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by garply 17y ago
Just for an alternate opinion: I find programming books relatively valueless. Just start reading code and programming. Google when you don't understand a piece of code. Approximately how to get started on an Ubuntu system: $ sudo apt-g
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by garply 17y ago
I'm interested in the details.
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by garply 17y ago
You use a very solid metric with respect to "the value of land and real estate [...] (relative to incomes)", but how do you measure "the decline of culture and civic values"?
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by garply 17y ago
I'm a little unclear - I just logged in today and reverted everything to how it used to be (I think). Were the new settings active before I logged in? I.e., did I have publicly exposed info while I was away?
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by garply 17y ago
Since you've eaten some of our time with your promotion, will you tell us a little bit about the economics of your business? Are you ramen-profitable off of it? How long did it take to build? How severely do shipping costs eat your margins?
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by garply 17y ago
Caffeine is a drug.
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by garply 17y ago
Thanks! I had been putting it off because the last time I tried to configure Chromium on Linux for something (a Socks 5 proxy) it was very unfriendly.
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by garply 17y ago
I've been stuck behind the Chinese firewall for a while now and while I do proxy for searches that clearly need it, I surf most of my web unproxied. For whatever reason, the firewall seems to arbitrarily and frequently block many of my (non
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by garply 17y ago
While the shanzhai cellphones are popular (and very cool), I think the article's analysis of this is more accurate than your own. The illegally imported US and Hong Kongese Apple iPhones here have a wifi card and are significantly cheaper t
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North Korea Changes Currency(online.wsj.com)
143 points by garply 17y ago|139 comments
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by garply 17y ago
In the last version, they broke my Intel graphics driver, rendering my machine almost unusable except for the console. I spent many hours trying to fix it, and ended up switching to Arch out of frustration. I don't think I'm going back, but
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by garply 17y ago
I don't believe that I suggested anywhere that we subsidize these communities or somehow act to stop what it is occurring. I said I didn't see any real solutions to the problems presented within them. I was taking issue with the idea that t
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by garply 17y ago
'I really can't think of a good reason for small towns to exist any longer' I found this post really insensitive. But it's good, because it made me realize that I've been insensitive in a similar way without knowing it. My brother and I gre
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by garply 17y ago
Did you try their image search or product search? I've almost completely dropped those two parts of Google due to Bing.
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by garply 17y ago
He should be prompting for R5RS, not Common Lisp.
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by garply 17y ago
Is this free? You don't need an account with the local ISP?
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by garply 17y ago
How are you with email? This is my attitude towards non-business communication as well.
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by garply 17y ago
Really? I can't carry around a VHS in my laptop bag and watch the VHS in my laptop whenever I want it. So, from my perspective, as someone who's never owned a TV other than his computer, VHSes are almost completely useless. Of course, a usb
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by garply 17y ago
I develop in both languages and I don't find them similar at all. If you modify a python module, for example, how do you easily re-import that module in your REPL? Python caches modules once imported and doesn't let you easily re-import a m
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by garply 17y ago
Start selling things as quickly as possible.
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by garply 17y ago
If you're promoting very risky material through tor you might want to be this cautious, but the 60th year anniversary (which is why tor was blocked in the first place) has already passed. For the near future, I would expect the government t
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by garply 17y ago
Spamming is not OK.
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by garply 17y ago
Yes, you need 1-4 keypresses per char, but the language itself is significantly more compressed than English. The equivalent of an English word is 1 to 2 chars (with more frequent words usually being one character - just as frequent English
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by garply 17y ago
I don't see this as any more troubling than the fact that Google turns over my email if the US government demands it for a lawsuit.
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by garply 17y ago
I think there's a small amount of overlap between hacker culture and drug culture. From the Jargon File: Limited use of non-addictive psychedelic drugs, such as cannabis, LSD, psilocybin, nitrous oxide, etc., used to be relatively common an
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by garply 17y ago
When I hear the word 'totalitarian' or 'dictatorship' I think of Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. If contemporary China is a dictatorship, then apparently life under a dictatorship isn't as bad as I was raised to believe and I need to review
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by garply 17y ago
In the same vein, if you use a repl on a remote machine you should check out detachtty if you're not already using it. It's particularly nice for use within emacs because it doesn't eat the whole screen and it doesn't eat ^A.
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by garply 17y ago
Has anyone else here switched to caffeine pills? I used to do several cups of coffee a day but I decided I could control my dosage better using pill form. Not to mention avoid staining my teeth.
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by garply 17y ago
Wow, I've been lazy in migrating away from Gmail but this motivates me to do so.
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by garply 17y ago
But the download link is broken for me. Anyone else?

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