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by eksith 13y ago
You may have missed the discussion from last time in which Theo explains the benefit of having older hardware. The dissatisfaction with OpenBSD seems to eerily mirror the incredibly short-sighted criticism of NASA funding : "Why do we
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by eksith 13y ago
That's just creepy. Replacing page content, unless ad/spam blocking or specifically user-selected filtering, is completely unethical and totally falls under malware in my book. Good on you for turning that down. You've saved
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by eksith 13y ago
From the comments: It sounds like Google needs to flag ownership changes and NOTIFY USERS about them before the next auto-update of that extension. ------------ NoteBuddy has been transferred from Joe Garage to Russian Mafia L
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by eksith 13y ago
I can't be certain, but I'm guessing it has to do with its tech influence. In fact, if you look closely, every heavily mapped region has a prevalence of technology or are homes to tech centers.
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I'd argue that PHP has been popular because it makes hiring a developer optional for the vast majority of folks who want to put up a website. In the days before Facebook et al. Your options were Geocities and family or a cheap shared h
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Did Brain Scans Just Save a Convicted Murderer From the Death Penalty?(wired.com)
2 points by eksith 13y ago|0 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Space travel (even to LEO) is pretty bloody expensive. I'm not sure any type of mining will become worthwhile or even feasible without significant breakthroughs in equipment/fuel costs in the next few years. Without them, I don&#x
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The Moore's Law blowout sale is ending(itworld.com)
47 points by eksith 13y ago|41 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Nice project! I'm quite shocked how linear the decrease of "Frank" is http://names.yafla.com/#n=Frank&s=mt
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Is It Snowing Yet?(isitsnowingyet.org)
3 points by eksith 13y ago|1 comments
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (1987)(gutenberg.org)
20 points by eksith 13y ago|3 comments
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by eksith 13y ago
Both are equally acceptable (Startup/Setup, not going to bed or reading HN less).
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by eksith 13y ago
It's always a tricky thing to pinpoint when great tech first came this way. Sometimes, we're not even sure if it was great tech when it makes a splash so that may be part of the reason. I was able to find this that corroborates wi
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by eksith 13y ago
I hope there are options to follow /newest. There are many great stories that never make it to the front page. But I have to (lightly) disagree with swalsh's apprehension. This will quadruple the time spent on my actual work since
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by eksith 13y ago
Perhaps I should clarify. When money came into the picture, small-time ISPs and countless dial-up providers (many who offered some short time free) were popping up everywhere. They were quickly gobbled up or mismanaged to the ground as time
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by eksith 13y ago
Back around the early 2000's we were running something of an ad-hoc VPN of dynamically connected servers. It was somewhat similar to the way Napster worked with one central server and many connected nodes. These connections relied on m
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by eksith 13y ago
> How did we lose the freedom Money came into the picture. And I'd say we're in worse shape now since even in the AOL days, you would still know that this isn't the real "internet". Now, we've been lulled in
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by eksith 13y ago
It makes sense to me to use both to a degree. The frontend and UI will greatly benefit from using HTML5 while stability will depend a lot on the native aspects.
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Sweet Jesus! Ask HN: How much recurring income do you make in the witchhunt? 75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court to avoid judicial review of the HP-35 Why I've built an alternative
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by eksith 13y ago
Now this looks interesting. Integration looks pretty simple since it's a JS include via jQuery. Would you happen to have any running demos somewhere or perhaps some screenshots?
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by eksith 13y ago
At the time, 90% of our clients constituted that 0.03%. We're no longer in the specialty networking/server scope.
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by eksith 13y ago
One of the big reasons we didn't implement IPv6 on our domain servers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_brokenness_and_DNS_whitel... Alternative: http://www.opendns.com/technology/ipv6/
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by eksith 13y ago
I'm finding a lot of my information without even needing to visit a page. A bit like Google's info-boxes, I can get quick answers to a lot of things without hassle. The one area it could be a bit better is for some things that are
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by eksith 13y ago
There's one for HTML5 https://github.com/LazarSoft/jsqrcode . I haven't really tried it though.
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by eksith 13y ago
That's true. The burden then shifts to the user. But in a way, that's also good because then you can choose which snapshot to follow. It's a bit like maintaining your copy of an OS. You can stick to the "stable" bra
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by eksith 13y ago
But we all already have that. Browse here : https://news.ycombinator.com/newest with show dead and viola! You have a raw feed with no penalties.
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Generate QR codes with DuckDuckGo(duckduckgo.com)
37 points by eksith 13y ago|16 comments
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It would be interesting if it keeps a version history between each dump file. WP often deletes articles that it finds not notable (these are excluded in dumps) and it would be nice to still retain the last version. In an odd way, we're
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by eksith 13y ago
>Nowhere am I pushing anybody to build their business on it yet... "In fact, InfiniSQL ought to be the database that companies start with--to avoid migration costs down the road." This is far from looking for hackers and early
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Looking at the "About and Goals" section of their docs http://www.infinisql.org/docs/overview/#idp37033600 I can't seem to find the word "Reliable" or any variation thereof anywhere in the

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