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by fbu 16y ago
I can't connect to the site from Belgium. Is it down ?
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by fbu 16y ago
Has the website been "Hacker News'ed" ? Are we driving this much traffic ?
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by fbu 16y ago
My favorite intro to LaTeX still is The Not So Short Introduction To LaTeX: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.p...
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by fbu 16y ago
Most unexpected so far!
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by fbu 16y ago
He's geting a job at Apple and his books will only be able in the iTeX format ?
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by fbu 17y ago
enterprenuer - 14 times the same mistake, you might want to fix that.
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by fbu 17y ago
People should program in C because it is more difficult ? Then people should use punching card for the same reason. People should program in C because some people programing in ruby are morons ? Great argument ... I really don't see any val
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by fbu 17y ago
It only take 48 hours to hack some flash together, might take longer for a liquid fluoride reactor...
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by fbu 17y ago
Here too !
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by fbu 17y ago
I so wish this was true, wouldn't that be an epic step in the web?
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by fbu 17y ago
I felt for it until I did a google search to see: one single news item. Maybe that kind of reflex will be useful when some botnet makes an attack on the nytimes or the wsj. (who knows, to mess with the stock exchanges or something, just thr
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by fbu 17y ago
Maybe the keyboard isn't dead yet ...
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by fbu 17y ago
It's like saying there are roads everywhere around the globe, but not super highways, because it's a huge investment. Therefore you need to be confident it's gonna be used for a long time.
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by fbu 17y ago
Any map so far ? They have to go through Iran, Russia or a myriad of ex-ussr countries, I can't see how that's gonna work out ...
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by fbu 17y ago
Available in Belgium. Where are you ?
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by fbu 17y ago
Guideline: "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting." Maybe it's too darn interesting so when people stumble on it they post it. I think the reprap is genuinely interesting and there's nothing you can do about that.
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by fbu 17y ago
Does anybody have any idea how long it took for pirate WOW servers to be running ? IMO, most game will go towards becoming MMOG or be played online anyway, people will just get craftier at having pirate servers running.
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by fbu 17y ago
I got a 404.
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by fbu 17y ago
Ever heard of the Deborah Number ? The name comes frome the bible : "The mountains flowed before the Lord" in a song by prophetess Deborah recorded in the Bible (Judges 5:5) It's actually used in rheology to describe if a materials acts mor
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by fbu 17y ago
I wondered if the future self-aware google will laugh at that before updating it. If not I'm afraid all the efforts of Larry and Sergei would have been worthless, no humor in an AI, what a loss ...
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by fbu 17y ago
For the few times I have Chrome crashing, it is due to Flash... But even then, Chrome handles the thing very nicely and either the plugin is stopped, or ony one tab is broken. The rest of it being still available. Amazing !
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by fbu 17y ago
"Geeks are good at the things they try." Therefore if geeks try sex they will become good at it ? I wish they were no flaw in that argument :) And, oh btw, agreed 100%!
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by fbu 17y ago
You're entitled to your own opinion, not to your own facts. (Some TED speaker)
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by fbu 17y ago
This happens to me quite often but if I think a bit about it, I'm not 100% sure either why they're completely wrong. If you want to get into the conversation (not recommended as it gets ugly quite often when people are completely sure of so
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by fbu 17y ago
"We had something called the recovery approach. A few months after the original scam, we would approach the victim again, this time pretending to be from the FBI, or the Nigerian Authorities." I laughed, am I a bad person ?
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by fbu 17y ago
As PG said in his interview on Mixergy, it's not so much about the amount of funding, but the community, for mentoring, advices etc. It's not obvious that route 128 was left in the dust of silicon valley because of less funding rather than
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by fbu 17y ago
Thanks for the english, always good to know
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by fbu 17y ago
That's a terrific interview, but now I'd want an interview of Jessica Livingstone as she appears to have the nag to spot what makes great founders.
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by fbu 17y ago
Eric Ries and Dave McClure will be speaking too. Any ideas if they live stream the keynotes ?
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by fbu 17y ago
"Martian question 3: Arent your machines getting faster much more quickly than your programmers are getting smarter?" I found this to be a nice quote for high level programming.

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