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The Clever Way Ford’s Self-Driving Cars Navigate in Snow(wired.com)
3 points by fffrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by fffrad 10y ago
I'm not saying writing this kind of piece is bad. I want to read them, and they are a good reminder that sometimes we get caught up in our little rituals and take it way too seriously. The fact that I was annoyed was exactly the point.
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by fffrad 10y ago
Sure this kind of posts get pretty annoying. As the author keeps repeating "existential longing" I want to yell "get over it already" or "stop smoking pot". But then I remember that I have my moments too. It&#x
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Is your smartphone listening to you?(bbc.com)
3 points by fffrad 10y ago|0 comments
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by fffrad 11y ago
I felt cheated[1], you saved my salary and now you asked for my email before showing me anything. [1]: http://i.imgur.com/qDwJ4Dm.jpg
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by fffrad 11y ago
When you get the one click wordpress install on some hosting companies, you also get a lot of preinstalled plugins. These plugins only bloat your website.
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It's 2016, did we fix the C10K problem?(idiallo.com)
11 points by fffrad 11y ago|6 comments
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by fffrad 11y ago
Is it bad because it's a blog post?
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by fffrad 11y ago
This was quite a good read. Since this is HN, it may be a good idea to port this to the tech community: > Keeping up with the latest framework I interviewed at a company that jumped on Silverlight on the very first day because they wante
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by fffrad 11y ago
What I find interesting is how everyone has already accepted that antioxidants are amazing against cancer. Now with this information will be resisted and fought, whether it is true or false. Every health nut (or enthusiast) praised antioxid
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How I Sold My Bible App Company(trevormckendrick.com)
4 points by fffrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by fffrad 11y ago
Eu Cookie law. I think this law passed because it had the word Cookie in it. "Protect people's cookies", no one wants unsafe cookies.
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by fffrad 11y ago
Low sales means last years model is still performing pretty well. In fact, the model from two years ago is still doing just fine. Here is a post from two years ago where we discussed this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by fffrad 11y ago
One of the problems is that facts are usually presented in the most boring ways, think lectures. Facts, should be spread the same way. Using propaganda, using sex, using means as creative as those who decide to spread false information. Nex
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by fffrad 11y ago
If only we could get paid to find solutions, not write lines of code. I was once asked to create a pie chart of the number of lines of code my team wrote every week. I still haven't figured it out.
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by fffrad 11y ago
Many years ago, I owned a Radio Hub from Westinghouse. It required an internet connection for it to work and I was totally fine with it. I got my weather info from it, set my calendar reminders, and it had a bunch of other small features. P
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by fffrad 11y ago
This book is fascinating. Piracy certainly have different meaning in different places.
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by fffrad 11y ago
1. Recently I was reading how in the early public school system, students of a widely different age all sat in the same class. The bigger kids will learn first from the teacher, and in turn, turn around and teach the younger ones. At least
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by fffrad 11y ago
he meant, baby don't hurt me.
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by fffrad 11y ago
When you look at code you wrote in the past, whether it is 1000 lines, 3000 or 100,000 you could always think of a way to remove the redundancies and such and turn it into a smaller number of lines. But the first time you write it, the firs
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Tama, the station master cat(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fffrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by fffrad 11y ago
I stopped reading at "Mobile is the future". Everytime I hear this, its from a clueless manager that saw that most traffic comes from mobile so decided we should put more ads on mobile. They don't realize that the over all tr
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by fffrad 11y ago
It's interesting how in our current time, if you work at Twitter, facebook, google, or a famous start up, it is synonymous to "I made it".
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by fffrad 11y ago
One thing we don't take into consideration is the question itself. > Do Bilingual People Have a Cognitive Advantage? Is the same as saying bilingual people are smarter. Now a monolingual will disagree because why should someone be s
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by fffrad 11y ago
This something I did and so far has been working pretty well for me. Look for companies that have contracts with others for short amount of times. The more they send you on jobs, the more website you work on, and the richer your portfolio b
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Scientists have found a way to make light waves travel infinitely fast(qz.com)
11 points by fffrad 11y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Drupal or from Scratch
6 points by fffrad 11y ago|7 comments
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by fffrad 11y ago
ASM or WASM, I expect a future where both of them are included in the head of the document by two different developer and I have no choice but to maintain them.
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by fffrad 11y ago
I thought exaggeration was something reserved to CNN and other news outlet. But here we are. I think this is a real concern, and users should know what the PC is doing, but half of HN post are about how we can share data among ourselves ins
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by fffrad 11y ago
... And we are not going to show you any pictures except a 232x309 small consolidated jpeg.

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