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by zikzikzik 1y ago
Famous last words?
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by zikzikzik 1y ago
> Or that they will make a team that writes a completely new version of the code Isn't that one way of the "cleanup and re-design work"?
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by zikzikzik 4y ago
> Laws are not beliefs they are societal contracts. Societal contracts are just collective beliefs. When the number of people upholding a particular societal contract goes to zero it ceases to exist. Just as any other belief, it requires
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by zikzikzik 11y ago
This Team Used Apache Cassandra Without Reading The Fine Manual… You Won’t Believe What Happened Next “You honestly expected that adopting a data store at your scale would not require you to learn all of its internals?” These aren&#x
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by zikzikzik 12y ago
The nice guy ;) behind linux and git.
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
How does Uber compare to Mechanical Turk in this regard? Would Amazon (or a requester?!) be liable for accidents happening to (or caused by) turkers while they are working on a request?
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
Why is the word "actor" absent both in the original article and in the HN comments?
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
Is this possibly a canary?
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
> Going forward, making the combustible engine and hybrids more efficient will do magnitudes more to curb carbon emissions than all-electric vehicles. Simply stating it as fact does not make it true.
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
Do you mean intersection?
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
Do you regularly use the pointing device with both hands?
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
No, the whole problem is a http server (ANY http server, serving ANY content) listening on port 80. Once the tcp connection is accepted on port 80, "dumb" clients (like curl) can just come barging through the door shouting plaintext auth cr
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
Ponies.
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by zikzikzik 13y ago
TCP/IP stands for "Internet Protocol Suite" in general. see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
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by zikzikzik 14y ago
Why (on Earth) would it be shady?!
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by zikzikzik 14y ago
Let me state first, that I am an Elite fan too, I played Mostly Harmless for years on C64, where the visuals were sub-par (ugly wire graphics, low fps) and I LOVED it. However, I am really surprised noone mentioned the 800lb gorilla in this
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by zikzikzik 14y ago
Well, this is an Ask HN thread and your answer boils down to "learn to avoid the sucky parts", which is good advice, but instead of further guidance on how to achieve this, the remainder of this post contains nothing but useless rants. (Use
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by zikzikzik 14y ago
Skim milk is diety.
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by zikzikzik 14y ago
This leads to the conclusion that big companies should not innovate this way, rather foster own startups (with major or exclusive ownership) which are not associated with the brand (at least initially, while in risky phase). OTOH buying a s
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by zikzikzik 15y ago
How many lost hours make up for the necessary CPU and RAM?
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by zikzikzik 15y ago
Where is EFF now?
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by zikzikzik 15y ago
you must be new here.
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by zikzikzik 16y ago
By that logic they could have said "almost 110%". It would have looked even more impressive, I guess.
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by zikzikzik 16y ago
Is there a fundamental difference between this "relaxed" state and some form of exercise involving longer streaks of monotonous movement (say swimming) while focusing on the repetitive motions (and sensations) themselves?
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by zikzikzik 16y ago
"The last few times someone tried to get me to switch to vim, I issued them a simple challenge. Can you tell me a way to switch that will not significantly reduce my productivity for the first few weeks." The problem with this argument is t
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by zikzikzik 17y ago
"in actual fact the criticism is uniformly negative, usually quite childish and un-actionable, one step shy of a value statement about the users of those languages. It's just a good old hanging party in disguise." The problem is, I FULLY ag
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by zikzikzik 17y ago
Some examples?
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by zikzikzik 17y ago
What's more interesting is the bands missing from the map. Do the missing bands (NIN, for example) form an isolated "island" in the last.fm similarity graph?
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by zikzikzik 17y ago
"Arranging your life around what you like" does not mean mindlessly overdosing on some activity. Essentially this piece is about a somewhat higher than average level of self-awareness. The problem is, by constantly avoiding unpleasant thing
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Ask HN: the equivalent of Code Complete in high level design?
1 points by zikzikzik 17y ago|1 comments

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