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by deerpig 13y ago
Very nice. But no font locking... I didn't see anything in the code to indicate anything that matches the screen shot.
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by deerpig 13y ago
You make a very good point. The Boomers (myself included) had freedom to play, explore, and get into trouble. But as a generation we have royally screwed up our own kids. I've lived in East Asia for the last 25 years and was appalled
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by deerpig 13y ago
>324 disks takes up most of a row. Not any more. Using high density disk enclosures, you can fit that many disks in a third of a rack, and if each disk held 4.5TB you'd have almost 1.5PB of storage! What an astonishing change in on
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by deerpig 13y ago
Most of the comments here are twice as long as the original post, which wasn't so much a post, but just a comment, on.... HN comments....
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by deerpig 13y ago
I wonder if big chunks of it will be redacted....
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by deerpig 13y ago
Actually a lot of their ideas are similar emacs. Have a few core pieces written in C and then everything else is written in elisp. Even the stackable navigation and WebViews are the equiv of buffers. Conkeror already has stackable navigat
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by deerpig 13y ago
There have been a number of studies -- middle class children in Western countries now never go more than a couple of meters from their front door on their own. Growing up in the late 60's in New England, my parents kicked us out of the
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by deerpig 13y ago
I've never seen one in SE or East Asia, not one, in Hong Kong, Singapore, KL, Bangkok or even little Phnom Penh, and you would think MS would see WP's best chance was to attract buyers who hadn't bought a smart phone before.
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by deerpig 13y ago
There are a lot of cool tools for helping write regexes, my favor is re-builder mode in emacs. You write the regex in the minibuffer and see what matches in the text in the buffer. It makes debugging regexes very easy. Tools like sed and
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by deerpig 13y ago
> Details, details, I know. But the OP approaches this issue with incredible wide-eyed naivete, with no real knowledge of what's happened in the past. I agree, but keep in mind that this is a translation from French, I'd love t
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by deerpig 13y ago
From what I understand, the real vulnerability with the Tor model is if there aren't enough entry/exit nodes. Is there a tipping point after which, there are so many entry/exit nodes that the system would be relatively secur
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by deerpig 13y ago
Email sent. If anyone is interested in what we're doing in Cambodia, (which is relevant to helping people to think on their own) please check out our web site http://chenla.la/studyhall.html and our longer term vision
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by deerpig 13y ago
I lived in Thailand for 16 years. We had a successful 3D animation studio in Osaka that had lot's of business but our expenses were so high that we weren't making a profit. We thought that moving to Thailand would save us money,
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by deerpig 13y ago
This post articulates a problem that is an order of magnitude worse in East Asia. We are working in Cambodia and Laos (we gave up on Thailand, they're a basket case) to encourage tech startups and develop talent that can think on thei
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by deerpig 13y ago
Only in America....
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by deerpig 13y ago
It would be nice if Google would actually let people who aren't using a US ip address to be able to view the site. I have an account and mailing address in the States, but I live outside of the States. So even though I can buy, they
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by deerpig 13y ago
Having lived in several buildings identical to the ones in a couple of the photos for nearly a decade I can assure you there is nothing very nice about living in them. The lifts and the hallways have no air conditioning. The flats themsel
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by deerpig 13y ago
This is such depressing news. And I've been trying to think of a way to solve this technically, but the Government has the five dollar wrench, and all we have is the crypto. Code will not be enough, the system only respects one thing,
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by deerpig 13y ago
But the question remains. How did he drop the energy requirements by orders of magnitude, and from my fuzzy memory of such things, would that even be enough to make a warp drive practical? If he's right, it would be at least, a step i
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by deerpig 13y ago
I agree. I have lived nearly a decade in both HK and NYC each and HK was by far a better place to live and work.
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by deerpig 13y ago
Like I said above, if you're in the news cycle they might help you, if not, then probably no.
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by deerpig 13y ago
Wrong. If you aren't on CNN, they won't lift a finger to help you. About 12 years ago my life was in very real danger, my best friend at the time was the British embassador to the country I was in. He told me if I was a British
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by deerpig 13y ago
> If it were still that way today, most of the startups > that this site revolves around wouldn't exist. In what way? The startups wouldn't exist because the founders can't handle the tools? Or, are you saying they wo
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by deerpig 13y ago
Obamacare? Really? Why not the War on Christmas, taking away your second amendment rights, protect pedophiles or the secret cause of autism in our children? Don't we have enough real problems without dragging in partisan straw men?
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by deerpig 13y ago
I hope this thread takes off. I would say that in the neighborhood of where I live: Thailand :: Not Safe (USA has massive infrastructure in the country, look for Voice of America radio stations which bristle with more sat dishes a
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by deerpig 13y ago
It would have been interesting to see this problem solved in many different languages. But I guess that would kill the question on Stackoverflow.
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by deerpig 13y ago
There is NO reason to bring racist stereotypes into the conversation. The Thai government has many many faults, but being soft on child-sex is not one of them. Thai people love their children as much as anyone else in the world. In fact
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by deerpig 13y ago
Glitzy eye-candy does not inspire confidence in a scientific expedition. Planes shooting across the screen... and everything boiled down into talking points just detract from what might be a serious scientific study. The total effect left
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by deerpig 13y ago
I'm sorry folks, but my first knee-jerk reaction was yuck! To paraphrase Cristina "Is That All There Is To A Dashboard?"
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by deerpig 13y ago
The article is alltoo true. Engelbart's work was an enormous influence on my own. But when I gave credit to him in conference papers, and business proposals I was pulled aside and told that it wasn't a good idea to tie yourself

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