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by tsally 8y ago
It's been a while but last time I checked it was just a certain karma threshold. The idea was to prevent newly registered accounts from spamming downvotes. But again, haven't actively participated in HN for a while. Things could b
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by tsally 8y ago
It's been at least three years since I've logged in, but I just did so to downvote your incredibly ignorant comment. Congrats.
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by tsally 14y ago
Your numbers are off in essentially every area. Car payment is $200-$250 a month, insurance is $100 a month, gas is $50 a month, and call it an amortized $100 a month for repairs and other expenses. In total, an average car costs $500 a mon
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by tsally 16y ago
It was already legal under the DMCA (at least, according to the spirit of the law). Apple and the RIAA just wanted you to believe otherwise. The language has simply been clarified so overzealous companies can't easily scare consumers.
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by tsally 16y ago
not a lot of folks would want people videotaping everything they did at work Did you know if you get a Top Secret clearance, you have to have anything related to your work release reviewed for the rest of your life? Being awarded privileg
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by tsally 16y ago
The anser to the FAQ "Will this harm birds or bats?" was obviously crafted with the careful help of a PR and Legal team. :-p http://www.makanipower.com/faq/faq/#2
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by tsally 16y ago
You might be interested in reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English#Modern_Englis... . As third person singular personal pronouns, he and he/she are both acceptable in the dual gender case. If we're going to be strictly
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by tsally 16y ago
Do you hold disdain for properly citing references in technical journals? The rational for proper quoting is the same.
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by tsally 16y ago
I should have qualified. The only reason that might be reasonable to maintain a high GPA is an honors program or some other program with an arbitrary GPA requirement (i.e. 5 years BS/MS http://www.cs.vt.edu/undergraduate/degrees/5yr-BS-M
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by tsally 16y ago
A note for when you go to college: On the surface college may seem like it rewards risk even less than high school. Don't be fooled. You just have to intelligently optimize your GPA (I wrote about optimization a bit here: http://news.ycomb
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by tsally 16y ago
For that it's worth, the DoD doesn't actually define "cyber warfare". In fact, in 2006 it depreciated the concept of "information warfare" ( http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/new_pubs/jp3_13.pdf ). The closest concept the DoD has is "cyber opera
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by tsally 16y ago
Err... why does the existence of shitty "C apps abound" have anything to do with how performant C programs are written?
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by tsally 16y ago
Similar discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=634986 . My schedule is still similar, but I would be less social if I was trying to bootstrap. ;) 6:30AM Wake up, shower, eat breakfast, make coffee 7:30AM Catch the bus to work
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by tsally 16y ago
You're going to be tempted to skip exercises because you think you understand the exercise or it is not applicable to you. Don't fall into this trap, as we humans are notoriously bad at judging what will and will not be useful for our own l
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by tsally 16y ago
Regardless of whether the exchange happened or not, the claim that "[the email headers] were legitimate, and that the entire thread would be extremely hard to fake, if not impossible" is an exaggeration. For reference, open up the headers o
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by tsally 16y ago
Not the right thing to be worried about. Once you've built your tech, consulting a designer and doing A/B testing on your website will take care of the rest.
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by tsally 16y ago
As you say, legal torrents exist (indeed, many open source projects rely on torrents because they can't afford the bandwidth costs of direct download). Therefore, a torrent tracker has both legitimate and illegitimate uses. Similarly, I can
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by tsally 16y ago
Stealing a credit card is stealing in itself, you don't actually have to charge anything. The analogy isn't valid. The correct analogy is the fact that you can use Google to find numbers that look like credit card numbers. Similarly, hostin
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by tsally 16y ago
Good thing you can't find copyright files to download via Google search. Otherwise it would be as bad as The Pirate Bay! Enabling someone to break the law doesn't make the enabler culpable. We apply this standard to manufacturers of lock pi
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by tsally 16y ago
As Mahmud mentioned, you still have to know where things are, who is working on what, what's maintained and what's obsoleted by what. Sure. . Based on your choice of packages, you aren't current with these things and consequently had a bad
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by tsally 16y ago
Mahmud is one of the few HNers that actually has practicle experience deploying Lisp in the real world. You might be interested in what he has to say on the issue of practicality: "Today, Lisp is nothing like what it was 8,7,6, even 2 years
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by tsally 16y ago
I find it unlikely that the flag threshold is a fixed number. I think I remember pg mentioning something about very new and very highly voted posts having a high and variable flag threshold.
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by tsally 16y ago
Next time you decide to be an asshole you should probably construct a proper English sentence.
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by tsally 16y ago
Spatially, with post-it notes. It's gonna be a long time before software can replicate that kind of experience. ;)
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by tsally 16y ago
It's my personal preference, so it's true whether you doubt it or not. :-p Using undocumented code is like programming in a language I hate. Mentally it's a really shitty experience and I'm not in a position where I have to settle for that.
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by tsally 16y ago
It's not standard practice at all. Never pay to pitch. http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/heres-how-to-meet-a-vc-h...
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by tsally 16y ago
Personally I'd rather someone not write an opensource project than write it and not document it. Understanding someone else's thought process is hard and it gets to be an order of magnitude more difficult without documentation. If it's ea
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by tsally 16y ago
In fact, it's often a ticket to quite the opposite for the natives of the region.
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by tsally 16y ago
You're doing something horribly wrong if you're spending half a million dollars on a degree. Even if you include opportunity cost, it's nowhere near that high on average. I'm not really sure what purpose that type of exaggeration serves. Of
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by tsally 16y ago
Bs. I do quite fine with high school. Personal anecdotes aren't valid pieces of evidence... The biggest advantage those growing up in today's environment have going for them is that everyone else their age is lazy. You can do far better

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