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by haylem 3y ago
As we're sharing prank stories... I think one of my most simple - yet evil - prank was to LD_PRELOAD a modified `malloc()` on a colleague's computer. Except where the common practice was usually to have it blow up the memory or no
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by haylem 3y ago
My reaction to this was "Oh hello Firebug, old friend" :) It's not firebug, but it was nice that firebug at the time was installable as an extension or a simple bookmarklet, for just about any page, before "Dev Tools&quo
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by haylem 4y ago
It's already as far away as I possibly can. I'm afraid you overestimate the size of my housing. It's a good tip, though. But with mobile phones now, people tend to start printing already on their way to the room and then star
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by haylem 4y ago
Thank you! And congratulations on a successful investigation! Agreed, drawn and quartered for the culprit seems warranted.
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by haylem 4y ago
Please do get started. This sound like an awesome story! (For HN, that is, maybe not so much for dinner parties). Just thinking about the thought process you had is entertaining in my end, because my procrastinating self would have delayed
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by haylem 4y ago
I'm honestly a bit confused by the comments. I've had and installed only 5 home printers over my entire life (excluding professional printers at works) One was an already refurbished dinosaur from Xerox. 1 was a canon (would have
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by haylem 4y ago
If you like that sort of look back at tech history, and at things that came out from the PARC, I highly recommend "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age" by Michael Hiltzik. It's a very well-writte
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by haylem 5y ago
OP here. I just realized that it may seem like I'm trying to drive traffic to the post on StackExchange. I was more trying to get some discussion going here as well and see what people might think, as I suspect many people have an opin
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Ask HN: Research on software development productivity with valid metrics?(softwareengineering.stackexchange.com)
2 points by haylem 5y ago|1 comments
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by haylem 5y ago
Well, in the case of Bitcoin, the value didn't come from nothing. The mining analogy itself was part of the concept. There's definitely a wastefulness aspect that may have been underestimated, though...
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by haylem 5y ago
Let's hope so... er... wait... Except there are way too many systems that store plain text passwords.
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by haylem 5y ago
My memories are that Google Video worked fine without additional plugins, but I primarily used it to consume Google content (primarily their tech talks), documentaries, etc... YouTube really was all about short home-made videos. The UX on
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by haylem 5y ago
As former resident of several European countries, I find your statement, while not entirely incorrect, a bit too "blanketing". All this may be quite dependent on where you live (the mention of the "church tax" makes me s
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by haylem 6y ago
That grandfather and two of his brothers left [...] with no plan [...]. They were helped by strangers and survived. Their mother however, along with two other siblings, had a plan. They had a deal with a smuggler [...] and all 3 of them di
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by haylem 8y ago
Hmm, so... You've rediscovered the roots of the wikiwikiweb ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiWikiWeb ) ? Nice. Wish more of the web was still like this, really...
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by haylem 8y ago
Actually, they may not be the "next big thing", but they're still a pretty huge deal. Especially for IT and ecommerce support. The support sector is estimated to a value of a few trillions of USD / year in the coming yea
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by haylem 8y ago
Between GitHub being acquired by Microsoft, and Atlassian ignoring most of its top-voted issues for BitBucket Cloud and having significant differences between its Cloud and Server versions, it looks like a great week for GitLab. As a strong
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On BitBucket “we review our highest voted issues regularly” but to no effect(bitbucket.org)
2 points by haylem 8y ago|1 comments
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by haylem 8y ago
Yes, but: - we're not talking about space probes, - this is just one dev who thought "I want to write an email client" and make a tech choice based on his/her own proficiency with that stack and his/her project cons
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by haylem 8y ago
Teaching, academic research and OSS.
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by haylem 8y ago
True, I haven't seen another product "match" Facebook. But I also don't see much need for it (entirely), or at the very least for most of its features. The Facebook of ~2007 was about as good as it ever needed to be (min
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by haylem 8y ago
I'm in Chrome65. I didn't say anything about using Safari. In any case, even w/o the lag, the page is still way too slow to load and quite heavy. Not really the best approach for conversion.
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by haylem 8y ago
Dang. I have an MBP with an i7 and 16GB of RAM, and a landing page lags?! Hells no. Also, I think it ate 1% of my battery in the blink of an eye. No thanks. Update: 8MB for a landing page. Wait, waaattt? I'll give you the first anima
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by haylem 8y ago
Solomon being French - and considering the title - my brain automatically played tricks on me and as I read his post's title I pictured him saying "Au Revoir" in its most famous form in France: https://www.youtube.
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by haylem 9y ago
True, but I was also hinting at the fact that the other reported article does not really provide much in terms of reporting. Also, this is HN: pedantry is built-in. Not saying it's a feature, but I guess it was a manufacturing defect I
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by haylem 9y ago
You're right, and my grammar was indeed incorrect: I did not mean to say that it measure the impacts but instead that it measures the amplitude of the quake, and also describes the impacts (which may or may not originally be true, bu
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by haylem 9y ago
I disagree. The OP pointed to the perfect source for his title, showing the origin of the data. The Richter scale measures and describes impacts, so you already know the impact from the 6.4 rating itself. For 6.0 to 6.9: > Damage to a mo
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by haylem 9y ago
I sometimes do, though not specifically with git. Can be emacs, can be ls, can be anything where I interrupt my thought process. So... I really fail to see why this article is of any relevance at all, really. Or at least a more global solut
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by haylem 10y ago
I know all that, but if reposts or not reading articles was deserving of censorship, there'd be quite a lot of [flagged] placeholders around here.
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by haylem 10y ago
Funny that the parent was flagged, even though the link is valid, and the parent's author is not at fault . Oh! The beauty of censorship by the masses. Now I can see why jwz would choose to take a stab at HN. He may be right, and ev

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