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by daxelrod 11y ago
That's fair. I'm guessing one of the following happened: 1. The editor rewrote the headline (this happens often) without considering the content of the article 2. Newspaper people are so used to their standards for headlines that
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Newspaper headline style often trades grammar for brevity to accommodate a small amount of space in print. Replacing "and" with a comma is a common convention.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Here's what I think is happening (without actually looking at the code). 1. For each person, store an integer ("ping count"). 2. Whenever you receive a ping from that person, increment the ping count. 3. Periodically decremen
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Transcript: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story... This is fascinating for me because I just shopped at Costco for the first time yesterday. It was completely overwhelming. I was lost in a
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by daxelrod 11y ago
I asked this only after googling, and having done previous research. The best I was able to find for RPM is https://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2001-December/msg00... , which involves creating your own R
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by daxelrod 11y ago
How would I install a package from one of the repositories as a non-root user for RPM or dpkg? I am not aware of any way to do this within either of those package managers.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
You'd need a prescription to get it. And I don't believe it's legal for a person with the prescription to sell or give prescribed medicine to other other people.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
My guess is that contacts and photos remain in the class of things that do not require the phone unlock key. Contacts need to be accessed to display a caller's name when the phone is ringing. Since it's possible to take a photo wi
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Wow, this should be illegal. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
> Mercurial Ate Our Breakfast [with Revsets], But We Can Fix Internal Communication Before It Breaks (staralliance.com) > Ask HN: Optimal number of sets with high IQ users? > TweetDeck taken offline after bug allows malicious code
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Could you expand on what you hate about Travis? I'm in the process of picking a CI system and haven't found too many negatives about Travis yet.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
As a US customer, I'm hesitant to use 3D Secure because: 1) The implementations by Visa and MasterCard have security weaknesses, terrible usability and look like phishing: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers&#x2F
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by daxelrod 11y ago
They already have a Remote app http://www.apple.com/apps/remote/ that has all of the functionality of the last-gen Apple TV remote (plus things like a keyboard). I would be extremely surprised if this weren't
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by daxelrod 11y ago
> Not to mention I think it's currently illegal to Jailbreak an iPhone or root an Android, despite them being yours. Has the 2012 DMCA jailbreaking exemption now expired? I know exemptions expire every three years, but I wasn't
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Installing and setting up all of those tools takes time and effort, and there usually aren't great step-by-step guides for "Here's all the tools you need and how to set them up to work together". Compare this to just log
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Volunteers with lots of different perl versions and OSes run software that monitors CPAN for new uploads, and then automatically downloads them and runs their automated tests, and uploads the results. Here's more on CPANTesters: http:
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Are you suggeting that changing documented settings for a system component is "patching OS X yourself"? Anecdotally, I ran OS X for years with timestamp_timeout set to 0 so that sudo always prompted for a password. This broke abso
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by daxelrod 11y ago
I used to be of this opinion, but [1] changed my mind. The problem is that there's a huge potential to deanonymize the user at an exit node because of all sorts of traffic other than web browsing. Do all of your chat programs encrypt e
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by daxelrod 11y ago
What about women who are already in relationships? Or platonic friends with the guy? Or not into men? There's a lot of situations in which this dynamic would work just fine.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Are you familiar with Mercurial's Changeset Evolution? https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution It includes metadata that allows a changeset to be marked obsolete, and to provide successors.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
There has to be some way, the player on the YouTube website does it. :)
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by daxelrod 11y ago
You're storing the liquid, and the rest of the universe, in it.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
They've added this to their FAQ: Will there be an Xbox/Wii U/Linux/Mac version for Shenmue 3? Currently we are planning development only for PC (Windows) and PS4. Other platforms have not been decided yet.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
It's called Unicode! That's fantastic.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
See also http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html which has helped me immensely in the past.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
What's fascinating is that they're being upfront with their customers about this, rather than trying to sneak it in. They're also explicitly letting their customers decide how long the pumps should last, and pricing according
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by daxelrod 11y ago
Does this make the browser itself a bittorrent client, or is that done by the server? As far as I'm aware, you need something more than HTML5 to speak the bittorrent protocol.
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by daxelrod 11y ago
A lot of the VCSes that use the monorepo model allow fine grained permissions on various parts of the repo (this necessitates being able to restrictively fetch only part of the repo).
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by daxelrod 12y ago
"It just got real" would have almost the same impact without the drawbacks.
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by daxelrod 12y ago
Both of those products also handle other kinds of package repositories as well. You're right that they don't cover the full spectrum, however.

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