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Re:Why Aren't Smart People Happier?
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:40PM (#49380639)
Possibly you are conflating being alone to loneliness?
Re:The SLAX Scripting Language: An Alternate Syntax for XSLT
on Monday June 01, 2026 @08:03AM (#48355716)
Confirmed.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
on Friday March 20, 2026 @06:25PM (#47461520)
One reason to buy a laptop is school/uni. After that it feels like many people move there "computing" to their phones.
Time for some Internet researching...
Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:21PM (#47080434)
I couldn't find any news items or announcement about France blocking access to reddit. Any links to this?
Re:Launch HN: Cenote (YC W25) – Back Office Automation for Medical Cli...
on Thursday March 06, 2025 @05:18PM (#43285609)
And at least in my mind associated with Maya rituals.
Re:Australian Death Notification Service
on Sunday October 20, 2024 @06:10PM (#41898905)
Advice to Australians - use this once you have your joint (bank) accounts sorted out, otherwise your life will get more difficult.
It may apply to some other services as well.
Re:Show HN: SandFaux – Your sandbox and our faux data
on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @06:30PM (#41251221)
That's a little confusing because faux is pronounced fo or foe.
Re:People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?
on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:11PM (#40421065)
what i want are dumb cars.
Re:SEC's new data breach disclosure rules take effect, here's what you...
on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:52PM (#38688071)
Doesn't this bring the US in line with the EU, Australia, and I would assume a range of other countries ?
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA
on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:23PM (#38077373)
IIRC, wasnt this their stated intention from the beginning, along with a plan to virtually test against DNA?
Re:Show HN: Script – A text editor for digitally interconnected documents
on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:15PM (#36565837)
Maybe it's my ignorant paranoia - but entering my google password into a login box produced by an app i just downloaded makes me nervous.
I am (mostly) sure it was doing a legitimate OAuth - but how can I tell?
Re:Ask HN: Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?
on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:35PM (#29101344)
I note that section 1.6 is "Comply with all industry security standards relevant to your business such as PCI DSS, HITRUST, ISO27001, and SSAE 18".
That looks larger than all the other requirements.
Re:Text entered into Windows' Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft's te...
on Monday September 20, 2021 @05:12PM (#28599068)
In many places, but not word (sadly).
Re:Chicken Scheme
on Thursday September 02, 2021 @10:34PM (#28399820)
I got into scheme, prolog, smalltalk, Haskell, and ocaml - without an academic background in those languages.
I dont find them useful commercially YMMV but I do think they stretch the way you program and I actually enjoy them more. Prolog is my favourite.
Re:ROM Auctioneering; Accurately estimate complex projects in one hour
on Sunday March 14, 2021 @06:53PM (#26460307)
You and I have had quite different experiences. After 30 years I have [seen] most projects meet budgets. Time frames have varied more but that's usually driven by client scope creep.
We estimate all the time.
Re:What Do You Call the Corner Store?
on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:56PM (#20559885)
Milk bar is an older term, maybe 50's and 60's. We only ever call these places "The Shop" - not very romantic.
Australian.
Re:Chandra, the pre-teen who released a post-punk record in 1980
on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:03AM (#18625472)
Yeah I care. I saw them years ago in brisbane. Good band.
Re:Ask HN: How do I disclose bugs to a company without a bug bounty pr...
on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @03:13AM (#12084412)
I agree, in the few cases I have seen the company gets angry.
Re:"Chrome-style" Desktop Apps that work today in Firefox
on Sunday September 08, 2013 @05:34AM (#6348300)
I did the same. How do you uninstall it?
Re:Show HN: A web-based Excel/Database hybrid
on Monday December 10, 2012 @04:33AM (#4898262)
This is correct. I didn't register, so I didn't demo.
In 15 minutes this app will disappear from my mind.
Re:Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US c...
on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @07:49AM (#4260312)
You would have to do this enough for it to be statistically significant otherwise it probably just averaged away.
OTOH....once might be seen as smoke-screening, making you more suspicious.
Re:I don't "get" art
on Monday June 18, 2012 @06:24AM (#4125748)
Watch this documentary:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/this-is-modern-art/
Re:A room so quiet, no one can spend more than 45 minutes in it
on Saturday June 02, 2012 @04:09AM (#4057488)
I wonder how this would equate to being in space (preferably in a space suit) ?
Re:Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'
on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:32AM (#3934344)
What about the rest of of the western world?
Re:Fancy algorithms lose; dumb C code wins
on Saturday November 12, 2011 @05:04AM (#3227537)
My thoughts exactly. It has nothing to do with language at all.
Re:A Fun Developer Interview Question
on Saturday January 08, 2011 @08:31PM (#2084517)
I agree. I can only assume that the article is an example of one possible line of solution.
Given the performance characteristics of human typing speed I would use a disc-based database. Simple to implement.
Re:Could You Have Passed the 8th Grade in 1895? Take a Look
on Thursday December 02, 2010 @05:31AM (#1961691)
Over the distance of time it is easier than the year 8 exam.
Re:Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to...
on Saturday November 27, 2010 @11:05PM (#1946633)
I second Stroustrup's book. I liked it a lot.
Re:Ask HN: I'm having an affair with my co-founder, and she is pregnant
on Saturday November 20, 2010 @11:38PM (#1926320)
why should we care?
Re:File IO in Every Language
on Sunday August 22, 2010 @12:03AM (#1624184)
MUMPS == ugly.