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‘Wasting Time on the Internet’ Is Now an Ivy League Class(time.com)
1 points by jfmercer 12y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 12y ago
This is magnificent. Thank you.
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Can software be protected from piracy?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by jfmercer 13y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto revealed after years of mystery?(arstechnica.com)
33 points by jfmercer 13y ago|20 comments
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by jfmercer 13y ago
Sounds like they're dumbing down the SAT. Those soon-to-be-cut "obscure" vocabulary words are critical for mastering English.
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by jfmercer 13y ago
Finally, the startup I've been waiting for.
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Russia Invades Crimea(nytimes.com)
6 points by jfmercer 13y ago|2 comments
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by jfmercer 13y ago
Sounds about right.
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Blackphone--a "secure" cell phone--has been released(blackphone.ch)
1 points by jfmercer 13y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 13y ago
How is it even possible to rank bounty hunters? This article's title is just sensationalist link bait.
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by jfmercer 13y ago
I wish HN contributors were more careful with their link titles. The actual article title, "End Hypocrisy with Leaks," is altogether different, and inestimably more reasonable, than the absurdly titled "The End of Hypocrisy.&
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Ask HN: good blogs & websites for Objective-C development?
1 points by jfmercer 13y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 13y ago
+1 for Bitcoin
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by jfmercer 14y ago
This is excellent. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
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by jfmercer 14y ago
This is brilliant. Great work.
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Apple Finally Offers Two-Step Authentication(lifehacker.com)
1 points by jfmercer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 14y ago
The issue here is not sexism. It is surveillance. In this case, sexism is a red herring.
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by jfmercer 14y ago
We are policed far, far more often, and more thoroughly, than the Victorians could have dreamed. In that sense, Victorian England was a far freer society than ours.
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by jfmercer 14y ago
bookmarked. good work.
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Was Wittgenstein Right?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by jfmercer 14y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 14y ago
I would support this (that is, contribute code) if it wasn't written in PHP. Ruby, Python, Perl, node . . . anything but PHP.
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by jfmercer 14y ago
It is amusing how this title Facebook "the Devourer" reminds one of some dark Hindu deity, such as Kala [Time] the Devourer: "At the dissolution of things, it is Kāla [Time] Who will devour all" (Mahanirvana-tantra, cited in David Kinsley,
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by jfmercer 14y ago
Wouldn't a better title be "65.5% of US Internet Population using Facebook/Twitter"?
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by jfmercer 15y ago
If we simplify this poll to "Unix vs. non-Unix," then Unix wins by an very strong majority.
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by jfmercer 15y ago
"I don't always test my code, but when I do, I do it in production." http://i.qkme.me/22sv.jpg
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by jfmercer 15y ago
Excellent work. I've wanted to have better bookmark management in Chrome for a while now. Plus the design is beautiful.
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by jfmercer 15y ago
This is a helpful resource!
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by jfmercer 15y ago
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that TechCrunch is writing about peer review?
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by jfmercer 15y ago
In an information economy, a data mine has the same value that an oil, iron, or coal mine has in an industrial economy. The great data aggregators--Facebook, Google, Twitter, et al.--will be the robber barons of the information economy beca
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by jfmercer 15y ago
bash's spy equivalent in Jason Bourne. zsh can't compete with that.

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