FiveFiftyOne

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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
I'll get it and pray that the Exchange integration makes using Mail and iCal a little smoother. Besides, I just like upgrading to new releases :-)
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Terry Pratchett is correct. The man has created an imaginary universe, interlinked and interweaved across dozens of stories. His definitions on quantum and time are interesting and amusing at the same time. His frustration at the limitation
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
This was the one for me: "To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide's introduction have faltered. Some invite you to consider for a moment a
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
This is brilliant. Not cheap, not practical, but it'll add some big brand credence to EV technology that nobody else can muster, given the world wide fan base that OCC enjoys. Nice work junior :-)
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
You link to a sane, rational tech journo who took the time to test the issue and consider his results? No sensationalism? No foaming at the mouth, running in circles panic? I must have slipped into the Twilight Zone. Cue the funky music and
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
+1 for the sentiment, and because I am in agreement with the general principle. However, I can't find it in myself to cheer for either side. Apple will continue to make ham fisted attempts to self-police in an effort to mitigate one type of
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Retrospectively, this "content" flagging could apply to Mail, Safari, multimedia apps etc, so I guess my argument doesn't hold much water. I do maintain that the brouhaha and anger at Apple at the moment is interesting to behold. 'Scuse me
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
The problem here is two fold. Apple conduct a deliberate search for swear words and slang, find it, flag it to the developer, and bounce the app. Technorati goes mad, sets the blogosphere alight with vitriol and damns Apple to hell, scant m
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
No drive? The reassembly part of the video a reverse of the disassembly? I have an awesome gadget which refuels my car as I drive, or I will, as soon as I locate a black box with some wires and pipes sticking out of it, and splice together
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
I am the only one who thinks that if you think you're smart enough to do something you know is illegal, then you should be big enough to handle what comes your way when you get caught? Bollocks to his mental state and his frailty and the ot
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
I've often wondered about the sanity of using VC funding as a metric for measuring the success of a start up. If your business is simply developing tech to raise funding, then you're existing in a vacuum. Abraham Lincoln would have made a c
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Well, copies of K&R and C Puzzle Book are on their way, with CII and Advanced Programming In The Unix Environment (2ed) wishlisted for later. Can't find a copy of Deep C Secrets on our local Amazon equivalent, but I'll keep searching.
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
I actually picked up and then put down a good looking book on Unix systems programming either by Stevens, or by someone who worked very closely with him and wrote an updated version. I think I'll scream off to the book store and track it do
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Brilliant. Thank you all.
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Ask HN: Learning C
62 points by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago|65 comments
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Stephenson is in a league of his own when it comes to this kind of story. Snow Crash was a terrific piece of work, where the main protagonist :) was a hacker deeply lacking in entrepreneurial skills. Cryptonomicon had a ton of stuff in it,
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Ask HN: Critic as Artist
4 points by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago|1 comments
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
It should happen. Let us all soldier on bravely into a world where software gets replaced with better code, and those at the bottom of the compatibility curve get annoying messages until they upgrade.
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Botnet 'ensnares government PCs'(news.bbc.co.uk)
6 points by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago|0 comments
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
It would take a lot of work. I imagine that you'd implement a link to your sites checksums in the code, which the installer would reference during installation. As long as that link is protected within code, it should maintain the validity
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
It was bound to happen eventually. The most troubling thing is that its distributed in pirated software. Don't pirate, run your tests against checksums and keys when you download legitimate software. Of course, this won't cross the mind of
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by FiveFiftyOne 17y ago
Odd. I've been an introvert for my whole life, and this is the first time I've ever come across such a brilliant description of what's going through my mind when I'm propelled into a crowd of people and asked to endure the hot air and noise
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by FiveFiftyOne 18y ago
Considering I run XP, am diving into ASP.NET MVC with abandon and recently forsake OS X for all of this, I am definitely in a minority of one. I've always figured that you pick the tool for the job. At this point, the tool needs to be focus
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by FiveFiftyOne 18y ago
Google is evil, Firefox is dead, Windows 7 is going to revolutionise the operating system world. None of them are true, yet they keep on getting sensationalist coverage in online media. When will the madness stop? Can't we have choice witho