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by smtddr 13y ago
> This is exactly the problem, people think Microsoft shops have an allergy to open source? Yes. That's exactly what I think. So, what I'm about to say isn't in any kind of defense. I'm just going to document my per
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by smtddr 13y ago
So you think they paid for a Microsoft OS Server, but then decided to use an open-source DB? I bet is that they're Microsoft-stack from top to bottom.
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by smtddr 13y ago
>username223 33 minutes ago | link Maybe because unlike you, he's not an unquestioning whore to the almighty dollar. (I expected a small bird-feeder business before I clicked, but the point remains.) Ouch. You've hurt my feel
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by smtddr 13y ago
Understood. Now that I think of it, I did the same thing until someone told me about the comma. Still though, the comma-trick puts spaces in between the numbers. I don't know how to get rid of that.
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by smtddr 13y ago
>I agree that squatters can be unreasonable or downright insane. There use to be a company called songbirdnest.com that made something that could be described as an open-source version of iTunes(but they preferred it wasn't though
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by smtddr 13y ago
That sys.stdout.write usage is interesting. Any reason for not just using print? Or if you want all of them on the same line, you can put a comma at the end of print, like... for q in range(10): print q,
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by smtddr 13y ago
>That's the most important part, and the mostly often ignored in HN discussions Example... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572743
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by smtddr 13y ago
It's always interesting(read: painful) to see HN comments on articles that relate more to emotion than cold-hard-logic. Humans are Humans, not machines that obey a specific instruction-set with no particular affinity. There is an awk
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by smtddr 13y ago
The most interesting feature for me is the XCode Server + Bots. I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. I've installed it, added a git-repo, created a Bot, but it does nothing. Also, I don't know how to tell it to do &q
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Note that their diets are poor, by choice. They are making bad choices, which they're not being forced into. Not by money shortage, at least. You can say education, but I'm willing to bet that these people were in fact in
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by smtddr 13y ago
Okay, I'm done here. I'm not even clicking on that link. Go tell that to the illegal immigrants doing back-breaking labor everyday, poor people barely making ends meet with their 2 or 3 jobs, that they have more quality leisure
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by smtddr 13y ago
Don't forget the last part of my comment: Low-income, probably low-education & stressful-job(s), not enough motivation/energy after coming home from work to cook a proper meal or get exercise. Personally, I think they can&#x2
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by smtddr 13y ago
Ah, here we go. So overweight because why? Eating 99-cent menu items from fast-food menus 4 times a day and filling their homes with the cheapest industrial-processed food ever. Liters of soda, microwave-TV-dinners, huge bags of cheetos, e
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by smtddr 13y ago
So, because of this article you conclude that the OP is wrong to say poor people are "unable to make enough money to feed themselves and their families working multiple part-time/full-time jobs paying these sorts of wages."
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by smtddr 13y ago
Probably a defensive reaction to all the negative comments made about a nationality... and to prevent the children(and even adults) of said nationality from internalizing the negativity. In short, to provide balance.
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by smtddr 13y ago
My parents owned a home and lived in USA for over 30 years... but they are, and will always be, Nigerian. Home is where the heart is. I wonder what Aleynikov would say if we asked him "Are you American or Russian? Or both?"
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>yohann305 8 minutes ago | link >> It seems the magic comes from the fact that a paper sketch turns into a game. It will fool the average consumer or a child. However I am baffled with the fact that you have to use a pen and a
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by smtddr 13y ago
Looking at this article & the comment from jared314[1], do you think they taught enough history about America's relationship with Hispanics and racism? Did they talk about evolution as a "fact" or in the context of some &
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by smtddr 13y ago
Heh, you have not lived until a stale NFS mount takes down your whole server. Trying "sudo umount" on it, the umount command will not return and even "sudo kill -9" can't stop it[1]. A soft reboot can't fix
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>(I have a rooted Kindle Fire that's still running GB, and there's nothing I can do to change that) Well, ...not _ nothing _ http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26920609 ...but I understand t
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by smtddr 13y ago
I put all my start-up ideas on twitter, https://twitter.com/smtddr , because I'm probably never going to execute on them so maybe someone else will. EDIT: Hey, is this article just bait into having to sign up to see th
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by smtddr 13y ago
The people who start a company that bundles VPN + international services into a simple "Chromecast" device will be billionaires... or sued because of some legal issue.
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by smtddr 13y ago
This makes plenty of sense. Either stick with this strategy or do what Digg.com is doing these days; a main title and the little subtext thing that they almost always use for a one-liner joke, but sometimes for serious commentary/secon
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by smtddr 13y ago
me too! (California Bay Area) http://i.imgur.com/yaEh1xY.png This is kinda fun. I'd like a website that showed screenshots of popular search-results on Google from across the world.
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> So do you think that the US higher-ed system is inherently flawed also, with competition between high achievers (i.e. Harvard) and schools that anyone can get into? Yes, I do think there's a flaw there too. But the paid scho
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by smtddr 13y ago
> I'm surprised that you agree w/ the conclusion of the review that segregating talent into higher and lower achieving groups is bad. I think it's bad too, and here's why: The teachers & staff in charge of the
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by smtddr 13y ago
If blockchain.info was queried over ssl, the spoofing would be a bit harder to pull off.
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by smtddr 13y ago
I've never done it before myself, but this looks simple enough; like a paypal donation: http://shop.wikileaks.org/donate Now, how the malware-writer goes about verifying payment is beyond my understanding...
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by smtddr 13y ago
yup. But the fact they're using bitcoin shows a clever way for ransomware to collect payment with virtually zero-risk; since it's not possible(that I know of) to really trace exactly who, in real life, got those bitcoins. Which me
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by smtddr 13y ago
I agree, but I think people should still maintain politeness even if the interviewer appears to be doing a less-than-awesome job. Even if you already know halfway into the interview that you're not taking any job-offer from them... jus

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