biomechanica

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by biomechanica 14y ago
I had a facebook account once. I thought that by deleting my account it would somehow limit my social life and, of course, make it a lot harder to keep my friends and family updated. I couldn't have been more wrong. Not having a facebook ac
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I'm unsure I agree with it also. Android has Google's wallet to fall back on. That could be one reason why it's successful. Mobile devices fill a different "comfort", I think. Desktop OS's out there try to fill a broad spectrum of wants (an
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Was this not renamed to Persona which hit beta recently and posted on HN serveral times already?
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I also see the benefits of having a Linux distribution over Windows 7(or 8). The driver hurdle is annoying on Windows. I recently helped a family member install Ubuntu 12.04 (this family member is not technically inclined at all!), I sat ba
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Well, the year of linux has been around for a long time. The list of devices that use Linux is staggering. Now, Linux as a desktop... Maybe. We'll see.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
The existing decentralized software out there (except for maybe bitcoin which is actually quite simple and a couple others) are not sufficient for normal people because of the way they are presented. Diaspora failed horribly because it was
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by biomechanica 14y ago
What.The.Hell? You would figure companies out there would have learned a lesson or two by now. Wow.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
It's seems like there's been a lot of posts about Go lately. Maybe I'm delusional.. I find Go to be nice to work with. I'm just starting out in it so I'm not exactly proficient yet, but it feels a lot easier to program with against say, Jav
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by biomechanica 14y ago
This is one of the reasons I stick to LTS releases (Long Term Support). The releases between LTS are sort of "unstable" in comparison (for a lack of a better way of putting it). Personally, I have had no issues upgrading from one LTS to ano
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Under which distro did your GRUB break? Anyway, Ubuntu has become the norm in my parents household. Yes, a new laptop or computer will come with Windows pre-installed, but what happens when you need to reinstall windows? This happens more t
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I don't know much about cryptography. So, what you're saying is basically that cryptographic algorithms are largely implemented relying on primes? This is fascinating.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
What a ridiculous question. As an individual, yes, horrible and unforgivable is the response. However, I don't think giving up our rights because some "junkie" decided to murder a child is a good or necessary thing to do. What you're asking
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by biomechanica 14y ago
They are going to use Python 3 for the system, yes. Python 2 will be available, as expected, in the repo's. They are encouraging developers to transition their code to Python 3.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
A VPN will help keep you semi-private for surfing the web. However, when it comes to something like Torrents, someone with a decent amount of knowledge and paycheck would probably not be stopped from finding out who you are. For using bit t
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Gnome may not be dead and it's nice to see them work hard to achieve a suitable user experience. However, I personally don't like the look of it. To me it seems the windows don't fit the rest of the U.I. The borders are too big, in my opi
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by biomechanica 14y ago
For using *BSD as a desktop, going with something like PC-BSD would be a good choice. PC-BSD is basically a friendly FreeBSD with its own sort of package system called PBI while still maintaining the ability to use the ports system. FreeBSD
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I like how they support Tor hidden services. Though I wish they would go a step further and support I2P. It's really nice to see people are working on ways to sort of "replace" the current centralized services out there. Let us hope they ar
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Sadly, the way the system is right now they really have no other option other than bring in the shit storm and hope reform happens.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
It's good to see Go officially supported.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I actually quite like this language. I'm learning C right now and love it, but I gotta say, Go is really starting to catch my eye.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Wouldn't mind seeing Emacs ported to NaCl. That would be a fun project, I think.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I don't know of any, to be honest. However, Closure Library is really just part of the equation. It becomes much more powerful when used with all of the Closure Tools. I have tried the closure tools for my own internal uses and while I don'
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Every single time I look at images captured by the rovers on Mars, it throws a wave of tingles through my spine. The technology and brain power to achieve this picture, the landing, engineering and the science to come is so mind blowing to
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I agree. It's not perfect. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the actual network it sits on will help, too. Like CJDNS, an added protective layer for privacy, at least. Public key encryption generated automatically for each user
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Well, in the context of making a new Facebook that is as successful, no I don't think it can be achieved. I go on to explain what can be achieved, though.
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Well, the very first of these social networks is, I would say, the Internet itself. Facebook, MySpace and co., are/were basically trying to bring all that traffic to a single place where they could take advantage of the sharing. I agree, th
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Well, there is Diaspora, heh. Personally, I think the future of "social networks" will, in a sense, go back in time once again where it will be peer to peer, encrypted end to end. I think the guys working on the Freedom Box are trying to cr
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by biomechanica 14y ago
Yes, I believe it is called PNaCl. It uses LLVM as its back end. edit: I suppose a link should be presented. http://www.chromium.org/nativeclient/pnacl/building-and-test...
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I know that the Mono C# is now supported. I think it's due to its LLVM support. So basically, any language that supports LLVM JIT can be used with NaCl. I could be wrong, but I remember reading about it somewhere. Either way, it is pretty c
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by biomechanica 14y ago
I don't know if buying DDG would be a good investment. Yahoo! had a great search engine to begin with. There wasn't anything wrong with it, really. I think Yahoo! just got a bit carried away with the UI aspect of it. DDG prides itself on pr

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