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EternalLight

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About EternalLight

Mostly lurking here on HN.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8068214

    Netflix debacle is Netflix choosing not to pay for CDN and instead asking ISPs to take thier CDN for free or we overload your interconnect ports and blame you for it on our site. S…

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    Comment #6810931

    Personally I want to be in an open office with the team I'm currently working with, an no one else. While IM works, it's a lot less band with in IM and you miss out on a number mor…

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    Comment #6538599

    I've had a similar experience with editors, good old vim and less works but most other editors will crash or become unusable as log sizes increase. Of cause, for parsing logs a few…

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    Comment #6272081

    I'm not sure, I was mostly thinking of something that will involve a lot of coding assignments. The idea being that if I code to learn there will be less pressure to deliver someth…

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    Ask HN: Continous growth as a C++ developer

    Hi HN tl dr: I'm looking for a good way to learn more in depth knowledge of C++, as well as something to motivate me to learn in my spare time. Is a course/certificate a reasonable…

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    Comment #4688702

    Casually joking about impossible, evil conspiracies by big business on the other hand is something completely different and also funny. No one will believe its related and its cert…

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    Comment #4612729

    No, he isn't. He's the final gatekeeper but there are several of lower level gatekeepers/maintainers for different parts. At least according to rumors, I've never invested the time…

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    Comment #4473276

    I guess the sane way of viewing a kickstarter that way. Personally though, the way kickstarter and (many) projects describe rewards as preorders, then I think they should be liable…

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    Comment #4456397

    And 3 times as long seems perfectly reasonable to me when you're giving answers in writing compared to talking...

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    Comment #4073255

    I agree completely with your view, can someone explain to me why this is a bad thing?

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    Comment #4073229

    I understand what you're getting at, but that's not the case in this question, since one of the four answers are stated almost word for word in the text. (caution point 4) The rest…

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    Comment #4034303

    Nope, just random Muslims (Guantanamo)... Us is a large net positive force in the world, but also the largest one on hypocrisy. Unless you include talking without doing anything of…

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    Comment #2898844

    Not in my opinion. I think you owe the user a clear indication about that it is an add, and from who the add comes. Just modifying pages like that is malware behavior. If they clea…

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    Comment #2449818

    The issue here is that he paid someone else to do it. So in your analogy: You park your car at a garage with a guard, pay them to keep it safe and leave your car unlocked. And when…

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