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by davorb 12y ago
I switched from ISO to ANSI about two years ago. ANSI is much better imho, once you get used to it (and you will!).
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by davorb 12y ago
If you have a rooted device, try XPrivacy. That gives you a lot more options and you can even set what data you want the app to see. Want those apps that are asking for your location to think that you are on the North Pole? No problem.
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by davorb 12y ago
We should also keep in mind that Google is a content company, and is leverageing their market share to bring us such wonderful features such as HTML5 DRM support in our browsers.
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by davorb 12y ago
> I'm sorry to point out to you but a large set of computing devices are black boxes and it does not hurt their marketability. Free software should be looked on from the point of ethics, and not from financial gain. Proprietary soft
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by davorb 12y ago
The problem is more that some of the politicians should go to jail, but don't.
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by davorb 12y ago
I haven't had any of these problems myself. I get what you mean with "wakeup is somewhat sluggish", but I believe that is because of an option that prevents the screen from accidentally turning on when it is your pocket, and
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by davorb 12y ago
Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I
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by davorb 12y ago
There are a lot of interesting talkings at CCC right now. I feel like we're going to be seeing a new entry on the front page after every single one.
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by davorb 12y ago
I think what the author is describing could be looked at as PHP+MySQL, versus something like Rails. The problem with being in one camp or the other, is that one size will not fit everyone. Bot bare-metal js and frameworks are here to stay.
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by davorb 12y ago
> moving you towards that inky-black mirror of grandma's old pans I really don't think that will happen. The reason your new cast iron pan doesn't have that shine is because they've changed how they make them.
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by davorb 12y ago
What license will the engine be under?
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by davorb 12y ago
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no .
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by davorb 12y ago
> VR window managers were amongst the biggest projects out of Xerox Parc Do you know where I could read more about those?
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by davorb 12y ago
If you look at the first iron bridges in the world, you will see that they were all built the way wooden bridges were built -- expect using iron. The [Iron Bridge]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Bridge ) is buil
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by davorb 12y ago
That's true of most books, yet people still seem to buy them.
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by davorb 12y ago
ack is a tiny perl script that you can simply wget and add to your path. I hear what you are saying, and I think that it applies to a lot of utilities, but not ack. Imho ack is so much better than grep that it is worth the hassle of having
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by davorb 12y ago
"GitHub is a specific community that’s grown very quickly since it launched [writeup]. It was not initially reflective of open source as a whole but rather centered around the Ruby on Rails community" Github has moved out of a nic
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by davorb 12y ago
Credit cards.
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by davorb 13y ago
> Please ask Kirk McKusick, he knows the story about why this is not being disclosed to FreeBSD Could someone please explain this?
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by davorb 13y ago
Just in case anyone is interested, Unicomp is still selling APL-keyboards and keys (for Model-Ms). http://pckeyboard.com
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ISPs can be Forced to Block Pirate Sites in the EU(torrentfreak.com)
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by davorb 13y ago
> You are never going to be able to get sufficiently passable virtual reality to make up for the hardware hassle. Here is a video of a grown man crying like a small girl. If that doesn't convince you, I don't know what will. h
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by davorb 13y ago
If we had LISP, we wouldn't really need CSS or HTML either. Everything could be represented with s-expressions and we would all reach nirvana.
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by davorb 13y ago
Looks fine with 29.0a on Windows 8 for me.
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by davorb 13y ago
> In mathematics, when you write a paper, you are always standing firmly on the shoulders of generations of common knowledge that you don't need to prove yourself - you can safely assume your readers agree with you on the matter. I
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by davorb 13y ago
> In civilised countries [...] Name one.
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by davorb 13y ago
What's up with all of the snarky comments? This community is getting more and more toxic by the day.
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by davorb 13y ago
If you were the kind of person that would want to steal a bike, would you: A. Spend $2 on a bolt cutter. B. Spend hundreds of dollars on technical equipment in order to potentially be able to unlock a very unusual type of lock that you coul
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by davorb 13y ago
If you read the site, it says that it senses when you are close by and unlocks it automatically. You won't have to take out your phone.
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by davorb 13y ago
I think people are voting you down because what you are saying is based on Sweden's "official" line during the Cold War. A lot of new information has been revealed post-1994, that pretty much shows that Sweden was anything bu

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