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GitHub is out right now (UT 2009-September-16 19:09:41)(github.com)
1 points by igorhvr 17y ago|0 comments
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by igorhvr 17y ago
Isn't it amazing that "electromagnetic" had 21 upvotes (here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813103 ) saying "The science is rather sound on this; ..." and then proceeding to try to justify why this seems right with a bunch of nonsen
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by igorhvr 17y ago
I don't use OpenBSD - but I plan to some day, and I really like their attitude. Specifically, it is very refreshing to see a piece of software where "Quality is the #1 goal, it takes a back seat to NOTHING else."
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OpenBSD needs your help - call for donations(undeadly.org)
84 points by igorhvr 17y ago|45 comments
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by igorhvr 17y ago
> Essentially all of Apple's products are single disk. There is virtually no win there. You can have multiple copies even inside a single disk. And this is useful when you use cheap disks. > The checksumming is a nice feature and de
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by igorhvr 17y ago
You can be respectful without being subservient. But assuming RiderOfGiraffes is right about this being nothing more than a code phrase... well, it is a funny one!
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by igorhvr 17y ago
From the blog post: > "I have the honour to be, Madam, Your Majesty’s humble and obedient subject," This left a very bad taste in my mouth.
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by igorhvr 17y ago
How do I know whether I am infected or not?
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Levinthal's paradox(pubmedcentral.nih.gov)
1 points by igorhvr 17y ago|0 comments
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by igorhvr 17y ago
When I was 17 years old I read "Beyond Good and Evil", by Nietzsche. ( http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4363 ) That book truly changed the way I lived and the way I thought.
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by igorhvr 17y ago
Does anyone have a copy of all the source code he published? Specifically, does anyone have a copy of his Potion ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425258 ) repository somewhere online?
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The Daily WTF maliciously infringes Programming Praxis trademark(programmingpraxis.com)
38 points by igorhvr 17y ago|34 comments
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by igorhvr 17y ago
It would not be new legal ground. Here is a company that did just that: (suing themselves) http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/al-lewis-wells-farg...
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by igorhvr 17y ago
> That is all they do. Why would you think otherwise? Not true. Read a bit about "ibricks": http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/more-on-apples-late...
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by igorhvr 17y ago
I hate when someone suggests adding process to fix a problem - and I saw this quite a few times already. Most people clearly understand the benefits of adding process, but very few seem to realize the costs. If I tried hard I am pretty sure
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by igorhvr 17y ago
Reasonable people can differ only if their prior information is different. Or, "People with the same priors cannot agree to disagree.", as put by Robert J. Aumann here: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2958591
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by igorhvr 18y ago
SISC Scheme ( http://sisc-scheme.org/ ) has continuations and runs on top of the JVM.
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Ask YC: A good free solution for VOIP?
1 points by igorhvr 18y ago|1 comments
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by igorhvr 18y ago
I liked when the lower cap for the score of a comment was a higher negative value. It was nice to see comments like this one at -30 or so...
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by igorhvr 18y ago
To solve your problem just use ssh -o TCPKeepAlive=no restOfYourCommandGoesHere From the ssh_config manpage: "TCPKeepAlive Specifies whether the system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent, death of the co
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by igorhvr 18y ago
Sometimes I get really annoyed that I can't automate all the boring parts of my life in the same way I can do (and I always do) in a computer. From the top of my head: dishes, picking clothes, paying bills and banking in general (I would be
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by igorhvr 18y ago
> They want people to switch, Who do you mean by "they" in this sentence? There are lots of people involved in building "Linux", and certainly not all of them want or care about other people switching to Linux. > All Linux gives is
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by igorhvr 18y ago
Specifically, I would like to be able to filter out TechCrunch, CodingHorror and ArsTechnica articles. I never learn anything from them. (the comments, on the other hand, are sometimes interesting - but I still would rather not have anythin
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by igorhvr 18y ago
Congratulations! On the humorous side, this reminds me of this story: http://edward.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms (Richard Stallman speaks a bit about having children) The funniest part is: "It doesn’t take special talents to reproduce, even p
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by igorhvr 18y ago
This article is an absolute piece of crap. You can read John Walker's own rebuttal here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/section2_99_4.html
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by igorhvr 18y ago
#1 is really important - VBA is an awful language. My two cents: add support for arbitrary precision math. Sometimes you need it, and when you do, you really need it.
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by igorhvr 18y ago
I second that - really great collage begging to be clicked on - make us able to interact with it somehow. One suggestion would be a bit of information about each destination on mouse over.
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by igorhvr 18y ago
How can this be a misattribution if he didn't attribute it to anyone?
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by igorhvr 18y ago
Usually, at a test, a kid will be as focused as he/she will ever get. It is specially cruel to show adds to a kid in such situations because maximum attention is required for someone doing a test...
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by igorhvr 18y ago
> Sleep is the best cure for physical tiredness, but mental tiredness is much harder to overcome. I believe it is exactly backwards. For several times in my life I got myself in a shape where I went to the gym and did my full routine, y

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