Morgawr

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by Morgawr 12y ago
It's interesting to see how different was the original title: women-dislike-having-female-bosses-more-than-men-do (in the URL)
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>To make Debian init-neutral is a great idea in my opinion, just like Linux distro we have many flavors, there is no real reason for mandating systemd to be the sole init system I think. Oh, it's an amazing idea. So I assume you can
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>Tech should not be an elusive industry - especially when their is such a huge shortage of skills. 1) If you consider tech to be an elusive industry because of this, would you consider the same for biology, chemistry or other industries&
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by Morgawr 12y ago
Did anybody else notice that the chicken in the picture is possibly the same chicken at different stages of growth?
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by Morgawr 12y ago
When I was 17, 8 years ago, I was diagnosed with gall stones. Before that, I remember eating something before going to sleep, it was around 2AM (bad eating habits, I know) and as soon as I finished my sandwich an acute pain hit my chest. I
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>You know how often earthquakes happen? fires? Yes, let's save money from buying fire extinguishers, that doesn't happen very often anyway. I mean, for big companies with money it's okay to have safety procedures but for s
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>When I'm stuck with a hard refactor to do, I like to print out all relevant files, take coloured pens and highlighters and keep drawing and annotating code until everything is clear in my hand. Paper is simply superior in annotatin
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>Backups are on another server in the same datacenter. You might want to look into moving backups to an offsite location. Datacenter administration 101, if there's a fire or an earthquake or any other natural disaster, you definitel
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by Morgawr 12y ago
How is that any different from trusting Google Drive with your data? Or Dropbox? Or any other cloud backup services? I'm not saying that it's not a problem, because it clearly is, but it sounds like it's a bit too late to be
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Linux privilege escalation in ppp over l2tp sockets(permalink.gmane.org)
3 points by Morgawr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I've been using several services for very cheap VPS and cloud hosting and, while hit or miss, I've had my fair share of great customer support. For example, in my experience iniz.com are really great at what they do, I strongly re
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by Morgawr 12y ago
And it is still going strong! http://www.minix3.org/ Minix3 has adopted/is adopting parts of the NetBSD codebase (packages, libc, coreutils, etc etc) and is closer to the *BSD platforms than ever before. It can be cons
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by Morgawr 12y ago
It says everyone is invited, so I'd assume it's not just for VU students. The Aula at the VU is pretty big and I hope there will be enough space for everybody, but regardless they won't complain if non-students join as well (
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Retirement of Prof. Andy Tanenbaum(cs.vu.nl)
372 points by Morgawr 12y ago|127 comments
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I use relative line numbers so I don't have to count, vim tells me how many lines are between my current cursor position and wherever I need to jump to.
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>I'd like to get something like this for a desktop but I'm afraid my Ubuntu might have some issues on the hardware. I'll wait until I find it slightly used for half the cost. You might want to look at something like https
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I think you misunderstood the "help other people" with "do volunteer work". The two things are not necessarily related. Nobody is going to befriend you just because you help children with troubled families, but surely th
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I wouldn't like to perform update && upgrade (and also reboot!) automatically every day or so. Why? Because updates/upgrades are always something that should be overseen by a capable administrator. Sometimes updates break,
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by Morgawr 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy84TYvXJbk Check this one out. The composability of vim commands is probably the best way to embed voice controls for text editing.
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>Analytics is orthogonal to that Not when it's included in the editor as a default[0]. If we want to strictly compare editors then we should talk about Codemirror instead of LightTable. This point is really moot. I've used both
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I'm not sure why I am getting downvoted to hell (also Igglyboo's entirely legit question). I just stated a fact, it's really undeniable.
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by Morgawr 12y ago
One of the two doesn't come with Google analytics automatically included and enabled by default to track your editor usage. I'll let you wonder which of the two.
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by Morgawr 12y ago
This is why I always use alt+drag to move windows around on my Linux system. I can't really live without. A few years ago I moved back to Windows for some time and missed that behaviour that much that I ended up writing a small program
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I love Overtone, it's really an amazing tool. Some time ago I wrote an (incomplete, unfortunately) algorithm to procedurally generate music with Overtone and even though it's incomplete I sometimes still use it today to make small
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by Morgawr 12y ago
And how many of those run DirectX? Are we really trying to debate whether or not OpenGL is more portable than DirectX across platforms? Really?
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>Until more people are playing triple A games on platforms that use OpenGL you can't really fault them for spending money when it doesn't make sense. All platforms support OpenGL, not sure where you're getting at.
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PirateBox 1.0(piratebox.cc)
222 points by Morgawr 12y ago|70 comments
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by Morgawr 12y ago
I use something like this on Linux, it's called tilda (there are also various similar implementations). It's both awesome and a curse to me. I have it bound to alt+kp_enter and I always keep an irssi/irc session running on it
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by Morgawr 12y ago
The idea of privacy with email is, unfortunately, very ephemeral. As seen in other articles also submitted to hn in the past, even if you stop using Gmail, Google will still have a very huge chunk of your data to track simply because the
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by Morgawr 12y ago
>You can't get 'free daycare', 'good weather', 'affordable fresh food', 'beautiful nature close by', 'free healthcare', 'friendly and approachable people', '5 weeks of

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