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by junkbit 16y ago
That is a string bet and would get you thrown out of any real card game. Despite the fact they do it in every movie.
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by junkbit 16y ago
Oracle owns the trademark to JavaScript now too. We are going to have to call it ECMAScript to be safe.
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The kernel and the C library as a single project(lwn.net)
3 points by junkbit 16y ago|0 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
Mirror http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.vic...
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by junkbit 16y ago
If you run "Shell In A Box" on the server you can browse to a full bash prompt in a browser tab. It even has Tab-completion and works with ncurses apps too. You just run a tiny daemon and then connect to it such as https://192.168.1.1:420
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by junkbit 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography
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by junkbit 16y ago
August 1991: WWW goes live; Linux Kernel announced; USSR collapsed; SNES English release; Terminator 2 was in the cinemas and Smells Like Teen Spirit had its radio début. What a month
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by junkbit 16y ago
Hmm read/write web browser/editor? So Web 0.1 was Web 2.0
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by junkbit 16y ago
"This is equivalent to following Robert Scoble 17 times" haha
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by junkbit 16y ago
TODAY IS EVERYBODY TALK LIKE FORTRAN DAY
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by junkbit 16y ago
"Release gccgo in gcc is going to introduce a difficulty for Go programmers who use it. The Go language continues to evolve, but gcc 4.6 will not. That means that people using gcc 4.6 will be using a language which will be increasingly out
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by junkbit 16y ago
http://vimeo.com/17180651 Nice to see them running Ubuntu
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by junkbit 16y ago
'cd -' go back to previous directory. Genius! How did I not know this?
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by junkbit 16y ago
You can also control virtualbox from the command line such as: VBoxManage startvm "Your Machine Name" http://andunix.net/info/virtualbox/cli
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by junkbit 16y ago
To be fair, V8 kicked of an arms race that has benefited the whole industry.
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PCI-Express 3.0 standard announced (32 GB/s)(fudzilla.com)
2 points by junkbit 16y ago|0 comments
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by junkbit 16y ago
Facebook also censors your private messages if you link to a torrent, even a linux iso. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/facebook-link-blockin...
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by junkbit 16y ago
It wasn't a mistake. A google engineer pointed it out on the chrome bug tracker saying you get this feature for free now with webkit
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by junkbit 16y ago
Great video. I don't pretend to understand functional languages but the ideas about memory layout and DSLs for r/w of Ethernet frames seemed really elegant.
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by junkbit 16y ago
He would have made a better argument by using ARM as an example of developing British IP and licensing it to others to manufacture.
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by junkbit 16y ago
Nvidia is really pushing CUDA and OpenCL these days. If you follow the developer conferences the graphics feels like less of a priority to them.
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by junkbit 16y ago
This is great news. I've been following Wayland on Phoronix and I was hoping Google was going to do this when they announced Chrome OS
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by junkbit 16y ago
EDIT: Sorry if I sounded whiny, but you had to click on the link so a smiley face would have spoiled the joke
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by junkbit 16y ago
Here's a link from The Times front page with their own take on the numbers http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/media/arti...
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by junkbit 16y ago
Yes I am interested in the work around using the cadence and rhythm of typing a password as an additional ID. Apparently it is quite distinctive, given a long enough sample.
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by junkbit 16y ago
British never discus sources or capabilities.
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by junkbit 16y ago
I just installed Unity in Maverick and it now comes preloaded with a workspace button that zooms out like Gnome-Shell to show you 4 desktops. Also, gnome-terminal was one of the default apps on the bar
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by junkbit 16y ago
Yes the Seagate 3TB that was also just released has a lot of heat problems. If you are looking for 3TB go for the WD
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by junkbit 16y ago
The last time I had an architecture issue was with a SNES emulator that had pieces hard coded in 32bit Asm. Pretty rare these days. Maybe things like VirtualBox too.
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by junkbit 16y ago
Yes, they don't disable 1 core out of spite, it is because of the difficulty/cost of a high yield The situation is even worse for graphics cards

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