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by dboyd 16y ago
I don't feel it's a crime. For that matter, I don't even prefer one over the other. For "mv A B" I've no problem saying either mv into A the contents of B or mv the contents of A into B
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by dboyd 16y ago
Does anyone know why C calls like 'strcpy' and 'strcat' are the opposite of this? strcat(target, source) strcpy(target, source) But, in SH... cp source target I feel like these things were developed around the same time, by
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by dboyd 16y ago
I agree with your entire post, but...[1] I'm not saying that the deal is off, but we're going to have to really work on clauses 3 and 4 before we can move forward. I interpret that statement as "unless you come my way on clauses 3 and 4,
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by dboyd 16y ago
Only if the reward is more than the cost of breeding the rat. I grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. While I missed out, my father always talked about turning in gopher tails for money. My recollection is that my older brother was able to do
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by dboyd 16y ago
With no doubt, the Firebug team can take credit for changing the world of Web development. These guys aren't giving themselves enough credit. IMO, they can take credit for advancing the world of Web development. While the other developm
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by dboyd 16y ago
The use of satire to influence political change can have quite an impact. See the effect that the Superman radio show had on the KKK... http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/07.02.98/comics-9826... If Jon is able to shape the minds of
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by dboyd 16y ago
My experience in Canada in starting a business agrees with its 2nd place rank. It only took a couple of hours to get an incorporated business setup, as long as it's a numbered company (e.g., 4312341 Alberta Inc., although, I forget what my
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by dboyd 16y ago
You are aware that there are more people not on facebook than people on facebook, right?
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by dboyd 16y ago
You forgot to first make a small lengthwise cut in the fig, and fill it with blue cheese. Then wrap it with bacon, secure with a toothpick, and put it on the bbq.
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Gov2 Prelude- 3 Cool Gov Technologies(infovegan.com)
1 points by dboyd 16y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 16y ago
There's something to be said about the irony of posting an article on the issues around the over-abundance of information to HN. Although, HN definitely improves the quality of the information.
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Agribusiness and Infobusiness(infovegan.com)
1 points by dboyd 16y ago|1 comments
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Don't Let the Municipal Crisis Go to Waste(infovegan.com)
2 points by dboyd 16y ago|0 comments
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Nuts & Bolts: Storage(37signals.com)
3 points by dboyd 16y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 16y ago
There doesn't seem to be any information about patent indemnification. I've done video transcoding in the past. While I wasn't an expert on the legal/patent issues, I know that the product we used (helix mobile producer, from Real) indemni
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by dboyd 16y ago
That's 1 in every 10 people with electricity. If we assume that people who live on less than $10 a day don't have a computer, or access to one, or cannot actively use Facebook on whatever computer they do have access to... That's 5 in e
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by dboyd 16y ago
I've used both very recently, and I would definitely avoid MySQL given a choice. From my experience, postgres is faster, especially at more difficult problems (complex joins). I've never had issues in postgres joining several tables into 1
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by dboyd 16y ago
> Certain features like making and receiving calls, texting and so forth are used more often than taking pictures or searching maps. I find that surprising. Maybe I'm just an edge case. I rarely make or receive calls on my 'phone' (ma
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by dboyd 16y ago
Cabinetry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinetry It doesn't have to be overly taxing physical work (requiring a lot of strength), but it is usually a very active physical work (requiring constant movement). Getting well paid while doing
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Friday Challenge Find your oldest forum posting/email on-line...(reddit.com)
2 points by dboyd 16y ago|0 comments
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by dboyd 16y ago
This has been done: http://to./ HN: http://to./4dw2 Note that the 'dot' (in to.) is necessary to make the hostname absolute, so it doesn't fail in pretty much every browser. Otherwise, the URL should just be: http://to/
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by dboyd 16y ago
I had spent thousands of dollars on treatment, and spent the greater part of 12 years in pain before I spent $1300 on a sit-stand desk. I have had virtually no back trouble in the last few years, which correlates to the time I have had a s
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by dboyd 17y ago
With apologies for dampening the mood of the original post... () == paranetheses [] == brackets {} == braces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracket
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by dboyd 17y ago
The actual Cisco source... http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html As an aside, it bothers me that news sites like CNET (and others) don't actually link to a source. In this case, they had no issue using the image from the C
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by dboyd 17y ago
My experience with Steam on windows has not been entirely pleasant. Granted, the poor user interface, and the endless amount of intrusion into the startup and gaming process can quickly be forgiven in light of the fact that I got one of th
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A rant about Ruby 1.9 String encoding(github.com)
86 points by dboyd 17y ago|52 comments
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by dboyd 17y ago
I enabled this feature for a similar purpose (exception reports from running apps). However, even with fixed-width available, I almost always go after the "show original" feature* instead. I find that having the message isolated in a separ
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by dboyd 17y ago
I have to believe that a lot of the action is covered with Olympic provided cameras. There are a lot of cameras on track systems, which there can only be one of. There are also a lot of cameras in venues that only hold a single set of cam
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by dboyd 17y ago
Eric Schmidt has posted to the Official Google Blog regarding the Ad... http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-and-super-bowl.h...
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The Next White Whale(cringely.com)
21 points by dboyd 17y ago|16 comments

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