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by Luyt 15y ago
This is indeed an unhealthy trend. The past years nearly all major desktop environments have been adding stuff like window compositing, shadows, translucent windows and other graphics gimmicks which just add bloat, bling-bling and no usabil
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by Luyt 15y ago
I wonder why their showcase features a picture of a DigiNotar certificate [1]. Could it be that DigiNotar was in the news recently? From WikiPedia: "On July 10, 2011, a certificate was issued by DigiNotar's systems for Google by an attacke
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by Luyt 15y ago
If it were in Groningen, I'd go ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
At least my Apple computers allow me to boot Linux and FreeBSD.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Interesting, I see you've written it in Coffeescript. It's the first time I've looked at Coffeescript and what I see pleases me: Javascript with Python-style identation.
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by Luyt 15y ago
[NSString stringWithFormat:[prefs format]]; "Avoid nested nesting more than two message calls on a single line, as it easily gets unreadable." Oh, the joy of function call chaining in languages like JavaScript: rs = db.fin
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by Luyt 15y ago
That sounds like a 'Facebook Tax', like Microsoft does to the PC industry.
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by Luyt 15y ago
It is indeed. It makes one wonder whether the cookies that Facebook installs in your browser, will allow them to track you anyway, even when you completely 'shut' your FB account tight. My PC's are facebook-cookie-free.
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by Luyt 15y ago
> The only losers are us professionals who know about the implications of such a move and who care about the loss of privacy. You're right. But there is salvation on the music front: Use Streamripper to download music from a diversity
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by Luyt 15y ago
There was an interesting (and entertaining) book written about the Cold Fusion Hype, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Science:_The_Short_Life_and... From Gary Taubes' (the author) website: Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of C
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by Luyt 15y ago
FLOSS Weekly interview with Richard Hipp: http://twit.cachefly.net/FLOSS-026.mp3 "SQLite, an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine."
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by Luyt 15y ago
No wires, just many reed switches. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_switch
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by Luyt 15y ago
Also see http://www.ghostery.com/ if you don't want to be tracked by web beacons in a more general way, i.e. not only by Facebook.
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by Luyt 15y ago
I guess you scrape websites of retailers to populate your database? Have there been any retailers which said you are not allowed to scrape their site for gathering product info, pictures and prices? (I can imagine that certain retailers onl
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by Luyt 15y ago
I did something similar for Project Gutenberg texts: a set of scripts to download them in bulk, do some textual reformatting and file renaming on them, all geared toward making them better looking and more accessible for my ebook reader (wh
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by Luyt 15y ago
Say it like it is, brother! "The Eternal Value of Privacy" by Bruce Schneier, http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma... (article for Wired) "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'", http://chronicle.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Discussions about TDD always make me think of Ron Jeffries' attempt to develop a sudoku-solver using TDD. That attempt is discussed in Ravi's article: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s... Peter Norvig wrote a su
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by Luyt 15y ago
They're on FreeBSD. conntrack is a Linux utility.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Ha! That's the first thing I always do with a new computer: remove all those stickers. Some Vista stickers are extremely hard to remove. That being said, my Air came with absolutely no stickers on it.
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by Luyt 15y ago
"I was limited to 1000 characters on Tinyproj. I did have more detailed requirements. The 1000 char limit was a pain, I have to say, and I was going to quickly give up on Tinyproj." It's not so bad, is it? 1000 characters should be enough
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by Luyt 15y ago
From the original post at YouTube: "A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'd like to add that I don't condone the act of illegally duplicating CDs/DVDs in high volumes (complete with liner notes and backcard) with the intent to sell them on the black market. That's just a ripoff. I think such duplication is diff
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by Luyt 15y ago
Arrrr, me hearties, I still can't get used to the term 'pirate' that is slapped upon people who copy digital music. A pirate is a criminal at sea, who inititiates violence against sea travelers. Pirates steal property (like vessels) and val
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by Luyt 15y ago
I was amazed to read: "Over 4,500 developers and designers, copywriters, and illustrators have signed up in the past few days, and the growth isn’t showing any signs of slowing down." That's indeed an impressive response. I'm working on a
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by Luyt 15y ago
FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE systems. Incredible. They still exist, churning for years without complaint...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Seal a spare key in a plastic bag, then put it in the soil of a potted plant, possibly somewhere between its roots (or bury it somewhere shallow in the lawn). Potential burglars are not going to grub through all that dirt while they don'
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by Luyt 15y ago
The guide explains this in the appendix. You can make them from street cleaner bristles, bicycle spokes, brick strap, old springs etc...
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Tinyproj: A recap of Day One(tinyproj.tumblr.com)
26 points by Luyt 15y ago|11 comments
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by Luyt 15y ago
Sadly, this is the only way to have your submission not drop off the 'new' page. The rate of submissions to HN is so high, that within the hour new submissions disappear from the first page. This is why people use PSUNs. A PSUN is a Person
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by Luyt 15y ago
How about drawing the arrowhead on the middle of the line? (And not drawing it on short lines. The arrowheads on the long lines will reveal whether 'departures' or 'arrivals' are depicted)

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