britknight

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Stepping into This Shower Feels Like Hugging a Warm Cloud(wired.com)
1 points by britknight 11y ago|1 comments
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by britknight 11y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that the fact that the clone was written from scratch doesn't have any bearing on whether or not it infringes on copyright. The clone uses the name "Agar.io Clone" and copies the look and mechan
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by britknight 11y ago
Why? If you spend all day designing and writing code, why not view your commute as an opportunity to relax/read a book/listen to music/whatever you want to do that's different from your day-to-day work? Future you will t
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by britknight 11y ago
When I try to find the Standard Treasury homepage to get a better idea of what it's trying to accomplish (by following the link from OP's blog), all I see is an empty blog site. Is this because they are trying to keep a low web pr
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by britknight 11y ago
I agree with most of what you've said, but I would recommend switching the priority to lifting rather than cardio. Of course, cardio is important for heart heath and overall respiratory fitness, but in terms of "getting in shape&q
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Ask HN: How to learn more about distributed systems
6 points by britknight 11y ago|2 comments
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by britknight 11y ago
Shall we play a game?
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by britknight 11y ago
> I thought my taxes pay for that :) . Do you mean "finances" as "machinery which helps moving money"? I think there are several definitions there. You are correct in that the money used to build highways etc. does s
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by britknight 11y ago
(In response to above as well as parent) > What's the magic that happens at zero that causes otherwise nonsensical projects to make economic sense? The bulldozing-mountains example is purposefully over-the-top (I believe I first hea
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by britknight 11y ago
Banks don't necessarily borrow at 0%. Granted, they are able to borrow at a much lower rate than you or me (closer to the Federal Funds Rate managed by the U.S. Federal Reserve), but they still pay interest on their loans. Of course, r
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by britknight 11y ago
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Ask HN: Is Dvorak worth it?
9 points by britknight 11y ago|20 comments
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by britknight 11y ago
> If you're a programmer and you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber Um, this, for one. I see no possible reality in which a disease that kills almost one child every minute [1] could possibly take a backseat to yo
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by britknight 11y ago
> "society needs more people working directly on problems that matter" This does not imply that "we should al be working directly on more worthy causes". My impression was that the author was simply making an observat
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by britknight 11y ago
> " If you feel like curing malaria is more important than Uber"? I'm sorry, but that strikes me as a pretty privileged sentiment. Would you say that everyone who feels a calling to work in the nonprofit/humanitarian
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by britknight 11y ago
I think that by Apple's "level", the above comment was referring less to design elements and more to manufacturing processes that would not be feasible for a company operating at smaller scale. An article a while ago [1] had
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The Plot to Free North Korea with Smuggled Episodes of 'Friends'(wired.com)
10 points by britknight 12y ago|0 comments
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by britknight 12y ago
It's not just npm. A while back I had to set up a Rails dev environment for a client who used Windows. shudder .
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Ask HN: Go. Flavor of the month or here to stay?
14 points by britknight 12y ago|12 comments
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by britknight 12y ago
You might want to give this a read: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ("Do Things That Don't Scale"). It's the best piece I've ever read dealing with the question of attracting users to an early-stage s
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by britknight 12y ago
And the fact that they just got funding means that they don't have too much of a head start on you. If you already have an MVP, you should be able to catch up fairly quickly, as fundraising should hopefully be much more productive no
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by britknight 12y ago
What would you suggest?
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by britknight 12y ago
All-time favorite: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Recent favorite: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
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by britknight 12y ago
"give themselves rights to host and slap ads on any of your other public output" cough cough Facebook cough cough
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by britknight 12y ago
"Terms are offered. You can accept them or reject them" Isn't this the exact opposite of a negotiation? By definition, doesn't "negotiation" imply that both parties enter into a discussion in an attempt to re
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Ask HN: What other sites do you use to get reliable news?
4 points by britknight 12y ago|7 comments
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by britknight 12y ago
Exactly. The above comment could be just as easily applied to a penalty shootout in soccer.
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by britknight 12y ago
Loda also had a good performance at the Summit recently, standing in for Tinker. Even if Alliance may not be so hot on the scene right now, the talent at the core of their team is still present.
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FBI blasts Google, Apple for phone encryption(washingtonpost.com)
6 points by britknight 12y ago|0 comments
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by britknight 12y ago
Correlation in not a death sentence. No one is saying it can't be used, merely making a observation based on the gathered statistics.

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