OzzyOsbourne

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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Interestingly, the article explicitly mentions the FBI, not the NSA. But, if we were to unify them in our respective imaginations (for the purposes of discussion), they still need to have the budget for their operations supplied from somewh
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
"I don’t think they are filtering it. They are just storing it" How much would it actually cost to store all the emails that American citizens send and receive? I find it difficult to visualise a system of checks and balances approving the
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Slightly OT: "The Rods... so sensitive that they can be triggered by single photon" This sort of thing is why I love HN. Irrespective of the topic, there is always some little gem I find somewhere. I was very sceptical of this claim, so
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
So which framework comes out on top with the least developer friction metric? Not just convenient features like an ORM but also, your ability to do stuff without the framework getting in the way.
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
37signals can be considered small
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
I don't understand this concept? Anybody care to clarify? edit: specifically, What constitutes a voting ring? Why would HN want to find and prune them?
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
I want to believe this and internalise it, and make it my road map. I intend on getting a 4-year degree as well as a master's degree. Do you have any evidence on the state machine-ness of bureaucracies? Anecdotes? How can you substantiate y
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Are you sure? How do you know it is not an image processing/edge detection algorithm running? If they were indeed constructing a 3d-model, I'd be interested in seeing it, even if it is a low-poly approximation...
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
> "if cron fails completely" How often does this happen, and why? If this problem is inherent to cron, are there alternatives that are [possibly] better suited to server work?
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
This is totally awesome. BTW, I've been meaning to ask for a while though: what sort of algorithm is running that detects edges and orientation so when the mouse is moved, the small white circle or quadrilateral seems to touch the objects
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Initially this might seem different from the topic at-hand, but bear with me please: Several years ago (probably first or second year of high school) I wrote and distributed amongst my friends a small desktop game. The program e-mailed me t
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
A comparison between this and statsd would be interesting. Any one have experience with both? And as for the similarity between the Heroku documentation page - their github documentation page reads: "This program is forked from heroku/hero
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Finding out about this kind of thing is exactly why I come to Hacker News. Thank You, eminent kefs.
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Ask HN: How to avoid "that bootstrap look"?
3 points by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago|3 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
I think this article's headline is a little misplaced. The massive backing given to Ouya on Kickstarter in such a short time period is testament to the sheer volume of people who want indie gaming hardware. Gamers aren't going to throw arou
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Don't forget RethinkDB, Mixpanel and Cloudera - those guys are solving some difficult, real world problems. Personally, I wouldn't classify massively distributed computation as a service boring . If anything, the scale (in numbers of users
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by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago
Ray Wenderlich's website is a very valuable source of information for incipient iOS devs. A search: http://www.google.co.za/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ub... yields his website as the first few links. Kudos to this guy for giving a
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Ask HN: Video Game Company Hackers?
1 points by OzzyOsbourne 14y ago|0 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago
The $99 is not so much the limiting reagent... South Africa doesn't mean poor BTW :) its just the barrier to entry that is a tad high for an income-less High School student.
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Ask HN: Ideas/Advice for a sole 18 year old hacker?
5 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|6 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago
I know it's not technically mathematical, but someone in this community should point to Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It is a fascinating book that partially explores the complexities within Escher's work.
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Ask HN: New companies doing desktop software?
1 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Any "other" racism in the valley?
2 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|0 comments
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No More Press Freedom in South Africa(editorsweblog.org)
6 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|0 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago
http://imagepaste.nullnetwork.net/viewimage.php?id=2494 - a screenshot
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Ask HN: Why do so many "Ask HN:" posts seem to cluster together?
2 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: What were the 'hot' dev environments c. 1999
9 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|7 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago
You could try and license your entire toolchain, sort of like Epic Games does with the Unreal Engine.
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Ask HN: Biomimicry in software?
1 points by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago|1 comments
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by OzzyOsbourne 15y ago
This is quite surprising. I didn't expect other Joburgers on here.

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