mkelly

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by mkelly 5y ago
This is a great way of thinking about it. Same goes for "unlimited" plans: the more I use, the lower their profit margins. I'd rather agree on terms and pay for what I use.
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by mkelly 5y ago
I got the offer and really considered it as well! It was the fear of an acquisition that convinced me not to take the offer. I was a TextDrive customer before they were acquired by Joyent, I was a LastPass customer before they were acquired
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by mkelly 5y ago
> We believe that the risk of "logical failure" of an SSD is higher than the risk of physical failure. This means that some pattern of usage or strange edge-case causes the SSD to die instead of a physical failure. If we are co
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by mkelly 5y ago
Why is it even possible to “charge [someone] as an adult”. If you have the concept of “adult” and “child”, and a line in between them, how can the crime dictate someone’s mental maturity? (Of course the answer is, I’m sure, is selective enf
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by mkelly 15y ago
This is a very good point. I'm this is true to some extent, but (as much as I'd love to wholeheartedly agree with you), the reason I don't consider this likely is this: the main reason I have this opinion of HN is because of one 3-month per
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by mkelly 15y ago
This made my day, thanks. :)
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by mkelly 15y ago
I agree. I posted a crazy rant elsewhere in the comments, actually, prompted by the same thoughts. Poor HN.
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by mkelly 15y ago
Warning: crazy rant coming. So this is what HN has degenerated to? I'm sorry, but I remember eagerly reading the front page, learning things from interesting articles, and -- more importantly -- reading well-written commentary from people f
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by mkelly 15y ago
Aww, HN takes itself so seriously...
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by mkelly 15y ago
Depends on how much you care about latency, right? The easy solution is just, y'know, write the log to a file and scp it back to some central place every so often. But then you have to either (a) keep track of how much of a file you've copi
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by mkelly 15y ago
It's the last friday of july -- your timezone is too advanced! http://www.sysadminday.com/
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by mkelly 15y ago
Can anyone tell me why HN is so obsessed with G+? This is a real question. I've mostly forgotten about it, and I work there.
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by mkelly 15y ago
No, I agree with you. I think the article is a perfect example of what it's trying to criticize. Re the article: People have always been running their mouths; technology makes that easier, but doesn't fundamentally change it, I think.
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by mkelly 15y ago
Because the comma adds a sequence point, it should be defined: the post-increments both happen before the use of the k lval.
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by mkelly 15y ago
Yes, this is how digital information works. If you give one person a copy, they can then give other people more copies. The UI fluff will never change that.
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by mkelly 15y ago
Okay... I still don't understand how this is better than simply putting the contact details on the card itself, other than the risk of staleness. (And the marginal case where you want to revoke the ability to view your details after you giv
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by mkelly 15y ago
So what is the purpose of this? How is this better than business cards?
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by mkelly 15y ago
I'm sympathetic to this viewpoint, but I'd be much more interested to read some research on this topic than a bunch of unsourced opinion. To make a claim like this you need some hard numbers, in my opinion.
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by mkelly 15y ago
The fact that he could give up without consequence when his family member got ill is significant. If he was actually poor, caring for his family member could have put him back at square one again. [Edit: oops, someone else beat me to it]
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by mkelly 15y ago
Once you have money, you have a lot more to lose, and become more conservative. Broke college students will throw their weight around as much as they can, but once they're rich, they're afraid (consciously or not) of losing it. That's my im
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by mkelly 15y ago
Did anyone who has a subscription read this? Any thoughts? It looks interesting, but not $32 interesting, to me.
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by mkelly 15y ago
OTR supports this for pidgin, and has a proxy for other clients: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
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by mkelly 15y ago
I ran into this from the other direction: I don't get much natural light at all in my bedroom, and when I moved in I had a terrible time waking up until I installed a lamp that automatically turns on every morning and blasts the room with l
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by mkelly 15y ago
> It's difficult to retain your composure when you're inconvenienced by the incompetence of your social inferiors, but it's usually worthwhile. Wow. I'm not sure that's the point of the article. Who do you see as your "social inferiors"
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by mkelly 15y ago
So how does Alexa get these numbers, exactly?
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by mkelly 15y ago
If others haven't had the same experience w.r.t Al-Jazeera, it's possible I got confused about reporting vs. opinion.
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by mkelly 15y ago
It depends on the subject matter. Reuters and Al-Jazeera are by no means objective on all subjects -- the obvious example is Al-Jazeera and anything to do with Israel. (They immediately begin frothing at the mouth and spouting angry gibberi
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by mkelly 15y ago
You weren't the only one. I remember learning a bit about powerpc assembly several years ago, but never did anything with it. I've since learned a fair bit about sparc, and was eager to compare. Oh well!
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by mkelly 15y ago
So, I don't mean to be a hardass, but Sergey picked a latin transliteration for his name, so let's stick to it, okay? (I know, cry me a river about "И" vs "Й" and "i" vs "y".)
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by mkelly 15y ago
To what end? Is vertical space at some kind of premium? I have a scroll bar.

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