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by bdg 13y ago
Situations like this reminds me of my favorite part of Brave New World: > Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust
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by bdg 13y ago
I've been working with FreeBSD Jails for quite a while now and this looks like a clone for Linux. For those who don't know, a FreeBSD Jail is a virtualization on the OS level (rather than Hardware level as provided by VirtualBox e
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by bdg 13y ago
You don't know if nsa.gov.pl is a valid domain. You don't know the purpose of that domain or organization. You need more evidence to believe accurately: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jn/how_much_evidence_does_i
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by bdg 13y ago
Wow this is great work! When I was working on my first patch I actually looked for video tutorials on this but came up short. The text tutorials are quite extensive but you tend to miss a thing or two (in my case, I struggled with the qnew
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by bdg 13y ago
This was a huge contributor to why I left my last job. Employers: take note.
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by bdg 13y ago
A post that expresses little thought should be down-voted. The post in question is of value since the original link 503'd, but that value is obfuscated to some by the lack of a quick "Here's a mirror" explanation. Is thi
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by bdg 13y ago
I love your interview style: actually test for things the dev will actually do. I've applied to other jobs who's owners frequent HN, and they did things like test my ability to write sort algos or data structures... but the job ca
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by bdg 13y ago
We're a small dev team but I'm happy to help out. I've submitted code to moz-central before, but I noticed shumway is in anpther repo. What type of help did you have in mind?
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by bdg 13y ago
It's a very cool project I've thought about gettinng involved with. My company has a number of complex flash games that will not initialize in shumway, but for toys and small apps it works about half the time -- and that's co
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by bdg 13y ago
This is likely among the last prizes we'll see in physics for a long time that has evidence to back it up. The theory is so far ahead of the practice that things we think we understand just can't be tested in reasonable times. Loo
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by bdg 13y ago
I can't read the site on my mobile because of some fixed with absolute floating gimmick. I'm just going to assume this is link bait because the voice behind a software product was. "Finally revealed!!"
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by bdg 13y ago
It's not, PKCS5 v2 just makes a statement about doing as many as is tolerable to you, with 1000 being a minimum. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2898#section-3 IIRC, some hashing algos lose strength when this is don
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by bdg 13y ago
Your manner degenerates any productive conversation. Thank you for reaching Goodwin's law first.
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by bdg 13y ago
That's one of many. The first one that comes to my mind is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093796/Emily-Buntin...
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by bdg 13y ago
People have been detained for pissing and moaning on twitter about the president. But thanks for being so pleasant about sharing your assumptions.
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by bdg 13y ago
Super. I'll just neatly put my name next to a list of people (which the NSA has connected to) who oppose the surveillance state ... and hope I don't get black bagged to your fancy Cuban torture prisons if I ever cross into the USA
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by bdg 13y ago
Yes.
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by bdg 13y ago
I've been reading a chapter a day since this was posted and... I'm done with this. The rambling effect and raving about types of stationary and importance of stationary is just... I don't have any words to describe this. I ca
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by bdg 13y ago
It's not the drawing of them in space that's the issue. Remember, you're in space right now in addition to being on the earth. The issue is in making the measurement. The 180 degree problem is really complex.
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by bdg 13y ago
> your Standard Model If you don't understand your standard model, it's merely a standard belief. If you understand it, it can be invalidated and thrown away by the 'magical breakthrough' if it provides evidence. Thes
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by bdg 13y ago
Guides like this are tricky. They secure one facet of lots of things, and not always the things you actually want. If securing a server were as straightforward as changing ssh settings and firewall rules, distro providers would do this sort
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by bdg 13y ago
I've always said that when I start a company I'm going to give out really meaningless titles like "Super Nintendo" and "Stealth Bomber", and make sure they go on the business cards.
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by bdg 13y ago
The FreeBSD kernel is cool, but what really sells me on it is the concept of a 'core system' as a design feature, and the nifty things like ZFS that you get. There's a new things that aren't quite like Linux, for instanc
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by bdg 13y ago
Thank you. The mouse-over popup spam was too much to fight with.
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by bdg 13y ago
This could have been written in the mindset that JavaScript and PHP ran at the same time. Lots of people still believe that.
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by bdg 13y ago
Sometimes those of us so ingrained in the world of HackerNews forget what life of people in other fields of work is like. I highly doubt this was a jedi-level intimidation tactic from the handbook they provide to the switchboard operator af
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by bdg 13y ago
Websites are growing in their nuisance of DOM-level UI breaking. I'm increasingly using the Inspector dev tool just to delete entire chunks of elements on websites. "Oh, you need me to click LIKE on your page? ... Deleted!" &
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by bdg 13y ago
I'm very anxious to see what will happen when FoxOS hits the market. Presently developer preview phones are going for less than $150 (including shipping and taxes) entirely unlocked and without bloatware (ie, uninstallable freecell jun
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by bdg 13y ago
This is very cool, thank you for sharing. I've been on-and-off involved in some synthetic biology FOSS software, but as a non-biologist so much of this is hard to keep up with and make informed decisions about.
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by bdg 13y ago
My understanding seems to be at conflict with how I'm reading your description here. Please help me out? DNA is comprised of four specific nucleic acids which are always the same molecular combination. These acids form into base-pairs

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