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by _sbrk 6y ago
This is abuse of copyright. IA did bad, and should not be rewarded for this behavior.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I miss BlueWave offline mail reader... nn just didn't compare when I got to University. irc was and still is fantastic.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Never name your company something that your customers can't pronounce. :-)
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by _sbrk 6y ago
In respond to your comment on checks: Do a quick search on HN for "cashless" and you'll turn up a whole lot of reasons to have something other than credit cards. Even you Kiwis don't want that.
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Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today(realclearpolitics.com)
143 points by _sbrk 6y ago|15 comments
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by _sbrk 6y ago
It's not even close to dead.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Which is a copyright violation, no doubt...
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by _sbrk 6y ago
No worries. As the saying goes "this isn't my first rodeo". I'll let you know what I discover.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Nice development board for $20, even if it takes some work. Bought one!
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by _sbrk 6y ago
The ARRL Handbook for Radio Amateurs explains electricity and electronics for the beginner, and you might also get an interesting introduction to radio, too.
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Physics for Idiots(physicsforidiots.com)
2 points by _sbrk 6y ago|0 comments
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A man with 1000 Klein bottles under his house (Cliff Stoll)(youtube.com)
2 points by _sbrk 6y ago|0 comments
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Emotions my a$$. I procrastinate because it's easier to do something else more interesting. I find that if I can identify something that needs to be done, which requires more work than the task currently at hand, then I can get done wh
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by _sbrk 6y ago
No, it's not and has never been held out as such. iPhones are a captive market. If you bought one, you bought into the closed ecosystem. Be that for convenience or ignorance, you are now subject to the whims of Apple. Android is anothe
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Meteor with high copper content, since excited copper emits green light?
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Ijit Pai is on the case. Everything will be better soon. The current FCC leadership is about as inept as the Fed, except that they're not ashamed to admit they're selling out to carriers.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Why do you want it, and how much are you willing to pay?
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Define sentient, and make sure you consider that plants react to pests, even if it is not in an animal way.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I almost never take notes. My to-do lists are on post-it notes scattered on my desk, and I rarely miss a task or deadline. I tried the notebook route for a while, but I found that it was more like a diary; I never looked back until years ha
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I watched the first shuttle launch as a child. I watched the tragedy of Challenger in my school's gymnasium, and I watched STS-135, the last orbiter mission, from a bridge in Florida. This is a monumental day for our country.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I prefer 132 characters, preferably with an alternating green bar background. To each, their own.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I dislike reading a book in my browser. Here's the Project Gutenberg page with all file types for offline viewing. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30688
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Replaying now on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YaFsUWgN3s&feature=emb_logo
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by _sbrk 6y ago
> there's an abundance of this type of content on Youtube .. who makes their money monetizing the content of others. I respect this guy for staying off the commercialized hosting site and having such a simple, functional website. Th
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I'm curious; why do you feel HTML tables are bad?
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Simplifier(simplifier.neocities.org)
386 points by _sbrk 6y ago|58 comments
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by _sbrk 6y ago
One of my favorite bands has the wearable-size version on the cover of an album. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_World_(Information_Soc...
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Thank you for reposting this treasure. Oh, how I miss pages that don't need a scroll wheel to read!
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by _sbrk 6y ago
I remember the days of 3270 terminals and, later, x3270 under SunOS & Solaris to the university VM.
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by _sbrk 6y ago
Great stuff from the golden years of the 'net. Archived websites like this show what it was, before it became infected with consumers.

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