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by tacos 10y ago
You cherry picked the one Metro North line that's not a total hellhole. Median Rent in Mamaroneck is $4700/month, Median house sale price is over a million. It's 27 miles from Grand Central and you will spend 2+ hours a day g
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by tacos 10y ago
Novelty, not technology. The same cognitive behavior is exploited on restaurant menus.
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by tacos 10y ago
That would likely fall under a civil statute. But criminal fraud seems likely. I'd be willing to take a bet on even more trivial matters like falsification of evidence once things started to go south ("it's the coverup, not t
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by tacos 10y ago
This is an Epic Fuck Up that will be discussed for decades in legal, technology, VC, and startup circles. It makes it effectively impossible for a non-established player to innovate in the space for at least 5 years. Additional regulations
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by tacos 10y ago
Exactly. Am I really to believe that people walking around in the time of Jesus were dropping off perfect #3 and #4s on the Bristol Stool Scale on a precise 24 hour cycle? And all that's different now because we have machines that make
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by tacos 10y ago
writev() still doesn't work, Scott. That breaks countless tools, often subtly. The fix somehow didn't make it into the latest insider build. My solution? Wait for Windows update to change every Windows component, in hopes that I c
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by tacos 10y ago
Did you intentionally pick the one thing I didn't say was broken? Friggin' writev() still doesn't work, Scott! That breaks about 20,000 tools, often subtly. The fix somehow didn't make it into the latest insider build. A
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by tacos 10y ago
If the point of Hacker News is to be a sewing circle where we slowly reveal first principles of introductory textbooks, after someone makes the top of the homepage with a fundamentally wacky and incorrect analysis -- just so you can enjoy t
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by tacos 10y ago
My observation is that community moderation seems to be working for one of those cases but not the other. Therefore an increase of meta-discussion on goofy posts might be expected. If tpacek downvotes a crypto post it probably shouldn'
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by tacos 10y ago
Agreed. However I draw the line at obvious amateurs submitting their own articles. I fail to see why we need to celebrate every dope making a lounge chair out of packing crates. Coincidentally I've driven Feynman's van. In fact
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by tacos 10y ago
Agreed. This was painful to read until I clicked "About" and realized the author was on some sort of... self-exploration mission. The need to publish this stuff is debatable. I don't think promoting it -- without clear caveat
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by tacos 10y ago
Here's some non-potatocam footage from a 2014 Soyuz launch. Soyuz definitely has the most Hollywood-friendly separation events. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHWDNrrfhnI
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by tacos 10y ago
"64-bit" and "using Boost" are the clues that I was making a contrasting, not supporting, argument.
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by tacos 10y ago
A little more than 1% of its cash and a little less than 1% of its total equity portfolio.
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by tacos 10y ago
I realize we're talking embedded here, but what is "bloat" in the context of 2016? I have a suite of 35 command line apps with header-only dependencies on Boost and the whole shebang builds in under ten seconds on 2012 MacBoo
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by tacos 10y ago
Even cheapo static S3 sites are free if they're behind CloudFront.
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by tacos 10y ago
The Azure situation is currently a bit of a debacle. Let's Encrypt wasn't designed with particular care toward the Windows ecosystem (or PaaS providers in general), but this guy isn't helping much either. https://g
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by tacos 10y ago
On AWS you can get free SSL certificates from AWS. https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/
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by tacos 10y ago
I like when he got to the hard part and then just stopped writing instead of doing some actual specification or design.
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by tacos 10y ago
I don't understand the fascination with these "make a list" style setup instructions, as they're almost immediately outdated, and seldom updated. We have AMI, we have docker, we have (gasp) shell scripts. It's 2016,
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by tacos 10y ago
Yup, he buys well-run companies then leaves the managers to do their thing, offering capital when needed. Yahoo is the most anti-Buffett company on Earth. This is more like when he loaned money to GE. Hope this bid wins, I always love learn
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by tacos 10y ago
As a consumer I can watch videos for free on multiple services. I can create them for free on multiple devices with free software packages. And, as someone who battled multiple inane video and audio formats since the late 80s, now's th
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by tacos 10y ago
I can write code based on someone else's IP and post it. Because open source! I'm a hero! I implemented a spec. Wow! Why should anyone be able to nullify the entire value of another company just by implementing the spec they pub
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by tacos 10y ago
If we want people to pay us for software, we have to contribute toward a system where value is added and money is extracted as goods and/or services of increasing value are developed and transition between entities. This radical concep
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by tacos 10y ago
"Strong opinions" works for me. Are those still allowed here?
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by tacos 10y ago
This article reads like the goofy cliches New Yorkers spout after spending their first week in Los Angeles. So here's mine: Texas is enormous and odd and has no state tax and yet you can't drive 20 miles without seeing another mas
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by tacos 10y ago
Code in separate libs then this inside #ifdefs. #pragma comment(linker, ...)
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by tacos 10y ago
At the next major rev, Image.DecompressionBombWarning probably should default to error instead of warning.
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by tacos 10y ago
Just slipped this into an image resize-bound Python script I'm using. Immediate 3x speedup. Glorious! (But yeah, would love to see this merged upstream. Lots of Python libraries have sorted out harder CPU/GPU dependencies.)
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by tacos 10y ago
Then fork it and make a command line tool that links to the C code. Then you can use Bash or another strange scripting language from the late-1980s, presuming you're okay with it writing files, too.

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