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by aorth 11y ago
Me too! It's even on GitHub and has forks. :) https://github.com/alanorth/cv
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by aorth 11y ago
Bravo to them for publishing negative results. Bias towards only publishing positive results is a problem in academia. At the institute where I work scientists are often reminded that "No results are also results!"
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by aorth 11y ago
Every time you disable SIP ... a kitten dies? Related, stop disabling SELinux! http://stopdisablingselinux.com/
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by aorth 11y ago
If you only need a Unix-style package manager for things like coreutils, nodejs, tmux, irssi, vim, etc, pkgsrc runs on OS X and installs to /opt/pkg . There is no Google Chrome, or fonts, etc in it though, so if you enjoy install
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by aorth 11y ago
Study Butterick's Practical Typography for tips on how to use typographic elements well, for example using hyphens and dashes properly[0]. Once you read a few of these tips you'll start seeing them everywhere in professional wri
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by aorth 11y ago
Look at commit messages in the Linux kernel, that's what we should be aiming for—whether GitHub or GitHubNext will be around or not isn't really the issue, just an easy thought experiment to illustrate the point. https:/&#x2
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by aorth 11y ago
Cheers on using Reviewable for a better review process, but I notice it adds loads of useless text to the git commit messages[0]. I always figure that GitHub, Reviewable, and other hipster things might not be around one day, so I have stopp
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by aorth 11y ago
HN news title currently using a captial Pi sign, aka П, which is the same as the letter for "Pe" in many Cyrillic scripts. In fact, the Cyrillic letter itself comes from the Greek symbol for Pi. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by aorth 11y ago
Yes, I also use pass with a GPG-encrypted password store, synced to private git repositories.
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by aorth 11y ago
I'm curious to see how this compares to tarsnap for encrypted backups. One cool thing that people might not know about tarsnap is that you can generate read-only subkeys of your main key! https://www.tarsnap.com/man-tar
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by aorth 11y ago
Please edit the link to get rid of the tracking parameters in the query string.
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by aorth 11y ago
Wow, this is coming along nicely. I have only tried the `make` and `./xhyverun.sh` so far, but I was happy to see a GNU/Linux booting after that! How do I shut the VM down though? :)
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by aorth 11y ago
Annoying that the URL is using several tracking parameters: ?utm_campaign=lcl_release&utm_source=hackernews Can't you just read your server logs, people?
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by aorth 11y ago
There is also an Android app by this premii person, and it re-directs all links through its own domain. Very annoying and actually borderline malicious.
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by aorth 11y ago
Fun fact: "imba" means "sing" in Swahili, a language spoken in East Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, and to some extent Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, and DR Congo).
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by aorth 11y ago
I absolutely loved this one. I'm a programmer, but I love the history of the physical sciences like chemistry, physics, geology, etc and associated things like math. Scientists did the funniest things to find out what we know now!
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by aorth 11y ago
Indeed! It is rather a limit on time. :P
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by aorth 11y ago
Very zippy indeed! Have you thought about switching to nginx so you can get SPDY (and soon HTTP/2)? Also, Hugo is cool. I've evaluated it myself, but I have 8 years of WordPress archives -- ~500 posts -- and I worry about things l
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by aorth 11y ago
The web I want has websites using SHA2-based TLS certificates and TLS cipher suites that aren't vulnerable to padding oracle attacks (AES CBC).
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by aorth 11y ago
Wow, this is really cool. Congrats! Would this work with panoramas and or photospheres taken using Google Camera on Android? I've taken a few cool photospheres inside churches, mosques, on top of mountains, etc, but it's really im
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by aorth 11y ago
I just went through and got 5 in a row. w00t! This is hilarious, haha.
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by aorth 11y ago
I don't like the way you've framed the debate. As I said below, the reason you aren't allowed to publish applications containing GPL'd source code in the Apple Store isn't because the GPL forbids it, it's bec
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by aorth 11y ago
The reason you aren't allowed to publish applications containing GPL'd source code in the Apple Store isn't because the GPL forbids it, it's because Apple forbids it; they have an unnatural hatred for the GPL. From w
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by aorth 11y ago
First, I believe everyone should be using uBlock (Origin) [1] anyways. Second, I'm looking forward to seeing how Firefox's built-in tracking protection will evolve[2]. Also, should be interesting to see how Safari's new block
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by aorth 11y ago
Recommends turning on Firefox's built-in tracking protection[0] (which matured in Firefox 37 or so), but has anyone compared this to uBlock? I guess the first thing to measure would be number of trackers blocked, but then of course mem
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by aorth 11y ago
I am sympathetic to content creators making money, but I don't think the trade offs in privacy are worth it. For example, a recent Wired article about Apple's WWDC[0] pleas with the user to "do us a solid" and whitelist
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Logjam, FREAK and Upcoming Changes in OpenSSL(openssl.org)
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On a related note: learning another writing system can also be enlightening. Last year I learned how to read Cyrillic and it was a valuable experience. Now I'll see tidbits on Russian-language forums that I can kinda make sense of, or
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by aorth 12y ago
Indeed! I'm currently 400 pages into this one and really enjoying it; I was surprised it wasn't on the list.
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by aorth 12y ago
I just donated $25. If there is nothing to stop large companies completely ignoring the GPL then what good is it?

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