saturn

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by saturn 14y ago
> My favorite pair of jeans gets worn 10 times more often than my other jeans. If I did away with the other jeans, I could afford to buy more of those things I really love. This took me embarrassingly long to realise. Instead of buying
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by saturn 14y ago
> the screenshots from the "game" someone made One person. They're obviously troubled. Are we really going to let the actions of one person change the frame of the whole discussion? A game allowing you to beat up a woman is, I hope, rep
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by saturn 14y ago
Dude, the banana suit isn't funny either. I'm sorry but someone has to tell you. How about you make a good product? Then you won't need to pull these stunts. Or if you have one - promote it differently. Seriously. Good luck though and I hop
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by saturn 14y ago
> Christian, husband, father, software developer. In that order. Maybe this is a horrible thing to say but when I read something like that I just completely turn off. Religious fanatic sick? Their invisible space god can take care of th
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by saturn 14y ago
This is pretty painful. Firstly, I'm sure such vote-buying is against the rules, or at least against the spirit of any such award. Secondly .. is this what it's come to guys? This? "Vote for us, not because you like us, but because we'll do
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by saturn 14y ago
> The horror of slavery was that you had no choice in life Your argument is all just semantics. Fine, slaves had no choice, and a large segment of Japanese (and other) society have no meaningful choice. Happy? Slavery is a concept, an
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by saturn 14y ago
Wow, interesting, thanks for the research. I'm in Sydney too and I was surprised at how fast it was, but didn't think to look into it. Cool.
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by saturn 14y ago
Unfortunately seems to be US-only: > The server at encrypted.google.com.au can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed thanks for the tip though, still going to go with this.
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by saturn 14y ago
Actually, it seems a sale or something just ended and the qantas.com price is back up to 1800! I'll edit to remove that. But yeah, all Australian sites have to state the fully loaded cost. I can't stand sites that don't do that..
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by saturn 14y ago
It's not even close to the world's best travel site. I've looked at it before - maybe it's good in America but outside the results are bizarre. I̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶a̶g̶a̶i̶n̶ ̶-̶ ̶S̶y̶d̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶(̶S̶Y̶D̶)̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶S̶a̶p̶p̶o̶r̶o̶ ̶
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by saturn 14y ago
Sounds like if the hacker had just done it out of hours, perhaps when the person in question was asleep, they would have had uncontested access to the accounts and the hack might have been far more damaging.
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by saturn 14y ago
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" - Winston Churchill It's not a new problem.
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by saturn 14y ago
Maybe it means "remaining attention span"?
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by saturn 14y ago
> at some point Samsung could simply say "no more" I don't think it really works like that. Apple doesn't show up at the Samsung Shop every day and ask to buy the next day's components for their factory. They have long term contracts, a
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by saturn 14y ago
This article is shockingly bad, from the very first sentence: > There are only 3 enterprise-grade technology products I’ve ever seen that sell themselves. Two of them are from Apple Huh? What "enterprise-grade" Apple product? XServe? Ap
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by saturn 14y ago
TL;DR: HR at some no-name start-up gets it into their head that some kid can make all their programming dreams come true. They made a blog post to lure him. Later, HR at some other no-name startup makes a blog post proudly announcing that t
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by saturn 14y ago
He doesn't have enough karma to do that.
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by saturn 14y ago
I don't think Nintendo could swing the $1 model anyway. They don't have a ubiquitous cellphone. They're just selling game consoles to people who want to play games. Nonetheless, I would imagine there are an awful lot of (older) gamers for w
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by saturn 14y ago
It seems to me that Nintendo was somewhat blindsided by the rapid consumer adoption of HD televisions. They've really dropped precipitously in price over the last few years, and as a consequence the Wii has aged very rapidly, perhaps more r
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by saturn 14y ago
I think you mixed up months and weeks. The period is actually 28.9 months, ie. almost two and a half years. I think it's pretty attractive, especially considering updates will likely be automatically included in the subscription.
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by saturn 15y ago
Too right. All those photo features are just bloating up Photoshop! In fact, not just the photo features. I use it exclusively for writing essays, so all those image functions are just useless. To be fair, though, it does a better job with
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by saturn 15y ago
This video is fake, that has been established beyond doubt. But CGI, even "prosumer" CGI like this, is really getting better. Even at this level, people are relying on "hints" that a CGI transition has taken place - camera looks away, is ob
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by saturn 15y ago
Thanks for your response. I didn't see it earlier, I try not to look at HN too often.. I've been to Singapore many times, and am fully aware of how much it costs to own a car. I live in Sydney, which if anything is more expensive than SG ex
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by saturn 15y ago
I once read an account of an extended animal test of a toxic chemical compound on a number of monkeys. While most died, one demonstrated amazing resistance to the toxin and I remember being shocked when the result was simply noted as anomal
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by saturn 15y ago
What kind of business are you talking about? Your comment sounds very "labour vs. capital", is it relevant to the kind of start-up commonly discussed here? If I started a business in Singapore (and I have been considering it) I would be hir
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by saturn 15y ago
But you still keep the cat, huh? That must be the parasite at work. Actually, now I have a whole new perspective on cat owners in general, and why they put up with their pets..
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by saturn 15y ago
Wow, OK, sorry. I had no idea. Thanks for educating me.
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by saturn 15y ago
Interesting username. Kind of reminds of me something... oh yeah, low orbit ion cannon, a DOS tool I have battled in the past. Looking forward to your explanation.
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by saturn 15y ago
Instead of dismissing people's optimism with an impossible-to-refute "argument from field experience", why not write up some of your hard-won lessons so interested people can educate themselves? I'd be very interested in an account of real
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by saturn 15y ago
By this logic, it is impossible to evaluate any open source project, because all that ends up being evaluated is the reviewer's personal failure to implement whatever qualities they were looking for.

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