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Re:Lessons from a Design Legend (a before-and-after) on Monday August 08, 2011 @04:50AM (#2859303)
Does anybody know how much that kind of work costs? I'd shoot mike an email but I'm guessing you guys could give a broader range of answers.
Python is "notenough OO" and leads to Ruby?

I smell a troll under the bridge.

Re:What's New in Google Chrome 12? on Thursday June 16, 2011 @07:28AM (#2660798)
Nice de-obfuscation! Though I'm guessing they don't detect packers etc. http://jsbeautifier.org/ will remain a bookmark.
But the webadmin of "whatever.io" is probably too cool to consider "www.whatever.io" as a viable web address for a startup company.
Why can't he show us the back?
Yes, I meant to point out where I found the link. Was that a bad idea?
I see 2 possible solutions:

1. The coordinates expand with the universe.

2. The coordinates are static and the universe just expands. Note that this isn't awful, planets and stars are always in motion. When planning inter-galactic missions you're always going to have to know where's the starting point and to calculate where the ending point will be at the relevant time.

So to say where Earth is you're going to write down a 4D vector, specifying at what time this was measured.

Btw, the article didn't mention 3D space did it?

Re:Tell HN: Please bring back comment scores on Tuesday April 26, 2011 @11:15AM (#2485551)
How do you vote down?
Re:Show HN: Let's end the Programmer Salary Taboo on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @11:06AM (#2442561)
Are we talking gross btw? I might have written down the net salary...
Re:Great Unsolved Problem In Computer Science on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @05:44AM (#2441413)
What does this have to do with computer 'science'? Sounds to me like he's talking about 'engineering'.
If I understood you correctly - there doesn't need to be a tradeoff between wire and storage security.

You could use a oneway hash at the client side as well.

If you don't want to divulge what's the hash in your database, you can add another oneway hash for whatever reaches the server.

The challenge-response can also be based on hashes.

Re:The Möbius Gear on Monday April 04, 2011 @11:09AM (#2406762)
Why would a prime number of teeth be beneficial? Every full rotation, all n teeth should have the same amount of wear.
The developer side of SMS messaging isn't pretty either. If you give sendTextMessage a bad phone number - NullPointerException, if you give it too long of a message - NullPointerException. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/gsm...
Re:The Boy Who Stole Half-Life 2 on Monday February 21, 2011 @12:05PM (#2246120)
I'd really like to hear Gabe's side to this story.
Re:The Sweden Solar System on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @08:43AM (#2221117)
This is one of those things people are going to talk about in 3000 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Correlation_Theory
Re:Ask HN: Best way to write an app for both Android and iOS? on Thursday February 10, 2011 @09:42AM (#2202051)
UI layout in code can be a pain because you can't see what you're doing until you do the compile-install-run which can be 30 seconds. That's a hefty amount of time if you're just tweaking one visual element and need to run through 1-10 possibilities.
Re:Oracle forks Jenkins on Monday February 07, 2011 @05:10AM (#2188399)
I don't like your cow example because it really isn't a cow, that's the absolute truth.

Maybe a better example would be "is the earth rotating around the moon or is the moon around the earth?" What if the moon and earth had the same mass?