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by gcv 13y ago
Fascinating. Is that Salon article even remotely accessible to a non-Russian (speaker)? It makes fairly subtle references to writers non-Russians have likely never heard of (the brothers Strugatskie, Lev Gumilev, Griboedov), and so builds a
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by gcv 13y ago
Does that make him wrong?
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by gcv 13y ago
Isn't there some rule that a domain must be registered with a real name, or it doesn't really belong to you (and all anonymization services for domains are therefore suspect)?
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by gcv 13y ago
Could this have been the intent all along? Make a decent first cut of the code, generate a ton of publicity, then generate a ton more publicity — note the vagueness about why exactly they shut down — then leave the code in reasonable work
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by gcv 13y ago
In honor of military hardware week on HN — some naval technology instead of aviation, though. I'm pretty sure a motivated non-state actor can arrange to buy a few of these. A surface ship is a sitting duck against something so fast.
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VA-111 Shkval(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by gcv 13y ago|5 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
I thought it depends on how many zeroes you have at the end of your (positive) account balance with the bank.
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by gcv 13y ago
That sound you hear is the collective gasp of iOS developers who just learned they have to support another display resolution (and the second sound is the unsympathetic snort of Android people).
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by gcv 13y ago
Feature request for the Mac OS Vagrant port: please don't copy your executable into /usr/bin when running the installer (and that seems to be the only reason the installer exists at all — it would be better distributed just a
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by gcv 13y ago
Listening to de Lucia's Entre dos Aguas album now — stunning work. Meta: delighted to see a story about such a wonderful musician on HN. Sad that it's an obituary.
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by gcv 13y ago
Will the iOS version require a jailbreak? Not sure how it can seamlessly handle plain SMS/MMS otherwise.
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by gcv 13y ago
Would an electric instrument help, or do they feel too different from acoustic, too?
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by gcv 13y ago
Very cool! Do you know if OpenAirplane.com also works with helicopter pilots?
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by gcv 13y ago
The ICU Java libraries, though annoying to use, provide interoperability with ICU C libraries. ICU has the only correct implementation of time zone support for C that I have found. Though it's been a while since I researched the issue,
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by gcv 13y ago
I stand corrected and edited my comment accordingly. Thanks!
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by gcv 13y ago
You completely misquoted the replies. ESR was NOT replying to the OP, he was agreeing with a rebuttal of the OP's argument.
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by gcv 13y ago
A slight exaggeration, but yes, that's quite close to the OP's argument (Git is GPLv2 and will not change; Hg is GPLv2+ and therefore closer in spirit to GNU's goals and a GNU project like Emacs should favor GPLv3 and AGPL to
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by gcv 13y ago
No, the project's leads have already approved the move to Git, and ESR is spearheading the (massive) effort involved.
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by gcv 13y ago
Where are these hunter-gatherers who do not fall under the jurisdiction of a nation-state organization?
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by gcv 13y ago
While the fine itself was negligible, a moving violation significantly increases insurance premiums. A lawyer who specializes in fighting traffic tickets is far cheaper than overpaying for insurance for the next decade.
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by gcv 13y ago
> try it next time you get a traffic ticket and tell me how it goes It worked quite well, thank you. I did not say a word, gave the cop my license and registration as required by law, signed my ticket, and hired a lawyer to get it thrown
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by gcv 13y ago
Which parts of Emacs rely on Clang?
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by gcv 13y ago
Be the change you want to see, and all that — right? The metaphor in the article does not preclude non-egoistic play, it just suggests a another set of skills in the game: Diplomacy, Activism, Community Organization, Macroeconomics, History
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by gcv 13y ago
It's a crying shame that Dylan did not become the systems language of Apple's new era — it's really quite lovely. Much nicer than Objective C, though undoubtedly trickier to compile efficiently.
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by gcv 13y ago
Has anyone here tried these methods? Are the linked resources anything remotely reasonable, or pure quackery?
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Curing Myopia(myopiacure.blogspot.com)
2 points by gcv 13y ago|1 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
It's the nicest way to keep and edit your work on the host and run it in the isolated environment of the guest. VirtualBox shared folders have completely unacceptable performance here [1], and VMware handles itself much better. [1] 10-
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? (2011)(nybooks.com)
2 points by gcv 13y ago|0 comments
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by gcv 13y ago
You haven't received a bill? Fascinating — do you not pay taxes? Because if you are, then you most certainly have been paying for medical treatments for veterans and their families, as well as various US government cleanup projects. Ci
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by gcv 13y ago
> The problem with remote-control war is that there's no political cost Oversimplification. Domestically, the US is still paying the cost of using, eg, Agent Orange in Asia, today (children of service members born deformed).

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