives "United States": https:/&
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by shutupalready 12y ago
The main thing I got out of this survey is that is possible to design an objective-sounding survey that will favor any brand that you choose. The "Smart Rating" he uses factors in various critical review sites at various arbitrary

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