joh6nn

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by joh6nn 14y ago
let me translate what you just said: "Persuaded some muppet": she gained her mark's confidence. "to sell her a Korg Triton for 80GBP": she ripped her mark off. "and got 580GBP on ebay for it": and then she profited from the rip-off. in some
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by joh6nn 15y ago
could we please stop creating headlines that address everybody, when the content only addresses specific sub-groups? This headline should have ended with "on OS X". I seriously doubt i'm the only one who clicked through, only to discover
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by joh6nn 15y ago
there are more than a few wikis that use version control for their backends. i'm aware of at least 2 that use git; branching and forking in that case would simply be UI issues, and could be handled the same way that github does.
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by joh6nn 15y ago
looks like you just got your first dupe. you need some way to flag books for review, so that they can be merged, or deleted if they're spam.
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by joh6nn 15y ago
i think at this stage, i would just hand the site over to them completely, with a written agreement that any money that comes in from the site is to be used exclusively to maintain the site. to enforce that, you keep the hosting and the do
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by joh6nn 15y ago
as a screen user who has yet to experiment with tmux, can you elaborate on what it is about tmux that you prefer?
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by joh6nn 15y ago
my understanding is that tmux has a cleaner code base, is more easily configurable, and is actively maintained. by comparison, screen is said to have stagnated, and have a convoluted code base. for the moment, i continue to use screen, for
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by joh6nn 15y ago
yes. as per the post, you must download a patched version of tmux from the iterm site. they are trying to get the patch accepted upstream, but it hasn't been as of yet.
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by joh6nn 15y ago
"cleanest way i've seen" != "ideal" it isn't a horrible mangling of pipes and/or file descriptors, or some custom wrapper script that you have to run before every command, or any of the other frightening ways to do this that i've seen. it'
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by joh6nn 15y ago
thank you. this is probably the cleanest way to do this i've seen, and i've seen a LOT of ways to do this.
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by joh6nn 15y ago
in the US, a stocking stuffer is a christmas gift, often a small but fun one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_stocking
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by joh6nn 15y ago
i'm guessing that you actually have a bunch of other sites blocked in your hosts file, as well. on the assumption that you do, do you ever see any network performance issues related to this? i used to maintain a rather large hosts file fo
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by joh6nn 15y ago
i may be mistaken, but it's my understanding that TrueCrypt is not actually fully open source.
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by joh6nn 15y ago
the whole "notability" requirement on WP really bothers me; it's not like this is britannica, where there's a limited number of pages to cram all this info into. i'd much rather have a definitive resource, than one that only covered "notab
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i suggest perusing the ssh man, then, as it seems likely that it has other capabilities you don't know about.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
try #sourceforge on freenode; live support from 8-5 on weekdays
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by joh6nn 16y ago
so far in this thread, there isn't a single post belittling the OP; almost everyone has immediately stated "you're not stupid". i think that's probably the most encouraging thing i've seen all week.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i don't think so. CompSci 101 is gonna be stuff like fizz-buzz. you're gonna learn the absolute basics: loops, conditionals, maybe even functions, depending on how the course is structured. but depth-vs.-breadth? calculating big O, or e
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i think you and i must have taken very different CS 101 courses. CS 101 where i came from was "learn you some control flow, for great mediocrity".
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by joh6nn 16y ago
following occam's razor, my guess would be that absent any other data to weight them by, chronology wins out.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
even with some prior exposure, that's a steep learning curve. putting the whole thing together by yourself in just 6 weeks is still pretty impressive. major kudos. also, the site looks great. good luck with it!
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by joh6nn 16y ago
how much programming experience did you have before you started?
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by joh6nn 16y ago
a fair point, but he also has it somewhat negatively in Childhood's End. edit: having just looked it up, i'm actually not sure i've read the City and the Stars: i may be remembering a different story entirely. regardless, Childhood's End w
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by joh6nn 16y ago
it does, but i probably should have provided more detail. as a genre, sci-fi loves to explore immortality. i have a crappy memory for titles, so i can't give you specific books or stories to look for, but most of the big names have taken a
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by joh6nn 16y ago
dying is a problem? you need to read more sci-fi.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
longer thread on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2221846
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by joh6nn 16y ago
sure it could: if even a handful of major sites decided to simply block IE, it'd be dead in the water. that's EXTREMELY unlikely to happen, but it's certainly possible.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
that's a fun metric, but is it useful? i ask in seriousness. granted i'm no economist, but i'm not sure it's actually telling us much. Google and Apple, unless i'm mistaken, have way more product diversity in much larger markets; that Val
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by joh6nn 16y ago
heh. fair enough. i suppose i could go through the trouble of pulling out the various facebook threads in question, and redacting the names etc., so that i can back my argument up, but frankly, i'm not interested in doing that, and i doub
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by joh6nn 16y ago
yeah, i hear that one all the time. based on some arguments i've gotten into with liberals recently (i'm a centrist), i can state somewhat definitively that it's not true.

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