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by jcurbo 14y ago
Just a note, this is adapted from the author's book Programming in Go. http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Go-Creating-Applications-D... This article is second in a series. Discussion of the previous article on HN: http://news.ycombinator
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Interested as well. debian + awesome + vim + urxvt and I am always looking for more ways to make it better.
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You may be thinking of Cassini; it is powered by an RTG and flew back by the Earth for part of its gravity assist, which caused some controversy about if it somehow went off course and re-entered Earth's atmosphere. More info here: http://
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I think the key thing here is that you have to talk to your data sources. You have to use their data source the way they want you to, or come to some sort of agreement (licensing or somesuch), else you are moving into the same legal territ
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As a reply to my own comment, amazingly on the last Hypercritical podcast (produced on the same day I made that comment, but I had not had a chance to listen to it yet), John Siracusa discussed this very topic. I finally got to listen to i
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At the time she was flying on the Shuttle, the USAF was involved in the overall project and it was being used to lift military payloads into orbit, including some classified ones. The USAF stopped using the Shuttle after the Challenger acc
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First Thunderbird then this, what's a native-email-app user to do? I wonder what ever happened to that Letters email app for OS X that people were wanting to build? There was a flurry of activity and complaints about Mail.app and then noth
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As I understand it, a lot of Microsoft's certification training materials and tests are Powershell oriented... instead of clicking around in GUIs they teach you how to make the changes via Powershell commands. (I'm not an MS admin but I've
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So is the best solution for this a federated, open-standards approach ala XMPP? It seems to me you could even use XMPP as the backbone for an open, federated short message service.
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My use cases are very similar (I basically use awesome to manage a bunch of urxvts). When I run across regular GUI apps I typically just run them in a new workspace so they can either be fullscreen or not have to fight with xterms for spac
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I would use it but I worry about using programs that are not being actively maintained because of the risk of security vulnerabilities. Especially in email where you can have a lot of risky inputs (spam, phishing attempts etc) - even thoug
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Too bad really, but probably coming for a while now. I use Tbird on Windows (and Mail.app on OS X) with my email hosted at pobox.com. I have a gmail account but I've never been a fan of webmail at all. I miss Eudora :( Now that was a sim
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Why should cs and cstheory be separate? Looking at cstheory's tags I see plenty of things I encountered in my undergraduate days. It seems like splitting hairs. Programmers I can understand, as it seems to be more about the art of program
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of some of those numbers. I still find the question hurdle to be the biggest... I personally just haven't found the time or energy to go and find questions I can answer, or do research necessary to answer. My gut fee
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I have found lots of good answers on SE sites (almost all completely via Google) and I don't think it's getting any worse. I do find it hard to participate in the sites as I almost never have a question that is not already answered, which
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Dawn_of_Sorrow
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The Tau Manifesto discusses this (perhaps not to your satisfaction, but it's there): http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:ambiguous_notation
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Typo in the large title at the top? ("nugenudge" - the code and URL says nudgenudge)
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The Nokia Torture(mondaynote.com)
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To be clear, this is a guy that has been playing a single game of Civ II for 10 years. When I first saw this I thought, isn't Civ II older than 10 years? (came out in 1996) I love Civ and still go back and play Civ II at times. I spent a
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by jcurbo 14y ago
I just noticed this on Apple's page: http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ "Supported resolutions: 2880 by 1800 pixels (Retina); scaled resolutions: 1920 by 1200, 1680 by 1050, 1280 by 800, and 1024 by 640 pixels"
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by jcurbo 14y ago
For those that might be confused, the actual vote page is http://www.debian.org/vote/2012/vote_002 and goes into detail about what is being voted on. I don't think Debian has a problem with diversity; as an example, the Debian Women group
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You have a point, but this product is a direct competitor to both the iPad and Macbook Air, both tough nuts that other companies have been trying to crack. Given expectations that major Macbook Air upgrades are coming as early as next week
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Gotta get this news out before any Apple Ivy Bridge-related announcements next week, I suppose.
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Looks pretty good. I'm a big fan of http://newsyc.me/ and use it every day on my iPad and iPhone, I'll give yours a shot too.
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So what makes it so much faster? Did they fix a major bug causing it to slow down?
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The subreddits I read have plenty of news, about fields I am interested in - both serious technical fields and leisure related activities. Sure, r/pics is full of memes and funny stuff, but I get real information and commentary from the su
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Sure, but HN mangles the links. If this was email it might make more sense - or if HN's auto-parsing code were changed.
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The real strength of Reddit is joining the subreddits that pertain to your interests, but I agree that maybe cleaning up the 'default' subreddits is a good idea. There are plenty of people that just lurk with no account or never change the
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by jcurbo 14y ago
Thanks for the links. BTW, the trailing ">" you are inserting is getting caught in HN's automatic linking and being inserted into the <A> tag.

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