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Pwnguinz

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About Pwnguinz

Contact: me at petergao dot com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #40294300

    What's the granularity of the prediction (I'm not sure if that's the correct word? I'm not a meteorologist)? Region level (100s km)? City level (a few 10s of kms)? Block level (a f…

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    Comment #34048733

    Thanks, and I appreciate the questions: 1. Glue4 is not a query storage nor technically a "real-time" database, so the trade offs are different (you don't have to use a proprietary…

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    Show HN: Glue4 is a Redux extension that handles your back end concerns

    We built Glue4 to scratch our own itch: whenever we start building an app, there’s all these different layers that need to be pieced together with subtle gotchas (auth, backend, DB…

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    Comment #10007104

    You are referring to Pokémon (notice the o where there was an a previously). And you are correct, the é has an accent on it (though I've always wondered why--Pokemon is an abbrevia…

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    Comment #10006942

    What's the problem? One is lowercase and the other clearly upper case. Much like in vim: "f" searches _forward_ while "F" searches _backwards_. Perfectly valid. I see no implementa…

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    Comment #9071565

    > were HIV to mutate away from being able to bind to those chunks it too would become less virulent when attacking the real proteins. Forgive my ignorance, but are there any indica…

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    Comment #9055967

    What happens if you don't set keymap "gg", "G", etc? Would they not work, or...? (Currently not on a *nix machine to be able to test it out, or else I wouldn't ask such a simple qu…

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    Comment #8684633

    How were you able to find out what IP was cached for a particular domain?

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    Comment #8240576

    The abstract makes no mention of -130°C, but digging into the actual paper (can be read here: www.21cm.com/pdfs/cryopreservation_advances.pdf), it does mention: "Fig. 13. Confineme…

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    Comment #8235453

    If you just need occasional printing done locally (so you can pick it up, inspect it, or ask questions in person), you can use this site to find a shop doing 3D printing with this …

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    Comment #8233795

    Here's the direct link to the PLOS One journal article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone... EDIT: A better summary is available below from jawns.

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    Comment #7394196

    "Leverage" doesn't always equate to profit (or even revenue). The "goal" of the NSA is not profit, but mass surveillance. Whereas surveillance historically has been centralized, wi…

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    Comment #7273223

    Behind the scenes, DDG uses Yandex and Bing to power its search results. It also does its own crawling (however, I'm not sure to what extent). Their algorithm isn't necessarily bet…

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    Comment #6546051

    > When a US factory burns down and kills all the employees inside because they'd been locked in during their 15 hour shift. I give you the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New Y…

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    Comment #6409115

    With the rest of the world moving on, if you have a relatively attractive solution to an obsolete problem, what's the point?

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    Comment #6409069

    "Not really, no. Anything under about 25-50 will feel instantaneous. Between 50-100 you're looking at something that doesn't consciously register as 'slow', yet feels vaguely slugg…

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    Comment #6105720

    It's merely a JS based modal box. You can use your web browser's devtool/inspector to delete the two divs, one for the black transparent overlay, and one for the sign-up modal.

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    Comment #6077980

    It has to do with the fact that the GP put the URL in and HN assumed the trailing > was part of the URL. Just remove the trailing > in the URL and it'll work. Alternatively reprodu…