Tehnix

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by Tehnix 13y ago
Really? He answered his parents' question by providing some content from his book that was very relevant to it. He then says that if you're still interested in knowing more, you could buy/get his book. Would you have wanted h
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by Tehnix 13y ago
On a newer Macbook Air, I can even game in a Windows 8 VM. They've come quite far, and with things like unity mode in VMWare Fusion (don't know what it's called in Parallels) you get your VMs applications like they are somewh
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by Tehnix 13y ago
>who can find the time time to work for you day-in and day-out, every week It's not like they do it out of good will. They get paid for it. That said, I agree that it should be done face-to-face.
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by Tehnix 13y ago
>May be I am overreacting but this is when Capitalism starts to bite what on earth does harsh layoffs have to do with capitalism?
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Many mention they can't think of cases where gender would come up in discussions. While it doesn't often come up, there are some discussions where personal anecdotes leads to the inference of the gender of the author. Personally,
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by Tehnix 13y ago
I don't feel like I'm wasting time when I'm on Facebook or HackerNews (I don't really use Twitter at all, and not super much on youtube except when linked something). I get a great deal of information through HN, be it a
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Agreed on the first part, but, > King stood up to his foes, Snowden ran. really stuck with me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but M.L. King didn't do anything illegal, whereas Snowden did. Snowden ran to avoid prison sentence which m
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by Tehnix 13y ago
> "As a hands-free device it is safer than a cell phone." According to studies[0] hands-free devices aren't as safe as you'd think. I can't argue whether they are safer , but at least "safer" isn'
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Or, instead of letting a "crime" skate by, he could let the judge decide whether it's illegal or not.
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Besides totally disagreeing with you; are you aware that you can always bind you own shortcuts to any menu item via System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts ?
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by Tehnix 13y ago
> It's been a year since Aaron Swartz died at the hands of federal prosecutors. I find it quite distasteful that the lawyers' info are linked in the two words "federal" and "prosecutors". Also, and this is j
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Actually, since PG is male, people defending him can't "white knight", since the term is quite specific (read redthrowaway's definition of it). OTOH it could in some way be applied to his proponents, seeing them as more
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Being reminded of an earlier article about how facebook contributed to Mercurial to optimize it[0] because their code base had become so large. Wouldn't it provide a much better flow if they built their system around separating things
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Would really like to see Haskell integration (via a plugin?) support for this!
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by Tehnix 13y ago
"the shit some men say about women behind their back" or the shit men say about other men or the shit women say about men or the shit women say about women ... I hardly think it's inherent to men only to vent their frustratio
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by Tehnix 13y ago
I actually prefer the StackOverflow post you linked over the OPs blog post (not bashing on the blog post, the SO answer is just so good).
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by Tehnix 13y ago
You can take a look at https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet and maybe less directly relevant, but still good information is https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Weaknesses . Personally, I keep my
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by Tehnix 13y ago
I think he's more interested if the police can do something, since the trail can be somewhat followed, and, you can often see an ip of the transaction requester. They more than likely can't do anything in these cases though, since
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Same happened to me on MtGox (to make it clear, not their fault, was my own carelessness). Was more than likely related to reuse of password and a hack on another site that used the same acc/pass combination. There is nothing one can d
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Why wouldn't he? I don't know of any online anything that refunds you from their own pocket, so, that he can't get the transaction back (like some bank account transactions can be, or, they can be traced to a person) is a f
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Actually, not really. Correct me if I'm wrong in the assumptions I make on Coinbases' process (I only gathered from comments since I'm not US based and therefore can't use it). If a buyer buys the 8th, they then lock the
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Actually, Bitcoin crashing can only be an advantage to them since they lock the prices when the customer buys from them. As in, they just got an order for 20 btc at $1000 pr. btc, but, since it's crashed, they only have to pay $500 p
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Care to enlighten on how it's disguting?
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by Tehnix 13y ago
>What I wanted, deep in my heart, was for someone to say, “Yes, I see this is difficult for you – I see hearing that comment was hard for you because you are worried about the sexist implications, and it was a challenge to maintain compo
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by Tehnix 13y ago
And why's that? Almost all of the native icons (battery, wifi, sound, date/time, bluetooth) can be turned off in the menu bar (set to not show). Are you under the assumption that OS X can't be changed? 'Cause with plists
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Because web design and what they do are entirely different areas of expertise. Their design skills tells nothing about their capabilities as sys admins (and the other areas concerning backup)
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by Tehnix 13y ago
except his suggestion backward-dated it seeing as 2013 is not the future...
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by Tehnix 13y ago
For all the "use chromecast/Apple TV/Miracast", this might be helpfull as to why it isn't the same http://images.indiegogo.com/file_attachments/213408/files/20... Also, the guys chant
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by Tehnix 13y ago
>Imagine people said that you could save time and money by replacing friends with Facebook. Or you could stop walking a buy a segway. or, and hold on, not everyone lives with other people (like, say, students etc) and cooking a meal ju
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by Tehnix 13y ago
Given you're at a computer using HN, then at any off time a good meal is no meal I don't quite follow, are you saying because one sits behind a computer one doesn't use any energy at all? You can safely s

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