HalibetLector

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by HalibetLector 14y ago
The key difference is they traded privacy for personal trust and rapport. When you live in the same foxhole with your entire family and are always interacting with the same small community, trust is built up over time. You knew everybody in
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
There's a happy donuts at 3rd and King st, near the ballpark. It's open 24/7 and serves coffee.
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
I've been doing the same and the lag isn't the issue. The real problem is high CPU usage. I can only use the usb monitor for looking at text, anything more (like opening a webpage or watching a video in youtube) and the computer slows to a
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
From a legal standpoint, there absolutely is a need to know your full name and birth date. It's called the FTC Coppa rule, where it's illegal to collect and disclosing personal information of children under age 13 without their parents’ pri
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
You're not alone. My brother lives in Omaha and I've visited once. I had no idea it was hiding a tech community (my brother isn't a techie).
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
So by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the practice. by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the experience for the end user, but not the practice of creating the sushi. People may reserve a stool a year in advance, but fo
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
Ask Bradley Manning.
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
I've had similar problems with people who think everything and anything is possible in just 4 weeks. People with positive attitudes who over-commit a whole team is bad enough, but when I try to say 'what you're talking about isn't possible,
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by HalibetLector 14y ago
The government isn't discerning between "not for profit" piracy and "for profit" piracy. In fact, they're not even focused on "piracy" at all. If this is allowed to stand without any kind of recourse or punishment, there would then be a pre
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
The first startup I worked for called a company meeting and pretty much said everybody was laid off except those who were told beforehand that they weren't. The kicker is, I was a contractor (at that point) and wasn't allowed in the company
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Did overall Groupers scheduled also go down once people realized they couldn't cancel without having to do it themselves? also, is the no-show rate still 0.2% after implementing this policy? I find it hard to believe these other metrics did
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
And they couldn't say no because...? Does being homeless automatically mean they have no free will? Granted, I've never been homeless, but I've read first hand accounts of people who fall into that life, then rehabilitate themselves and get
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I'm confused - A large part of the discussion here is around the legality of deduping and "infringing" files. I was under the impression that files themselves don't violate copyright - people do. As a result, there will never be a way to ac
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
There is no consistency across border crossing sites. I spent most of my life living on the Ontario/NY border and I can say for sure that I've never had a problem at the border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge. Everybody there, from
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
> The idea that "If my work had become too popular I'd probably think I'd have to change" is terribly cynical. Not really. For some people, the goal is to do useful work that only you can do. When your work becomes mainstream, that mean
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Am I the only one who can't use Solarized because it gives me a headache? I'm not trolling, I'm being serious. The contrast between the text and the background is lower than in a black background/white foreground setup. It strains my eyes,
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
did you bother to read the article? we're not talking about hiring for startups. We're talking about hiring for police/emergency services. Having a selection bias against hiring honest cops sounds like a problem to me.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Personally, I liked the humor. It shows you're an actual human and not a program yourself. I'm always amazed at the commentators on HN who advocate that you should never offend anyone in the slightest way, ever. <sarcasm>After all,
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I had one of those. If anything, it made me MORE paranoid. Before, I only responded to noise. Easy enough to fix, put on the headphones. But with the mirror, I can now see constant movement out of the corner of my eye. all. day. long.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I don't understand how you can think this is a valid argument against piracy. Community is available on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, netflix, hulu and NBC.com. Plenty of perfectly legal places to watch it not on broadcast TV. Some of which
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I've been told by IDE users that a large part of why they use IDEs is just how much work it can do for you without you having to think about it. Need to change a class name that gets referenced hundreds of places throughout a project? Proje
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
It's well understood in the social gaming industry that if you want a hit game, you have to do one of two things: get an underground viral hit (very hard and impossible to predict) or you buy users through ads. According to a recent story,
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
And that's exactly what some of us do. But there's no way you're getting all of your facebook friends to do the same. Facebook can build a profile on you based on your friend's tracking data. Whether it'll be accurate or not is mostly a tec
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I give that arrangement until your friend realizes he can only shift his content onto 5 devices, at which point his content is lost forever. Or when his hard drive crashes and he realizes he can't re-download tv episodes. Personally, I valu
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
rapidshare is a swiss company, and the law is less crazy over here. Tell that to the pirate bay.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
Most companies forbid bittorrent traffic because it saturates the local intranet, especially on wifi networks. And because they perceive bittorrent to be illegal.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
You're also ignoring the non-financial downsides: high stress, long hours and no life outside of the startup. Suggesting that startups are inherently interesting misses the fact that a great many of them are rehashes of previous successful
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
It's funny, that very same site has multiple posts saying the exact same thing.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
I find it unsettling that Jon Stewart and his researchers and writers can go from knowing nothing about a topic to nailing some of the central absurdities in less than a week, but our congressmen and their staff CAN'T.
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by HalibetLector 15y ago
VPS is good because I don't want to deal with the hardware, I just want it to work, BUT I want full control of the software I run, within reason. My definition of within reason is I like to run experimental servers on my VPS and see how the

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