azm

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Collaboration better than competition?(nytimes.com)
2 points by azm 10y ago|0 comments
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by azm 10y ago
ummmm no. http://www.ancient.eu/Ganges/
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by azm 13y ago
Unfortunately this is in the Opinion section which has been known to be reliably frothing at the mouth, anti-goverment, ayn randian propaganda machine.
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by azm 15y ago
Is there any particular reason people don't use plain old xterm. I know that it does not provide tabs, but other than that what are the problems that people face when using xterm. I have had utf8 support, zoom and copy paste working on it f
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by azm 15y ago
Maybe its just me, but why not wipe your screen with a flannel cloth or even your t-shirt every so often. That would take care of most of the more egregiously straight-forward attacks won't it. This of course assumes that you have fairly se
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Tracing functions in python(nedbatchelder.com)
2 points by azm 15y ago|0 comments
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by azm 15y ago
That is primarily because the prevailing wage is calculated by agencies like erieri and Cal EDD (in the case of California) surveys which are usually nine months to a year old. So ymmv. If the survey was taken during a boom year and is used
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by azm 16y ago
I have realized that all kool-aid is quite useless for most situations and thus have reduced my tests to two simple things: - write unit tests for units that actually are complex and do need it - focus on getting as much coverage as possibl
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by azm 16y ago
If you don't want a PDF or scribd, clicky to Cambridge project page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
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Flash for 64 bit Linux is back(labs.adobe.com)
2 points by azm 16y ago|0 comments
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The origins of "fanboy" (via MeFi)(technologizer.com)
2 points by azm 16y ago|0 comments
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by azm 17y ago
<rant> Can we please, please, please stop trying to redesign everything under the sun, especially in the name of eco-friendliness or usability or some other such thing? That is not to say that designs and decisions and concepts shou
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by azm 17y ago
<spelling-nazi> s/compliments/complements/ </spelling-nazi> The former changes the meaning of the sentence completely. But otherwise looks great. I would give anything to completely ditch macports.
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by azm 17y ago
Neat use of development tools to illustrate a point. But, to be quite blunt, very naive in the best case and quite stupid in the worst case. We can "ship early, iterate often" in software because quite often it doesn't cost much (certainly
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by azm 17y ago
Its all nice and good to point out the problem that parking causes in terms of the development or destruction of any downtown, however unless the lack of parking is compensated for by having an excellent public transit system (like Portland
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by azm 17y ago
This is one the primary reasons I have not watched anything sports related on NBC for a long time. The rah-rah, the overly obsessive coverage of only US players and related history, the focus on all the wrong parts of the games, I can (with
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Steve Souder's browser performance wishlist(ajaxian.com)
1 points by azm 17y ago|0 comments
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by azm 17y ago
Whoops! I guess it is rare...
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by azm 17y ago
5 years, multiple thousands of almost illegal intercepts, 'blanket' PIs to cover up the unauthorized intercepts. Surely redefining 'rare' is not the answer.
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by azm 17y ago
I think you are making an assumption regarding availability vs price vs demand. I would think that given the sort of capacity Amazon has, at some point of time the cost of a spot instance would be the same as or higher than the cost of a re
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by azm 17y ago
>> Are you sure about not stopping one bomb? Their service is like the electric company (and IT), you don't notice it until it stops working. Are you kidding me! Utility companies don't try to place your gas line right next to a bad
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A Better Craigslist?(snagmachine.com)
1 points by azm 17y ago|1 comments
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by azm 17y ago
" (because I refuse to read this) " At the risk of getting down-voted on my first comment: I am sorry, how can you comment on an article about the possibility of acquiring some form of ADD and attempt to provide a potential solution without