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by Legion 15y ago
Further comment is indeed warranted, but that part can come in a few days, when there's more clarity on the scope of the incident and a fully-hashed plan of attack for closing the vulnerability.
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by Legion 15y ago
Nobody wanted a set-top box that just plays what all the other set-top boxes already offer. And for the TVs with it built in, that's nice and all, but is old hat at this point. Plenty of manufacturers like Vizio have their own built-in soft
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by Legion 15y ago
If at first you don't succeed, rebrand, rebrand again.
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by Legion 15y ago
No, I mean the on-foot areas. "Levels" (for lack of better word) were extremely "follow the only road" in ME2. Yes, missions generally had a single start point and a single end point in ME1 as well, but the point is that the path from A t
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by Legion 15y ago
That doesn't work if you can't get content providers in the door. My attitude towards DRM changed somewhat when I saw what happened with the online music stores. DRM was absolutely required for Apple to get major labels to the table. Then,
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by Legion 15y ago
I enjoyed Mass Effect, but Mass Effect 2 undid my interest in the series. Mass Effect's locations offered some freedom of movement - they felt like actual places . Mass Effect 2's settings were extremely constrained by comparison - no long
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by Legion 15y ago
> Because Steve Jobs and the IPhone pretty much undid it all. It's funny that you pin it on Jobs, who didn't want apps in the first place. Indeed, in 2007, Apple was telling developers to make web apps - http://www.apple.com/pr/library
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by Legion 15y ago
The less the 49ers are run by the Yorks, the easier it is for me to cheer for them. I was a die-hard 49er fan when Eddie D ran the show. ... I can't actually be talking about football on HackerNews.
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by Legion 15y ago
Last time I shopped for a used car, the ones that were lowest in price, age, and milage were vehicles that had a, shall we say, "interesting" past. One had been in a wreck (as revealed by the Carfax), and another had been used by a heavy sm
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by Legion 15y ago
Khan Academy is a revolution in how lessons are delivered, not necessarily the content of the lessons themselves. The author wants to take learn-math-by-rote to task, and that's fine, but that argument is no more specific to Khan Academy th
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by Legion 15y ago
All code is an exercise in living with imperfection. The trick is finding the sweet spots in the scale of imperfection vs. time, which aren't linearly correlated (eg. you can spend a lot of time gold-plating something and make only small ga
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by Legion 15y ago
Note to self: buy all future Steam games with AmEx. Things like that and the warranty extension they provide are why I got an AmEx card.
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by Legion 15y ago
I remember Consumer Reports doing a battery test. The big winners were Costco's Kirkland brand, as they fell only slightly behind the big name brands in longevity, but at a substantially lower cost. It would have been very interesting to se
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by Legion 15y ago
When I upgraded to OS X Lion, I discovered that the way that I had previously set up iTerm2 to launch tmux would cause a kernel panic when I would close iTerm2, without fail. I don't remember off the top of my head what the setting was, but
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by Legion 15y ago
So, in the last week or so of reading Hacker News, I've been told: * Don't blog on Google+ * Don't blog on Tumblr Before I start blogging, are there any others I should know about?
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by Legion 15y ago
Good, because that was not the case when they first took away my beloved Ubuntu Netbook Remix and replaced it with Unity.
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by Legion 15y ago
I keep reading people saying this, but my netbook screen is 1024px wide, and eating up any of that space turns websites into things that must be scrolled horizontally as well as vertically. Unity ruined Ubuntu on my netbook because of that.
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by Legion 15y ago
And to be fair to tpope, Vundle is something that clearly came along later, looking to refine the experience that Pathogen established. Vundle is a minor but very welcome improvement on Pathogen, while Pathogen was a monsterous improvement
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by Legion 15y ago
Vundle is even better than Pathogen IMO. It takes away the need to manage git submodules, in favor of just creating a text file that defines your plugins, Bundler style. Removing plugins from your setup is MUCH cleaner.
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by Legion 15y ago
#5 is what makes the Drafthouse for me. Every time I sit down to see a Drafthouse movie, and I see the montage of that month's events, I inevitably find myself saying, "I want to come for that!" at least a few times. This month's for the Au
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by Legion 15y ago
I have a hard time imagining Tim League fabricating this. It would seem out of character from the way he runs the rest of his business, at least. But the most important thing is, the enforcement of the rules behind the scenario in the voice
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by Legion 15y ago
Indeed, everyone has the "we're not liable if we terminate your service" legalese, but not everyone has the stated free speech mission statement on NFS's About Us page: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/ You're right in wanting to ju
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by Legion 15y ago
Not knowing is one thing. Not knowing, being informed about it, and arrogantly blowing off that information is inexcusable, unprofessional, and deserving of all that scorn. It would have been very easy to say, "Thanks for bringing this up,
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by Legion 15y ago
People talk about Safari being bad on Windows, but frankly, it offers little reason to use it on a Mac either. Really, the only thing that prevents Safari from being the "worst" mainstream browser is the existence of IE. It's not awful . I
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by Legion 15y ago
I'm surprised to discover Hacker Monthly still exists, after the iPad app simply stopped serving up new issues 7 months ago. What's that about?
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by Legion 15y ago
I'm sure NFS isn't the only registrar that fits my description. They're just the one I know about. I would love to hear about others that hold the same standard.
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by Legion 15y ago
Nope. Talking about it normally, and not just when it's a convenient hot-button issue, would be sufficient. A history of backing up those words with actions that match would also help.
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by Legion 15y ago
That's nice. But I prefer my registrar have freedom and anti-censorship be a core everyday value, like NearlyFreeSpeech, rather than something to embrace as a marketing opportunity. Maybe that's unfair to Namecheap, but at any rate, all the
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by Legion 15y ago
I agree with you. Yet, I am passing this on to my company's designers, if for no other reason than to convince them to stop filling 600px of space with little 12px text. The failure to validate the ratio as "optimal" is a very valid critici
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by Legion 15y ago
I would just like to see a standalone version of IE6, everything wrapped up in one binary, so that the silly, completely unnecessary one-or-the-other choice wouldn't exist.

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