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by jff 13y ago
Age of Wushu is a Chinese-developed MMO where you take the role of a hero from wuxia fiction. Think of it sorta like Street Fighter meets WoW. PvP fights are very lively, you need to counter the moves your opponent is using. PvP is a huge a
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by jff 13y ago
Shoot blues, tell Vile Rat.
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by jff 13y ago
I think it's better to repeatedly hit j rather than count "ah, 5 lines" and type 5j. Even better, you're already looking at where you want to go, it may be faster to hit / and start typing from that point to jump th
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by jff 13y ago
SLC probably has the advantage that your average homeless drunk has a much harder time getting booze.
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by jff 13y ago
The site's tagline is "Progressive Journalism for Positive Action". I imagine they have to include a dig on Republicans/Utah...ites? to show that the author does indeed think Republicans are Bad, lest the commenters cruc
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by jff 13y ago
Not just that, Poettering has said that he believes the only platform worth targeting is Linux.
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by jff 13y ago
If they know they need $20k, they must have arrived at that number somehow. Publishing that estimation would be a good start.
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by jff 13y ago
info pages are yet another artifact of RMS's sad devotion to ITS and other dead environments.
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by jff 13y ago
"but, but, I've hitched my cart to that horse!"
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by jff 13y ago
Seconded. I know several people who use Fedora. They refer to it by number, not by name. I thing the only possible value of release names is to provide something for bikeshedders to fight over while other people work.
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by jff 13y ago
Overstock might as well say "We now accept Coinbase!"
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by jff 13y ago
That's why I always have to laugh when I hear about such-and-such a company "now accepting bitcoin!". They don't get bitcoin, they get USD, so they don't care. Want to buy something from Overstock? Take your USD, bu
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Fixing a tube radio(jfloren.net)
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by jff 13y ago
Ruger actually set up a site where you could put in your zip code and get back your representatives all the way up the tree to the President. Then, if you wanted, they provided a form for entering your information and any personal comments,
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by jff 13y ago
The funniest part about Dogecoin was how the initial point was to make fun of bitcoins, but it rapidly turned to people taking it pretty seriously but pretending they aren't. Dogecoin mining pools, dogecoins for sale on ebay... they&#x
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by jff 13y ago
$500 for the 10' model, which gets 1.5 hours out of the battery. This is laughable. When these were first announced, I wanted one badly. A cheap, MIPS-based laptop? Yes please. But you couldn't get one for a long time, and queries
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by jff 13y ago
Extremely difficult to get a Lemote, though. I guess there's somewhere in the Netherlands that has them in stock. Shame the battery only lasts a couple hours.
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by jff 13y ago
> Also, GP is conflating the issues of (1) fetching dependencies, (2) building a project, (3) installing the project. Makefiles aren't inherently evidence against "go get"; there is no reason that "go get" couldn
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by jff 13y ago
Yes, that's what I recommend. I don't recommend a Makefile for a pure Go project, you really just need a shell script that sets GOPATH and calls "go build". That's what we do and it works well.
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by jff 13y ago
It's one package. It has no external repo dependencies. Do a git clone and get over yourself. As I've said elsewhere in the thread, "go get" is all fun and games until you try to make something real with it, then you rea
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by jff 13y ago
"go get" is kind of ok for trying out a new library quickly, but it's terrible for a real project. Brad Fitzpatrick doesn't use it for Camlistore, instead he also does a Makefile-like system: https://github.co
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by jff 13y ago
I didn't read it deeply but what stands out to you as particularly non-idiomatic? It looked mostly ok to me.
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by jff 13y ago
Low Tech Magazine: Drawing arbitrary boundary lines sells. 150 year old technology (trains) = ok, 100 year old technology (airplanes) = not ok.
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by jff 13y ago
I was actually thinking that. Plenty of schools there including RIT and U of R, lots of office/warehouse/factory space available, unique local culture, cheap (for now) housing...
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by jff 13y ago
Why worry? Who cares if somebody wants to fly over Namibia and pretend they're looking at Mars?
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by jff 13y ago
I actually see that pretty often. When the movie requires it, people forget that they have cell phones. It's the same way the horror movie universe apparently doesn't have horror movies, or people would know not to split up or hav
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by jff 13y ago
It is important to acknowledge that. It's also important to know that many people consider this a fine use of their work.
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by jff 13y ago
Pilots and other staff appear to have HSPD-12 identification badges, which are a lot harder to fake than buying a uniform online. Surely you've seen airport/airline employees swiping their badges at security?
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by jff 13y ago
$7 will buy you a couple tacos and a bottle of Coke at the taco truck. $7 is a pretty good price for lunch. Now, given that it's for startups in San Francisco, the demand for local-sourced organic quinoa meat substitute may make $7 har
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by jff 13y ago
There's a difference between a collapsing bridge (the original reason for the oath) and a weapon. You knew from the start that the weapon was going to kill people. I'm ok with designing weapons; my ethical beliefs allow that. It w

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