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by smokinn 16y ago
That would make for a good feature request. On the right of flag we could add "merge with" and take a news.yc url and if enough people submitted the same url a mod could merge all the comments into the old story.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Except that when it gets shut down the "real hackers" will be able to link up to forgotten/abandoned satellite networks and still be able to communicate and plot their various schemes. You know, like Die Hard 4.
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by smokinn 16y ago
The mainstream media will never use the word "cracker". It's much too racially loaded.
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by smokinn 16y ago
It would nice to able to sort by those headings your have (Company and location especially)
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by smokinn 16y ago
That's hardly the point. If you're going to make a mini-app and don't want to support certain values just don't make them possible rather than have buggy/wrong behavior. If at least both refused to update it would be a little better than no
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by smokinn 16y ago
It's pretty buggy. It refuses to update if it'll cost you over 100k in fees. Try an average transaction size of 3$ and a total monthly volume of 1,000,000$ for example. If you're going to provide a slider with only a few pre-set values you
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by smokinn 16y ago
You made me hit some major cognitive dissonance here: Additionally, both Microsoft and Boeing more directly support the state economy in other ways (many donations, and support of public works, etc etc). Obviously, these tax breaks do lose
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by smokinn 16y ago
Given that they've already sold 1.7 million of them I imagine they committed to at least an extra 0 on the end of that quantity number.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I would be very wary of spending money on paid dating sites. There are just too many stories about fraud: http://forums.plentyoffish.com/datingPosts2493442.aspx (Google will find you many more) okcupid and plentyoffish are much much bette
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by smokinn 16y ago
I'm hiring for my team in Montreal. We're working on a couple of unreleased web projects, can't really talk about either of them yet but one is a fairly typical web app (php mvc) though it will be large scale and the other is only half web
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by smokinn 16y ago
Another lucrative possibility in trends is stagnation. The market very often has been there quite a while with major players in it that are concentrating on monetizing their current offerings while being completely blind to the fact that ne
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by smokinn 16y ago
I hope you have backups and have tested restoring them.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Respect the readers is a good point. By starting with that sentence you're essentially saying: Before I say what I think might add to the conversation here's me talking about how I care more about my karma than the conversation itself. It i
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by smokinn 16y ago
I doubt it's a question of data control. EC2 is significantly more expensive than running your own servers so it's a good idea to keep close to your base load on your own servers and then just scale up/down as necessary with EC2. This way y
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by smokinn 16y ago
Yes they do. They just don't have flash 10 yet. (Though some with a Nexus One already got Froyo and therefore do have it.)
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by smokinn 16y ago
You forgot the s on Android market s . Unlike Apple, there's more than just the default.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I googled the name and I guess the first google hit probable isn't the same person: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
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by smokinn 16y ago
Not really. More like a political story with no relevance to hacker news gets downvoted. (And is clearly mentioned as off-topic in the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some
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by smokinn 16y ago
Seems simple enough, just create a corporate account that they can use on their work computer and that they don't have the password to. If you're still worried, change the password every time someone quits. (Which is usually a good idea.)
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by smokinn 16y ago
In Canada there's a preliminary hearing of some sort (not sure about the specifics) to see if the case is even justified in being tried. The vast majority of stories like these are all thrown out.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I think their fear stems from something else entirely. While what you mention is indeed a factor, I think the greatest factor is the fact that on the internet, ROI can be calculated. The metrics are much more precise and I have a feeling th
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well here's an extra data point: It's definitely true of Montreal. The poor live in the north and east ends whereas the rich live in the "West Island" (the west side of the island where all the suburbs are) and Westmount (which is roughly t
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by smokinn 16y ago
I guess at least now I know I'm not alone. I'm very OCD about clicking on random words, triple clicking on paragraphs to highlight them entirely while I'm reading or just dragging my mouse over random amounts of text on the page. I don't kn
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by smokinn 16y ago
He is. I've seen him do it.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well I've heard that Apple won't even bother considering you if you don't have at least a minimum of a master's degree in something related if you're applying for the Spotlight team. If you're studying something hard and you get good at it
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by smokinn 16y ago
Considering that facebook privacy issues made the front cover of Time magazine I figure 100% might be a tad high.
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by smokinn 16y ago
True. And #7 might be true with "at BigCo" at the end but here if you believe in #7 and #10 you're definitely going to prove #7 wrong.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Another interesting project is crm114: http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ It's ridiculously easy to use. I used it for identification of spam/scam messages and setting it up was just 5 lines of code. I wrote a blog post about using it here:
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by smokinn 16y ago
A couple of weeks back there were a few discussions on how to write a proper job offer. I ran across this randomly today and thought that that's just about perfect. No silliness about rockstars or ninjas but no unrealistic bulleted lists ei
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An example of a great job posting(blog.ibd.com)
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