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by xirium 18y ago
Unlike Twitter, you've got to have good uptime for this sentiment to be effective. Tags: [Faceparty] [Twitter] [uptime] [reliability] [denied]
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by xirium 18y ago
If they charge a German company to advertise on a German user's email account and they are trading a GMail then it could be a trademark infringement. It doesn't matter where they have offices and it doesn't matter that they don't have contr
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by xirium 18y ago
The article mentions Damien and Max, founders of New Bamboo! They do very tasteful design and they're extremely keen about Ruby On Rails. Indeed, they were early adopters and I first heard about Ruby On Rails from them. Tags: [opencoffee] [
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by xirium 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=216833 - Beginner. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191171 - Design prototyping. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128713 - CSS and XHTML. Tags: [html] [design] [css] [xhtml] [newbie]
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by xirium 18y ago
http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?... I also added tags, which may become increasingly useful if blogging is implemented: http://www.ycombinator.
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by xirium 18y ago
Punctuation and capitalisation can also be problematic: http://www.bash.org/?367896
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by xirium 18y ago
Try http://www.ycombinator.search.xirium.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?...
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by xirium 18y ago
I don't know a single person who uses Vista and prefers it over XP. Not one.
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by xirium 18y ago
You should have more abstraction. Date handling code is rarely clear. Embedding it presentation code is rarely advisable. Calculate day of week in one function. Calculate time of day in another function then generate position based on these
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by xirium 18y ago
> after serious scalability and trolling problems arose, they reverted to regular slashcode. That's very pertinent because reddit haven't released code to reduce spam: From the article: There are a few portions of the code that we're ke
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by xirium 18y ago
Its a theorectical average salary. You've got a very large chance of earning nothing or almost nothing and a very small change of being a zillionaire. You get one or more attempts at getting a good outcome. The average outcome would be appr
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50 office-speak phrases you love to hate(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Six laptops stolen from hospital(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Swiss TV in German anthem blunder(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 18y ago
> those skill sets lend themselves too many opportunities If you're in the UK and you've got fair qualifications in maths, computing and physics then your choices are as follows: - Finance - 60,000 pounds per year. Insane hours. Very li
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by xirium 18y ago
As a stopgap measure, check the Paul Graham "facts" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=60357 ) and the Bruce Schneier "facts" ( http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ ).
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by xirium 18y ago
The constraint to be optimised is code size, not readability or speed. A strongly-typed language would be at a disadvantage if casting between datatypes was required.
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: Based on the original perl golf, Code Golf allows you to show off your code-fu by trying to solve coding problems using the least number of keystrokes. I'll be a pedant and note that Code Golf is based on Perl Golf, which
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by xirium 18y ago
Two weeks ago, the BBC had an article about the shortage of mathematicians and physicists who persue teaching ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7433339.stm ). Would you want the best mathematicians and physicists writing games or tea
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by xirium 18y ago
> min-width which is not supported in all browsers There's a very simple workaround. Reference a transparent, one pixel image and specify the desired minimum width.
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When Borland got shirty(theregister.co.uk)
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by xirium 18y ago
> The community experience is the driving force behind reddit/digg/HN/mixx/slashdot/etc successes, not the technology. Slashdot only went open source after they gained a lead with their own instance of the code. Slashdot only went open
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by xirium 18y ago
From the article: outside very poor African countries, Aids is confined to "high-risk groups" To me, this indicates that without an expensive preventive programme, a worldwide epidemic would have occurred. I hate to make the comparison due
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts And Users Version 1.5
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by xirium 18y ago
Layering stateful and stateless protocols minimises abstraction leakiness ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm... ) while maximising future re-use. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend any books on the subject. Peop
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by xirium 18y ago
I only said that you was probably a bot. A good method to determine if you are a bot is by drawing attention to the situation. A bot would very probably ignore the implication. So, you're either a very well written bot or a person. I now th
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by xirium 18y ago
In a previous post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214742 ), you describe circumstances in which you evaluate contributions based upon the contributor.
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by xirium 18y ago
Possibly. In the article, he mentions that he has one million lines of Java in production.
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by xirium 18y ago
Receiving email via Postfix and qmail has previously been described on this forum ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=186879 ). To send email, pipe data to /usr/lib/sendmail or suchlike. Postfix, qmail and other MTAs typically install a
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by xirium 18y ago
> Sometimes I think all I do is write code to convert data from one type to another. You'd be good at ETL.

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