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by wmil 10y ago
This sounds like the result of stimulant abuse.
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by wmil 10y ago
Under the DMCA the hosting company is free from liability if they respond to takedown requests properly. Prior to that their liability wasn't a clear legal question so there was alway lawsuit potential. Archive.org could still end up i
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by wmil 10y ago
Microsoft has managed to keep VB and C# alive and well supported even though its major codebases are in C++. I don't think it's as big of a problem as the author seem to think it is.
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by wmil 10y ago
One big problem is that links die. Surprisingly often. So five year old articles will be full of dead links that need to be cleaned up. Bloomberg obviously doesn't want to deal with that, so the simple fix is to avoid linking to sites
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by wmil 10y ago
A serial killer who strangles women is probably a "Lust Killer" and not a psychopath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust_serial_killers
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by wmil 10y ago
But that's not the only program. You can get Supplemental Security Income without even being a citizen or ever having paid in. https://www.ssa.gov/ssi/spotlights/spot-non-citizens.htm Also you can generally g
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by wmil 10y ago
One of the problems is that Canadian banks will make loans to foreigners with no credit history if there's a decent down payment. The banks typically demain that Canadian borrowers get a federally insured mortgage, which involves check
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by wmil 10y ago
> "As for the denial of wiping, the Court’s independent expert found 92 percent of Carmack’s hard drive was wiped—all data was permanently destroyed, right after Carmack got notice of the lawsuit, and that his affidavit denying the
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by wmil 10y ago
And the hill staffers who wrote the bill will start up a consulting service on how to comply with the small business requirements.
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by wmil 10y ago
I've bought fake followers before. It's actually fun. You'd be surprised how much of the "chattering class" will check your follower count before they decide if they should read and respond to your comments. If you
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by wmil 10y ago
It's a bad thing. It prevents people from investing in developing the land. Areas without a clear title tend to be poor because as soon as someone tries to build a factory, workshop, business, or even just a nice house they're hit
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by wmil 10y ago
There's a social aspect to popular TV shows that are airing. If you keep up to date you can discuss the EP on various forums right after it airs. Then it's something to talk about with your co-workers who are also fans.
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by wmil 10y ago
No. There's a string to identify the header in the file then a series of bit flags. You wouldn't create an identical header by accident Nintendo either downloaded the ROM or used pirate tools to make it.
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by wmil 10y ago
Perhaps he's using it on authors known to be grandiloquent, loquacious, and sesquipedalian.
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by wmil 10y ago
It's more likely they wanted to remove all hidden directories from their home directory, and ran `rm -rf .*`. Under some shells (eg bash) that will expand to include `..` and `.`.
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by wmil 10y ago
Looks like there's no verification of the sender. So you can send these to whomever you want.
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by wmil 10y ago
They could if they were building it now. IE got pushState support in IE 10 in 2012. The hash state has been there since Instant Search was launched in 2010.
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by wmil 10y ago
He's probably thinking that past sleazy behavior was driven by a need for revenue. The Microsoft purchase changes that. MS needs to protect it's reputation more than it needs revenue from Linkedin.
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by wmil 10y ago
The bigger issue is hardware / software that manufacturers won't update. HTTPS best practices often require servers to drop support for old protocols. So if you pull out a 10 year old palm pilot and try to go to HN it won't w
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by wmil 10y ago
A few years ago HN's nested tables led to random font sizes on mobile. So there have definitely been problems in the past. But HN is also in a very unique position. It has 170 lines of CSS and thousands of talented web developers have
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by wmil 10y ago
The bigger issue is that city planners building public transit systems don't have the same interests as commuters. Inevitably they want to use public transit as an instrument for various social policies. Commuters just want to get to w
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by wmil 10y ago
One big problem they had was that they felt that hosting multiple Python versions on a system was a sysadmin problem, not a language runtime problem. This is an issue because many platforms and products shipped with some python2 scripts. So
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by wmil 10y ago
ORMs are usually easier to maintain. Update your objects, write a migration. Things are usually updated. If you start creating custom views and queries then you need to update them whenever there's a change to your objects. Also gettin
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by wmil 10y ago
He was never an immigrant. He just came on a student visa, studied, then went back to Kenya.
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by wmil 10y ago
China's system is basically just "No, you can't stay". As of 2010 exactly 1,448 living immigrants had managed to become citizens. In contrast, the US naturalizes 700,000 every year. The country actually has more billiona
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by wmil 10y ago
Let me ask the obvious. Can this generate TSX from Scala?
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by wmil 10y ago
> Donald Trump as far as I know is largely anti-union, not on the side of more progressive taxation, and not on the side of strong safety nets. Actually a big part of his appeal was that he was strongly for attempting to keep existing s
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by wmil 10y ago
I think that's something that hurt Ember.js early on. Their community was hyping each pre 1.0 RC / Beta but the public API was making breaking changes regularly. Too many devs got burnt.
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by wmil 10y ago
Justin Schuh seems to be arguing that the issue isn't just hacky deep OS access. He's saying that AV companies follow poor security and stability practices in their software and are creating vulnerabilities.
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by wmil 10y ago
"biblical canon" is "a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine" Entertainment series with many entries inevitably have internal conflicts. So series writers choose which stories are considered to be '

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