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by hubb 3y ago
try telling the family of shireen abu akleh about how safe it was to be a journalist in israel
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by hubb 5y ago
no chance this guy has kids. ppl said this same thing about television. if you read newspaper clippings from the early 20th century you can find letters to the editor about parents concerned their kids read too many books
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by hubb 8y ago
for anyone who isn't already familiar with yasha levine -- suffice to say that he is not qualified to discuss the technical capabilities of tor
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Venus on the Half-Shell (novel)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by hubb 9y ago|0 comments
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by hubb 10y ago
it might be that way while the company is run by ibm as a subsidiary, but my bet is the exception will end once they're full 'blue-washed'
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by hubb 10y ago
this is a false equivalency for two reasons: marijuana is not physically addictive, and THC doesn't have near the same capability to incapacitate people that heroin does.
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by hubb 10y ago
it shouldn't be hard to understand that being mislead about the actual value of your options is unfair. pointing out that things could have gone worse doesn't change that.
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Investigative Capabilities in a Digital World (survey)(publicsafety.gc.ca)
1 points by hubb 10y ago|0 comments
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by hubb 10y ago
though predictable, it's disappointing to read HN's collective response to posts like this
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The Strange Case of the Super Mario Bros. Movie(grantland.com)
2 points by hubb 13y ago|0 comments
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Dragon Spacecraft Panorama(spacex.com)
2 points by hubb 13y ago|0 comments
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by hubb 14y ago
it's a humorous anecdote, told in a light way. it seems like some people are grasping for reasons to dislike this guy.
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by hubb 14y ago
pleasantly surprised with the selection. a couple kurt vonneguts, a bunch of philip k dicks, lots of jules verne, as well as h. g. wells. awesome!
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by hubb 14y ago
Blackberry supporters keep claiming that there are innovations here. I'll echo what another poster asked: what innovations? It doesn't help their cause when articles like this one claim: Some of BlackBerry 10’s ideas are truly ingenious.
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by hubb 14y ago
please don't try to excuse rude behaviour by ascribing it to a culture that is defined by curiosity and tinkering. being rude has nothing to do with hacking. if you want to be curt and insult people, then you bear the onus for that.
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by hubb 14y ago
Having spent a year writing AS3 code for Flex, the compiler and the runtime continually struck me as generally ambiguous, and at times contradictory. Most of these were either amusing, or mildly irritating, as an indicator of poor quality a
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by hubb 14y ago
The video linked in the article claims they can harvest a tree every 9 years.
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by hubb 14y ago
does anyone know of an adroid (or any brand, really) phone that is made in north america or europe?
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by hubb 14y ago
John Carmack runs a startup that builds rockets. So yeah.
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Jerry Seinfeld -- 3 bits a day(jerryseinfeld.com)
2 points by hubb 14y ago|1 comments
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by hubb 14y ago
Stack-ranking is all that and worse, according to my mole. this isn't a conspiracy, it's just a gossip source. that sort of exaggeration makes the article harder to read.
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by hubb 14y ago
i don't know if comparing Katz to Richard Feynman is appropriate. unless the app Katz stepped in to rewrite was a model of absurdity
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by hubb 15y ago
worked okay here in FF 6.0.2 in Ubuntu
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by hubb 15y ago
that's unfortunate. do you have any references to Orwell's antisemitism?
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by hubb 15y ago
perhaps a little distracting, but all together it was very well-written
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by hubb 15y ago
xcode is a tool, and has near the same potential to make you a millionaire that a pencil does. if you paid $5 for a pencil, to be told a few days later that the same pencil was being offered freely, would wish you had waited for the free pe
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by hubb 15y ago
this fellow is advocating code reviews before checking in changed code to revision control. i can appreciate the benefits of that -- less churn and junk in the repository, the commit history for most files will be succinct, and each change-
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by hubb 15y ago
is canada still shunned? or will it launch here with the US launch?
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by hubb 15y ago
you think the average git user is on windows? http://www.survs.com/WO/WebObjects/Survs.woa/wa/shareResults...
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by hubb 15y ago
i don't understand how he lost all his money. aren't all his transactions still stored in the block chain? the network should still agree that he has his money, as he hasn't sent it to anyone (other than 1 BTC)

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