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by tkahn6 15y ago
Most inflight wifi systems give you a 30 minute free trial and deleting your cookies can usually bypass that restriction.
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I wrote one of these as well as a Chrome extension a few months ago. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kikfikaiccdaabdilg... Additionally, it will highlight edited comments in grey or any color of your choosing (simply md5's the c
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Indeed. See De Broglie's equations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_wave
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See also: Q: Since time slows relative to the speed of light, does this mean that photons are essentially not moving through time at all? A: yes. Precisely. Which means ----- are you seated? Photons have no ticking time at all, which means,
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> Genuine question, why does a soldier deserve so much more respect than a doctor or teacher or fireman or policeman or engineer? Unique to the soldier among these professions is that the soldier gives up many of his civil rights to do
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You might fare better if you conceived of a more realistic scenario. The idea that you would hire a chef in a three person company before a sysadmin is unbelievable.
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2703377 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1369195
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> Perhaps it's an American thing, but in Britain I'm not aware of anyone I know who'd react in hysterics at the thought of a strong word appearing in something as public as a slide deck! Never once has this discussion been about the off
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Ok rant time. I go to your website. It demands an email address before you tell me anything about your company or how it will "change commercial real estate forever". I don't want to you to spam me in the future so I enter a fake email addr
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Sounds like the plot of Death Note.
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring Interns
5 points by tkahn6 15y ago|1 comments
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> You don't actually need an IDE to write Java Correct. You don't actually need an IDE to write Java but unless you have one you're going to be writing a lot of boilerplate by hand. That is the point I am making. The language is verbose
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> The whole Java is too verbose argument is starting to sound like a broken record. With an IDE and tools like ProjectLombok around, you don't need to type much more than most other languages. The fact that you need an IDE to handle all
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by tkahn6 15y ago
I seriously doubt blacks and Hispanics in America have to worry about being blown up as they leave their places of worship. Violence and malice towards Copts in Egypt is on an entirely different plane than racism experienced by minorities i
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I suspect if you were a Copt you'd have a much different perspective.
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Ask HN: What process monitoring solutions do you use?
5 points by tkahn6 15y ago|2 comments
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by tkahn6 15y ago
This is true but there is a qualifier here: If a type name is used, it always needs to be enclosed in parentheses, whereas variable names and expressions can be specified with or without parentheses. So long_struct_name *foo = mallo
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Except that Zionism has only existed as a coherent and codified ideology since 1896 and AIPAC has only existed since 1963. In fact Herzl published Der Judenstaat as a response to what he witnessed covering the Dreyfus Affair as a journali
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Try this: VA = [4, 2, 5, 7] for y in VA setTimeout "console.log(#{y})", y*1000
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by tkahn6 15y ago
> If Foo can "foo" and Bar can "bar", Foo can't "bar". But if you have "null", then suddenly it can "foo" and "bar" even though it's not a subtype of anything that can do that, and it doesn't implement those methods itself. Can't believ
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At Virginia Tech the intro classes are taught exclusively in Java but some of the intermediate classes require fluency in C. Kind of weird but there you go. Fortunately i know C quite well because I read this article in high school.
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by tkahn6 15y ago
Excellent! Thanks.
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Forgive me for my ignorance, but shouldn't "Ulysses had himself tied to the mast" be " Odysseus had himself tied to the mast"? I haven't read Ulysses but I have read The Odyssey.
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Did not feel it at all in Blacksburg, VA though a lot of other students did. Weird.
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Here's an example: http://www.vt.edu/about/buildings/surge_space_building.html "The building provides space to temporarily house academic or administrative units that are displaced because of renovations to their home buildings. The facil
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For Suspected Hackers, a Sense of Social Protest(nytimes.com)
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by tkahn6 15y ago
> I guess I just feel like they have more important enemies, from their perspective, to attack. What do you believe their motivations are?
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Full disclosure I'm an intern at Bloomberg. You're essentially correct on all points but clients tend to use many more than 4 functions though significantly less than the total number. And with regards to IM and email, it should be noted th
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What position are you in to declare the Bloomberg terminal 'shitty overpriced software'?
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> But interns aren't producing anything (if they are, it's not an internship). That seems like a false dichotomy. I'm at an internship right now getting paid quite well and I'm contributing to their bottom line (albeit indirectly since

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