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Re: Starbucks and the Restroom Anti-Bubble on Tuesday July 08, 2008 @10:38PM (#240694)
Yes I pee in the shower. It is very convinent. Sometimes I'll pee in a floor drain at Starbucks so i dont have to flush. I have a vey small bathroom, and Im fat. So I sit on the edge of the tub and pee while brushing my teeth.
Re:Twitter At Scale: Will It Work? on Thursday May 22, 2008 @03:26PM (#197447)
Is using Twitter really very different from the Gale messaging system? It seems like the user experience is fairly similar, but Gale's architecture is much more interesting to me (and it scales! wow!).
Re:A Detailed Five Step Twitter Scaling Plan on Wednesday May 21, 2008 @10:58PM (#196827)
Did you mean 100M users per box?
Re:TC Slows Hacker News - Start the Arc can't scale rants. on Tuesday March 11, 2008 @12:44AM (#133899)
I wish my webserver had a repl.
Re:Software Engineering is a Joke on Sunday March 09, 2008 @11:16PM (#132891)
If it's a joke, what's the punchline?
Re:Ask YC: Why do you recommend a Macbook? on Friday March 07, 2008 @04:30PM (#131527)
I run Arch Linux on my Macbook Pro. I don't like the hardware at all, it feels cheap in comparison to the Thinkpad it replaced.
Re:(1..100).inject(&:+) on Monday February 25, 2008 @04:08PM (#123342)
What does '/' mean? Also, why does '+' seem to do different things in the first and second expressions? I suppose '!n' means "array of integers ending at n" which seems like an odd choice since it's neither 'not' nor factorial.
The style of this video reminded me of Adam Curtis' The Century Of The Self and The Trap - What Happened to our Dream of Freedom perhaps with a little Michael Moore sensationalism mixed in, but I'm not sure if that's enough of a reason to buy and read the book.
Re:Tip the Odds in Your Favor: How to Count Cards on Monday February 18, 2008 @05:54PM (#118472)
I get that it's not a very detailed article, but it seems sort of bad to omit that it's pointless to attempt to count cards when a continuous shuffle machine is in use.