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by zck 17y ago
Well, evolution doesn't have a "why" reasoning. It's not like there's a committee looking for the most efficient design. It may have been more complicated to evolve sperm to be more heat-resistant. Doing so may have even necessitated some b
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by zck 17y ago
You can turn off the thumbnails in your preferences. Additionally, try the "compress the link display". Here's what I see when I go to reddit: http://imgur.com/angua . After one of the redesigns, where they introduced the thumbnails and e
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About the city of Cleveland's program for funding and advising startups(parade.com)
1 points by zck 17y ago|0 comments
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by zck 17y ago
Yeah, username + password + email would work. It's not as safe as username + password1 + password2, since you can mistype both, but it allows an escape plan. The way HN does it, with just username + password is dangerous, I think, because m
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by zck 17y ago
Especially in this case, when you don't ask for an email, it seems like a mistake to only get the password once. If someone mistypes it, there's no way to get them access to their account again. And yes, I'm aware HN has this problem, unles
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by zck 17y ago
>If she thought about her own usage, she'd realize that it was an insanely high number... It's dangerous to generalize from yourself like that.
817.
by zck 17y ago
Currently (12:20 AM EST) my google account ( https://www.google.com/accounts/ ) has the link to Dashboard ( https://www.google.com/dashboard ), but the resulting page is a 404.
818.
by zck 17y ago
Additionally, old comments don't have reply links. For example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=820365
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by zck 17y ago
At least one gigatime.
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by zck 17y ago
Being confidant in myself or my work.
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by zck 17y ago
Not to pg-fanboy out too much, but I really like his ANSI Common Lisp: http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html . It's not the newest thing on the market, but is quite good. Obviously, it's a book, so you'd have to buy or borrow it. Also, Arc h
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by zck 17y ago
Although I'm not a fan of using i in a mathematical formula like this. When I first saw it, it looked like they meant sqrt(-1).
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by zck 17y ago
Well, one downside is that they don't have ATMs all over the place. Some are in a [group]( http://www.co-opfs.org/public/locators/atmlocator/index.cfm ) that offer free withdrawals for any member of a credit union in the group, but they're
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by zck 17y ago
It's not that I suspected that specific issue made you guys decide to leave, It's more of I'm somewhat surprised you're leaving at all. Then again, I saw it coming when spez posted "Ask me again in a couple of months". Anyway, thanks for bu
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by zck 17y ago
On one hand, I'm a little surprised. On the other, I'm not: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9clji/where_did_m...
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by zck 17y ago
I like the name posted by someone in the comments -- NoTable.
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by zck 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is actually better. up down score 100 100 50 20 0 20 100 200 33 100 300 25 100 400 20 Wouldn't you want a comment with 20 upvotes and no downvotes to rank above a c
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by zck 17y ago
For more technical information, look at the page Randall linked to: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
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Reddit implements "best" comment sorting based on score confidence intervals.(blog.reddit.com)
31 points by zck 17y ago|19 comments
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by zck 17y ago
I'm not sure this is the case here, but it might be the difference between the actual text itself and the representation, arrangement, and style of the text as exhibited in the book. This happens in music, where a given Mozart concerto, for
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by zck 17y ago
One of the downsides of taking less time to graduate is requiring earlier decisions. Many students don't graduate with their major unchanged from what they thought it at the time they matriculated. Personally, by the time my freshman year w
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by zck 17y ago
>Finally, their chart accentuates the differences by dropping the zero. Making it more confusing, FICO scores start at 300.
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by zck 17y ago
I'd say that while "kids signing up for AOL today" might not impact the score, "kids signing up for AOL five or ten years ago" would.
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by zck 17y ago
Interesting. I'd imagine Comcast and BellSouth win because older, less tech-savvy people are more likely to use their ISP account, and credit scores correlate with age. AOL probably doesn't have the same benefit because you can sign up for
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by zck 17y ago
Natrius is right. The independent variable in this experiment is calories ingested, not weight loss. They're specifically testing for what happens when you eat fewer calories. On page six, they compare rats that are lean because of exercise
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by zck 17y ago
Because of the way it's held, and because the keys are tapped, it reminds me of the Chapman Stick: http://stick.com/ , which, beyond being an instrument in its own right, was used as the baliset in Dune.
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by zck 17y ago
If you like iswitchb-mode, try out ido-mode ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings ). It's like iswitchb-mode, but it also works with C-x C-f. I assume it does more than that, but I haven't looked specifically for the differ
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by zck 17y ago
Personally, I use mailinator.com for that kind of thing. At least, things that require an email address where I don't need the emails stored for longer than required to click the "activate account" link. It's beneficial because there is no
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by zck 17y ago
It's also amusing that they're trying to take down an advertisement. The whole purpose of ads is to be seen by people, for free.
840.
by zck 17y ago
Domain squatters are quite frustrating. I wanted to buy the .com version of my hn handle, but (after contacting them several times), they responded, saying they don't even consider anything less than $50,000. Yeesh. The .net version is owne

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