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Schneiderman Opens Inquiry Into Services for High-Speed Traders(dealbook.nytimes.com)
1 points by nplusone 13y ago|0 comments
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by nplusone 15y ago
It's fitting that a story that hit the front page on Hacker News about introverts has no comments. </meta>
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Building Chromium with Web Intents(sites.google.com)
1 points by nplusone 15y ago|0 comments
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by nplusone 15y ago
Still, it would be nice to be able to create groups to watch and filter repositories and users on GitHub.
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by nplusone 15y ago
It is. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078285
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by nplusone 15y ago
"Your entire future in one place" is clearer.
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by nplusone 15y ago
That's exactly how averages work if you're using the median value rather than the arithmetic mean. If the median age for an apple is 14 months, then you have the same chance of selecting an apple that is either older or younger than 14 mon
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As Fighting in Kabul Wanes, Sniping on Twitter Begins(nytimes.com)
1 points by nplusone 15y ago|0 comments
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by nplusone 15y ago
If I recall correctly, Scott Hanselman raised the Assembly analogy in a post linked from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783060 . While discussing the unreadable JavaScript behind Google+ and similarly large-scale sites,
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by nplusone 15y ago
This Ruby style guide is based on https://github.com/chneukirchen/styleguide/blob/master/RUBY-... , as stated in the introductory paragraph. That style guide also contains these conventions for one-letter variable names. Many others have
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by nplusone 15y ago
Parent is possibly referring to the blog's horrendous color scheme, not Haskell as a language.
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by nplusone 15y ago
You can, but one reason nginx isn't used as much is that it does not fully support HTTP 1.1. As a result, for example, although it's possible, it's not trivial to proxy WebSocket connections, which are commonly used with node.js apps. Strea
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by nplusone 15y ago
I wonder how many people who paraphrase Taylor's "Principles of Scientific Management" have carefully read it. Taylor exposes several insights that are antithetical to the commonly paraphrased version "Faster is better. More hours are bette
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by nplusone 15y ago
These lectures are also available on iTunes U. It would be interesting to compare the number of YouTube views to the number of iTunes downloads. I watched the first two classes on YouTube, and downloaded the rest on iTunes, though admittedl
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by nplusone 15y ago
Both the original paper ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=933932 ) and the blog post are from 2006.
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by nplusone 15y ago
That is exactly what cars are. They are weapons loaded with ammunition and ready to be fired. It baffles me that many people don't seem to be aware of this material reality.
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by nplusone 15y ago
Change last name to 'Torvalds' (edit: name in title changed)
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by nplusone 15y ago
To those who are unhappy that customers are whining, I'd like to offer some context: The instant viewing section is almost unusable since they launched their layout redesign in early June. The only logical explanation for introducing such a
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by nplusone 15y ago
The opening statement (and URL) of this post is rather interesting: "I just accidental hacked PayPal" followed by "it took 30 seconds and I had total access to someone else's account".
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by nplusone 15y ago
There are exactly 5,000 comments on this blog post right now. It appears almost all commenters oppose the new design changes. It will be interesting to see whether Netflix will roll back their changes.
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by nplusone 15y ago
Perhaps the most irritating aspect of the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is that it is a truism from a scientific point of view. Of course, everything happens for a reason. But the phrase is usually meant to imply that a higher po
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by nplusone 15y ago
In doing, there is a lot of reading. Every line of code you write you will likely read dozens of times. And if you are writing anything significant, they will be read many more times by others.
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by nplusone 15y ago
Indeed, Marco's initial reaction seems to have been http://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/77796293510037504 He's clearly thought of this possibility, as evidenced by his post in late April about the potential impact of Reading List o
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by nplusone 15y ago
Using pie charts with any color combination is unreadable. See Edward Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information for a detailed explanation.
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by nplusone 15y ago
I'm hoping for a friendly SlimGems/RubyGems merger for Christmas 2011.
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by nplusone 15y ago
Also, the title of this post should read "jQuery," not "JQuery."