Luyt

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by Luyt 15y ago
Accoriding to coinmill.com, 1Bn Nigerian Naira is worth 6,343,298 USD. So, you could call Mr. Goodluck Jonathan the 'Nigerian Six Million Dollar Man' ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
The solution is simple: Don't buy virtual gold. And Blizzard should be way more vigilant in shutting down accounts which do so. Virtual Gold has become cheaper and cheaper over time (you can't fail to notice this, if you're standing around
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by Luyt 15y ago
This reminds me of the Broadway show producer who let his 10-year old kid watch new productions to gauge whether he should stage them or not. The idea was that the average audience has the same level of intellect as a 10-year old kid, and
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by Luyt 15y ago
"and what is/was the response to the 'sabbatical year' on your résumé?" I'm not sure. I don't actively mail around my résumé, since I'm employed at the moment and not looking for work. Sometimes recruiters email me, but they have never
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by Luyt 15y ago
I have a one-year gap in my resumé—I took no new freelance assignments in that year, and had three vacations abroad, two in the summer and one in the winter, and studied semiconductors and new software technologies for fun—and I decided to
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by Luyt 15y ago
In this article only fixed-width fonts are presented, while there are ever more and more developers using proportional fonts nowadays—because they're much easier to read. On my unix system, for example, I use Vera Sans: http://www.michielo
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by Luyt 15y ago
Some of these techniques were used in http://www.michielovertoom.com/python/ugly-python/
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by Luyt 15y ago
Also ban: 3) Speakers who say 'uhmm' before and after each sentence. 4) Speakers who read bullets from powerpoint slides.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Unshortened URL: http://www.lodsys.com/1/post/2011/05/q-what-are-you-charging... 0.5% doesn't seem much, but if they succeed in this, many more other patent trolls will come out of the woodwork and all will demand a small percentages. Lo
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by Luyt 15y ago
Is it really that easy? Both my home ADSL as my datacenter servers have permanent IP adresses, which I can't change. I could change the MAC of the network interfaces, but not the IP address. Or do you mean going through a VPN of some kind?
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by Luyt 15y ago
The app 'Shades' for OSX is free and can dim to warm colors, too. http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/shades I use it to dim the LED screen of my bedside MacMini to a very faint yellowish/brown color, which is just right for a totally dark ro
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by Luyt 15y ago
And what if Microsoft made cars? (this is an old one) At a recent COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would al
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by Luyt 15y ago
What? An European San Francisco? I'm off in the bus to Berlin! Taking my laptop with me, see you there. And summer is coming! Yahoo!
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by Luyt 15y ago
"Having critical services (e.g. SSH) on non-standard ports" I routinely do this. Not because I think it will enhance security, but because it will reduce the tsunami of braindead bruteforce attacks on my machines, and the associated resou
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by Luyt 15y ago
Circumventing government DNS seizures with alternative DNS root servers will only be a temporary stopgap. It's only a matter of time before the governments will mandate (by law) that every router should have a way to block certain IPs and M
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by Luyt 15y ago
This is all very interesting and such, but using a simple, basic aerial tramway is not the same as flying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_tramway +1 for the YouTube movie link [1], very illustrative. This is a documentary well wort
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by Luyt 15y ago
Could you please explain what you mean with 'linkporn'? WikiPedia doesn't know the term and Google gives only links to porn (which is probably not what you mean). I can speculate, but I might be wrong. Maybe you mean something like 'libera
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by Luyt 15y ago
It's hard for anyone, governments included, to give up power. Or any advantages indeed. A small example: I remember that the Dutch government (led by a socialist PM back then) imposed a 'temporary' extra tax on gasoline: fl.0.25 extra per l
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by Luyt 15y ago
I'm almost sure half of the people who run my software on a daily basis don't agree with my political views. I don't think they care about that - in the same way I don't care whether a loaf of bread I just bought has been baked by a social
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by Luyt 15y ago
That's funny: exactly what I thought. The general shoddiness of BIOSes are the reason why I always have kept interest in http://www.coreboot.org/ (formerly known as LinuxBIOS), but I have yet to acquire a compatible motherboard.
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by Luyt 15y ago
With so many patent trolls shooting out of the ground left and right, and having success with their business models, there is really nothing else companies can do than join the bandwagon and also aggressively start registering & acquiri
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by Luyt 15y ago
I heard some Microsoft employees own and use iPhones. Isn't that frowned upon?
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by Luyt 15y ago
No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft software.
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Physical Archive Launch(blog.archive.org)
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by Luyt 15y ago
"Even more worrisome are the reports now that MacroSolve is extorting app developers in the same way for using forms in their applications." The sharks smell the blood and home in on their helpless prey. I suspect many more patent trolls
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by Luyt 15y ago
See http://mongodb-is-web-scale.com/ for a humorous angle on the speed vs. ACID compliance tradeoff.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes. See http://docs.python.org/reference/simple_stmts.html#grammar-t... , and the source code is pretty well commented: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Objects/genobject.c?...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Clickable version: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llbj9trfTx1qzt1kzo1_500.jp...
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by Luyt 15y ago
What this article doesn't divulge, is where the other two sets of servers will be installed. With a history of getting their servers seized by the government they won't bet the existence of their site just on one location.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Brian Dunning, of Skeptoid fame, has written an article/podcast about 'Digital Drugs': http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4147 "[...] while the claimed science behind binaural beats is unfounded, this doesn't mean that the effect isn't real an

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