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by 1337p337 16y ago
As a method of obscuring the data slightly (although really it doesn't add much), I sometimes like to add "conv=swab" to the dd. But for the CPU that's being spent on the bzip2, you could do it slightly more easily with a single command on
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I used to do this with a friend in the days when modems tied up phone lines. You have to pass a much lower number to lame's -b option, though.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Sure, there's another side to this, but it's not a valid side. Your side merely capitalizes on the present legal murkiness of the software/copyright issue. Console manufacturers, phone manufacturers, and a legion of other device manufactu
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by 1337p337 16y ago
This sort of attitude (and the business model of Draconian control over third-party developers) is unfortunately, endemic in the console gaming industry, harmful to the console gaming industry, and something Microsoft is great at (which is
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by 1337p337 16y ago
It's linked to in the original, and it explains that the "cleanup" of the article was to "correct" archaic spellings, which were used intentionally.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Maybe no one you know. Try looking for a job doing C, and wading through the confused recruiters. I die a little every time I see "C/C++/C#" in a posting. (To say nothing of the ones calling "Ruby on Rails" a language.)
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Actually, as a non-user of both, I didn't know there was a difference; until your comment, I though Sun had used the other D for dtrace. I know the difference between Java and Javascript, but even those languages' names continue to confuse
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I never said a lack of money was not a disadvantage. I pointed out Humby as an example of someone with what might be considered a totally insumountable disadvantage (one friggin' arm, the guy's a hero). Lots of poor people stay poor and ar
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by 1337p337 16y ago
And a pretty biased opinion at that: "At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause." Having come from a poor family, my single mother the c
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I don't use Chrome, but I do use some non-Firefox browsers (Arora, w3m, sometimes uzbl), so I take a more barbaric approach: a giant /etc/hosts file pointing various offensive domains at 255.255.255.255, and iftop/firebug/Webkit's inspecto
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I didn't read that at all. It sounded to me like someone who loves what she's doing, is pretty grateful for her good fortune, and doesn't have much of the persistent malaise about women in technology. It read more like "I'm so glad I got
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by 1337p337 16y ago
How did this happen? Even-handed, optimistic reporting on women in tech from a woman in tech? Not a dramatic lamentation that there aren't more women in tech, nor a dismissal of women as not skilled/geeky enough, nor a conspiracy theory
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I think most people actually do know how influential lobbyists are, as evidenced by candidates' perpetual battle to portray themselves as more resistant to special interests than their opponents. But the mobile phone comment is even more in
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Google is too insulated to know exactly where the "creepy line" is. Take Latitude, for example, or the more intrusive (because it was made opt-out rather than opt-in) Buzz. Instant is just an extention of what they have tried in Chrome or
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Well, part of the cleverness built into the constitution is a meta-rule describing the process for changing the constitution. Every system accumulates cruft, but if we have a mechanism to apply patches, then we can (in theory) accomplish s
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by 1337p337 16y ago
That's assuming time has constant value. For example, I consider time I spend reading on the toilet basically worthless. So when the voter guide comes in the mail, with the candidates' statements, text of propositions and submitted argumen
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Prompting, rather than running a daemon that does it automatically, is the entire point of what I said. Adding functionality isn't taking away control unless you have to color outside the lines to disable it.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
A pretty dim view of users, but does that mean that Chrome is not for technical people? It's for an audience that is too dumb to be capable of understanding auto-update? (This audience, incidentally, does not exist: users aren't that dum
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by 1337p337 16y ago
...Or a different browser. Seriously, though, Google is used to web development, where they control the software and the machines running it. A new version of GMail rolls out, and everyone gets it. Like in the case of Buzz, this isn't alw
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by 1337p337 16y ago
It's, to me, a matter of justice versus the right to administer it. King certainly wasn't innocent and certainly deserved punishment, but democracy breaks down if punishment is ad-hoc. The LAPD has no right to beat down anyone who is subm
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by 1337p337 16y ago
He may have actually been going faster. He was reported to be going 117mph. The LAPD's policy is to cut off chases at 120mph, as pursuit at that speed is considered more dangerous. I would not put it past the pursuing officers to fudge t
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Or if they have nothing to hide, we have nothing to fear.
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by 1337p337 16y ago
It is a personal hobby of mine to record cops in the off-chance anything happens. Usually it's stuff like driving on the median to get around a traffic jam (ugh) or parking in front of fire hydrants. With the proliferation of camera phones
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Incompatibility is certainly a headache, but having worked on a 10k-line, Firefox-only Javascript project, I can say with confidence that there are a number of pain-points in the language itself. Scoping weirdness, the erratic semantics of
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by 1337p337 16y ago
That was my reaction to Node.js. "So...I can use...Javascript?" I have been sad for a long time that there is a language, just one, that you use for web browsers. And one that has an ad-hoc design like this. I've never really been a fan,
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I certainly hope that it is just speculation. I've never seen a CPU that was as much a joy to code for. I've done some assembly for various architectures, and nothing at all compares to the elegant, powerful simplicity of the ARM. Based o
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by 1337p337 16y ago
This article seems to resemble PR copypasta, but over-looking that, it is a little comforting that the thing is opt-in. That kind of sheds doubt on the 250M figure, though. Do they mean 250M potential users?
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by 1337p337 16y ago
Blocking system cofiguration is a totally different issue. A lot of coders are especially tied to their OS of choice, and with Linux, even different distros can be night and day. There are some distros that I don't think I could reasonabl
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by 1337p337 16y ago
I'm not as worried about sneaky things on the client side as I am about what they're up-front about. The URL bar sending everything I type upstream, for example. And I can turn my phone off any time I might be worried, in much the same wa
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by 1337p337 16y ago
The last two places I worked did this kind of thing. The most recent (not to be too hard on them; I did love them, but forced fun is as depressing as the article says,= even at the best companies) had a few bizarre practices. The worst, wh

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