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by nmjohn 12y ago
Is a footnote needed for everything? From the author's perspective, I think it was assumed that it is well enough known to not need a citation. And if someone didn't know it, googling "first ecommerce transaction" brings
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by nmjohn 12y ago
You've likely been downvoted because you misunderstand how it works. Only idiots are communicating their addresses unencrypted - PGP encryption for addresses is standard. So the only way for your address to be matched to your dark net
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I'm curious what needs can't be met by using a mac. My desktop machine runs linux - currently it's ubuntu, but it over the last ~6 years it's also been centos, debian, and arch. I love linux. Two weeks ago a started a ne
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by nmjohn 12y ago
If you want it to change, develop something to change it. I'm not aware of a single technology with a goal to fundamentally upset any of the things you listed. Personally, I'm satisfied with javascript development. Is it perfect?
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by nmjohn 12y ago
So you are arguing java and activeX are better than web apps? Because that is the comparison you are responding too. The 1/100 of a penny worth of electricity that analytic scripts cost you a year is worse than the security nightmare o
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by nmjohn 12y ago
And you can get hit by a bus too - adding 20 years to lifespan is in terms of the aggregate not the individual.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Depends on the situation. An anonymous person contacts you - how do you get their key from a public authority? There is no impersonation attack possible in this case. Someone claiming to be Edward Snowden contacts you today (now that he is
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by nmjohn 12y ago
The guns drawn are the least of my concern [0] - officer safety is important too. My concern is the fact they are threatening him for wanting his rights maintained and due process followed. [0]: I'm not saying it's not an issue, j
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> A group of agents then charged past him into the doorway. Lindquist was briefly handcuffed as they entered the unit, with guns drawn. Agents then told him that if he insisted on a warrant, they would take everything print-related in hi
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> "The fact that they are persisting the key just for the password hint functionality is compromising the security of that product completely." Ugh. How this gets through the hands of so many talented engineers boggles my mind.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
They aren't always legal - or rather they rarely hold up in the court of law. (USA at least) What I've been told by my lawyer is basically the only time it will hold up is if you can prove that it was violated and your company was
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by nmjohn 12y ago
>It's obviously not the truth. If someone stricken with Ebola makes it into a crowded location, then the chances of several people getting it will be high. This is obvious given the fact that a single Ebola patient infected a traine
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> I'm not sure what to think with the data I have available. That usually means find more data! The truth is probably somewhere in the middle - but for someone in the US who doesn't work in a hospital, at least for now, you hav
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Why do people keep saying it's a fairly difficult disease to spread Because that is the truth. When someone is working in close quarters to the disease they are substantially more likely to catch it, no? You can wear all the prote
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I'm curious where you're getting any of that information from the linked page - I very well may be missing something, but you are making a ton of assumptions [0] whereas I was giving them the benefit of the doubt until more inform
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Time should be on the x-axis. Independent variables on the x-axis and dependent variables on the y. The graph is correct - the independent variables in this case are the number of items in the array (the x axis) and the library being t
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I think you're missing the point - at least how I'm reading it - the idea is the user friendliness, not that the techniques themselves are novel. You're absolutely correct that PCR and DNA/RNA amplification tech is nothi
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> or accept the inevitable fact that data that can be accessed is data that can be copied. I think this is something that is orders of magnitude easier for technophiles to accept than the average person. Because to the average person it
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by nmjohn 12y ago
For the sake of the OP can you go into more detail about the bad scrolling experience? The scrolling is fine for me - so I'm guessing it is fine for him/her as well. In general I hate when sites modify default scrolling behavior -
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Except that isn't at all the case. By botting a video game money isn't being created out of thin air like with counterfeiting. Resources are collected which are sold for gold pieces from other players. The difference may not feel
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Who is being robbed? Throughout my teenage years I taught myself to program by writing bots to play mmorpgs for me then I would sell the gold. I made a fraction of what this guy did, but for a 13-17 year old I was doing quite well. I have n
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by nmjohn 12y ago
There is a large difference between answering a question incorrectly and having it planned as part of a speech. Tell me you've never started answering a question and halfway through you start realizing the path you've started goin
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Well yes, absolutely, but the context was someone being hired for a job and seeing the codebase. Someone that green is, at least in my opinion, not yet qualified to be hired as a programmer.
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by nmjohn 12y ago
It is definitely more readable. Best practices would say always to use curly braces though. I go back and forth on my opinion of that. Also, for example I use a sublime plugin to automatically tidy my code, and that isn't an option in
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Very few practical purposes. It was already described what it does - but the thing is, why would you ever want that? If a function is coming up undefined that I expect to be defined, that's an issue - not one I want to fail silently -
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I agree. If you want that functionality your text editor probably has it or a plugin for it - which will be much more efficient. In sublime for example, Ctrl+F2 marks a line, and F2 toggles between marked lines. (Ctrl+F2 removes the mark as
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by nmjohn 12y ago
I would be concerned by someone not knowing || - it is used all the time by almost every major project. Not knowing what that one did outside of an if functions tells me 1.) Said person hasn't actually looked at any code other than the
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by nmjohn 12y ago
Does it need to? At the moment netflix is 50% of internet bandwidth. If that could be delivered from a CDN within the ISP, that takes a majority of traffic off the congested pipes and leaves enough room for all the current demand with quite
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> Don't you think its a little pretentious to imply those that browse Hacker News are somehow smarter than others in a comment on Hacker News? No. Some people are smarter than others - that's a fact. Hacker news consists of tec
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by nmjohn 12y ago
> I love how you're complaining about people posting without authority, meanwhile not providing a reason that we should listen. Can you say hypocrite? There is not even an ounce of hypocrisy. I didn't make any claims of the US

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