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by ximeng 16y ago
You might want to try on a trip where it's just you and in a place where you know you can get a hotel if things don't work out. It becomes higher risk when you're bring kids / partner too and have to keep everyone happy. AirBnB / couch surf
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by ximeng 16y ago
Upstream glibc bug here: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12518 Assigned to the inimitable Ulrich Drepper, who comments: "The existence of code written by people who should never have been allowed to touch a keyboard can
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by ximeng 16y ago
Sorry accidental downvote due to fiddly touch screen
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by ximeng 16y ago
Access has been restored. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12586462
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by ximeng 16y ago
Note that you don't need the 1.9GB file linked there to install this on one PC. You should be able to get it from Windows Update. I needed to select it, it was listed as an "important update" but deselected by default.
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by ximeng 16y ago
Oops! This link appears to be broken. I wonder if they know I've got doubleclick in my hosts file.
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by ximeng 16y ago
"It seems that others share this view. The discussion on YCombinator starts with this comment" - from the article.
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by ximeng 16y ago
The problem is that the companies producing luxury goods benefit from providing as little information as possible to their customers. It would be better for society if the companies with the most knowledge of how to produce a particular typ
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by ximeng 16y ago
Very interesting, I assumed someone would be working on something like this. I guess it's a big market, if you can convince bigcos to trust the phone to be secure.
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by ximeng 16y ago
Well-written interesting article, and good links too: e.g. to this site on orbiting data centres: http://server-sky.com/
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by ximeng 16y ago
A competitor for RSA's SecurID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurID I've been thinking how you'd do this as a generic application for web apps. A daemon somewhere on the web that resets your password once a day for all the web apps you u
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by ximeng 16y ago
21901 hits since 1995 - little over 1000 hits a year. Let's see the HN effect now. [One hour later - 22797, a little way off 900 in an hour.] --- Reocities link for the rebuttal linked at the bottom of the article. http://www.reocities.com
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by ximeng 16y ago
Have you seen Microsoft CHESS? http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/chess/ Tests different interleavings of multithreaded code. Maybe there are other tools like this out there.
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by ximeng 16y ago
As a not-working-at-a-startup person, when I went to the first HN meetup I was impressed by the fact that pretty much everybody I met was working at a startup. That's part of the reason I haven't been since actually, because I didn't think
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by ximeng 16y ago
High end Sony should do all of that: E.g. VPCZ13AHX/XQ http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDi...
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by ximeng 16y ago
The page here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/ shows you how to check if you're vulnerable. I couldn't persuade Chrome to navigate to an mhtml protocol page from the address bar, so embedded a link in a web page to the sample file they ga
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by ximeng 16y ago
Yahoo data sources: http://finance.yahoo.com/exchanges So Telekurs ( http://www.telekurs-financial.com ) or Interactive Data Rts ( http://www.interactivedata-rts.com ).
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by ximeng 16y ago
Check out playnice.ly, they're planning on achievements in bug tracking too. http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/11/17/playnice-ly-exits-beta-w...
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by ximeng 16y ago
Ray tracer written in more than 30 lines of Linq (using a y combinator), malpractice perhaps but I learned from it. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq...
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by ximeng 16y ago
Earlier discussion about the hotel construction at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901274
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by ximeng 16y ago
What's the bottleneck on the Chromium build on your machine?
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by ximeng 16y ago
Linking Chromium on Windows hit swap for me with 8GB.
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by ximeng 16y ago
Your referer may need to be from Google - try the first link in http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Technology%3A%20A%2... Last paragraph sums up fairly well: If it is not to become left behind in businesses such as these, the indust
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Technology: A dip in the valley(ft.com)
1 points by ximeng 16y ago|1 comments
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by ximeng 16y ago
And, presumably thanks to tptacek's hard work, one of the key search terms bringing people in here is "sous vide supreme".
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by ximeng 16y ago
Off-topically, piecing together the years that the previous posts were made, it looks like February 4 2009 had a downvote cap of 100. It's 500 as of late last year. That suggests the annual karma inflation rate in the HN economy is sqrt(5),
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by ximeng 16y ago
Created a test account and test project, and got redirected to http://chalkboardhq.com/projects/37 : The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
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by ximeng 16y ago
Why are aging billionaires like Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates are not putting millions and millions of dollars into medical research to stop these kind of aging-related diseases? It would seem they have higher incentives for thi
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£98 PCs target UK digital divide(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ximeng 16y ago|0 comments
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by ximeng 16y ago
How do you make money? If it's in the public domain, what do you sell?

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