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by jcurbo 14y ago
I miss Bloglines, honestly. I switched to greader after bloglines started having DB problems several years ago, but never really liked the UI - seemed too bloated and slow. I switched to using Reeder as a frontend, but in an effort to switc
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by jcurbo 14y ago
32 here and I learned the two space rule. Still haven't broken the habit. Thankfully on iOS if you hit space twice quickly it inserts a period and one space.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
> That was never a clear enough, coherent enough, or informed enough vision of the complete GNU project and, consequently, GNU has never really successfully gelled. You can grab some "100% libre" distributions, these days, but only bare
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I think a better way of saying it is that distribution is a commodity. It is easy and painless to distribute newspaper-style information these days compared to 100 years ago. Not to say there aren't ways to make money - look at Newsstand
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Those are identical to the outlets I saw in Germany, so I guess they're European. Definitely not American though.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Indeed, in my completely anecdotal experience, the Sony products (PS3, PSP, Vita) seem far more popular overseas (especially in Japan) than the 360. Microsoft has had a hard time getting the 360 going in Japan.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Needs more Bitcoin stories.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I don't know about T-Mobile, but I think AT&T and Verizon both require smartphones to have a data plan, and they can detect if you have a smartphone and force you to have a data plan because of that.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
There are fan made patches (nyerguds) for C&C95 and RA that help with this, as well as a DirectDraw driver for graphics and CnCNet for multiplayer. (Would provide links but can't at the moment. Google should find them easily)
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Try 'ps auxw' - the w enables wide output.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I assume you mean "Programming Perl", aka the Camel book. (has a camel on the cover) In my experience the Camel book is better as a reference and you should use "Learning Perl" to actually learn the language. It's structured better for th
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by jcurbo 14y ago
You might check out the book "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" which has a chapter on Clojure (and Scala, Ruby, Io, Prolog, Erlang and Haskell too). I took a class that used it and I thought the format was quite good.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
In his defense, I don't think Marco just connected the dots, he's been talking about this since Twitter first put out their updated developer guidelines.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Sounds like future HN meetups need poetry readings now.
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The link now goes to a Page Not Found page. "removed from Stack Overflow for reasons of moderation"
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This entire thread is interesting because our typical programming instincts - making sure user actions are linked to user desires via digital signatures, etc - get completely thrown out the window when you talk about voting and secret ballo
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In the US, the power to manage elections is still very much held at the state level. There have been federal inroads (Voting Rights Act) but historically the states have held full control over voting procedures. Most positions being voted
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Reminds me of the CubeStormer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d0LfkIut2M&feature=relat...
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I just finished a class in my CS graduate program where we used this book for part of the class. It was very interesting and has widened my perspective on languages quite a bit (including giving me a bit of a functional language interest).
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Don’t call it “open source” unless you mean it(christianheilmann.com)
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Really depends on your school. I went to a little podunk college (graduated in '02) with a tiny CS department and we did not do anything nearly this complex. You went to a top 10 CS school and did stuff like this. I don't have any real d
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by jcurbo 14y ago
This is not correct; the bookmarklet sends along the contents of your browser at the time you click it. Thus it can get around paywalls without having to have your login info. I believe Marco has said on his podcast that URLs added via the
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Looks very nice, I am gearing up to really dive into Go soon (waiting to finish up a class, to free up the time) and this looks like it will be a good resource.
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It depends, but in general there is a time limit on classification. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declassification#United_States explains it pretty well, and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526 is the executive order tha
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Came here to post this, except I was going to suggest it be built into HN itself and be in a section at the top of the comment page, perhaps between the link and the comment box. A way to suggest/add the links to the box would be good too
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There's a shortage of devices because people buy them as fast as Apple can make them.
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by jcurbo 14y ago
It is highly possible the Laminar Research people didn't post this or don't read HN. If you have good advice to give them, you should probably contact them directly.
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RIP Vile Rat. I didn't know him personally but I feel like I did, through being an SA forums member and playing Eve Online in Goonfleet for many years. He was a moderator on SA and well known for being a great, helpful guy. Truly a sad d
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I would agree. The Firefox/Iceweasel thing is probably the best example of this.[1] It seems silly on the surface (who cares right?) but Debian is very strict on the idea of freely redistributable software, even to minute levels other dis
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I could have written this same post almost exactly. started on Slackware, moved to Red Hat 5 then to Debian around when hamm (2.0) came out. Still have the bumper sticker I got from buying an official slink CD set. I even flirted around

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