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by veyron 15y ago
"They can break compatibility every time, for all I care." that's why apple won't find much traction in the business world. backwards compatibility is very important. You want to write software once, not have to continually update to migr
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by veyron 15y ago
You mean "MacBook Air" (not macnook air)
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by veyron 15y ago
Facebook response: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10151330596285363
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by veyron 15y ago
previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636287
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by veyron 15y ago
technically the equivalent is echo -n > file
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by veyron 15y ago
awk's sprintf can do all of that. Not saying it's the right tool for the job, but the parent did have a pipeline already using awk.
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by veyron 15y ago
What we need to see is proof that somehow the contents of the text message is sent back to facebook. There are tools like mitmproxy to see the traffic. Couldn't someone with a facebook account using the app explicitly check whether or not t
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by veyron 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636287
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by veyron 15y ago
Note that this requires you to look at the battery. My BMW, for example, has its battery in a very obscure location (behind the seats) and there are mere terminals in the hood for jumping.
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by veyron 15y ago
FYI you can add line numbers (cat -n behavior) within awk directly as so: awk '{print NR, $0}'
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by veyron 15y ago
In some older versions of bash, when dealing with process substitution, you actually needed the dash. For example get_data | tee >(cmd) get_data | tee >(cat | cmd) would fail but get_data | tee >(cat - | cmd)
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by veyron 15y ago
If you want left to right you can do <file cmd
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Facebook spies on phone users' text messages, report says (news.com.au)
57 points by veyron 15y ago|18 comments
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by veyron 15y ago
It's actually more common with tires, but there are battery manufacturers like Interstate that give prorated battery warranties (of course there are all kinds of stipulations on the warranty protecting them from negligence claims)
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by veyron 15y ago
The question you have to ask is how they are making money. If it costs 2 dollars to make a dollar in revenue, then you are actually losing money. There's no guarantee that they will continue to make money if they tone down their spend (for
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by veyron 15y ago
I didn't use the word 'powerful' because powerful generally refers to expressivity. I'm most interested in performance. C++ template metaprogramming gives you most of the expressivity of generic programming without paying a large runtime p
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by veyron 15y ago
There was a cultural revolution in business whereby people saw the role of the firm as profit-maximizing, where profit is measured on a quarter-by-quarter basis. In that light, Jobs was crazy for focusing on the product (and letting the pro
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by veyron 15y ago
Kickstarter hasn't really faced many scammers yet, but as it becomes more successful more people will propose projects that they dont intend on fulfilling (and pocketing the money).
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by veyron 15y ago
Template metaprogramming still solves certain problems better than other solutions. If it is not used obsessively, then there are better languages
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by veyron 15y ago
Figure this is the right time to ask about SSDs .. Any recommendations for MBP SSDs?
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by veyron 15y ago
"Forbes pursues a dual strategy" not convinced forbes is capable of a higher level of discourse
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by veyron 15y ago
Shows who is more interested in intellectually stimulative journalism (honestly, I found that tidbit a honeypot -- other parts of the article are far more interesting)
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by veyron 15y ago
Hackathons aren't meant to be an end-all. It's hard to find a good block of time to do a side project, and I see hackathons as ways of forcing yourself to commit to a project for a short burst of time. Once you have the groundwork down, yo
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by veyron 15y ago
After some thought, what i'd like to see is what's done now with globstar (make new features accessible via shopt)
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by veyron 15y ago
Lets imagine for a moment that cross-platform backwards compatibility is a high priority, and that every change leads to a frustrated group of users running scripts from many years ago. How could you make a destructive change? As an exampl
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by veyron 15y ago
It moved above the IPO price due to the Facebook IPO announcement and the related launch of the social media ETF (Tape C, ticker SOCL)
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by veyron 15y ago
There's very little evidence that the individual investors would buy in at that range. As evidence of faltering IPO demand, check out what happened to Zynga -- took about 10 minutes to fall below ipo price.
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by veyron 15y ago
I dont think people would care so much if they receive baby ads. On the other hand, I imagine I'd be pretty pissed if I had a teenage daughter and she received this.
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by veyron 15y ago
He may have found a security hole so disastrous and so ingrained that its easier to jail the kid than to fix the problem.
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by veyron 15y ago
... to gage students’ work ... Really? "gage"? This is an academic blog ...

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