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somehnreader

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    Comment #19440582

    Thats also true for multiple choice tests as opposed to real-world programming.

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    Comment #19440230

    Or if you are like me (and a bit stupid): 1000 = all possible combinations from 000 to 999. less 10 combinations with all numbers identical is 990. now there are three patterns for…

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    Comment #19133017

    I think he was wrong about the Apple watch market size, but I like his argument.

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    Comment #16969731

    So many charts and such a boring conclusion. Why is the male attractiveness axis flipped in that big blue box? Why is it not mentioned that the turquoise area stretches only on one…

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    Comment #16890861

    Thats how it should be I suppose, but can't be taken for granted everywhere.

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    Ask HN: Whats the most boring form that you had to fill? Why did you hate it?

    Hi, I am looking for terrible forms that can be simplified for consumers. Online or Offline doesn't matter to start with. I have done a few in Europe already, but desperately looki…

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    Comment #16544501

    Thanks, very helpful. I am just looking at it and will have a bit of a think about this later :)

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    Comment #16543721

    How is a graph database built under the hood? I know that a decent RDBMS (simplified) will consist of the following: - data in blocks organised with a block-size that the underlyin…

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    Comment #16522505

    As a twilio shareholder I would like to please encourage everybody to implement 2FA via SMS!

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    Comment #16490779

    > how selling TODO lists to businesses is like taking candy from a baby What does this mean?

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    Comment #15275130

    "productivity chat market" <-- whats that?

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    Comment #15219617

    I had to CTRL+F through the article to learn that PWA == "Progressive Web App". Am I missing a trend?

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    Comment #15168658

    Hi, TUM has a lecture for this in which the students build a database in C and learning fundamentals along the way. I attended a few years back and learnt an awful lot, this is the…

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    Comment #15044690

    Are Barcelona and Madrid meant to be overvalued? I live in London and am considering to buy a house in Spain in 5 years time or so and the prices look pretty good in the countrysid…

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    Comment #14945895

    Could you elaborate on news & NLP in regards to stocks? We tried sentiment analysis in uni a few years ago and had no good results: The idea was essentially: news says: 'stock A is…

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    Comment #14662675

    > Rolling our own dependency-management tooling took a small team of engineers (including me) more than a year of very hard work, and there were problems. I am amazed what is done …

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    Comment #14163776

    This is the best thing I read for ages. I work with legacy systems all the time, lately mostly CRUD web apps, but I have debugged myself through pages of Excel macros, database dri…

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    Comment #13866309

    Pardon my ignorance, but I don't even understand his point. I wouldn't even have bothered with a class at that level of abstraction. If I find repeating if statements throughout my…

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    Comment #12907618

    I won £20 with a £5 stake at my local bookies. Wouldn't really count that as 'making money' though.

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    Comment #12890586

    > I'll bet they even ban hobbyist driving - like those who 'still have old cars' and want to drive on those 'old car roads'. Absolutely not. That will never ever happen. F1, DTM, M…

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    Comment #11855178

    mob as in gangsters.

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    Comment #11149980

    I came to England in my 20s and am now often complimented on my pronunciation: Try to over exaggerate the way natives speak your target language, almost as if you were mocking them…

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    Comment #10881590

    I always love it when people use git & github for more than code in the way you just demonstrated. I only just started organising some of my non-technical writings in a repository …

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    Comment #10587092

    That part struck me as well, but I guess hindsight is 20/20 and they learned their lesson. When I did my very first project when I was 18 I spent money on a lawyer and incorporatio…

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    Comment #10477368

    Fantastic puzzle. Took me ages to realise the twist though, because I was somehow set on making them oscillate further on every iteration and couldn't understand how I was to remem…