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by Sandman 16y ago
Well, in that case - I stand corrected.
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by Sandman 16y ago
"The shell is one of the places where you’ll spend most of your time as a ['nix] coder" Maybe if you're a *nix system administrator. Otherwise, no, not really. I spend most of my time in Eclipse. People who prefer using editors to an IDE
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Federal reserve admits it doled out trillions of tax dollars to foreign banks(pubrecord.org)
41 points by Sandman 16y ago|25 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
Why?
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by Sandman 16y ago
Will you be as happy as if you had a Jaguar?
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by Sandman 16y ago
Also, the mass of what?
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by Sandman 16y ago
Seriously, over 1000 points? I don't remember ever seeing any article on hacker news gather so much karma. Not even those related to, you know... hacking.
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Documentary on WikiLeaks(youtube.com)
9 points by Sandman 16y ago|1 comments
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Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
My mistake, I didn't know that. I looked for the information on where they are registered on their legal page http://www.canonical.com/legal , and it simply states 'United Kingdom'. Anyway, the point stands - they're not a US company.
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by Sandman 16y ago
You mean Canonical? Well, the article was about public US companies. Canonical is neither, it's private, and it's registered in the UK.
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by Sandman 16y ago
"they are going to find themselves being increasingly irrelevant in the tech space" Go check out stuff on code.google.com, then tell me again if they're going to find themselves being increasingly irrelevant in the tech space in the next
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IBM's breakthrough chip technology lights the path to exascale computing(physorg.com)
2 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
I see a lot of angry comments on their webpage, people asking why somebody would do this. Well, the real answer is probably - simply because he/she could. And to all of those wondering how anybody could do this to a project that hosts free
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by Sandman 16y ago
Can Eric Holder actually do that? Can he prosecute a foreign citizen living outside the US?
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US says it may go after WikiLeaks chief(rawstory.com)
2 points by Sandman 16y ago|1 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
My guess is that you could probably sue her if you get skin cancer. If you could prove in court that her property made you ill, you might get a nice, big load of money. Either that, or she'd have to give up her claim that she is the owner o
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Ubuntu: Innovative or reckless?(mybroadband.co.za)
2 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
A driverless car is not exactly a new concept... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driverless_car
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Adobe CEO On Apple: “Let The Games Begin”(techcrunch.com)
1 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple 1 on sale(dailymail.co.uk)
1 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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'Chromeless' lets devs create their own browsers using HTML, CSS, JavaScript...(mashable.com)
1 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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To Boldly Go: A One-Way Human Mission to Mars(journalofcosmology.com)
3 points by Sandman 16y ago|3 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
Firefox is not reaching 50% of the browser market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum... . The big news was that, according to most sources, usage share of IE dropped below 50%.
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by Sandman 16y ago
I may be paranoid, but it seems quite plausible to me that Silverlight is merely another example of Microsoft's famous "Embrace, extend and extinguish" strategy. Since Silverlight failed to gain wide acceptance on the web (well, certainly n
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by Sandman 16y ago
Why wouldn't they? What would be the benefit of offering Flash for Linux, or Mac OS for that matter? Actually, why would they make a Flash plug-in for any browser other than IE? It seems to me that a reasonable thing for Microsoft to do, af
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Microsoft sues Motorola over Android(theaustralian.com.au)
2 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments
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by Sandman 16y ago
I don't believe mixmax missed the point at all. I believe that he/she is genuinely interested in what exactly 'gratifies one's intellectual curiosity' in this article, to quote the guidelines. I'm sorry if I come of as rude here, I am appal
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by Sandman 16y ago
I agree with you. I guess you're being downvoted because, according to the guidelines, a proper thing to do when you feel that an article isn't HN material is flagging it, not commenting that it shouldn't be on HN.
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OpenOffice.org forsakes Oracle, forms new foundation and fork(zdnet.com)
1 points by Sandman 16y ago|0 comments

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