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by hernan7 17y ago
I'm not sure about that. Piracy of Windows desktop/end-user software is rampant. Maybe it's less for Windows server-related software?
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by hernan7 17y ago
"not a dry eye in the house" ... man that was corny
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by hernan7 18y ago
Thanks
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by hernan7 18y ago
Miyazaki an "anime master"?
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by hernan7 18y ago
Amazing anecdote. Do you have the source?
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Pixar's gender problem(vastpublicindifference.blogspot.com)
4 points by hernan7 18y ago|3 comments
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by hernan7 18y ago
You mean intersection?
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by hernan7 18y ago
Back in the '80s, at the University of Buenos Aires the first intro to algorithms course was taught using the Spanish-based TIMBA language. It was a kind of Pascal/ pseudocode language that we used to program an imaginary one-armed robot to
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by hernan7 18y ago
The thing that amazes me is that these tiny devices (the netbooks too) come standard with 1GB or 1/2 GB of RAM. 10 years ago or so that was a huge amount of RAM -- you could have a big Sun or AIX box running an industrial-grade Oracle ins
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by hernan7 18y ago
GNOME too, at least back in the day http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject KDE too, apparently: http://usability.kde.org/
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by hernan7 18y ago
BTW, the dollar amounts are kind of meaningless for non-US natives. For example, I'm from Argentina, where the US dollar has gone from 1 peso to thousands of pesos during my lifetime (it's now around 3 pesos, after several sheddings of zero
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by hernan7 18y ago
Maybe we will get more investigative reporting from nonprofits like Amnesty or Greenpeace.
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by hernan7 18y ago
One way to see the current Unix time: perl -e 'print time() . "\n";'
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by hernan7 18y ago
LinkedIn?
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by hernan7 18y ago
You can use the "-e" option of screen to change ctrl-a to something else. My usual invocation of screen looks something like: screen -e '^Oo' -S mysession Disclosure: I use vi.
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by hernan7 18y ago
This stuff is good to know -- I have found the "sed -e" trick and doing pattern matching inside awk help cut down on typing quite a bit. They may even make the script more readable, once you become familiar with these idioms. On the other h
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by hernan7 18y ago
I guess a laptop like that (if it ever gets made) would probably run some lightweight Unix-like OS. And it would be more like an appliance, where you can only run the programs that come bundled with it. So, no installing random Windows soft
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by hernan7 18y ago
"Someday, I suspect, browsers will dump their search fields and just use the address bar for everything." Google Chrome does that; personally I love it. (When I go back to Firefox I always resent having to press an extra tab to go to the se
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by hernan7 18y ago
The square peg/round hole sequence is of course the embodiment of the hacker spirit (not an original thought of mine, but I can't seem to find the original URL at the moment). Another space/hackish movie would be "The Dish" about the Austra
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by hernan7 18y ago
The "Hacker News |" part at the beginning of the page titles is redundant; please remove it. 99% of the time, the Y-combinator icon is enough to identify the tab as belonging to Hacker News. On a tabbed browser, a sequence of HN tabs looks
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Brian Kernighan: sometimes the old ways are best(www2.computer.org)
42 points by hernan7 18y ago|17 comments
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by hernan7 18y ago
Summary of the article: English tongue-in-cheek humor. One could say that the Akai MPC is the "button guitar" that the article claims for. It's not as nice-looking as a Stratocaster, though.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Yes, having "unsend" as part of the mail client functionality is the way to go. Maybe the "send the message right now this exact millisecond" function should require an extra step from the user. And the default action should be to enqueue t
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by hernan7 18y ago
It sounds like quotes from old interviews.
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Stuff that lasts vs disposable junk
4 points by hernan7 18y ago|6 comments
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by hernan7 18y ago
Before going to Ikea, I would try hitting a couple garage sales. Check out the Pennysaver magazine too.
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by hernan7 18y ago
DHH was probably paraphrasing Kay's quote, and assuming the readers of the interview would be familiar with the original.
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by hernan7 18y ago
Not only for emacs. It's remarkable how much the typewriter (or computer) keyboard exercise the pinky, compared with most other day-to-day activities. The saxophone too... the left pinky table on a tenor sax is (almost) as much work as the
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by hernan7 18y ago
Or some fingers at the end of the finger's a la Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men."
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Kottke: Does the broken windows theory hold online?(kottke.org)
13 points by hernan7 18y ago|11 comments

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