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   by 616c 12y ago

   I assume it must be the same school, but a undergrad friend and roommate was a pre-med and came from a very interesting family. His family was all about immigration in the US, and was very tight with the Latin American community where they
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   by 616c 12y ago

   Like others here, there is something magical about Vonnegut. I think jmduke summarized it very welll. > it's the conflict between his relentless hope for the universe and the brutal cynicism he developed during his time spent in it
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   by 616c 12y ago

   This sounds interesting. Sounds like Alpine Linux, which I Googled recently and was very intrigued after the first mention I had heard of it. http://alpinelinux.org/
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   by 616c 12y ago

   I am sure I will get downvoted to all hell, but were you serious? And do other people trust MSFT for similar reasons? (This, by the way, as a full time IT guy for 6+ years bc of bad Windows software makes me continuously feel the opposite;
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   by 616c 12y ago

   Unfortunately, with all do respect, you do not know the current plight of Indian and South Asian population. Many of them work in the Persian Gulf in labor camps. ANd I do not mean a couple thousand. In Qatar, there is 10 million plus pop
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   by 616c 12y ago

   I am sure that this article will turn into a political flamewar nightmare, but I really appreciate these kids trying. I live in much better circumstances and I am not sure I could stick my neck. By comparison, my reasons seem silly. I kno
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   by 616c 12y ago

   Holy shit. NetBSD pkgsrc for OS X? Yes please. (On a sidenote, I got into Arch because I heard hype, but did not even like it until I recognized the BSD outlook, with ports and pkgsrc style tools. This is very cool, and now I know what t
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   by 616c 12y ago

   I do not wants to flame, but is there a reason people dislike Macports so much. I tried Homebrew when it was 1-2 years old, but stuck with ports bc it was so stable, compiles from source, and I never heard a serious problem. I heard the op
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   by 616c 12y ago

   I never said I was an attorney. I was a stupid college kid and this is what I was told. I stand by what I said. I knew lots of rich Chinese families. Despite what was said after (notice I said I talked to the one I lived with years later
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Hi, I might work at a place like NYU, but in a neighboring country (which is an exercise left to the reader). I have no doubt, by the way that NYU operates like us: the government of the host nation throws so much money at the school that t
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Apparently, this is from 2012. Even then, it was horeshit even then I bet. I know little about China. But I did live there in the summer of 2005 teaching in Nanning (the former industrial hub running south to Vietnam, not Nanning the tour
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I think a lot of people will disparage and mock Dan (FYI he is a core SELinux developer for Fedora if you do not know), but I think he outlines that it does prevent the medium risk stuff which I think no base Linux system (without MAC syste
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Someone has been building Ocaml's opam on Arch I see.
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I do not want to be that guy, but I do anyway. Haha. Is there time for a service that looks at any README on a github project or other indexable repos, and give it a cute landing page and failing grade if the install recommends curl http:
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    by 616c 12y ago

    For the lazy, the features list is quite impressive. JamVM "Features" For those interested in the design of virtual machines, JamVM includes a number of optimisations to improve speed and reduce foot-print. A list, in no particula
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I worked for a strategic communications firm and this is, generally speaking, a good summary that lines up with one of the biggest guys in the industry (at least when he spoke to me with a tiny group of interns).[1] He further speculated pe
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Perhaps you would be interested in Stali, the suckless linux distro, a fairly recent project considering their work. http://sta.li/ It seems pretty interesting, but very much in early stages.
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I have not had the time but heard good things about it.
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Turns out, quite annoyingly, the package on Arch providing vlock, and an older version at that, is kbd, from the Keyboard Project ( http://www.kbd-project.org/ ). FYI to everyone on Arch, for a current version that makes this
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    by 616c 12y ago

    You sir are going to cause some late night geekage. Damn you! UPDATE: So am I missing something, because I get more or less the man page below: http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock And I see no -n argument. Are you
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Very cool tip. This is one of the most useful Linux power user tips I got in a while. Thanks! Now to script it as I spent most of my time in a X term emulator with a tmux session. Can someone effectively script X -> tty console then v
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    by 616c 12y ago

    And I just want to say suckless tools are wonderful. I vascilate about studying C well enough to be dangerous, and I do see a very wonderful beauty in the aggressive Suckless C dogma. There is kid is so, to a novice, small and clean that
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I have tried many of them except dwm at this point. This is not because I dislike dwm (on the contrary, I love the idea and its "if you can't compile me you don't deserve me attitude), but i3wm and dwm are all derivitaves,
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Ok, I hate you. I will look into 0install more seriously this time around, because you made a good pitch. Still, two questions: - The 0install feed for your customized vim install, can you link to it? - Out of curiosity, have you contribu
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    by 616c 12y ago

    I have been very impressed by the blog posts, and I saw 0install in beta many years ago. It is interesting to me because it sounds like (from my novice view) that it was doing what Nix wanted to do, which is install software and its depend
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Will definitely read your thesis, complete or not, if you choose to publish. Right now I am very much into Roberto Bolano, and he is the first South American author I have read at all. Everyone, family, friends, colleagues, is surprised I
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    by 616c 12y ago

    But what are we describing then. I like to see org, HTML, asciidoc, and XML as taking any data, in a very moronic basic sense, and annotating it or reshaping it for different kinds of parsers to accept. Am I missing the mark somehow in you
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Thanks. I guess I really do not need to take a look at Clojure, no matter what excuse I put forward.
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    by 616c 12y ago

    So I am trying to restart a blog using org-mode. I think it is the way forward. Right now, I meaning using it as one subset, a markup language to convert into other representations. I know org-mode is more featureful than that by a long
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    by 616c 12y ago

    Cool, also of interest to people here might be cl21, a CL modernization effort by Eitaro Fukamachi. http://cl21.org/