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by techtalsky 13y ago
Although many people hate to see Monsanto win, it seems clear that this case was well considered, and that the license was violated here. No one should be surprised that Monsanto won this one. However, the passage of the Farmer Assurance P
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Now that Reader is closer to death, has a superior alternative emerged?
1 points by techtalsky 13y ago|3 comments
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by techtalsky 13y ago
MAME is a project to emulate Arcade games. This is a project to emulate Sega Genesis/Megadrive games. Although many already exist, they use a lot of different tricks to help performance. Some of these hacks can cause game-breaking timing
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by techtalsky 13y ago
I don't see that as very mystifying. He was escaping in the middle of a death-defying gun battle and staying alive was literally the only thing on his mind. He panicked, and possibly thought his brother was already dead.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Well, sigh, as usual a bunch of chatter about it and not a word from YC. Well, it was worth a try.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Most grocery stores sell Turkey bags for brining, especially around Thanksgiving.
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Would it be hard to have a mobile style sheet for HN with pressable buttons?
108 points by techtalsky 14y ago|39 comments
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by techtalsky 14y ago
I think 1 and 4 are the best points. It's a kill-two-birds-with-one-stone proposition. You get to give your first clients the care and feeding they need to become great initial success stories as you make some of the initial cash a startu
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by techtalsky 14y ago
In the original article he details that the Ask updater waits patiently for 10 minutes after the Java installation completes (probably successfully or unsuccessfully) before launching as a background process.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Perhaps any company that doesn't actually have any other product or service? I agree it gets into tricky territory though.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Nothing too terribly exciting, but the Source Map feature, allowing easier debugging inside minified code seems very useful. Chrome only, but still an extremely slick feature: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source..
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by techtalsky 14y ago
And STILL be prosecuted for 2nd and 4th degree money laundering, and STILL need to extract dirt on all your clients (which your other clients would possibly find out and help you accidentally die in a plane crash).
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by techtalsky 14y ago
It's really wonderful to start to see this wave of Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other super inexpensive but plenty powerful enough for a range of applications type devices. More and more are popping up on Reddit and HN every day and it looks
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by techtalsky 14y ago
He did, however describe the eventual problem: his comments table was larger than what Wordpress's out-of-the-box feature (Recent Comments) was able to sort. He had very overpowered hardware in his custom situation. It strikes me that thi
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Perhaps, but you really just have no idea what conversations are happening behind closed doors.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
I'd love to look at people on the train but there's a pretty serious ethic against staring at other people on New York City subways. There's also no bandwidth at all. It's a rough and loud ride. Podcasts, music, and casual games help the
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by techtalsky 14y ago
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." -- George Orwell
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by techtalsky 14y ago
The rule against showing a render seems just a little rough. In some cases I think a render of a product is important and it seems like really crippling a hardware project if they can't show the design of the product. I get why, but that
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by techtalsky 14y ago
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say, "Lying is good." but I also wouldn't go so far as to say "Always tell the truth." simply because it is not possible. It is literally impossible to tell people the 100% truth about your life, for the
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by techtalsky 14y ago
It's not so much that. If I'm at home in Brooklyn and want to get to a place in Manhattan, there might be two ways to go. Google maps calculates what the fastest way is, including walk time and train connections, and gives me a route that
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Yes, indeed I do love Dungeon Raid already and have poured countless hours into it. I almost have every class upgraded to level 10. If there was a sequel I would buy it tomorrow. 10000000 was a breath of fresh air. I'm a little sad DR h
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by techtalsky 14y ago
I had a tremendous amount of fun with 10000000. It worked as a fun little joke about upgrading EVERYTHING, it's got a zippy little feeling to play, and not a pixel onscreen in wasted. And... even though once I beat it I wished there was an
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by techtalsky 14y ago
This is a MySQL discussion, but I think it's worth it to say what two things I think keep Postgres from becoming the viable worldwide use-by-default contender that MySQL became: 1. Branding. First and foremost. MySQL had great documentati
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by techtalsky 14y ago
A lot of people are mentioning Python support. I just wanted to put in my vote that Python support will be the thing that gets me to download and try this. It looks awesome but it'll be so much easier for me to relate to if there's a supp
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by techtalsky 14y ago
I think it's a 13-lined ground squirrel. Commonly mistaken for a chipmunk. Not all squirrels have bushy tails.
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Yeah, I really can't believe this made the front page. Really man? You're whining about people whining? It's just noise to me. Social media reflects what's happening in the universe, however deep or asinine. When people die or twitter
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by techtalsky 14y ago
It's interesting to note that the newly Kickstarter-funded Wasteland sequel is going with Unity for its development. A great post on why here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts...
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by techtalsky 14y ago
This seems sensible. Of course many people could quibble about things they wish were included or dropped, but almost all of this stuff I've had to learn the hard way. Having most of this information presented to someone in an organized wa
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BeanCount: Command-line Double-Entry Accounting(furius.ca)
2 points by techtalsky 14y ago|0 comments
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by techtalsky 14y ago
Thank you very much. I didn't realize that string handling was changed so much in 1.9. This has got to be one of the best string encoding methods in any programming language to date.

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