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by lehmannro 4y ago
The only concrete use case you've offered “is unlikely to deliver substantial gains to the industry when compared to alternatives” such as shared databases, which don't require any costly consensus algorithm. https://do
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by lehmannro 11y ago
This is exactly what the website of BILD, a major German tabloid, is doing. They will not serve you content if they detect an ad blocker.
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Pastebin abused(michielovertoom.com)
171 points by lehmannro 15y ago|50 comments
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by lehmannro 15y ago
I regularly hear that if I could install it on my own server argument and wonder if you think you can handle security and administration much better than someone who's paid to do it. I, for one, can't and would not want to waste my time
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by lehmannro 15y ago
If you solve an unknown problem (ie. an issue nobody is concerned about) you will have a very hard time to market it and show people how they need it. There were solutions for this Internet thing 50 years ago, even if it's hardly imaginab
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by lehmannro 15y ago
The author procures a scenario in which Google is going to collapse rather sooner than later. The last numbers I heard from Google reported an upwards trend in revenue [1] and with their recent additions like Google +1 [2] and Google
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by lehmannro 16y ago
I guess that caused more trouble for your dad than it did for the shop owner, economically at least. Plus he would probably brag about your dad to other shop owners. (I agree that just doing the job for free is no solution either, but d
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by lehmannro 16y ago
While true there might be a slight portion of outcome bias -- the tendency to judge a decision by its eventual outcome instead of based on the quality of the decision at the time it was made (source: List of cognitive biases, Wikipedia) -
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by lehmannro 16y ago
That search engine is still Google’s most important and profitable product, to my knowledge. While I agree that its search engine is its most popular product it is not profitable in its own right. Google claims that "advertising reven
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by lehmannro 16y ago
> I haven't came across anything I need them to do that hasn't been covered in some plugin somewhere. If you cannot name at least 5 things you dislike about the tools and languages you use you're either in the honeymoon period, or ir
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by lehmannro 16y ago
The ideas brought up on that site are frequently gamed in the pickup scene. Crash 'n' Burn is the practice of trying impossible sets (ie. girls) with the assumption of being rejected. If you are sure you will blow it big time, you can as
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by lehmannro 16y ago
I believe your claims but is there any evidence to back it up (and is that possible on fuzzy metrics such as palpable sense of disconnect )? From your other comments I understand you are from the US and I guess its a wholly different matte
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by lehmannro 16y ago
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1750728
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Twitblob — JSON Blob Storage for Twitter(toolness.github.com)
1 points by lehmannro 16y ago|0 comments
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by lehmannro 16y ago
I think you are overdramatizing Facebook's importance quite a little bit here. It's not like your friends will hate you when you quit and I have seen plenty of people quit online social networks while retaining their life just fine. I co
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by lehmannro 16y ago
If I understand correctly, Ruby our universe with algo's and math's (Rouwam) tries to bundle all algorithms obtained from Wikipedia as a Ruby package. I'm unsure about the handiness of that, given that I usually do not struggle do find a
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by lehmannro 16y ago
He doesn't: It's too bad you don't have any income, because if you did, you could write off all kinds of startup expenses as a business expense. (emphasis added)
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Nuitka — A Python Compiler(kayhayen24x7.homelinux.org)
55 points by lehmannro 16y ago|33 comments
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SocketTornad.IO: Server-side Websockets for Tornado and Socket.io(thechangelog.com)
3 points by lehmannro 16y ago|0 comments
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by lehmannro 16y ago
He basically says: Do not let fear overwhelm you. Just do it. Listen to paying customers. Then just do it. And drugs.
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by lehmannro 16y ago
A property which is exposed by the article's solution too: >>> x = (lambda: (yield 1))() # generator with one step >>> y = tuple(x)[0] >>> y 1 >>> list(x) # exhausted []
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by lehmannro 16y ago
shameless plug I have been working on a similar thing in the last few days: http://github.com/lehmannro/commithero It's based on the commit history rather than local actions and should work on Git, Subversion, Mercurial, and Bazaar. I
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by lehmannro 16y ago
I'm genuinely interested: is there anything I don't spot or which is not yet rolled out to my account about Google Contacts? If I remember correctly it is a standalone site for quite some time now. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09
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Researchers Create Fuel Cell Powered by Rat's Blood(news.nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by lehmannro 16y ago|1 comments
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by lehmannro 16y ago
Assume that the caller or user is an idiot I think this is not helpful at all, probably harmful. There might be use cases for my code I did not even think about and third-party programmers should well be able to use it as they wish. A
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Detecting a crime before it happens(latimes.com)
2 points by lehmannro 16y ago|1 comments
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by lehmannro 16y ago
Do you know any concise resource comparing current private space transportation businesses? I'd prefer reading one run-down article over investigating each company individually.
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by lehmannro 16y ago
That's what quite a few programming platforms already do (I know it's the case with Appcelerator and suspect MonoTouch doesn't do it any differently); but these are actively outlawed by the new paragraph 3.3.1: (emphasis added) Applicati
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by lehmannro 16y ago
As the days go by, more and more people come onto the service, and see an ad-free environment. Introducing that sometime in the future is going to be a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of users. Throughout his whole essay he keeps asserti
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by lehmannro 16y ago
And how would you make up for the sudden loss of 100,000 bureaucrats? I don't have to think too hard to come up with a number of scenarios where this policy will just make things even worse.

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