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by teaspoon 16y ago
It's against the law? Where?
122.
by teaspoon 16y ago
Now that it's 2011, I'd probably say, "Google 'delicious'."
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by teaspoon 16y ago
If you read the article, it's clearly not intended to be a "resource for learning about Haskell". It's a gentle introduction to monads for people who don't want to read Haskell code.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Here's my opinion as someone who's sometimes approached to be a technical cofounder or early employee. First, banish the phrase "change the world" from your vocabulary. I've never heard it used in a meaningful, information-conveying sentenc
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by teaspoon 16y ago
A better title would be "Gratifying My Intellectual Curiosity Regarding In-n-Out". It still pleads relevance to HN, and is even more difficult to argue to be inaccurate.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Maybe you're thinking of `foldl`, which happens to be tail-recursive. The reason it's avoided is because it can unnecessarily eat up O(n) space due to laziness. The issue is avoided by using the strict (and also tail-recursive) `foldl'`.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
You might mention prominently on the landing page that Socialcam is free of charge. That's a lesson that Instagram seems to have taken, anyway: http://instagr.am
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by teaspoon 16y ago
I enjoy a good sinophobic innuendo as much as the next guy, but how is it any easier to omit something from a hand-drawn map than to blur it out in a satellite photo? http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-m...
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by teaspoon 16y ago
For one thing, you should take phrases like "weekend project" with a grain of salt. People who share their projects on HN know they're facing a tough crowd, and understating their time investment is one way to deflect the inevitable nitpick
130.
by teaspoon 16y ago
It doesn't make sense to compare the percentage of Gmail accounts that lost data in a single event to the annual failure rate of a hard drive. It also doesn't make sense to assume my local storage is a single hard drive in a world where a R
131.
by teaspoon 16y ago
Here's a philosophical question. Is choosing a strong password "security by obscurity"? A 20-character mixed-case random string is only more secure than the password "password" because so many users default to the latter, and to short words
132.
by teaspoon 16y ago
Scripts can't implement conditional behavior?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Actually, it doesn't. A compound modifier isn't hyphenated when it's clearly an adverb modifying an adjective -- e.g., when the adverb in question is a -ly word.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Hyphenating "grammatically incorrect" is grammatically incorrect.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Even more discouraging than the size of the bubble is what the bubble's cross-section looks like: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2004#c...
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by teaspoon 16y ago
That algorithm is really only rational if the $100k in question is strings-free cash, which this isn't.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
What does Chrome have to do with this mode of tracking? Google Analytics will capture a referrer from any browser that includes it, and no browser that I know of displays a "red warning" when including it.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
What is a non-interactive wiki?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
I don’t observe that the populations of senior management or famous scientists or leading-edge computer programmers or successful politicians or rock stars are being dominated by people who are results of “Chinese Mother” parenting practic
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by teaspoon 16y ago
If the mirror is wider than the cone of the laser (1 meter in this case), then irradiance still falls off as the range squared. Reflecting the laser back at its source only doubles the range.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
While we're on the topic, you shouldn't have a semicolon in that last sentence; the right side is not an independent clause.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The tagline (tag-paragraph?) is a little opaque: A simple way to build web applications with embedded server side JavaScript. In a few minutes you can build dynamic backend logic in to any page (html, css, etc) using node.js, jQuery and se
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by teaspoon 16y ago
You can upload screenshots to this free service: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckImage.php
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Yep. The salt would have to public, which would defeat the purpose. However, a user can protect herself by "salting" her own email with an address tag. For example, provide tom+ES85jFxz@rpi.edu as your address instead of tom@rpi.edu.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The punchier version is, "Better to ask forgiveness than ask permission."
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Do you host an unlimited number of 100MB files, indefinitely, for an unlimited number of non-paying users?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
The genre is known as "glurge": http://www.snopes.com/glurge/
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by teaspoon 16y ago
If these problems are rooted in our innate inability to estimate risk, then are they really likely to disappear in the future?
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by teaspoon 16y ago
Not everything that's founded is a startup, either.
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by teaspoon 16y ago
You're misunderstanding the meaning of "acting as intermediary between capital and labor". "Capital" doesn't mean money; economists use that word to refer to durable goods that can be used to produce other, salable goods. Most goods require

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