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by vital101 17y ago
This isn't to say that all teenagers only use 800 different words a day. I'm sure some do, but there have to be some that only do so to communicate effectively with their peers. I know that when I was in high school, using large words rea
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The shuttle computer does what computers do best: crunch numbers. I'd be interested in knowing what sort of hardware that RAM plugs in to, and also exactly how fast operations need to be completed in order for the shuttle to not fall out o
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Submit to Hacker News Wordpress Plugin(re-cycledair.com)
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Disabling Internet Explorer Cross Site Scripting Filter (XSS)(re-cycledair.com)
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I generally try to step away from the problem for awhile. Even if it's only for 10 minutes. I come back with a fresh perspective that usually helps me get through it.
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The testimonials are a good touch, but the associated pictures don't exactly inspire confidence.
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I think having a more iterative release cycle for Internet Explorer would put Microsoft in a better position. Having small releases adding new functionality would be much better than having to wait 2+ years between browsers. This tactic s
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Four 10 hour days would be great, but I don't think I can concentrate for that period of time. As it is, my concentration diminished after about 6 hours of work.
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"embrace polyphasic sleep". Not as easy as you would think. Also, most job schedules don't really allow for a polyphasic sleep schedule.
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The point about not using your day job's resources is important. Not only could you lose you day job, but your side project as well. Many times when you start working at an organization, they have you sign an agreement saying something li
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It makes me tingle inside every time I see a company drop support for IE6. It's the only way that we'll ever be able to put it to rest.
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Title is a bit over the top and misleading. Traditional publishing is dead (or dying). Books, are decidedly not dead. They simply take different forms now.
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"Perhaps Japan needs to find a path of entrepreneurship that actually appeals to Japanese in their 20s and 30s, rather than desperately try to copy the valley?" This piece of advise is good for almost anyone. The valley has a great busines
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PHP Global Variables Are Not Necessarily Evil(tjhunt.blogspot.com)
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Answers on top > Scrolling all the way to the bottom for answers.
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Making decisions blindly is far worse than hesitation. I agree that you can't let new information keep you from making a decision forever, but it's valuable to take a bit of time to fully consider the repercussions this information may hav
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"It’s not as slow as it used to be, but it’s still pretty un-optimized. It doesn’t run “close to the metal” like C and assembly does." While everyone likes to have efficiency, being readable and/or easy to use sometimes trumps it. Would y
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There will always be people that don't like a site's content. If that is the case, I feel they should try to help add better content. Hacker News is still a small enough community where the actions of 1 person can be felt throughout the w
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The changing nature of nonprofit marketing(blog.teamddm.com)
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As a kid who grew up in the late 80's / early 90's, I'll always have fond memories of the miniature cassette tapes that had singles on them. Crappy quality? Yes. Awful colors? For sure. But it definitely appealed to the 5 year old me.
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I was reading through the HIPAA guidelines and it mentioned something about auditing almost everything that happens on the system. Is that standard practice when doing HIPAA development?
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This is what I was afraid of. The company I work for has never had to handle this sort of data before, and were VERY close to just dropping all the client info into a standard, non-encrypted database. Thanks for your insight. I have a fee
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As a sub-topic, if I were to catch some form data, write it to a file, compress and encrypt the file (password/key protected) and then email it to a health provider, is that viable alternative to actually storing information? Of course, the
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Ask HN: How do you store patient information? (HIPAA Compliance)
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All jokes aside, I didn't realize that there was actually a hot dog choking problem. I can't say I wouldn't give a "choke free" hot dog a try though. Eating a coil of meat could be fun.
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I love how they had to dial in to an old BBS. Valve never ceases to amaze me with their creativity.
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I can barely read in a moving vehicle, let alone launch a start up.
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It's easy to tell someone about security, but actually demonstrating vulnerabilities really drives the problem home. That said, something as simple as NOT trusting any input and sanitizing it would solve 90% of these problems.
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I followed http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html with moderate success. I'm a PHP programmer by trade, and that guide was easy enough for me to understand. As far as 2.3 vs 3.0, I don't know enough about RoR to weigh in.
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The author made a point about researching the company before the interview. I always thought this was common sense (why are you applying with this company anyways?), but apparently it isn't.

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