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by iuguy 14y ago
> If other states were to join, islamic states, such as Turkey, and it were to work, this would be an even more amazing historical event. Can you define 'Islamic state'? Turkey is a secular democratic republic. Admittedly one run by rel
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by iuguy 14y ago
Not to mention the former Soviet members of the EU, some of whom have had the opportunity to be swallowed up by other empires several times now.
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by iuguy 14y ago
I'm sorry but you keep saying that you can't do things that are eminently possible. You can install vim and unison on an iPod. If you jailbreak an iPod you can get a full compile stack from cydia. As for a printer, that's not what we were t
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by iuguy 14y ago
> I have seen iPods, but can you ssh in an iPod? If you jailbreak it you can. Here's[1] a one page how-to long guide. > I have seen media centers, but can you bulk rename files or script it? Of course, providing you're using someth
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by iuguy 14y ago
My sandwich will be utterly torn to spreads. Brilliant!
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Blackberry's Euro MD ignores iPhone questions in BBC interview(mcvuk.com)
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by iuguy 14y ago
I've been thinking that costs for upvotes or comments are probably worth a discussion on HN. The problem with online karma versus offline karma is that for buddhists, offline karma has a real cost in some respects. Yet online karma is just
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by iuguy 14y ago
What's the difference between the iPad 3 (retina) and this 4th generation they're talking about? Are they referring to an iPad Mini as 4th gen or are they saying the retina iPad (3rd gen) is 4th gen now?
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by iuguy 14y ago
There's an old joke that the word "Ubuntu" is the Swahili for "Can't install Debian". Ubuntu is aimed at beginners and people that don't want to fiddle around (too much). Earlier distros were very very good and very useable compared to othe
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by iuguy 14y ago
Can you change the past? No. Can you change the future? Yes. I think you're placing a lot of importance on things that don't matter. There's only one real thing you can achieve in life, which is to enjoy it. Anything else is secondary. Comp
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by iuguy 14y ago
One of the things that lends itself to abuse of things such as karma is a lack of cost. It costs nothing to vote something up or down, therefore we associate little value with giving karma (as you're not losing anything), whereas the accumu
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by iuguy 14y ago
> I know a lot of people will call us stupid for doing so, but I'm also convinced that the BBC will lobby (or whatever they need to do) for changes to the licensing laws once the UK officially is out of the economic danger zone. I'm not
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by iuguy 14y ago
I don't. I had an EyeTV card but the licensing for the software is despicable and after losing the serial number I couldn't get it reactivated after rebuilding the same Mac. I used to use BBC iPlayer instead but I don't these days, as I use
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This looks really, really cool, especially the vim support. What would be really awesome would be a native port of gcc and other supporting tools to create packages on the platform. That would enable public repositories where people can eas
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Is it worth putting a link to the kickstarter on the front page? Would certainly help explain a lot about the project and if it's still running people can chip in.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Wow, this looks really good. A decent django tutorial that covers all the ops side is somewhat lacking I feel, and this certainly looks pretty full. How do you plan to fund the other lessons?
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by iuguy 14y ago
For an interesting look at the impact of the last time a whole load of expensive and rare materials were brought home from a new world, see here[1]. It's also worth looking into the price revolution[2], a 150 year period of time where the i
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by iuguy 14y ago
That's weird, I thought Oracle have been making insecure software for decades and this was just business as usual for them.
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by iuguy 14y ago
It sounds like he's being screwed over by the vendor, who forced him to sign an NDA. To be honest anyone using Acunetix isn't looking to hack into anything. It's an enterprise scanner that looks for general web app issues rather than someth
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by iuguy 14y ago
I'm all for people shipping. Age isn't really a part of it. What I'm not all for is people creating an account, posting the thing they're looking to promote and only posting in that thread - otherwise completely disengaged with the HN commu
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by iuguy 14y ago
It needed saying. I'm sad that it did, but kudos for saying it.
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by iuguy 14y ago
So in other words you're saying that he might have no interest in participating in the community, only pimping his app?
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by iuguy 14y ago
Yeah, but if you look at his submissions, comments and account lifespan you can see he has no interest in taking part in the community, only pimping his app.
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by iuguy 14y ago
> I am never going to play the "I'm-a-kid" card, because in my opinion my work (not just articles from my blog, I also develop software that I like to show around on HN) are a result of my hardwork, and I think they deserve competing wi
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by iuguy 14y ago
It is spam. This is a community site. You've made an account and within the first hour started promoting yourself without engaging in the community as a whole. The only reason you posted was to get hits. Ergo, spam. Looking through your sub
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by iuguy 14y ago
Hmmm... Account created an hour ago. Username unrelated to name of author on site... Flagged as spam.
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by iuguy 14y ago
To be fair, the value of changing SSH ports versus using only public key authentication is somewhat debatable. The pros always come down to eliminating noise from automated attacks. The cons always come down to having to specify a non-stand
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by iuguy 14y ago
In automated exploitation (e.g. scanning for common classes of web vulnerabilities) /dev/shm is better because it doesn't touch the disk filesystem. It's also not an obvious place people use on a regular basis (as opposed to /tmp) so (some)
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by iuguy 14y ago
When you run your business (or in this case event) on someone else's network/app/system you're subject to the whims of the owner. You're sharecropping. FWIW 44Con[1] used Eventbrite[2] (which I'd say is better for one-off events) for the fi
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Didn't some canadian kids send a digital camera into space, using a weather balloon? No, they didn't. Weather balloons need an atmosphere to float in, and would've still experienced almost as much gravity as the ground (the force of g

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