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This USB Stick Will Instantly Destroy Your Computer(fortune.com)
4 points by IANAD 10y ago|0 comments
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by IANAD 10y ago
I saw this in AI: https://youtu.be/-isE7cFJTzU?t=1m36s
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by IANAD 10y ago
It was the original title.
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by IANAD 10y ago
> Are they really "so complicated", or is it just a large amount of options, many of which might actually be ignorable for the task you're doing, that contribute to such an impression of complexity? Apache's library c
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by IANAD 10y ago
Please stop with the razors. Someone will get cut.
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China formally protests North Korea nuclear test(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by IANAD 10y ago|3 comments
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by IANAD 10y ago
Great! Might try contacting FSF. They could help you get it sorted: http://www.fsf.org/
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by IANAD 10y ago
What about the following text in README: 'If you are building from source then you get no support and must work within the restrictions specified of the fair source licence (see LICENSE.txt for details). To purchase support see https
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by IANAD 10y ago
I'm not sure if this will work as it is currently, and here's why: https://github.com/boyter/searchcode-server/blob/master/LICE... Clearly shows that it is released under the Fair Source Licens
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by IANAD 10y ago
> The entrenched parties would have had a list of approved questions to avoid such a mistake Not knowing Syria is a huge problem for an incoming president. Having a warrant out is not something that I would take lightly in someone who ai
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by IANAD 10y ago
> This feels like the most important US presidential election I've ever witnessed, and I want to do whatever I can to make sure we're all involved. Same for me. It's also the nuttiest US presidential election I've eve
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by IANAD 10y ago
Did anyone notice that it is 0.4 percent of Japan's population? As of 2010, about 2 percent of the U.S. adult population have a severe form of social phobia and have trouble leaving their house, according to the National Institutes of
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by IANAD 10y ago
I'm an introvert and tend toward reclusion, but still think that reclusion can be bad. We should interact with others to help them and to be helped IRL.
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by IANAD 10y ago
First, I learned a lot from this. But, here's some light criticism: 1. Joel saying "I didn't understand that question" and then moving on might have been succinct and practical, but it was just not a good reflection of h
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by IANAD 10y ago
> there will never be another Rock genre in terms of popularity That is purely based on your recent experience, and I believe it to be short-sighted. As an example, Classical Period music was popular roughly between 1730 and 1820. That&#
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by IANAD 10y ago
I wonder how many rationalists on HN this post will piss off before it falls off the main page. "Reality", "science", "fact", and "logic": these are all arbitrary concepts and disciplines that are stu
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by IANAD 10y ago
> It's an order of magnitude more difficult to make a meaningful contribution to the Linux kernel Any contribution that is kept is meaningful. He could start by taking the Eudyptula Challenge: https://www.linux.com/b
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by IANAD 10y ago
What would be more impressive to me and practical would be spending time contributing to the Linux kernel. That is something that companies would more likely be interested in.
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by IANAD 10y ago
Another problem is that Google is still caching the "hates design" from his Twitter feed: https://www.google.com/#q=mathieu+passenaud
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by IANAD 10y ago
> “Zen-like patience” isn’t a typical trait associated with entrepreneurs. Or investors.
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by IANAD 10y ago
> Go back to fixed function hardware? Battlestar Galactica phones? No, but I think we will eventually go to peer-based mesh networks with smarter clients. The reasons are: 1. Mobile devices keep getting faster and have more memory- they
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by IANAD 10y ago
From the text: "...it is community itself that has ultimate controls over the catalogue of what is available." I take that to mean that this isn't really controllable by DMCA. So, they are just giving DMCA lip service.
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by IANAD 10y ago
"Additionally, bids can also be retracted at any time, even if you’re the current winning bidder. To prevent a name from rapidly switching between multiple resolutions, the parties that have existing control of a name have a reasonable
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by IANAD 10y ago
But those are the problems and I'm looking for solutions. What could change on the HN site or in the rules for its community to fix these problems? I'm not sure anything can be done, which is why I ask.
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by IANAD 10y ago
>> Microsoft loves Linux! Right? > Right. Do I detect a note of sarcasm?
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by IANAD 10y ago
> But if we take it as convivance and proper productive discussion of different, potentially opposite ideas, HN is not all that good. I agree. But how could it be made better?
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by IANAD 10y ago
The ultimate definition of a douche is someone that writes malware for Linux.
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by IANAD 10y ago
Out of the box thinking but would never fly. Think of all of the releases of LibreOffice that overlap OpenOffice. Support nightmare and users would be confused about the changes.
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by IANAD 10y ago
> which can be restored in a matter of minutes or hours. In theory. More realistically, most don't take DR very seriously and it would be more in the days to weeks range. For example- that backup you have- is it in any way hardware
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by IANAD 10y ago
The Roku is built into this TV such that I must use the Roku OS and remote when the TV comes on. It is much slicker than the other crap smart TV interfaces I've used, but when it goes out of style, that means I'll have to use one

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