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by tolos 14y ago
LessWrong looks like something I'll enjoy reading. Do you have any favorite or recommended articles -- not necessarily related to op? Keep up the good work.
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by tolos 14y ago
What a happy ending, no threats of jail or lawsuits.
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by tolos 14y ago
I second this. It seems to make it easier for me to follow conversations if I can collapse threads I've already read as well as threads that don't look like they interest me.
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by tolos 14y ago
Are you Kaax? http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10xm24/i_am_call...
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by tolos 14y ago
I'm going to assume you believe what you're saying. You make it sound as if customers hand away money to a shady stranger who quickly disappears, and that the entire point of the company is to trample employees into the dirt. I have a hard
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by tolos 14y ago
33 words from an unknown source (private collector) from an unknown context, and "Because chemical tests of its ink have not yet been run," this still has a long ways to go ...
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by tolos 14y ago
Seconding citi virtual cards. You can also limit the maximum amount a virtual card can be charged.
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by tolos 14y ago
I find this reassuring for my personal projects; I'm not a security expert. I've been afraid that my VPS was going to be exploited as soon as I started opening up services to the internet, but so far this has not been the case. All I've don
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by tolos 14y ago
I'm going to try this. Any reason for choosing Zim?
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by tolos 14y ago
Have there been any studies on whether people actually want autonomous cars (a quick google search only shows one: http://www.alpineautotrans.com/?p=326 )? I think it's a good idea, and I bet most people on HN would agree, but what's the d
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by tolos 14y ago
I was fond of Qt when I used it, but no one I talk to -- a small sample size to be sure -- speaks highly of c++. I have a feeling that Qt will eventually go by the wayside as web browsers replace what it means to be "cross-platform compatib
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by tolos 14y ago
I went through this learning experience. Something similar to a struct with 32 bit items, a 16 bit item, then a 64 bit item. The 64 bit item was being aligned to a friendly 32 bit address, which left 16 bits of unassigned memory between the
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by tolos 14y ago
The title I wanted to use: "In conclusion, serial entrepreneurs do not appear to be more successful than one-time entrepreneurs and even worse they even seem to perform less and less well with time." The sentence after says, "It should be n
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"Serial entrepreneurs are not more successful than one-time entrepreneurs"(papers.ssrn.com)
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by tolos 14y ago
Similar to what you said, where YouTube found most people only voted 5 stars, with 1 and 4 stars being used much less frequently: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-domina...
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by tolos 14y ago
What is this netrw? http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075 seems to imply it's just for vim'ing remote files. Does it do more?
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by tolos 14y ago
I had no idea closing costs were so high (~6%). Guess I'll be waiting to buy a house for a little longer than I thought.
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by tolos 14y ago
I did not know about this plugin before now. I almost feel like I can start reading political articles on news websites again. Thanks!
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by tolos 14y ago
Benefits of losing baggage: http://unclaimedbaggage.com/p/store/about_store I live just close enough to make infrequent trips. I'm sure if I had to fly more I'd feel differently about the matter.
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by tolos 14y ago
I read a small amount of sarcasm in that statement -- but maybe that's just me.
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by tolos 14y ago
Someone on slashdot put together a list: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3035829&cid=4092... As a side note, at least one of the authors did apologize -- and was instantly lynched in the comments http://www.digitalmediamachin
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by tolos 14y ago
I find it odd that Comic Sans and Georgia change places in the weighted totals. Now I'm going to petition Randall Munroe to gather more data (thinking of the color survey).
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by tolos 14y ago
Eating lunch at work right now, I'm not sure how to search for music on iTunes. It appears I can search on the Apple website, which might give me a result (found "Modest Mouse;" did not find "Black Sabbath" or "FFF" -- looking for music), b
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by tolos 14y ago
To clarify, this has nothing to do with creating prototypes.
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by tolos 14y ago
Ack If you’re a programmer and you don’t know about Ack, you need to start using it now. It’s far, far better than grep.
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by tolos 14y ago
I'm skeptical that Ack is "far, far better than grep." Different? Ok. Better? Maybe, based on what you're doing. Far, far better? Probably not. Omitting correct results because a file extension isn't white-listed sounds like a pain. http:/
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by tolos 14y ago
More on vi as a "language:" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most...
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by tolos 14y ago
Every time (two out of two), by the time I click on "X is down" link, the service/website is working again. Surely there is a better platform for alerting about outages than ycombinator?
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by tolos 14y ago
Assuming the radius of the earth is 6378.1 Km (it varies), the distance traveled over the circumference of half the earth will be 20037.375179 Km, compared to 12756.2 Km traveling straight through the earth. The difference is 7280.60115 Km.
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by tolos 14y ago
What makes me uneasy about HFT is the speed in which things happen. For example, I believe the BATS IPO that happened last month began trading around $15, and was below $1 in about 900ms before trading was halted. (Nanex.net has news postin

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