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by jff 14y ago
Where does C imply embedded only? The Go authors spent years writing non-embedded programs and operating systems in C, after Ken Thompson laid the groundwork to create C.
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Ask HN: Minimally-intrusive ways to verify real name?
2 points by jff 14y ago|3 comments
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by jff 14y ago
Unfortunately, hams don't seem to actually use radio for much except complaining about their ailments and/or Windows 95 PCs. I say this as someone who went through the trouble of acquiring a license, getting VHF and HF rigs, and then disc
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by jff 14y ago
> 293 of 500 respondents (59%) were unable to name a Japanese brand. > 37 of 500 respondents (7%) were able to name 5 Japanese brands. I guarantee that most of those respondents have a Honda car, or a Panasonic TV, or a Sony Pla
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by jff 14y ago
It's not constantly recording, it's recording when you decide to start recording. In the same way that anybody sitting down holding their phone could actually be recording you. I swear, Glass gets more FUD on this site than any other produc
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by jff 14y ago
Hey, one out of two ain't bad.
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by jff 14y ago
Agreed. If I had known at the time that there was a DDoS against Spamhaus, I'd have probably joined in against the self-righteous pricks. Block my home server, will you?
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by jff 14y ago
And you don't have to swap-to-disk to start writing a command in Vim-speek?
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by jff 14y ago
> But shouldn't punishments be proportional to crimes? We all seem to agree that it's barbaric to cut off a shoplifter's hand, or to hand out the death penalty for petty crimes (as was once common in England, for instance). I agree. S
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by jff 14y ago
Well, hey, it's exactly what the title advertises: "21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous". Objective? Unbiased? No guarantees are made :)
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by jff 14y ago
You should write to McDonalds and get them to change their menus, lest the people of Hamburg become offended.
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by jff 14y ago
The CA DMV's online booking is convenient, but it really becomes the only way to get service. I made an appointment for mid-afternoon to register my motorcycle. I was in and out in 15 minutes. When I had gone in 2 years ago to get my driv
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by jff 14y ago
I use notmuch with Emacs in an X window. It'll display image attachments and give me clickable HTTP links, which is great. If X forwarding isn't an option, I can always just fire up an ssh session and read it in emacs -nw.
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by jff 14y ago
Since the author grows bonsai, I'm sure he's partial to gnarly mountain trees too.
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by jff 14y ago
And the general trend with Bitcoin "banks" is that at some point people lose a bunch of money and the website either shuts down or loses all trust. Your point?
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by jff 14y ago
> If the Chinese populous don't like any of the governments additions, then those users can grab the binaries / source code directly and roll their own customisations. If the repos are accessible.
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by jff 14y ago
> I went to print the document and it didn't work Some things never change.
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by jff 14y ago
Oh, I used to feed myself on about $5/day. It wasn't fun but I wasn't starving. But life's a lot easier if you just have to mix this powder into some water.
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by jff 14y ago
Yep, I've had "instant breakfast", it can even be tasty if you don't have it very often. When writing my comment, I wasn't really considering the sociological implications of where I was going, I was simply thinking that I , if living on a
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by jff 14y ago
If I could keep myself fully nourished for $5/day ($150/month), I'd be pretty damn happy. We don't even have to talk about the third world to see possible benefits. We're always hearing about how America's poor don't have time to prepare fo
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by jff 14y ago
omg, ad hominem, yarble garble!
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by jff 14y ago
tee can do barriers and reduces? Wow!
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by jff 14y ago
Mycroft, don't be too hasty. I remembered Eric and others working on this for a long time, and indeed with a little bit of searching I found an email Eric sent back in May 2009 linking to a page which led me to http://graverobbers.blogspot
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by jff 14y ago
I can't speak for the NSA, but the cybersecurity-type research groups I'm familiar with allow you to choose what you work on. You can choose not to work on things you find morally disagreeable while still having the opportunity to do work t
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by jff 14y ago
Eh, I had never heard of Hugin before. Don't try Muninn, it's already taken for something sorta similar: http://code.google.com/p/muninn/
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by jff 14y ago
I'm not exactly sure, I've noticed the same thing. Go appeared a few years ago, quickly became pretty well-known, and continues to grow in popularity. Maybe it's seen as "threatening" to older projects like Ruby and Python? The most vitriol
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by jff 14y ago
There's a difference between not taking it into account, and not believing it is worth including.
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by jff 14y ago
Wow, South America really, really likes gay porn. Look at Peru--every one of the top searches is tagged "(gay)". I wonder why that is; are many Peruvians gay? Do straight Peruvians simply not view porn?
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by jff 14y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7VgNQbZdaw
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by jff 14y ago
Points for originality with "vuala", though. Usually it's just "viola" or "wallah"

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