akavel

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by akavel 14y ago
ad.1: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." :) The argument that the dev doesn't want particular functionality can be perfectly reasonable, and might be a sign that he's even a good one and consciously fights to avoid s
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Slovakia: Members of Parliament will lose their criminal immunity(spectator.sme.sk)
1 points by akavel 14y ago|0 comments
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by akavel 14y ago
I recently switched back to Firefox (as main browser), as its speed improved (for me it even started to feel leaner than Chromium recently), and happily I could again use NoScript and a browser which doesn't send so much information to Goog
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Dwindling Support for Third-World Languages in Modern OSes(osnews.com)
4 points by akavel 14y ago|0 comments
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by akavel 14y ago
> Go code is obviously formatted with gofmt. Is not, he also inlined some things, e.g. this: import ("flag";"fmt") would be expanded to multiline by gofmt, as well as this: if i>0 { fmt.Print(" ") } As to other things,
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by akavel 14y ago
Oh, sweet, a chance to link to xkcd: Researcher Translation again :D http://xkcd.com/678
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by akavel 14y ago
According to jgrahamc's investigation, this will probably check if your password is there and is cracked already . To check if the hash is there, although uncracked yet, you should probably remove the sed call from pipeline.
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In Uruguay, ~570000 kids use Linux(article.gmane.org)
3 points by akavel 14y ago|0 comments
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"When writing on paper, how do you move things about?"(writers.stackexchange.com)
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by akavel 14y ago
> The main purpose of that "Like" button is (IMHO) as a tracking cookie. Visit any Like-enabled site and you see a small piece of content from Facebook that tells Facebook all the sites you visit. It's a tracking cookie like any other a
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by akavel 14y ago
Hm, I've just started to think, also for my personal use, that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to try scripting some automatic 'Hello, how can I help you?' response to /^[^\w] (hi|hello)[^\w] ($MY_NAME)?[^\w]*$/i :)
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by akavel 15y ago
> a highly dynamic language is unlikely Lua, perhaps? There was an article how to reduce its binary size, for an older version of the language (Lua 4.0): http://www.lua.org/notes/ltn002.html With no reductions, and for x86 assembly, i
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by akavel 15y ago
With regards to point 1, I like to remember the article on Local-sensitive Number Grouping: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/04/17/57748... - for me, this shows nicely how the rabbit hole, as usually, is deeper than you wo
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by akavel 15y ago
On one hand, old wisdom creeps in: "if you really want something done well, do it yourself". But on the other hand, if they happened to fail selling at raspberrypi.com, everyone and his dog would be accusing them of hubris and suggesting th
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by akavel 15y ago
I have some issues with this whole affair at the moment: Firstly, in the linked article we can read: "even cheaper computer [...] and it's being sold in China for $7." Uhm? On the original Rhombus Tech page, it seems that the Allwinner A10
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by akavel 15y ago
For me, the ultimate first lesson of vi survival is absolutely ":q!". I'm surprised it's shown only by the end of the second lesson. Other than that, I hope I'll push myself to try this tutorial.