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by wanderr 15y ago
I'm glad they are doing this because they need to do something about memory usage, but there are some problems with this approach. -websites change over time. If a site gets redesigned, it'll throw off test results unless they're rerunning
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by wanderr 15y ago
On the other hand, more expensive items often get worse reviews, because customer expectations rise. For example, I was looking at espresso machines on amazon a few months ago, and just about all of the $2k+ machines had worse ratings than
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by wanderr 15y ago
The keyboard on BB devices is really better than anything else running Android, barring maybe a couple of Android devices with extremely under powered hardware.
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by wanderr 15y ago
So awesome that this exists, and the timing is serendipitous -- I was about to ask someone on my team to make just such a thing after I noticed that the vast majority of our bounces are really obvious typos of popular domains, like gmial.co
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by wanderr 15y ago
Good point. How disappointing!
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by wanderr 15y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible to put a data center next to a power plant, and use the cooling water to raise the temperature of the water flowing in to the power plant, theoretically it should then take less energy to raise the temperatu
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by wanderr 15y ago
I don't understand why this poses a problem, even for lawyers. The clause is clearly unenforcible so why can't it just be ignored? Is there seriously some concern that a judge would decide that it is enforcible?
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by wanderr 15y ago
It's been a long time since I've seen Once, but it's a touching love story. As far as I remember, there's no violence, graphic sex or anything remotely objectionable or disturbing besides your aforementioned f-bombs. The R rating may not be
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by wanderr 15y ago
Happy to see someone else mention steelseries. The headphones I love are the 5H V2 though. They sound great to me, but more important for long sessions is that they are fantastically comfortable. Not only do they fit completely over my ears
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by wanderr 15y ago
Couldn't that be considered caching? Wouldn't people be upset if they were hotlinking?
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by wanderr 15y ago
I used to be a happy t-mobile customer thanks to UMA...cell coverage couldn't make it to my house, since it was only 1 bar in my front yard and I live in a block house with a metal roof, but thanks to UMA it didn't matter. Eventually I got
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by wanderr 15y ago
Here's my hack, that may not be acceptable to everyone: pay cash for your car, settle for whatever you can afford, pay yourself car payments. Buy something ugly. I stared with an $800 POS and made it last for 3 years...I paid myself a modes
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by wanderr 15y ago
It keeps the upstream history cleaner at the expense of being locally historically correct. In my opinion the nice thing about having everyone rebase onto upstream is that when their changes get merged into upstream, upstream's history sh
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by wanderr 15y ago
Sites need to load ads asynchronously, after content. When ads can't block the site from rendering, it doesn't matter how long they take to load.
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by wanderr 15y ago
Loose typing plus strong OO for basic types is a pretty horrifying cmbination, IMO. What happens if you call $aString->pos() when PHP decides that $aString can be an int because it happens to be holding a string that's composed of numbe
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by wanderr 15y ago
Thunderbird for feeds I want to see updates from eventually but don't care when, each feed goes into a separate folder and I just check them when I have time. Biggest problem is when something changes in the feed format or something, and it
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by wanderr 15y ago
Is that still true for you if you use APC? What if you use nginx instead of Apache? In our experience, APC makes an order of magnitude difference, and nginx makes several.
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by wanderr 15y ago
If nobody understands REST, and as other articles have claimed, nobody does it right, then why do we keep trying to use it? Switch to something simple that everyone can understand like JSON-RPC and quit worrying about pedantry.
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by wanderr 15y ago
What's with the downvotes? Is my statement not true??
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by wanderr 15y ago
They broke that in FF4 (intentionally).
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by wanderr 15y ago
This is a non-issue if you use JSON-RPC.
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by wanderr 15y ago
I don't have an edu address. I don't have to pay an annual fee to get fast service from Newegg.
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by wanderr 15y ago
One of my coworkers just bought a fusion powered micro-laptop thing for about $400. I'm impressed...the form factor is slightly larger than netbooks, but that means the keyboard is actually usable, the battery life is great, and it actually
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by wanderr 15y ago
And with quicker shipping. If Amazon and Newegg have something for the same price, or the difference is just a few dollars, I go with Newegg every time.
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by wanderr 15y ago
Not necessarily, in the context of hacker news.
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by wanderr 15y ago
My experience with git in windows has been great. It just works, and is no slower than Linux machines. I use msysgit and tortoisegit on large and complex projects, with no issues.
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by wanderr 15y ago
I'd say it's more like benchmarks don't tell the whole story. They should still be good for catching obvious regressions before any code hits a real user's machine, but having real world data should help to identify a whole bunch of bottlen
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by wanderr 15y ago
In my area at least, buying makes a lot of sense. Prices are at an all-time low, but rent hasn't gone down at all. The same type of house renting for $900/month can be had with a mortgage of $350/month. As long as you are comfortable with r
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by wanderr 15y ago
They should really call it a "mombook" because it's ideal for parents or grandparents who just want to get on the internet and have a computer that just works and is simple. Imagine setting your family up with these and never getting tech s
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by wanderr 15y ago
I highly recommend that anyone who was surprised by this outage, or the description of the chain reaction of failures that lead to it, read Systemantics. It is a dry but amusing exploration of the seemingly universal fact that every complex

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