akandiah

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by akandiah 10y ago
GlobalFoundries was a spin-off from AMD - not ATI!
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by akandiah 10y ago
Instead of a VPN subscription, I'd recommend a self-managed VPN solution. One can easily fire one up thanks to Streisand ( https://github.com/jlund/streisand )
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by akandiah 11y ago
> Reading this comment makes me realize that it's somewhat silly that we don't consider consoles in this competition. For instance, consider the capabilities of my PS3: As good as it is, I wouldn't compare it to a PS3 for
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Tesla Reliability Doesn’t Match Its High Performance(consumerreports.org)
2 points by akandiah 11y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 11y ago
How else do you expect the application to use sockets?
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by akandiah 11y ago
Computer Networks by Tanenbaum: http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Networks-Edition-Andrew-Tanen... It's a classic.
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Fake Mail Generator(fakemailgenerator.com)
2 points by akandiah 11y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 11y ago
They would fall further if it weren't for the 10% 'fall-limit' that's imposed by the government.
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Eternify(eternify.it)
1 points by akandiah 11y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 11y ago
The proper way to shave using a safety razor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IuA8HGacJw It takes a tad longer than a three blade razor, but I've always had closer and better shaves. I've tried disposables, cartr
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by akandiah 11y ago
> 2) Those 3 billion mobile phones either are Android, in which case they don't exactly run Java, or are insignificant featurephones with mobile Java that again nobody cares about. No. Java is more pervasive than you think. It'
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by akandiah 11y ago
There was a great documentary done on China's empty cities done by Dateline (in Australia): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM
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by akandiah 11y ago
> building a sun porch onto your house without locking the door to the sunporch Love the tongue-in-cheek swipe at Java applets. Perhaps I'm reading too much into this line.
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by akandiah 11y ago
A lot of the time, restarts are required to remove old versions of files that are still in use. AFAIK, there is no way to remove files that are 'in-use' (and not locked) without having to make an entry in the registry to schedule
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How not to handle input(imgur.com)
2 points by akandiah 12y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 12y ago
Wonder if Mozilla will follow suit: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542689
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by akandiah 12y ago
It looks like the start-up/shutdown script is doing an rm -rf on a bash variable that's evaluating to null.
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by akandiah 12y ago
Simply one of the worst development tools that MS has put out. Its problem is that it's a hack-job - an attempt to make it in to a 'project' file that Visual Studio can load and also where one can treat as a traditional (n)an
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by akandiah 12y ago
The concept is called multi-IMSI. It's been possible to do this for a while now.
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Homebrew CPU (2004)(homebrewcpu.com)
141 points by akandiah 12y ago|41 comments
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by akandiah 12y ago
It's just for cleanliness. The script would error out with something along the lines of "No such file or directory".
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Bash_profile vs. .bashrc(joshstaiger.org)
24 points by akandiah 12y ago|6 comments
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What are TCHAR, WCHAR, LPSTR, LPWSTR, LPCTSTR?(codeproject.com)
2 points by akandiah 12y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Free, non-comercial version of RenderMan(renderman.pixar.com)
1 points by akandiah 12y ago|0 comments
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Luhn algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akandiah 12y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 12y ago
I really like him for his contribution towards creating the Sysinternals set of utilities. I'm surprised that Windows doesn't include them by default nowadays.
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The narcissism epidemic(abc.net.au)
1 points by akandiah 12y ago|0 comments
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by akandiah 12y ago
Six stars for Apple! It's the first time that it's received such an accolade from the EFF.
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by akandiah 12y ago
Indeed! Their active noise canceling headphones actually retain the bass while removing the external noise. Other active noise cancelling heaphones tend to blunt the bass.
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by akandiah 12y ago
Yes, it's the same here in Australia when it comes to Electrolux (and their group of companies). Our fridge failed just after two years of purchase. They were rude when it came to warranty and charged through the nose to fix the proble

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