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by venning 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid
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by venning 9y ago
> [When] at Mach 2.2, the air feels like Jello. I know that's a metaphor, but it got me thinking. Can someone more learned help me out: does air behave in a non-Newtonian manner at supersonic speed?
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by venning 9y ago
For me, the best articulation of why coding is so hard comes from a 2000 Joel Spolsky article [1]: It’s harder to read code than to write it. I continue to use that line to explain coding to non-coder friends. This article's author
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by venning 9y ago
Also `NaN`.
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by venning 9y ago
Truthy on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Truthy
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by venning 9y ago
Thoughts: I like the look. Very clean. I like how fast it's responding; better than archive.org (though, obviously, they have different scaling problems). "Your own internet archive" might be overselling it, as other commen
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by venning 9y ago
My guess is that this is similar to StackOverflow switching to HTTPS [1]. Once you get to a certain size, something seemingly simple like turning on HTTPS or detecting desktops and redirecting comes with non-trivial problems. I can only i
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by venning 9y ago
I find problems with both the author's methodology and hypothesis. Counting unique declarations doesn't really tell me anything. CSS isn't simply a declarative language. CSS rules are ordered . Sometimes (and oftentimes w
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by venning 9y ago
I kind of expected something like that, based on the generic-ness of the domain. Hopefully you can leverage that generic-ness into solving other problems under the same name. Nice service, lots of luck.
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by venning 9y ago
Off-topic, but how expensive are five-letter, English word .com domains right now? I don't see new companies with domains that are small-ish words very often.
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by venning 9y ago
I see this link mentioned all the time, but every time I try it I can't get it to work. Specifically, the "GO TO THE HACKER NEWS DATASET" big blue button on that page. It kicks me over to a Google Cloud console link, which s
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by venning 9y ago
Not sure if you're implying that PayPal "made Braintree" or just that someone made it, but PayPal didn't acquire Braintree until 2013, after being founded in 2007 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by venning 9y ago
Since Lightsail is mentioned, it's probably worth including Digital Ocean since they offer almost identical network transfer for the money [1]. [1] https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
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by venning 9y ago
The "S:" means "Status": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3c2993b8c6143d8a57937...
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by venning 9y ago
Needs a "(2015)" label.
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by venning 9y ago
With respect to the TechEmpower benchmarks, if you look at Round 13 [1] they note that ASP.NET got 859 times faster in their benchmarks since Microsoft dedicated effort to improving it. [1] https://www.techempower.com/blog&#
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by venning 9y ago
Yes. Works quite well and can handle quite a bit of load. Some native support within Route 53 helps make setting it up easy. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHostin... http://d
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by venning 9y ago
You might be the wrong person to ask, but I can't really find anything about this elsewhere: As an App/Integration, is your interaction with the GitHub interface itself limited to only those things that you can do via API calls,
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by venning 9y ago
Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652159 Also, this should probably have a "[2016]" tag in the title.
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by venning 9y ago
Is that time a typo? Are you saying that there is only a 5 hour block of the day when you eat? (From 3pm to 8pm.)
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by venning 10y ago
The only times I've seen high-to-low transfer was through physical media, primarily optical disc. I wasn't aware that there was any wire between them.
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by venning 10y ago
SIPRNet is probably an order of magnitude larger with over four million users [1]. Even more impressive considering it isn't connected to the Internet. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIPRNet
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by venning 10y ago
> "news...has always been subsidized by the advertising dollars his company now commands" Is this true? Have there been times when news was funded by other means than advertising?
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by venning 10y ago
Apparently the presence of an apostrophe in the possessive "it's" is not an OCR or transcription mistake but actually the original spelling. A reference: http://english.stackexchange.com/a/68653
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by venning 10y ago
A lot of real-world usage of flexbox is broken that has nothing to do with IE/Edge. Follow the "Known issues" tab on your caniuse link. Also see Flexbugs [1] for more. I get bitten by #11 and/or #14 on almost every pr
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by venning 10y ago
I do agree. Neither the HN Guidelines [1] nor the FAQ [2] are clear about what expectations they have for downvotes (unless I'm missing something). I never saw the original comment when it was, I assume, greyed out, prompting the sec
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by venning 10y ago
My guess is the commenter's use of the word "unsafe" in reference to the antibacterial compounds. I don't believe they have been proven unsafe, rather that they have not been proven safe. There's a difference, and
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by venning 10y ago
AMP is of most use on mobile (possibly the only place it works?) where ad blockers don't normally exist. So, they will likely have an impact there. I know that I have personally opened search results to AMP pages that I would not norm
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by venning 10y ago
This should have a (2014) label. It's an old story and an old theory that was always dubious and was quickly disproven. A better, more recent story: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-04/mil
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by venning 10y ago
I'm sure that's why this article is listed here today. This comment on Cap'n Proto came one hour before this article was re-submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12471541

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