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ranit8on Duck Duck Go's traffic has tripled in 2012

Thanks man, I can't upvote this enough. I stumbled on the video posted in [1] and now I can watch it.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3637983

ranit8on How to Multiply Numbers that are Close to base 100 in just one line

He did that on his other posts as well. I won't post any links to them though. ⚑

ranit8on Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

I doubt anybody in the world can anihilate rats.

ranit8on Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years

Disclaimer: English is not my first language.

In my experience, I see it's very, very common to turn a noun as a verb, in informal contexts. Do you people still bother to make a distinction?

ranit8on Deconstructing "K&R C"

Was this thread not enough for you? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3448573 The topic is good, but couldn't you wait a bit more to resurface it?

ranit8on The Copycats at HackerNews

One can use hckrnews.com to check the recent submissions not yet indexed at HNsearch.

Is the dupe detector dead? That submission just left the front page a few hours ago.

EDIT: wait, I see this uses some uppercase letters on the domain name. I compared the URLs by copy-pasting on Firefox and they were identical.

ranit8on Up in flames

Youtube says your link is adult content and wants me to login. Believe it or not, I never logged in there, and was never asked to.

Damn Youtube, it's How to light a grill in 2 seconds, not a girl.

ranit8on OpenDNS warns about Google DNS

The problem with DNS hijacking is not breaking the Web, it's breaking a lot of other protocols. I dont know which of the issues are worse, but see for yourself:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=nxdomain+hijacking+break+dns

ranit8on A calculus of functions for program derivation (1987)

Abstract leading to the PDF: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/publication3843-abstract...

ranit8on Why Dropbox Is A Major Disruption

Google offers 1 TB, at $256 per year

  http://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage

ranit8on Ask HN: (how often) do you clear your cookies?

I set Firefox to auto-remove cookies when closing it. I mostly navigate in private mode. Whenever I find something slightly interesting I bookmark it. Later I switch to normal mode, navigate all the new links to put them in history, and remove them from bookmarks. So I can keep a tiny[1] searchable history and not spam the bookmarks.

[1] it was tiny until I met HN, now it grows like a monster.

ranit8on Best Practices of Variable & Method Naming

RunTimeException or RuntimeException? As a non-native English speaker, I hate CamelCase.

ranit8on Why does HN generate unique URL's for the 'more' pages?

Off-topic: is HN under heavy load recently? Sometimes I see recent pages cut off at around 50 comments, with the more links. Normally this would only happen at older pages where you can no longer comment.

ranit8on Thoughts on Growing Old

Perhaps you already know this, adding ?v=0 to the end of the URL to see the older version. I even drafted a quick Greasemonkey script for this, but it would need to run on all domains, as some of those blogs have their own domain name outside of blogspot.com

ranit8on Scroogled (2007)

Why would someone downvote this? Anyway, found a page for the whole podcast series. http://recall.archive.org/details/WithALittleHelpPodcasts

ranit8on Have you ever been asked “What is your biggest weakness?”

What if he thinks honest people are dangerous? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581662

ranit8on Math Puzzle: Lion in Circular Cage Puzzle

Sorry, i'm too lazy to deeply check teh article. What happens if the lion starts from the center and always moves as to keep the center, himself and the tamer in a straight line? It should do some kind of spiral, but does it take infinite time to catch the tamer?

EDIT: someone came just before me. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617030

ranit8on New Experimental Dropbox release (Build 1.3.16)

Some people had to wait for a while before actually getting the space bonus. I only got mine this morning.

This link redirects to the topic with the latest beta version: http://forums.dropbox.com/forum-build.php

ranit8on Introduction to OS/2 and Presentation Manager Programming

  zipped here: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-viewer.php?dir=/pub/os2/doc&file=OS290-v2_90-OS2WProgramming-rel1.zip

ranit8on MusicForProgramming(): Focus-Boosting Mixtapes for Everybody

http://musicforprogramming.net/ has been submitted and widely discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694

ranit8on How I Learned to Program

Would that be a sign Americans have been reducing usage of the learn verb? I guess that correlates with the amount of posts here about the problems of American education.

ranit8on Tesla Model S Options and Pricing

> 1/2 MW charging cables

Cables are rated by the current they support, not by the power of the devices connected to it. A cable up to 10 Ampères supports 1100 watts on a 110V mains, or 2200W on a 220V mains. Quick charging on electric vehicles probably is done at high voltages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampacity

EDIT: you are right about home charging not possible. And to the sibling, the best storage systems for fast charging are http://en.wikipedia.org/w/Supercapacitor and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

ranit8on The Moore's Law free lunch is over. Now welcome to the hardware jungle.

Windows Vista was a large jump in resource usage. At the time Microsoft was building it, it was expected that Intel would bring the Netburst architecture to at least 4 GHz in the near future. They didn't, and the next release of Windows is not so careless on resources. Coincidence?

ranit8on How Traffic Jams are Born

Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3000305

ranit8on Koobface Gang Uses Facebook to Spread Powerful Worm

Relevant links:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2012/01/whos-behind-koobface-bo...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/koobface/

ranit8on Best statistics question ever

Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251299

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3165694

ranit8on Interested in advanced AI, robotics and computing? Develop for the NAO ...

It is the robot that just aired in a Brazilian telenovela, Morde & Assopra