sounddust

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by sounddust 18y ago
at a certain point, prying into the man’s private life and reporting about a rumored surgery becomes a tad questionable It was valleywag who reported this; the website whose entire purpose is to exploit and intrude into the private live
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by sounddust 18y ago
If you'd like to comment on the post, please: 1) Write your comment in MS Word. 2) Export your document as a PDF. 3) Upload the document to Scribd 4) Post the Scribd link as a new story. Thanks!
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by sounddust 18y ago
I didn't even know it was there. I'll keep it in mind now. In fact, I don't understand half of the features of hn, and I've been using it for more than a month. There really should be a user guide or FAQ or something.
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by sounddust 18y ago
Microsoft has one of the world's greatest health insurance packages. They also have one of the best overall benefits package (much better than Google, for example). They are saving multiple years' worth of salary per employee by letting
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by sounddust 18y ago
He wasn't asking us to tell him how much he would make in advertising on his site. He was asking us for resources online that he could read/research/utilize so that he could make the estimate himself.
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by sounddust 18y ago
He said that it is about to kick Apple into the "deathbin of history." I think that's pretty much the same thing as saying it will "dethrone" the iPhone. I take everything that Scoble says with a grain of salt; he is overexcited and hyperb
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by sounddust 18y ago
1) I understand that MySQL (with InnoDB) supports row-level locking today. I was speaking of both databases as they existed in the past, to express how much easier it was for PostgreSQL to optimise and scale over the past decade. 2) I am n
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by sounddust 18y ago
PostgreSQL is much better at using multiple cores, and it absolutely does matter for web applications. When you have 1,000 people who all want to load a page at the same time, you're only going to hit the database once for that. What you
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by sounddust 18y ago
OAL is "OEM abstraction layer" and IOCTL probably means that the RTC is set by sending an IOCTL command.
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by sounddust 18y ago
The reason it's not calleld init_time_after_boot - well, first of all Microsoft coding standards call for CamelCase. But secondly, there are several "times", and there are several ways to "initialize" something, and there are several meani
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by sounddust 18y ago
You can use http://www.google.com/ncr if you don't want localisation..
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by sounddust 19y ago
I think you're missing my point. Yes, it seems more wrong to take money than to take a drink from the fridge. The researcher in this study is saying "aha! taking a drink is exactly the same as taking money, therefore human beings are illo
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by sounddust 19y ago
But the problem is still the same. The statement that "people have an irrational sense of logic because they would take food from a roommate, but not money" is still incorrect. Of the 15 or so roommates I've had in my life, 13 or 14 would