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by blasdel 16y ago
The Haskell / indie rock comparison is remarkably cogent. It makes all the more ironic that I think it really was better in 2005 before it got 'popular', before the age of dons and reddit-spam monad tutorials. It's unfortunate that OCaml su
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Life without a Certificate Authority(blog.torproject.org)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Android is not recognizably Linux and you know it. It's using the Linux kernel about as minimally as they could get away with, they patch it to expose all kinds of things directly to userland through hacked-together APIs. The userland bears
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by blasdel 16y ago
> no alt to access menu Hit Command-? (command-shift-/), start typing, and use the arrow keys to highlight the search results. You'll be surprised what happens. It's been there since 10.5
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by blasdel 16y ago
It's the latter — on aliexpress or tradetang or taobao you could just add it to your cart, checkout, and pay with no haggling. Shipping is often free, as EMS and Hong Kong Post have normally very low rates. On DealExtreme and many eBay stor
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yep, that's one of the main purposes of the site I linked to. Alibaba is by far the biggest player, their ecommerce empire is easily the third biggest after Amazon and eBay. Their main site is basically for people outside China to hook up w
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by blasdel 16y ago
It was downmodded because it's been spammed so repeatedly on HN for ages. As a means for karma whoring, it's at the bottom below linking to xkcd comics or pg essays as the full content of a comment. I had been hoping that pg would blacklist
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by blasdel 16y ago
http://searchyc.com/user/pg?only=comments&sort=by_points...
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by blasdel 16y ago
I noticed them all over the chinese trade sides about six months ago. I had this bookmarked from then: http://www.tradetang.com/search/index.jsp?keyword=VIBRAM&#38... — note that 'VIBRAM' is a banned keyword, but the search is still retur
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Google, Just Cut The BS And Give The Gordon Gekko Speech Already(techcrunch.com)
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Why the imperative examples for algorithms?(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
NaCL is a verifier and a set of userland syscalls, not an emulator.
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by blasdel 16y ago
200kb per A4 page using a 600dpi b/w laser printer: http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/
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by blasdel 16y ago
Wow, you'd love Houston Texas! It seems a bit daft to be choosing a location based on the convenience of the hypothetical middle managers and mailroom employees you'll have in a successful future. Sure it's professional , but it isn't sta
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by blasdel 16y ago
I do. The only time I set a .vimrc is on Debian-derived distros where they don't set nocompatible or syntax on. vi has good defaults. If I used emacs, I'd have to drag around my config everywhere to set usable keybindings. With vi and vim I
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by blasdel 16y ago
After using it for a few days, I’ve concluded that Flipboard is designed for people that want to “read” but are annoyed with words getting in the way. That sounds insulting but it’s actually a rather brilliant insight. — http://trenchant
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by blasdel 16y ago
Is success also not be an option if you haven't visualized it? If you don't have a plan for revenue much less profitability or acquisition, I'd say that you haven't 'visualized success' the way you would do so for failure in this parable —
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by blasdel 16y ago
The OSI stack? That's even less relevant than sequential access algorithms! The IETF crowd had won that battle decisively before the first OSI committees even met, much less after they shat their gibberingly baroque standards documents into
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by blasdel 16y ago
Trolling is a art that TechCrunch excels at.
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No, Apple isn’t patenting developers’ work. But it still has a bigger problem(technovia.co.uk)
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Why everyone loves coming up with ideas in the shower(a.wholelottanothing.org)
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The era of geek pork has arrived(digitalsociety.org)
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Google Wave, Microsoft and Engineers Running the Asylum(cforcoding.com)
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The Internet age/reputation paradox(yosefk.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
"Informatics" implies central or eastern europe
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by blasdel 16y ago
"Millions of Americans who by objective standards belong to the working class or lower middle class have persuaded themselves that they are part of the professional-investor elite, because they have worthless degrees from diploma mills, ne
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The fantasy of a vast upper middle class(salon.com)
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by blasdel 16y ago
Because the users go to the marketing page to find the login button. You're still just as vulnerable to MITM.
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by blasdel 16y ago
Yes, you measured the ideal ATR inflection point for poll vs. epoll in your synthetic microbenchmark. But you guessed wildly about what ATRs people see in the real world: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572292 http://news.ycombinato
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by blasdel 16y ago
That you didn't say anything about the machines you ran it on was a huge red flag. It looks like jacquesm has you nailed on the localhost testing, I hadn't noticed the link to the code before. I'll trust that you accurately measured the ATR

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