fabricode

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by fabricode 15y ago
There are many uses of "friggen" or the word that it is being substituted for, and in this case, it has nothing to do with denigrating the object. By putting "friggen" into the middle of a word, you're verbally underlining / emphasizing it.
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by fabricode 15y ago
Emily Litella: "What's wrong with holding rabbits? They're cute and cuddly and just awfully good pets. Sure they make messes and eat the lettuce out of your garden. But when you hold that cute little fuzzy bunny with his little wiggling
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by fabricode 15y ago
Yes, that is certainly a possibility. And if they are that good, then they'd definitely have set up a spam filter and not have complained so loudly, so publicly. I don't really care too much either way about it. It seems to be too much h
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by fabricode 15y ago
Sounds like this person has put himself up on some/many job sites and is wondering why every recruiter on the planet is sending him referrals. Besides, if a particular company sends you a bunch spam, it's usually a 1-3 click process to add
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by fabricode 15y ago
Perhaps we need to move to policy of allowing only known mac addrs on internal networks. But maybe even this would be insufficient since one could sniff packets in order to steal someone else's valid mac address. That too would be insuffi
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by fabricode 15y ago
In order to prevent this kind of censorship in the future, a motivated individual just has to drop the ip address / hostname of the computer sharing the folder into the folder itself. Problem solved.
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by fabricode 15y ago
Visual programming may be the future of learning how to build applications, but it's not "the future of computing." The pattern of visual introduction followed by symbolic mastery occurs again and again: 1. Learning to count using physi
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by fabricode 15y ago
For those that purport to track piracy, this will be an interesting case study. Perhaps if they can see (again) the inverse relationship of easy, non-free availability to downloads of free copies, maybe they'll finally begin to adjust thei
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by fabricode 15y ago
It's not that they should be treated specially. The problem is that by being an American company and not hiding behind offshore resources they make themselves more vulnerable to the idiocies of our judicial system. The proper remedy lies i
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by fabricode 15y ago
In probably 99% of Perl code, you only need to know two cryptic symbols: $! for errno and $? for child-process exit status. And if you're programming in shell now, you're already using $?. Yes, there are symbols for handling autoflush on h
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by fabricode 15y ago
Yes: Perl. This was the original use case for the language. We used to have to glue together sh, awk, sed, grep, CLIs (custom C), etc in order to automate anything in Unix. Perl brought all of this functionality under one roof with a sim
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by fabricode 15y ago
Don't worry about it... at all. Most of us work in jobs where we don't share our code with the public. Most of us work in jobs which take up all of our time, and we try to have a life away from the computer when we're not at work. That's
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by fabricode 15y ago
I don't believe a tl;dr is necessary for this short article. I enjoyed reading through his thought process for designing a simple protocol which is: * Easy to use (requiring little/no additional libraries) * Easy to extend (simple key
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by fabricode 15y ago
FTA, the Secret Service replied to a FOIA request: > ...we are enclosing a list of manufacturers that "have fulfilled or agreed to fulfill document identification requests submitted by the Secret Service." Canon, Brother, Casio, Hewlett
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by fabricode 15y ago
As one of their main features is the lack of tracking, I don't see DDG Mail or DDG Plus as a likely follow-on project. I'd like to see better integration with maps; geographic constraint and context seem to be in the natural progression of