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by varaon 16y ago
You may get better disk performance on the Rackspace cloud. http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-s...
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by varaon 16y ago
There's an existing and established competitor in the mailed DVDs business: http://www.zip.ca/ Postal service has always been good for; depends how far back you're talking.
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by varaon 16y ago
>we realise people might need to see the entire list Please add a 'Browse' button
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by varaon 16y ago
All you need: http://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS
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by varaon 16y ago
Redditors contributed $185,000 to Direct Relief International to help in Haiti. Subscribing to reddit and donating aren't mutually exclusive. DRI donation page: http://dri.convio.net/goto/reddit
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by varaon 16y ago
Song/ad in question: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS4CEDFQBos
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by varaon 16y ago
Not really; you'd want to do other ab exercises besides sit-ups, and diet is a big component as far as looks. (Unless that was a criticism of the program. If so, please elaborate.)
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by varaon 16y ago
See here, exercise #3: http://osalrex.110mb.com/HTML/5BX_chart1.html The variations get harder on higher-numbered charts.
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by varaon 16y ago
Not sure that it would make a difference whether your employer has a security clearance or not. If you're following "need-to-know" doctrine, then you still wouldn't tell them.
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by varaon 16y ago
At least it's more secure than a potato.
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by varaon 16y ago
I'll clarify a bit - yes, there is a lot of crap too, but reading the comments is just as big a deal for me as the submissions themselves.
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by varaon 16y ago
Reddit comments are excellent, and I think that while having a buzzing community creates a lot more noise, there is also a lot more great content. Initiatives like $180,000 for Haiti, or the secret santa wouldn't have been the same 5 years
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by varaon 16y ago
A subreddit's moderators can make all the difference in stopping trolls and keeping content on-topic.
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by varaon 16y ago
> Their strategy was not to be the first. Their strategy was to be the best developed. This could apply to Apple too. Mp3 players and smartphone were not new inventions when the iPod and iPhone were introduced, but the iPod and the iPh
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by varaon 16y ago
> Yes, the spec is technically open, but there still haven't been any players that work as "well" as Adobe's. It's a valid point, but a lack of good competition doesn't make the standard any less open; published is published. Consider
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by varaon 16y ago
No joke, radio.
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by varaon 16y ago
Fake Steve raises an interesting point about how close John Gruber and Apple are. >"...we leaked the Flash essay to our Chief Apologist John Gruber and told him to start whipping up some buzz on Twitter about it, and he followed orders
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by varaon 16y ago
In high school they would ask us to clear the memory, and show the success message on-screen. A program to simulate a wipe would've been quite possible, I imagine.
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by varaon 16y ago
The "new weapon" is described as being part of the Prompt Global Strike System - an effort to put non-nuclear warheads on ICBMs. A big reason why the PGS program might never be approved is that nuclear and non-nuclear ICBM launches appear
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by varaon 16y ago
The light stays on for a full second and is a bright green LED - impossible to miss if you're looking at the screen.
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by varaon 16y ago
I think the light may be in hardware. It is on the OLPC.
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by varaon 16y ago
The lack of support for the Home and End keys drove me nuts. Try iTerm - http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
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by varaon 16y ago
You admitted that two of the problems you listed were known RC bugs. Have you upgraded 7 from the release candidate?
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by varaon 16y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like AOL's strategy was very content-heavy - they tried to provide all the news, movies, etc. their users would need in order to keep to on AOL properties as much as possible. Users are much mor
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by varaon 16y ago
I would be in favor of legislation limiting what can be sent to arbitration and what can't. i.e. Cases like the Jamie Leigh Jones case should not be left to arbitration.
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by varaon 17y ago
It depends on how many HN readers "lurk" - i.e. read but never post or register.
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by varaon 17y ago
Linked articles, technical details and philosophy: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/duck-duck-go/
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by varaon 17y ago
The parent comment covered it well, but just to make a point: the goal of preparing is to make sure the interview process goes smoothly. Assuming the interview is soon, there's only so much preparation you can do for technical questions i
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by varaon 17y ago
In the online real-time strategy game Starcraft, there is a term called the "metagame" that refers to (among other details) the current trends in how the game is played. There can often be large shifts in the strategies that a majority of p
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by varaon 17y ago
Even if they adopted an official policy of allowing criticism, there would still be a stigma to including criticism in articles about the sponsors.

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