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by adulau 16y ago
Trying to read the IRC logs, I'm not able to find the description for the conflict of interest? Does this mean that you can't be a member of two free software organizations working on the same code base or doing similar works? It makes no s
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by adulau 16y ago
What's the definition of REST? I'm tempted to say: "easy to use from the command line with curl only".
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by adulau 16y ago
I think this is related to Mandelbrot's different perspective to the world and seeing the fractal set as a kind of "chaos" geometry (kind of contradicting). The expression "A Greek among Romans" is used maybe because Mandelbrot perspective
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by adulau 16y ago
Thank you for the reference. I hope that the publishing date is still October 2010... as it was foreseen already 1 year ago.
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Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time(oreilly.com)
141 points by adulau 16y ago|51 comments
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Hack.lu open convention (27-29 October 2010) Luxembourg(2010.hack.lu)
2 points by adulau 16y ago|0 comments
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by adulau 16y ago
'Exit Through the Gift Shop' is indeed an interesting piece of art work from Banksy. The video is not really about him but just a way to divert the media attention to a "creation of his own". In the video, he created a fake/pseudo artist (T
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by adulau 16y ago
Usually in the banking sector, it's not uncommon to have a private agreement before going into court case. Especially when this is a mutual benefit between the employee and the employer (the bank). As the "fraud" within the bank has always
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by adulau 16y ago
This is a very good initiative. A small note, what's the license terms of those documents? "Open-sourcing them" doesn't mean anything and all author rights are still reserved for those documents. It would be more appropriate to add the term
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by adulau 16y ago
Pencil and paper is often unbeatable. There is a nice notepaper generator (including source code in Python) made by Simson L. Garfinkel: http://simson.net/notepaper/index.cgi This is very nifty when you have to take notes and want to have
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Ask HN: What's your favorite window manager for X11?
42 points by adulau 16y ago|68 comments
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Matrix Factorization: A Simple Tutorial and Implementation in Python(quuxlabs.com)
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Paper Token: Gutenberg’s version of One Time Passwords(quuxlabs.com)
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infosec news for the infosec community(news.hack.lu)
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by adulau 16y ago
There are many other projects releasing genome as public domain: - http://www.arabidopsis.org/ - ftp://ftp.arabidopsis.org/home/tair/Genes/ Arabidopsis thaliana , a well-known plant in the botanical community. - NCBI/NIH ftp://ftp.ncbi.ni
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by adulau 16y ago
If you want to see a complete evolution of the privacy policies, you can use http://www.goodiff.org/ . For example, the privacy faq of Google: http://www.goodiff.org/changeset/587/google/www.google.com/p...
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by adulau 16y ago
Affero (the A stands for Affero - http://www.affero.com/ ) was the first business to use it and they even designed the license. This is not a "traditional business" but the company still exists. Status.net (the company behind identi.ca) is
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by adulau 16y ago
Copyleft type licenses (like AGPL or GPL) are also business friendly. They just choose different business model. There was also a discussion on the topic previously and especially how the non-copyleft licenses (like MIT or BSD-like) are not
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by adulau 16y ago
The concept of emergence seems a general term (as this can be seen on the Wikipedia page with the multitude of subjects covering "emergence"). But on the biological side, there is a simple experiment that can lead to nice emergent structure
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by adulau 16y ago
A nice function (not mentioned in this presentation) is the ability to send commands (-X) to a specific window in a screen session. This allows you to completely control GNU Screen the shell or another programming environment while benefiti
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Distorm - Powerful Disassembler Library(code.google.com)
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by adulau 16y ago
Regarding the first point (socket as file), Plan 9 operating system is not using any system call for socket but use a pseudo file-system /net. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/net/ Using the same approach in a fuse implement
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by adulau 16y ago
Exactly, that's the main advantage of the GNU General Public License (and copyleft type licenses), the ability to sustain the free software ecosystem.
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by adulau 16y ago
Maybe I'm a bit biased ,if you launch a cryptographic product, we could expect to have extended information of the algorithms in use and how the various security protocols are implemented. If not, the software/hardware has the tendency to j
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by adulau 16y ago
There is even the famous memo at XEROX sent to Bob Metcalf: http://www.belsambar.net/mediasink/images/ethernet_memo.jpg basically saying that Ethernet is not realistic on an engineering perspective. The memo makes me feel better when I'm
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by adulau 16y ago
From the article : "But what problems are left to be solved?" To ensure that Web companies (like Yahoo!) are keeping their API open, accessible and active. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1611718
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by adulau 16y ago
I suppose you already looked at: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry Haskell is used for quantitative analysis and especially in the finance market. OCaml is also used in various "finance" companies.
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Collisions in PDF Signatures(pdfsig-collision.florz.de)
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by adulau 16y ago
Some years ago, I was mowing completely the lawn with a petrol-based lawnmower but I found the following negative points to do so: - Lawnmowers (petrol or even electronic) are very noisy (by so reducing your "metaphysics"/brain activities w
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by adulau 16y ago
I like those futurologist statements especially when this has a tendency to become a funny quote in the future. Maybe physical book and electronic book will merge in something new that is not defined. Maybe it will be a luxury to own some b

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