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by sireat 7y ago
You have not read much PERL or J for that matter then :) Of course there is plenty of unreadable code in any language. Javascript after Babel and Webpack is done with it is pretty near unreadable as well. In fact pretty much most autogenera
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That's a great value! I just checked eBay and it seems R820 with 128GB and 4x v2 Xeons goes for 1200-1300. How did you manage to get the extra 640GB for 200-300 ? PS 6 months ago I upgraded my 2x Xeon 2697v2 Dell Precision T7610 and pa
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by sireat 7y ago
I just rewatched the ad after 25 years and it still seems to me like a real offer. You see that the other offers(drink, shirt) are real and reasonable so the final one for the many points seems reasonable as well. There was no disclaimer n
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by sireat 7y ago
Curious on what experienced domain buyers would suggest in my case. After many years of procrastination I decided to see how much would it cost to purchase myfirstname.com (about 5k people in the world have this name). Turns out it is impos
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by sireat 7y ago
Actually, Patio11(ie kalzemeus/Patrick) showed/proved a simple SEO strategy: Create good content for one group of people (ie HN readers) while generating SEO juice for the real buyers(teachers). PS It only works if you are earnest
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by sireat 7y ago
Am I the only one who signed up for interviewcake on a whim (similar to those January fitness club resolutions)? Then I sort of had an epiphany. When will I need this? (or rather "I am too old for this...") I must be the perfect c
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by sireat 7y ago
Problem is that YouTube has automated the process to favor the fake claims filers. Real case that happened to my friend(with maybe 2k subscribers): 1. Film a seaside with normal sea breeze and wave sounds (recorded at the same time) no musi
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by sireat 7y ago
Historically most shares did have a fundamental value. When Buffet was starting out in 1950-1960s, shareholders had stronger rights and many shares did pay dividends. The worst case scenario would be gaining a controlling share and forcing
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by sireat 7y ago
Nice code. I wonder how easy it would be to roll your own web server that uses HTTPS? The real challenge would be to do it without any extra libraries(just sockets). Maybe some cryptographic library would have to be allowed.
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by sireat 7y ago
HN exists because of LISP. More precisely PG attributed success of Viaweb to LISP (speed of iteration etc) http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html I am pretty sure the key fac
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by sireat 7y ago
How do you buy those Panasonics in US/Europe? eBay not showing anything relevant Thank you for showing that different options still exist for laptops. I remember using a Toshiba Libretto, and a weird Japanese Sharp 10-12 inch laptop in
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by sireat 7y ago
It is pragmatic advice. “Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.” If you are in your mid 40s you are not going to become great at som
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by sireat 7y ago
Our best hope against cashless remains seniors and immigrants: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/11/691334123/swedens-cashless-ex... Otherwise we end up with cash that only outlaws use: "His total assets
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by sireat 7y ago
If Casey Winters did the "growth hacking" at Pinterest he is responsible for polluting search results with useless, paywalled Pinterest spam. Pinterest is like ExpertSexChange dark pattern strategy taken to the max.
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by sireat 7y ago
Do you mean whitelist JavasScript to known good sites? HN is about the only site that I frequent that is usable without JS. The progressive enhancement ship has sailed into abyss.
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by sireat 7y ago
24 hours later only 1 article on first page shows the violence story the rest are glowing: https://eu.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/26/... Notice the EU in the link so o the res
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by sireat 7y ago
Paul Le Roux is a promising candidate except for one thing: by 2009 he was running his crime empire branching in pretty much every direction possible. Would he have had time to write the software and also kick back to play the part of Satos
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by sireat 7y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - U.S.
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by sireat 7y ago
Anecdotally, just knowing what the company does and various stacks they use is a huge plus. Knowing a bit about the founders and the corporate structure can help too. Why wouldn't you do just a little bit of research?
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by sireat 7y ago
" He was the first person the Finn had known who'd `gone silicon' -the phrase had an old-fashioned ring for Case -and the microsofts he purchased were art history programs and tables of gallery sales." - not quite the sa
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by sireat 7y ago
You are aware how crippled the free Tableau version is? Just public dashboards no saving functionality at all. Judging by the sparsity of the public dashboards seemingly no one is using the free version. As bduerst said, learning Tableau is
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by sireat 7y ago
I do not see /s tag so I am extremely confused. Why would USA do this? Since when has any country acted with benevolence towards those individuals it deems its enemy?
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I stopped teaching Tableau because of the licensing costs to my students. Tableau feels more polished than PowerBI although BI has pretty much reached feature parity with Tableau. The problem is the licensing costs. PowerBI is very afforda
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The top question Python learners ask me is: How do I package my Python program for small scale distribution to non-technical people? The end target is usually Windows so I suggest PyInstaller but it doesn't feel exactly elegant althoug
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by sireat 7y ago
This would be perfectly fine if founder keeps 51% of shares. It should not be possible to have it both ways as a founder: own minority of shares and yet keep the control. You want full control? Then do not dilute yourself. It used to be nor
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by sireat 7y ago
Pray do tell how would you oust MZ legally? He owns less than 50% of the company but he controls more than 50% of the voting shares. Let's say FB starts losing money or spending it on really useless stuff, sure the secondary stock pric
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by sireat 7y ago
Just your usual "all shares are equal but some shares are more equal than others" dual stock structure that is in vogue these days: Google, Zynga (ahem) and a number of other companies have them. It still boggles the mind that the
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by sireat 7y ago
What kind of progress has been made in crypto currency adoption? After 10 years there really is nothing to show for it. I mined a few coins in 2011 and they were quite useful in the 2013 boom when there were various merchants experimenting
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So this solution would work because most automated spam would not make AJAX calls? Something like Selenium posing as a real user would bypass this kind of protection wouldn't it ?
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CSS Grid and its named areas are fantastic! In my experience teaching web dev to complete beginners, everyone has been able to create reasonable layouts with CSS Grid. That's an improvement over flexbox which shines and is meant for 1D

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