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by kephra 14y ago
3 video suggestions for geeks: HaXXXoR http://web.archive.org/web/20081010173653/http://www.haxxxor... Plug and Pray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_%26_Pray 8th Wonderland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1060234/
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by kephra 14y ago
lol DDoS by Hackers News is a common curse for small websites. But "Error establishing a database connection" for only 16 points on Hackers News is a shame for Adobe.
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by kephra 14y ago
some more points: maps - replace them with OpenStreetMap, that could even be used offline news - my http://w3dig.com/ aims on replacing this in the long run play - I dont have it installed on my phone, and only use apk's I compiled myself
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by kephra 14y ago
The comparison is shit, because it compares shit (LED) with shit (fluorescent). The website does not tell if Cree is using two band LEDs of a blue LED with yellow dotation, or a 3 band UV LEDs with R, G, and B dotations. Its likely only two
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by kephra 14y ago
"We want to be ninjas" lol A ninja coder is a coder with experience in liquidation of companies. I can claim, that I'm a ninja, because I liquidated 3 different companies in the last 20 years. Of course the main work of a ninja starts, af
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by kephra 14y ago
imho, this is just an other example of the resume cargo cult. Sending a resume, interview, get a job was a valid path 20 years ago. But there are no US aircrafts anymore who drop sweets, when you light a fire. The modern way to find a good
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by kephra 14y ago
lol Running Linux/390 or z/Linux under Hercules just slows the thing down, without offering any mainframe benefits. Not even educational benefits, as you can not license z/VM, VM/ESA, z/OS or OS/390 to Hercules to run a Linux in the same
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by kephra 14y ago
It looks as if your HN posting is an other bad case of HN censorship. 17 points in two hours, but it does not show up in News or ask. So someone with power banned it.
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by kephra 14y ago
I like the minimalistic requirements. - No JavaScript required! - No eMail required! - It even works in Lynx! Well done. Keep it this way, and I might actually use it. One wish on the list: Make it https ;-)
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by kephra 14y ago
We all construct our world. It does not matter if those constructs are called sane or insane by others. Our construct is the key to the real world outside of our minds. So the only thing that matters for those who are called insane, it to f
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by kephra 14y ago
Require people who want to buy a gun to have a gun license. You can own a gun in US without license, but drive a car without. The license should require a short theoretical, practical and legal test. License owners should be 21 (legal for d
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by kephra 14y ago
This reminds me again at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Look_Up The most frightening scifi I ever read because many of its predictions became true, starting with US voting for a cowboy actor as president.
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Futureict - a Matrix / World on Wire precursor(futurict.eu)
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by kephra 14y ago
I always call it the programmers curse: infinite ideas vs. limited time
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Al Jazeera buys US channel Current TV (aljazeera.com)
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"Building something interesting requires a surplus of time and money. Salaried jobs provide neither." The trap is not the salary job promotion, but the raise of middle class lifestyle. You wont leave middle class, as long as you raise your
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by kephra 14y ago
Even more important is to stop branding people as mental ill! Mental illness in our system is defined like we are all chicken. We are defined healthy if we lay an egg every day, have clean feathers and don't pull feathers of other chicken i
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by kephra 14y ago
http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/blog/ <- a German blog focused on rockets and space techologie
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I was even writing good old roff a few days ago. So this book is not even out of date.
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by kephra 14y ago
oops "boot into backup cycle" is my method of installing new systems. I create them in a chroot/lxc on a NFS server, and boot the real system or laptop by PXE, rsync it on the disk and make it bootable. The real system will also rsync its
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by kephra 14y ago
where have all the Linux netbooks gone? my requirements for a Laptop are: - it must be cheap, $300 is fine, because a Laptop can easily be stolen, or damaged. - it must be light, less than 2lbs, because I don't own a car, and still want to
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by kephra 14y ago
My mix is that I sell global, but buy local when possible, care for local friendships, talk to neighbors, and I am a member of several clubs. But thats perhaps a common Hanseatic culture.
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by kephra 14y ago
Unfortunately Budd started a new a little Smalltalk at least 5 times. None of them are for production use, but only to look, how a Smalltalk could be implemented.
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by kephra 14y ago
Looking at humans as domesticated apes: We are not fixed in being pair bounding or tournament species. But the current western culture is pair bounding. Its typical for pair bounding domesticated apes, that the poor and uneducated breed lik
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by kephra 14y ago
I wonder, if this is just an other version of a little Smalltalk. For those who want Smalltalk in JVM, look at: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/SmallWorld/ReadMe.html
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by kephra 14y ago
oh HN managed a DDoS again 608 points should be around 60.000 visitors. Thats something any site should be able to handle, but ... http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/ <- All VPS plans come with UNLIMITED Bandwidth and Storage. UNLIMIT
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by kephra 14y ago
Never mind the bollocks, who flamed you for the title. You did it right, your posting got 85 points, so far. Its on HN about for 10 hours. So around 8500 people did read your page. This will likely triple by the long tail of twitter and fa
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by kephra 14y ago
Great idea, but only two jobs so far. Lets hope they get more offers.
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Taliban accidentally reveal identities mailing list members(abcnews.go.com)
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by kephra 14y ago
Avoid they common Job-Posted-on-Web, 1000 applicants, sort out by bingo words mistake, and instead search your developers where they are: On IRC, GitHub, CPAN, ... Offer home office, remote work. Restricting yourself to your home town, or t

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