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The Successful Failure of OpenID(tychoish.com)
3 points by keyist 17y ago|1 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Don't miss sivers's great list: http://sivers.org/book As for mine, Science Fiction (I like these authors so I'd recommend most of their books -- listing which ones I think are a good 'starter novel' for them): Charles Stross: Halting
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by keyist 17y ago
You do realize that if Apple has its way, developers must not only pay an entrance fee to release software for a system, but also run the risk of being disapproved? If X% of the market is iPhone/iPad, that is X% of the market where big bro
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by keyist 17y ago
For those of you who would like similar functionality sans learning of your MFU directories, you can do something like export CDPATH=($HOME/common:$HOME/repos) You'd have to manually symlink your favorite directories into ~/common, of cours
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Writing JS bindings to C/C++ libraries using V8(nikhilm.bitbucket.org)
2 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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google.cn now redirects to google.com.hk(google.cn)
81 points by keyist 17y ago|28 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
There's an essay on lesswrong that also addresses the implications of Mazar and Zhong's experiments: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1d9/doing_your_good_deed_for_the_day... "This meshes nicely with a self-signalling conception of morality. If par
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by keyist 17y ago
An interesting corollary is that jazz musicians tend to not have as striking an image when it comes to their marketing. Compare what you first visualize when you hear the names KISS or Flava Flav versus say Brad Mehldau or Keith Jarrett. E
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by keyist 17y ago
The Vagrant code is modular enough that puppet support should be fairly straightforward to add. For a quick hack, you'd primarily change this file http://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/master/lib/vagrant/... to perform the necessary co
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by keyist 17y ago
"Could you perhaps turn convert a Vagrant project into an EC2 instance for deployment?" That's where Chef comes in. Vagrant uses Chef ( http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home ) for provisioning VMs. It's basically software configuratio
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Amazon pays Microsoft for patent cross-license agreement(microsoft.com)
4 points by keyist 17y ago|2 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
I haven't experienced getting added back to a blacklist off a significant webmail host after being taken off one. Once your IP is in the clear, it'd take some abuse to be put back (anecdotal). These 3 steps usually get me unblocked if sta
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by keyist 17y ago
"a real serious business would have created an infrastructure that will provide paying customers a better redundancy for their accounts" He should apply the same argument he makes against Github to his own business. Putting together a Gito
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by keyist 17y ago
There is a direct analogy to creative writing. The publishing equivalent of Apple would have stifled e.e. cummings for his abuse of punctuation. You wouldn't have Jabberwocky because it contained imaginary words. You wouldn't have Joyce b
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by keyist 17y ago
Here's how you can get involved: http://en.flossmanuals.net/write I was part of the Intro to Command Line sprint and it was a fun experience. Any contribution is welcome; iirc mine was only 1.5 chapters. You just 'reserve' the chapter y
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Collaborative Futures: how FLOSS Manuals produced a book in 5 days(en.flossmanuals.net)
9 points by keyist 17y ago|1 comments
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Defective by Design protest: 'Entering Apple restriction zone'(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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Power Programming - Decision Trees in C++, Python, Perl, Arc(wordaligned.org)
10 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
There is precedent for what you describe: prog-rock band Marillion did this in 2001: http://marillion.com/band/bio2004.htm (4th paragraph). "[...] it was the revolutionary concept of asking their fans to pre-order and pay for the recordin
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Why Comments Snark(overcomingbias.com)
10 points by keyist 17y ago|5 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
First heard of the Loudness War in IEEE: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-future-of-mu... Didn't know it's turned into an entire meme by now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war . Lots more links here for those who w
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by keyist 17y ago
Strange article -- half polemic half unnecessary (anyone who spends 5 minutes reading up on BSD would have heard of ports). For a more detailed take on BSD vis-a-vis Linux: http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4lin... .
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by keyist 17y ago
Dude, you profess to admiring _why and all, but you're using a thread on his 'estate' to further a personal vendetta against Zed, jumping on the first link to Zed's post with cached vitriol. You said of _why: > For all that he had a vib
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by keyist 17y ago
TFA mentions shared history across sessions as a ZSH feature, but it is available in bash as well. For those who're staying with bash, stick this in your .bashrc: shopt -s histappend export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' The histappe
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Why whitelists (and blacklists) are long-term poison for online systems(utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by keyist 17y ago|0 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Vimperator fans will want to monitor the Muttator add-on page for updates: http://www.vimperator.org/muttator
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Thunderbird 3 released(getthunderbird.com)
75 points by keyist 17y ago|59 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
For those with privacy concerns, Iron is a fork of Chromium that targets privacy and security. Download link: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php Comparison with Chrome: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iro
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Recommended Cron Practices (SysAdvent Day 8)(sysadvent.blogspot.com)
29 points by keyist 17y ago|5 comments
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by keyist 17y ago
Actually I specify tar.gz. This is actually a subtle test -- the job requires *NIX fluency and those who had ever compiled a few packages would have noticed the convention. That's my train of thought anyway. As for resume format, it is an

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