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by apgwoz 15y ago
This is a really great idea, but I find that I quite often just skip over automated email, which is why it probably won't be useful to me. This has me thinking, though, how can I trick myself into opening up a (known) weekly digest email? M
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I was just going to comment on this. I was curious to see what the new Facebook campus looks like, and it was the same way. "For sure, this is just that writer doing her job wrong," but no, MG's article does the exact same thing. How can yo
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by apgwoz 15y ago
"circumvented the MIT guest system"? If by circumvented you mean, registered a fake name, clicked accept and got an address via DHCP, then yes. edit removed the "I bet you're guilty.." and added the below: Should Aaron have asked for perm
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More Than 35,000 Sign Petition In Support Of Aaron Swartz(blog.demandprogress.org)
10 points by apgwoz 15y ago|5 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
What would be better than passwords? Public-key crypto. The password/phrase is only used to protect the private key, so there's only ever one password to remember. Of course, validation of the owner becomes the troublesome point here.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I played seriously with Hurd in the early 2000s, and remember really loving many of its ideas. The user space file systems (which Fuse does for other OSes) were quite cool. I can't imagine that much of the good stuff Hurd promised hasn't al
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Startup Hiring is Broken(blog.turans.com)
5 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Surprise (commentary on" illegally" installing software)(code.technically.us)
16 points by apgwoz 15y ago|10 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
,[.,] is /bin/cat in brainfuck. Though, brainfuck fails miserably at most golfing challenges.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
> guys and the rest of the engineers in the valley? Location. They're in NYC.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Wait. Digital YouTube party via hangout? ( http://xkcd.com/920/ ) Mind blown.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
If you're referring to the "I made something people want," is it true? It sounds like they really want the engineers, which they didn't make (their parents did, I guess they deserve the shirt then?). Yes, I'm joking. Congrats to the tea
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Given Twitter's history with Open Source, I'm guessing we'll still see Storm.
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by apgwoz 15y ago
looks like its using the hunch.com api
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Right. And of course the whole idea is prone to insane amounts of fail. > Thus, if you access the enclosing environment, you > must ensure that the lifetime of this lambda is bound by the > lifetime of the enclosin
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by apgwoz 15y ago
I'm going to complain about the amount of padding in the messages list per message, but praise the rest. The redesign of most of Google is a welcome change.
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Lambda, The Ultimate Political Party(nhplace.com)
3 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 15y ago
Not just the header section, but individual titles on articles feel really scrunched.
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Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?(yellow.bikeshed.org)
1 points by apgwoz 15y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Disagreement aside, I'd be interesting to know how many signups they had yesterday compared to prior days.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
You're right, it won't make the nightly news. But, you obviously have no imagination either.
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Assume for a moment that this makes the nightly news. How many people in "average joe" America who don't know about Dropbox will checkout it out and say, "oh man, this is useful! and they even have a free account!" Do they care about this D
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Since when is any publicity ever bad? Isn't this Marketing 101?
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Clojure for Schemers by David Nolen(vimeo.com)
3 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
I've been meaning to write down some thoughts about this book, but I haven't had time to put the direct knowledge gained from reading it to real use--hopefully that'll change soon. I too was glad that there was a lot of introduction befor
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by apgwoz 16y ago
You mean, garbage collection?
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by apgwoz 16y ago
> Node.js is event-driven framework build on top of V8 JavaScript engine. It doesn't scale outside of single machine. The fact that it's built on top of the V8 JavaScript engine says nothing about anything. And the statement "it doesnt'
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Steal This Database (Streaming Meetup Events API)(making.meetup.com)
1 points by apgwoz 16y ago|0 comments
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by apgwoz 16y ago
No way! I wrote an opinionated comment? How rude of me! > So either come up with your own filters, but don't try to push them on everyone else here. We are diverse enough to enjoy a bit of everything. Are you suggesting that if I build
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by apgwoz 16y ago
Oops! Thanks for noticing this. I'll make a fix.

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