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forgottenpaswrd

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    Comment #7529961

    Don't use assembly, period. I can make things go more than 10 times faster in assembly. My main job is as manager/entrepreneur but I could read-write assembly as a result of my exp…

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    Comment #7503170

    I wouldn't call it "investment money". Have you seen the graphs going down(tech bubble burst 2001 and 2008). I will call it "Money press printing money", or "let's save those that …

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    Comment #7498303

    Am I the only one that looking at what the kids are doing in the pictures consider it totally normal? In Spain we used to do way more dangerous things than those. And it was risky,…

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    Comment #7497690

    Not the main problem by far. I had backed hundreds of projects. Next year I would make a thousand or so. How many scams I got into? Zero. It is pretty easy to spot who is serious a…

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    Comment #7496193

    Well, one of the reasons we hear a lot about VR, like 3d printing is that key patents have expired. What are they going to patent? Having a gyroscope in your head? A screen attache…

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    Comment #7495859

    It is creepy to have a company know: Your sexual habits. Haw many partners you have , how, where, when you have sex with them. Facebook and google log your mobile phone GPS coords.…

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    Comment #7495848

    I agree with your analysis. In my opinion, everything that facebook says is true, today, but could be different tomorrow. Like a marriage, when you are young and life is good is ve…

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    Comment #7490139

    Congrats!, great work. This has lots of useful applications. E.g Do you know those graphics about a submarine of the WW2, or a Spanish galleon in which you could see what is inside…

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    Comment #7486313

    Man, first thing: YOU ARE NOT ALONE. You are not the first human to become addicted, nor will be the only one. There are people out there that have been in a worse situation than y…

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    Comment #7472340

    "who have no idea how to run a multi-million-dollar business, can turn on a dime and start slinging vitriol at the person they claimed to idolize just a day earlier." As someone wh…

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    Comment #7457545

    Me too. We created a group for competing breaking protections on commercial programs. It was more than patching things with NOPs( ), but correcting checksums and so on. We never re…

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    Comment #7448306

    It seems bureaucracy has come to HN. I personally won't follow the new rules. I prefer not to comment anymore. I was one of the early users of HN, this alone made me have enormous …

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    Comment #7438498

    "Imagine for a moment you could colonize space. What problem would that solve, really? " Very interesting. Do you realize that people said exactly those same words about the micros…

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    Comment #7430050

    "All it takes is a miswired socket, earth fault or short in a power supply and you've got 110-240v going up your arm and you're dead. " It seems to me that you are not a qualified …

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    Comment #7405415

    The intrinsic value of gold is very big: It is one of the very few metals that do not oxide in normal conditions, this makes : Any metal very good electrical contact: just putting …

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    Comment #7385436

    Yeah, given that they have most of the code already done for drawing the browser screen(text, buttons, icons...), it probably makes sense for them to do so. With Qt they will depen…

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    Comment #7343334

    I am not Indian, but from a European country, and I had lots of things in common with this person when I created my start up. When you want to change the world, nobody understands …

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    Comment #7283755

    "Are there any ways by which I could motivate myself to study more?" You told us, the answer is no. You already dedicate your time to programming, because you need it. I also neede…

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    Comment #7278669

    Do you realize that this talks more about yourself than about other people? I watched the entire video and not a single sexual thought came out out it, far from it, just the though…

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    Comment #7276256

    And protesters being shot in Ukraine seems kinda trivial when you consider what is happening on Syria, Iraq, or in lots of African countries. Here we have(Spain) a refugee from Afr…

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    Comment #7276127

    Bret Victor's? http://vimeo.com/64895205 The stupid Discus thing they use does not let me comment(What a terrible UI).

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    Comment #7273847

    "I firmly believe that the financial sector is nothing more than a thief." Then, why do you use their services? If your financial advisor does not provide value to you you could fi…

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    Comment #7263240

    Saying that intelligence, fitness or any other quality does not matter is living in the future, in an alternate universe. Probably it won't matter in the future, but it matters tod…

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    Comment #7262669

    When someone does not create a confrontation scene, it does not mean that he approves... Only a very small minority of people will actually come and break your glasses, so yes, you…

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    Comment #7262641

    "I imagine the majority of people think it is rude to hold up a video camera all of the time while in public/starbucks/supermarket, even if the camera is off" The problem is that t…