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by vanviegen 9y ago
Why would you want to? Honest question.
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by vanviegen 9y ago
I actually tried that last week. It seemed to work at first, but a couple of minutes after ordering they sent me an email that they blocked my (second) account due to suspicion of fraud, and invited me to FAX THEM (I'm not making this
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by vanviegen 9y ago
s/million-dollar homepage/altcoin/g
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by vanviegen 9y ago
Systematically refusing to do reviews really doesn't help your changes of getting your own papers (and those of your grad students) accepted in the future. Editors have a lot of freedom in deciding what's on topic for their journa
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by vanviegen 10y ago
I don't believe wireshark will tell you that much since everything is encrypted with forward secrecy nowadays. So the browser would need to be able to output negotiated keys for data tracking connections. That seems unlikely, especiall
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by vanviegen 10y ago
Okay, so it's basically Philips Hue, but without the API (for now), and with a lot less to offer in terms of hardware variety. In particular: color bulbs? Prices seem to be only slightly lower than comparable Philips products.
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by vanviegen 10y ago
You don't actually need a passport to travel within the EU. Just a European id card. Still, most people I know do have passports, but that might tell you more about my particular bubble than anything else.
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by vanviegen 10y ago
Kakoune makes this a central concept. Just hit pipe ('|') in normal mode. It even works for multiple selections!
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by vanviegen 10y ago
The only 3 real-life innovations we actually use: - Vehicles. Invented in Mesopotamia about 7,500 years ago. - Buildings. Invented by Neanderthalers about 44,000 years ago. - Tools. Invented by early humans some 2,500,000 years ago. I'
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by vanviegen 10y ago
I think you are being too pessimistic about the speed of mass adoption. On the desktop: Firefox, Chrome and Edge auto-update. On mobile: Android 4.4+ (over 80% and rising fast) auto-updates its webview component. iOS receives yearly updat
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by vanviegen 10y ago
I tend to agree with you. On the other hand, being 'immortal' might be a pretty good incentive to start considering long-term problems. And especially since the first generations of 'immortals' would probably be the ultr
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by vanviegen 10y ago
Doh, you're right of course! We were having this problem in the Postgres 9.1 era, before index-only scans were a thing. Still, it's quite inefficient maintaining an extra copy of the data that is never actually used. Though no lon
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by vanviegen 10y ago
One major advantage of MySQL's clustered indexes the article doesn't mention is that, although secondary key reads may be a little slower, primary key reads will be faster. The row data lives in the primary key index, so there i
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by vanviegen 11y ago
Apart from the extra income, consider that most people don't actually want to be hanging around their houses all day every day. Of course, employers may have to make working conditions more attractive and many people may want to work s
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by vanviegen 11y ago
Many European countries have a law that makes this a requirement. I haven't encountered this pattern for quite some years (in The Netherlands).
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Show HN: Happening – a platform for group apps(platform.happening.im)
22 points by vanviegen 11y ago|6 comments
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by vanviegen 11y ago
Oops, URL missing. Please check here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11449061
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Show HN: Happening – a platform for group apps
5 points by vanviegen 11y ago|1 comments
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by vanviegen 11y ago
Not only does the Chrome app auto-update, on Android 4.3+ so does the WebView component. This makes Android pretty hospitable for hybrid apps nowadays.
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by vanviegen 11y ago
The difference is that individual investors will often hold on to their shares for months or years, rendering the trading tax insignificant. The tax is targeting (very) short-term professional traders, selling and buying back shares multipl
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by vanviegen 11y ago
Sure, if you define "XML" to include algorithms that operate on it like XSLT and XPath, but define "JSON" to be just the data format, then the former is indeed more featureful.
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by vanviegen 11y ago
So what's the alternative? Doesn't data dirtied by a write() experience the same or similar messy flushing behavior?