mrvir

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by mrvir 11y ago
I admit the convenience of Facebook. I use it. But voluntarily giving your contact list and location info, and passing your private conversations via a for-profit data mining machine seems, in principle, not very enlightened. One day some o
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by mrvir 14y ago
Remember reading that Enron was also one sad example of stack ranking system.
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by mrvir 14y ago
If this box really is a secure, maintenance free computer, I see a lots of places where it could shine: elementary schools, small business, info kiosks, libraries, my parents ;-)
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by mrvir 14y ago
Even if they could do all that it is still wild guesswork with too many possibilies. And the effectity of that fantasy also assumes that there is endless supply of advertisers from all different industries. The reality is that if, for examp
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by mrvir 14y ago
No, it's about DNS resource records generally used by all name servers (RFC 1035).
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by mrvir 15y ago
I'm trying bootstrap in my latest project, but have to say was surprised the first time I viewed it with IE. Even with IE9 the navbar and buttons look poor. Any advise?
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by mrvir 16y ago
Don't really know Erlang, but having worked for Telecom industry earlier, I would guess Erlang is getting its concepts and messaging model from SDL [1] rather than from OO. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_L..
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Ask HN: Managing tons of parallel uploads on upload heavy site
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by mrvir 16y ago
Sure some juicy rumours to awaken speculators interest as facebook IPO is drawing closer ...
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by mrvir 16y ago
One counterpoint for super rich: http://givingpledge.org/
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by mrvir 16y ago
One man project with 25 KLOC? A bit limited example IMO. No problem with C++ strings if you don't use 'em. Well, that's a solution ...
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by mrvir 16y ago
No, they just want you to bear the responsibility of using third party apps.
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by mrvir 16y ago
I wish that, in my twenties, (1) I knew this, and (2) I had the balls to be brutally honest with myself about what my strengths and weaknesses were I actually agree with the advice on working on your weaknesses early in life, because push
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by mrvir 16y ago
And the irony might be that he gets a company that outwardly looks exactly like he wants. The sheep willing to conform will stay and others will move on. Now I'm not saying anything about productivity, that's another question then.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Seems like he was quite a champ. Far more precious if you can teach your kids to think for themselves and use their wings, than leave them a multi-million dollar company, me thinks.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Yes, and I would like to see HTML5 version of that Asteroids demo that would work in IE. I mean a nice demo, but not working in half of the browsers out there.
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by mrvir 16y ago
That's why he is here, I would assume.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Shoebox :-P
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by mrvir 16y ago
Yes, provocative illustration, but very entertaining, I admit. The magic trick was to reduce every idea to one word or one sentence. Can be used to make any movie plot sound weird.
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by mrvir 16y ago
Sure, I agree that 2022 sounds absurdly conservative estimate. By then all browsers will support at least HTML8 :-P But my point was that giving impression that one company already has it all ready is stretching the truth as HTML5 is still
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by mrvir 16y ago
Upvoted. You are correct. HTML5 is not yet even approved W3C candidate recommendation. To be more accurate Apple should have said that it is committed in implementing HTML5 standard, not that it has done it, because at the moment HTML5 is n
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by mrvir 16y ago
Interesting indeed. It's good that GCC people start eating their own dog food and allow the use of C++. I'm sure this move will bring improvements to g++.
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by mrvir 16y ago
IMO (La)TeX output looks professional when printed on paper with a decent laser printer . You need to look very close. Difference is in very small details. I would guess that it has more accurate font face calculations and positioning as e
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by mrvir 16y ago
Cringely gives good advice would facebook target to be a web service. Seems clear that their first goal is not to be a popular web service but to harvest data. Business wise this makes sense as the potential value of that huge pile of infor
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by mrvir 16y ago
You have an excellent list there. Recently there was some discussion about simplest possible portfolio on Dilbert blog: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/worlds_simplest_portfolio/
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by mrvir 16y ago
Facebook has kept taking two steps forward and one step backwards for the last years. The direction has stayed the same however. On the Washington Post article Mark said: "Sometimes we move too fast", which is totally different than saying
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by mrvir 16y ago
Some common sense advice about business plan making by Seth Godin. Nothing new on the list really. Maybe it is his POV from marketing world the he sees a need for more realism. I have a feeling that people reading HN are very down to earth
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by mrvir 16y ago
Yes, the rumour is out and people have started to question. And it's actually a good thing if people become more cautious about what to share and where. For IT professionals Internet can be a great opportunity to show our work. Equally anyt
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by mrvir 16y ago
So will the police come knocking on my door if I launch a test scan to my Internet Bank site? Curiosity.... must resist...
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by mrvir 16y ago
Care to elaborate a bit?

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