SloopJon

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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   I read something very similar in this anonymous Slashdot post when Assassin's Creed Unity came out: http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=6048819&cid=483821... Choice quote: "Nvidia literally doesn't
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   Slate puts rather a different spin on this than other articles I've read. Slate: > The FTC is so displeased that Jessica Rich, its consumer protection director, has written to the bankruptcy court handling RadioShack’s case, asking
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   I opened the liner notes for Riding with the King, which has a great picture of B.B. King and Eric Clapton playing side by side, sitting on Fender amps (not sure if this link will work): http://www.gettyimages.com/detail&#x2
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   Amy and Sarah were two of the most popular girl's names when I was growing up. My wife dug in her heels pretty early in the pregnancy for a name that I later learned was a character on a TV show. Judging by the site, she's not th
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   I just bought Riding with the King last month. Didn't know there was a DVD-Audio version. I was sad to hear that some of his recent performances were poorly received: http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/music&#x
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   Like i18n or l10n: nine-letter word, starts and ends with "t", rhymes with "bogey man." Edit: and no, I've never seen this particular abbreviation.
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   > The only reason printf needed to embed that extra type information was because the C programming language lacked variadic templates. And to specify the format. If you want this function to print your integer as hexadecimal, for exampl
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   I'm not familiar with the term bug collision, and I don't quite grok it from context. Is this another way of saying independent discovery?
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   by SloopJon 11y ago

   Here's a diff from the osquery project mentioned in the post: https://github.com/facebook/osquery/commit/159899a303d0859eb...
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    by SloopJon 11y ago

    I think it's counterproductive, but this page explains his rationale: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html I sometimes make a point of saying "copy prevention" rather than "cop
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    by SloopJon 11y ago

    Second-gen Moto E came out just as my wife's Nexus 4 was giving up the ghost, and so far it is the perfect replacement. She was a little upset that it cost so much ($150), at which point I thought it unwise to remind her how much our
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    by SloopJon 11y ago

    Much has been made of online education's mini bubble, with an emphasis on MOOcs like Coursera, Udacity, and edX. Having taken several of these classes, it all seemed kind of silly to me. They're great for curiosity and continuin
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    I suppose it could depend on the judge, and things may look different on the first day of empanelment than the fifth, but they made it pretty clear that they didn't expect anyone to survive on the stipend for three months. After I call
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    I served four days a week for three months, with the ominous threat of being "extended" one day a week for months more on end to finish a murder trial (which we ultimately were not). My employer paid my salary for the duration.
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    4. Don't ram a half-baked document format through ISO.
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    That reads like an April Fool's joke, but I followed the link to Github, and this has been acknowledged (and fixed) as a "security-high vulnerability": https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/pu
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    I like the red backlight in my Max Blackbird at its lowest setting. Not essential, but kind of nice. What I really like about it, which for some reason is relatively rare in mechanical keyboards, is the built-in USB hub. Nice for a mouse
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    > I'm not clear on how his blinding setup works Search for "Blind Testing" on the first page: "I use a passive three-way switch to route the outputs from the three sources to a pair of headphones. ... without looking,
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    May I recommend the following blog post: http://blog.lunatech.com/2009/02/03/what-every-web-developer... and the HN discussion of that post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5930494 I use
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    Thanks. I searched the FAQ for "adv", but somehow missed that.
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    When I create a repeating event in Calendar for Mac in a Google calendar, the scheduled time changes after a DST transition. Really annoying.
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    Cool. This was announced almost a year ago. Pixar seems to define non-commercial reasonably, although there may be some fuzzy areas, such as YouTube. Okay, so long as you're not posting to a channel for which you share in the ad rev
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    One thing a Bay area friend of mine pointed out is that Amazon charges the same price regardless of your cost of living (modulo sales tax, in some cases). Stuff just doesn't seem as expensive making $100,000 in SF as it does making $6
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    > I bet if the embargo were for 5 days they would reconsider. Here's a page describing the list in question: http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros Here's the embargo policy: >
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    > Or maybe his lawyer should drop the offer and just let the statute run out now Would the statute of limitations be tolled for the duration of Assange's stay at the embassy?
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    My dad had pancreatic islet-cell cancer. After a local surgeon determined that the tumor was inoperable, a heroic team at the Mayo took it out. Several years later he developed cancer in his liver, which is now largely nonfunctional. He j
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    I got a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (4 GB RAM, 32 GB storage, decent screen, but an anemic processor), thinking it could replace an old MacBook we use for web, email, and music. The email didn't work so well, because we couldn't easily
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    Despite the plethora of Docker articles here on HN, I haven't paid much attention to containers. Reading this article, I get the impression that they occupy a niche somewhere between a chroot jail and a VM. The question is, how to dep
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    It makes complete sense to me that the maintainer of a multi-DB tool would collect a table of features like this. My impression is that SQL Workbench/J does not try to hide differences between database systems. The fact that a cell i
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    by SloopJon 12y ago

    As people become increasingly inured to the trickle of revelations, I do think that lawsuits are important. If Wikimedia doesn't have anything more than a logo on a slide, however, this will be tossed for lack of standing, like severa