aimhb

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Ask HN: Is there any mobile messaging app that requires no phone number?
1 points by aimhb 11y ago|1 comments
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by aimhb 12y ago
That, and the terms of service.
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by aimhb 12y ago
Yes. The Boy Who Cried Wolf has other issues, as well, though; I remember thinking (as a child) that it was as much the villagers' fault for not believing the kid as it was the kid's fault for lying before.
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by aimhb 12y ago
Stopped reading after the fourth misspelling of "it's".
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by aimhb 12y ago
Calculus.
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by aimhb 12y ago
And they do. They aren't being silenced.
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by aimhb 13y ago
Do you even know what you're talking about? Miranda rights are for interrogations.
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by aimhb 13y ago
Clearly you haven't been to many comp sci 101 courses.
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Why WTFPL is bad for you
2 points by aimhb 13y ago|1 comments
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by aimhb 13y ago
It was posted here on HN a few days ago, but you might find the DEFCON talk on single bit domain errors relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbyDSvGasw In summary, some data centers are run hotter than recommended, wh
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by aimhb 13y ago
You can just torrent users.tar.gz (the leaked list of encrypted passwords) and then grep the file for your email address, which will give you the encrypted version of your password.
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Unusual TLDs recently added: .SEXY, .LIGHTING, .ENTERPRISES, et al.(changedetection.com)
1 points by aimhb 13y ago|0 comments
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by aimhb 13y ago
In pre-university school I would always wish that instead of trying to describe a complicated procedure/formula in words (and failing), that the teachers would just write a program. Code can be a very effective means of communication b
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by aimhb 13y ago
Great example of a cool trick using completely the wrong tool for the job.
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by aimhb 13y ago
There are some nuggets of both wisdom and idiocy here. The short story is, yes, drinkups should not be required social functions in any office setting, including startups. The rest of the article, which tries to tie the whole concept to rap
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by aimhb 13y ago
I appreciate Black MIDI not really as a "cool gimmick" but more as a genre of music. In my opinion, its main function and appeal is to embody music that is still pleasing to the ear, even if it would be impossible in practice. The
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by aimhb 13y ago
Quick! What's MCO? You guessed it — Orlando.
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by aimhb 13y ago
Pretty sure. Also "irrelevant" isn't really the right word as much as "lost". Examining the word completely myopically, things like ability to play piano might seem relatively useless. However, science has recently
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by aimhb 13y ago
How is this at all annoyance with a younger generation? There's a lot of knowledge, such as of music, that's only passed on through oral or hands-on teaching. This knowledge lives on by mere virtue of the continued survival of the
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by aimhb 13y ago
Can someone explain how leaking a traceback is a security flaw, considering it's a lot less information than just releasing the source code (which we do all the time and don't consider it a security flaw)?
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Fuckit – The Python Error Steamroller(pypi.python.org)
2 points by aimhb 13y ago|0 comments
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by aimhb 13y ago
> One place I worked had the very strong rule that you start all non-emergency communication asynchronously (usually text chat), even if the person is right next to you. A little bit off topic, but I too have experienced this, and I have
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by aimhb 13y ago
Why would your lawyer even try to prove you innocent if it meant not getting a paycheck?
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by aimhb 13y ago
I really wish people would stop calling this language JavaScript. It's not. Its proper name is UnityScript, and it's more like Jscript.NET than anything else.
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by aimhb 13y ago
I'm not sure a magazine about diabetes is something to be appalled about. Lots of people have type 1 diabetes, which is more or less congenital and whether you contract it or not is out of your control. Reading materials for those with
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by aimhb 13y ago
Also, doesn't the DMCA protect people under most of these? They can be posted no matter the copyright status, until a company claiming ownership asks them to take it down.
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by aimhb 13y ago
Also, they missed out on fixing possibly the second* silliest part of PHP: horrible inner functions. * Edit: I just remembered PHP's "barewords".