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by bbb 18y ago
Maybe it just wasn't notable? I've never even heard of PBWiki.
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by bbb 18y ago
Yuck. A great reminder why you shouldn't use Flash to build a key navigation element of your site. This particular site is slow, and it behaves in very unexpected ways. Is there any advantage to using Flash in this situation?
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Introduction to Economic Analysis [free micro economics text book](introecon.com)
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by bbb 18y ago
The comment about using them regularly was mostly targeted at rsync, tar, and other backup tools. I never invested the effort to automate my backups even though I am well aware of cron. Part of the problem is that the manual part of connect
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by bbb 18y ago
I had been using a Linux laptop for over 6 years until it died last fall. Now I'm using a MacBook and I'm absolutely loving it. Why? - Power management. Suspend and resume just works. The battery life is great. Linux has catching up to do i
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by bbb 18y ago
Are there any HN readers in the Chapel Hill/Durham/RTP area? And would you be interested in organizing something similar?
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by bbb 18y ago
Not all of Google (yet), but there has been some significant lobbying for the use of git inside Google in the past by Linus himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 (Google Tech Talk) If you want to learn more about git and the
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by bbb 18y ago
I'm not getting it either. This is a joke, right? Right?
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by bbb 18y ago
Why not delete code? Old/stale/unused code gets only in the way and doesn't serve any purpose. And if you really happen to need it later, it is readily available in your version control system. I fully agree with your rule about quick and d
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by bbb 18y ago
The discussion at LWN is also pretty insightful and explains how this happened. http://lwn.net/Articles/281901/ I think the mantra "don't fix bugs that you don't understand" by Ben Laurie (as linked by randombit, thx) is a really importa
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by bbb 18y ago
procmail will do the job. From the homepage: "Procmail can be used to [...] preprocess your mail, start any programs upon mail arrival [...]." http://www.procmail.org/
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by bbb 18y ago
This is a terrible idea. While it may be adding some suspense when reading a book sequentially (for the first time), intentional errors are absolutely confusing whenever you intend to use the book as a reference.
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by bbb 18y ago
What format do they use? It looks like neither SOAP nor XML-RPC. It looks more like some home-brew XML-dialect. Are they reinventing the wheel, and if so, why?
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by bbb 18y ago
I discovered that newer LCDs hurt my eyes due to their intense brightness. I causes me to squint, and if I do that for a whole day I get intense headaches. My solution: 1) turn down the brightness 2) change your editor to a black background
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by bbb 19y ago
One absolute rule for any *nix-based server: In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, disable root logins: PermitRootLogin no Even if you think your password ist strong. This will stop a majority of the brute-force password-guessing attacks. For extra cred
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by bbb 19y ago
Don't ever believe the professor doesn't know what you are really up to when you "take notes" with your laptop. At any given time, half of the laptop-using class is probably on Facebook, Myspace, or plays Solitaire. You can still do it, of
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by bbb 19y ago
By that metric pugs [1,2] comes to mind. Learning both Haskell and Perl is probably not a bad idea, in terms of breadth. ;-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs [2] http://www.pugscode.org/
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by bbb 19y ago
Google summer of code 2008 is starting soon. Applications are due at the end of this month. Participating FOSS projects will post project ideas soon, so just visit some FOSS project that interest you and shop around their task list. Actuall