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by owenjones 9y ago
Hmm, so after reading the article I searched for: dell linux laptop and clicked the first link to dell.com On the product page for the 13 inch XPS Linux I saw a notification: "Sorry, this item is not available anymore for purchase onli
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by owenjones 10y ago
Interesting, what would you say are the legal / TOS ramifications of a service like this?
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by owenjones 10y ago
For anyone interested in a surprisingly pleasant to use front-end MVC framework I am a huge fan of http://mithril.js.org/ . It espouses a (I believe?) slightly more traditional MVC interpretation where your Controllers are u
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by owenjones 11y ago
Hmm, today I learned America has never had a riot before. Although I seem to distinctly remember my city of Philadelphia rioting pretty good after the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series...
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by owenjones 12y ago
I'm not sure; I think it's telling that Instagram, arguably one of the most popular / trafficked and supported (Facebook) websites out there, thinks it's unnecessary to even show an ERROR page if a browser has JS disable
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by owenjones 12y ago
Hire better engineers?
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by owenjones 12y ago
I don't understand whenever there is a HN article about some injustice being done to Tech Workers somewhere there inevitably be this post > "I can't find sympathy for people making $x/yr." Why not? Where do you
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by owenjones 12y ago
I'm not a really vindictive person, but I'm so glad this guy is going to jail; hopefully for the rest of his life.
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by owenjones 12y ago
What does how other countries deal with protests have anything to do with the US Army's guide to dealing with protests?
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by owenjones 12y ago
I see no blame anywhere in the article, and claiming that: > army people [...] are normally pretty isolated from social issues and don't have very well informed opinion of their own. is both untrue and offensive. EDIT, never mind I
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by owenjones 12y ago
How is the actual print / ink quality? I recently took advantage of the Flickr 10 year (feels old man) anniversary to print a bunch of books and was disappointed with the quality of the pictures.
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by owenjones 12y ago
It seems like they heavily turned on scroll acceleration. If I scroll 1 "click" of my mousewheel the scroll bar only move a tiny almost imperceptible amount. If I scroll a lot the bar will fly off the top / bottom of the scr
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by owenjones 12y ago
No one in the US goes to prison except low level drug offenders. Everyone else is too big to jail.
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by owenjones 12y ago
There was recently another post on HN about Machine Learning that was also presented on Wayfarer, the UI for this website is very confusing and many of the posts in that submission were also: * I don't know how to use this / u
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by owenjones 12y ago
"In other words, no one had any reason to worry that Eich, a longtime executive at the company, would do anything that would negatively affect gay Mozilla employees." You know, except for contribute to Prop-8?
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by owenjones 12y ago
Typical people, using tired anti-other-people sentiment to make glaring generalizations. Seriously, please take this nonsense elsewhere, many of us are well aware of the issues regarding law enforcement in this country.
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by owenjones 12y ago
What about North Korea? I think that's still just a slogan.
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by owenjones 13y ago
True, but still seems like lying by omission, or at least for PR gain...
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by owenjones 13y ago
I am not a graphics / engine programmer but I know a decent amount of what goes into programming a game, and I have to call "suspect" on the claim that low level graphics API programming was heretofore only available on game
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by owenjones 13y ago
I was just struck by the improbability of using "nothing made by an asshole." Drive a Volkswagen? Or a Daimler, Chrysler, BMW, or Mercedes Benz?
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by owenjones 13y ago
Linus Torvalds is generally accepted to be pretty abrasive, at least, do you use anything created by him? I try not to learn anything about any creator whose work I admire, they will unfortunately generally disappoint.
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by owenjones 13y ago
Whenever a post like this comes up I'm always curious why so much of developer interviews are focused an algorithmic performance. Is it because it can be mathematically proven while so much of what otherwise makes "good code&quot
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by owenjones 13y ago
Don't worry about the "real-world consequences [of] fail[ure]" because the author sure doesn't seem to either. For the risk-averse out there, don't you have some family to "fall back on so [you] will be unlik
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by owenjones 13y ago
It's always sunny outside - a 1 minute reflection Seriously though how can you start generalizing / assuming about working as a professional programmer when you're not even 1 year into your first job? Try your best to change
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by owenjones 13y ago
If I had dedicated more time and energy to learning new things 13 years ago would I know more things now? Yes?
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by owenjones 13y ago
Right, your average tech worker in their bus is what you will see everyday, while the executive is hidden from view. And yes I know that a six-figure income probably places you in the 90%. However these people aren't the decision maker
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by owenjones 13y ago
Yes it is! (to me) Why the buses are the symbols and not the limousines or private planes that executives take to work; and are probably also provided by their respective companies. It's so strange to me that in this situation the &qu
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by owenjones 13y ago
Google and Apple are paying for the stops now.
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by owenjones 13y ago
Doesn't the fact that assumptions like these, when made by the police, can land you in jail or much worse prove the point? What if he also assumed I was lying, drunk or armed?
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by owenjones 13y ago
While I was a student living in a "gentrifying" part of the city, I once went outside to discover my car was full of bullets. Several in the hood, several through the windows, one in the rear tire and most disconcertingly one in

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