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by guruz 14y ago
Even if this is a troll post, it is probably true that the distributed social networks are having a really really hard time gaining ground. The biggest problem I see is the network effect of current networks (FB, G+) and the choice of the m
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by guruz 14y ago
I think what the author did is the better solution. Big corporations must learn that they can't treat their users badly but disrespect the laws themselves without getting into PR trouble.
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by guruz 14y ago
I also get my information in German from an Offline newspaper or the German websites. Or to back my claims up, let's take some per-capita numbers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Incarceration_rates_worldw... Sorry if this comes across
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by guruz 14y ago
I would agree with you, it could have been that. It's just that for me as an European seemingly all crazy stories like "X tazed by cop for doing nothing at all" or "Y put into jail for having her small children play naked in the garden" com
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by guruz 14y ago
Or live in Paranoidistan, aka USA.
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by guruz 14y ago
I'd say the computing is done "in the cloud". Low power transmission to your phone, then to the google datacenter. It seems cool from a technology point, but I'm not sure I want to trust Google (and thereby the US Government) my life. Or am
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by guruz 14y ago
If you're too lazy or busy to do the geolocation yourself, check out http://a-fwd.com/ :)
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by guruz 14y ago
Do the travel thing, possible while doing some small projects for yourself or others. The real world can wait. (and you have to step up against your parents at some point anyway) (I'm 28 and wish I would have done it, although I am very hap
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by guruz 14y ago
I don't see the problem here. You can't find out who wants to bang who, right? You only can find out that people want to bang. Which is true since the big bang 13.8 billion years ago. (well, humans evolved later, i know)
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by guruz 14y ago
More dense information than in this forum thread here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
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by guruz 14y ago
Sexual Gamification? Interesting idea. I'd be interested in having an easier time learning, but my Chinese girlfriend forbids me to use a site like this :(
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by guruz 14y ago
In a Hotel in Beijing. Ping around the same, Chrome does SSL and shows no error.
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by guruz 14y ago
A friend of a friend from Beijing said github works for him (~2 minutes ago). I'm actually flying there on Wednesday, let's see how it goes :)
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How Qt's signals and slots work(woboq.com)
3 points by guruz 14y ago|0 comments
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by guruz 14y ago
Freenet has "Freesites". https://freenetproject.org/
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by guruz 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Berlin We're offering consulting/contract work around Digia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing other work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile and iOS. If you're interested contact us via http:/
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by guruz 14y ago
Well, thanks for the downvote. I'm administering the server code.woboq.org is running on, so I think I have reasons to like that static HTML fact ;)
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by guruz 14y ago
DXR needs Python/CGI to run :-) My favorite difference between the Woboq Code Browser and DXR is to have a pure static website generated ahead of time without requiring dynamic code or a database on the HTTP server.
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by guruz 14y ago
We've been trying to build something supporting that, but so far with far less than full steam. Too busy with client projects right now :) http://woboq.im/
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by guruz 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Berlin We're a offering consulting/contract work around (still-)Nokia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing other work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile, iOS. If you're interested contact us via
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by guruz 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or Berlin We're a offering consulting/contract work around Nokia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing other work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile, iOS. If you're interested contact us via http://
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by guruz 14y ago
I like the fact that they incorporate fb likes and tweets to the score. This helps battling the social site chicken/egg effect and makes spam stories hopefully less likely.
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Converting UTF8 strings to UTF16 using SIMD/SSE instructions(woboq.com)
4 points by guruz 14y ago|1 comments
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SSL certificate crawler and some CA statistics(peter.hartmann.tk)
1 points by guruz 14y ago|0 comments
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by guruz 14y ago
We started to offer hosting for the Quassel IRC client. Not sure if this will make enough money this year to pay for the server we're running it on. But at least it is a small start in transitioning to be some kind of product company instea
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by guruz 14y ago
I don't want to sound negative, but.. there is so much content produced every day on sites like HN that I feel a bit like the past discussions don't matter anymore at all.
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by guruz 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site We're a offering consulting/contract work around Nokia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing more general work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile. If you're interested contact us via http
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by guruz 15y ago
Same here, I moved to Berlin :)
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by guruz 15y ago
If you (still) think a IRC bouncer is a good tool then you'd be surprised by something like quassel :) http://quassel-irc.org/
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by guruz 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or on-site We're a offering consulting/contract work around Nokia's Qt framework. We're also interested in doing more general work in the world of open source, desktop, mobile. If you're interested contact us via http

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