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by smokinn 16y ago
Wow I hope this guy is just trolling. I haven't done much C# programming myself but the best coder I know built a HFT platform on .NET that made millions of dollars. If this CEO wouldn't hire that guy because he's a ".NET programmer" then h
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by smokinn 16y ago
Don't put too much faith in what Markus says. He lies about everything. Constantly. I think he thinks it's a strategic advantage to understate the work and resources he's invested into pof. (Makes for a good marketing story and newbies thin
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by smokinn 16y ago
I love raw carrots as well but JoeAltmaier pinpointed the reason I don't buy baby carrots anymore: they're slimy. I have no idea why but a couple of years back the carrots started getting slimy and it got progressively worse. Now, instead o
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by smokinn 16y ago
Well, 10 years ago paypal was 3 years old and the space was very far from proven. Person-to-person payments still suck. I don't want to use paypal thanks in part to the stories about them freezing funds with no recourse but also because it'
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by smokinn 16y ago
That's probably an expansion path being considered. There are plenty of series that have had big cult success after their cancellation. Firefly is one of them but there's also Arrested Development and, more recently, Better Off Ted for exam
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by smokinn 16y ago
Actually every party in the government that was actually elected is against it. The only people that want this are Bell and the CRTC whose job it is to regulate Bell but whose members essentially rotate in and out of the CRTC and the comp
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by smokinn 16y ago
I read the article. It's nothing but speculation and I don't buy it. Emailing them their password gives higher retention than being sent to right location when you click on a link that automatically logs you in? Yeah, right. Maybe that's ho
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by smokinn 16y ago
As you age your sleeping habits change. Maybe you actually were a night person at 25 and naturally changed to a morning person as you got older.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Why Plenty Of Fish Stores Passwords in Plain Text: Because they're incompetent. That's it. You don't need to write an entire article.
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by smokinn 16y ago
His profile says he works for Manwin Canada... So it's very likely pornhub.com (Manwin Canada also owns the Brazzers network of sites)
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by smokinn 16y ago
For many reasons but the one that seems to come back most often is that people value their time on paid sites more. It seems more "serious" if you know the other person paid to talk to you.
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by smokinn 16y ago
I doubt it. IAC, the parent company of match.com owns lots of web properties. It's not like match.com now owns okcupid and will use them as they please. Most likely, okcupid ads may become exclusively for IAC sites (match.com, blackpeopleme
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by smokinn 16y ago
Just today OkCupid got bought by IAC which also owns match.com which they are critical of in that post.
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by smokinn 16y ago
How do these seizures work? Is it only for US ISPs? I tried hitting http://atdhe.net/ and I get the regular site, not a DHS seizure page. They have a banner at the top saying it was shut down this afternoon but how did they get it back? O
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by smokinn 16y ago
Not only does POF store it in plaintext but they email it to you every few days when they send you their "new matches" email. So basically they're sending probably about 1/4 of their member base's passwords in the clear over the internet ev
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by smokinn 16y ago
That's not how AWS works at all. Werner Vogels (Amazon's CTO) explains it well here: http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo... And the history is well presented here: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/cloud-
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by smokinn 16y ago
Yes. Most events would have 1-2 (out of maybe 50 or so that showed up) that were new and we'd ask them how they heard about it. Most was from word of mouth, a small amount from Facebook and I don't remember anyone saying it was because of a
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by smokinn 16y ago
I wouldn't call it useless. I remember in university we could reserve a small budget (25-50$ to advertise our events for software students (SOEN/CS) and spend it on Facebook because of the amazing targeting. We could ask that the ads only b
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by smokinn 16y ago
Because people can only have a background in one language? I think you're the one missing benatkin's point and proving yourself to be one of the language snobs he mentioned. Good developers are good developers. In your own quote it says he
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by smokinn 16y ago
Why use canvas for each of the titles? It's impossible to search in the page.
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by smokinn 16y ago
You can't short just because you think a stock is over-valued. You can only short when you both think a stock is over-valued and will soon hit a correction. It's that second part that makes shorting dangerous because you can't just call it;
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by smokinn 16y ago
Here's an example of me pinging my router: smokinn@ubuntu:~$ ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=1.24 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_req=2 ttl
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by smokinn 16y ago
It's indeed because they're flush on fill. Games that don't optimize and use more data on the wire actually feel more responsive than games that are wasteful with data.
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by smokinn 16y ago
No, broadband connections are starting to have major latency issues and it's only going to get worse in the short term. Check out this earlier discussion on bufferbloat: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002992 Basically, if you have a
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by smokinn 16y ago
I imagine what you're looking for most is people for reliability and/or scaling? The jobs link is down.
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by smokinn 16y ago
Everyone here suggesting you start coding is correct. You definitely should start coding because it's the only way to truly learn. However, if you actually want to get a good job (the bad programming jobs are likely just as unsatisfying as
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by smokinn 16y ago
Absolutely useless hyperbolic link-bait. No one acts that way unless they have severe mental illnesses (such as the cocaine-addicted bipolar genius) or the company already has serious systemic problems. If you see things near the exaggerati
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by smokinn 16y ago
Interesting that you'd turn monopoly into a casino because I turn monopoly into poker. When I'm only doing average or not so well as I want to let on I make sure I have my 1000s on the top of a large stack. When I'm clearly leading I spread
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by smokinn 16y ago
Agreed. Adding an arrow for direction would fix that entirely.
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by smokinn 16y ago
In finance it's returns (ironically, also often referred to as performance). Each level of indirection means a middleman somewhere is taking a cut.

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