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by akoster 9y ago
Indeed! It's why many Jews choose to name children after deceased relatives to honor and remember them. Also a similar quote by Irving Yalom: "Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me
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by akoster 9y ago
I wonder why Saudi Arabia's privilege of hosting this competition was not revoked when they decided to prevent players from attending based on their country of origin. This is quite petty and stupid from a government which is attempti
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by akoster 9y ago
Check out Authenticator for iOS. Open source and has builds posted in the App Store https://github.com/mattrubin/Authenticator https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/authenticator/id766157276?m
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by akoster 9y ago
All of the above +HN, for me
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by akoster 9y ago
While living away from my native California, I had a good laugh seeing someone with a "San Bernardino Beach" shirt.
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by akoster 9y ago
Great suggestion! Here a more about this great book by Dale Carnegie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influ...
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Slackware Linux Project turns 24 years old(slashdot.org)
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by akoster 9y ago
Thanks for posting and I'd love to take you up on your offer. Also likewise, I'm happy to share any knowlege I am familiar with. (just sent you a DM on twitter :-)
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by akoster 9y ago
I just bought https://www.nostarch.com/Rust and https://www.nostarch.com/seriouscrypto Both are early-release, but look good from the sample chapters provided.
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by akoster 9y ago
From section 1394 of the penal code (FyreWire (fraud)) ;-)
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by akoster 9y ago
Site not loading for me. Internet archive mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20170629000253/https://www.raphko... (Also I realize I share a surname with the author but am of no relation that I know of.)
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by akoster 9y ago
I too am perplexed by this. I sadly believe this trend will continue until some serious regulatory consequences are implemented.
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by akoster 9y ago
This is super neat! Comments like this keep me coming back to HN. Thanks for sharing!
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by akoster 9y ago
Ah! Very interesting! TIL. Thanks!
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by akoster 9y ago
Just curious, is anyone else hearing popping sounds when they click on various things? Unsure if its intentional, and if so, trying to emulate an old hard disk seeking or speakers popping from interference. Otherwise, kudos to the devs for
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by akoster 9y ago
A quick setup script for raspbian: http://www.pivpn.io/
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by akoster 9y ago
First off, I'd like to thank all the developers who have put their time and effort into building this amazing piece of software. I have been curious: if ReactOS aims to be binary compatible with windows, does this mean it succeptible t
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by akoster 9y ago
Authenticator by Matt Rubin https://appsto.re/us/ChQQT.i Open source, lightweight, extremely small app size
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by akoster 9y ago
Same here!
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by akoster 9y ago
I use mpv or mplayer installed through brew.
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by akoster 9y ago
Perhaps this might do the trick? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gmd3HGA...
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by akoster 9y ago
One app that keeps my faith in native binary apps is Telegram. Its iOS app is usually around 40MB and keeps compatibility with old iOS versions down to iOS 6 (as of v3.18). The desktop Qt app is also around 40MB uncompressed. On iOS, fro
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by akoster 9y ago
>The article has that Jews Run the World Through Secret Organizations smell. Exactly, and I don't like it! I too was quite surprised it came from politico of all sources. Similar comments on the article here: https://the
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by akoster 9y ago
I agree. Just because two people may both come from a similar religious denomination or donate to the same organization does not mean that organization is privy to potentially nefarious collaboration among parties. In addition, I agree th
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by akoster 10y ago
$500+ iPhone 5 (2012) user checking in here, currently into the 5th year of updating to the latest (most patched) OS version. I wish android had something like this.
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by akoster 10y ago
Great comment. What you are saying is spot on. I had a 2009 17" Toshiba satellite dual-core I upgraded ~1.5 years ago to another Toshiba Satelite 17" with a quad-core haswell chip. Now my mom is looking to upgrade her aging 201
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by akoster 10y ago
In my area, there were tons of mortgage companies going under left and right back then. Definately lots of people lost their jobs but the glut of cheap office furniture allowed my dad's cost-conscious company consistently upgrade for
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by akoster 10y ago
I heard a similar explanation from a rabbi just a few days ago. Quite interesting and thanks for sharing.
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by akoster 10y ago
This is another python 2 fork that reading this reminded me of: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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by akoster 10y ago
Academic institutions truly keep the spirit of the old web alive!

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