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by koralatov 14y ago
Raspberry pi is helping people build cheap netflix settop boxes. ... edit: maybe I'm jaded. We've got about 4 totally idle raspis at our hackerspace that have been donated by people who have no idea what to do with them, but bought them an
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by koralatov 14y ago
I'd disagree that the order of those is irrelevant. Far and away the two most important ones are `Price' and `Community Size'. If it cost three times as much, the RPi wouldn't have been such a hit; if the community of users was tiny, it w
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by koralatov 14y ago
His blog has taught me more about using vim than any other single resource, and I recommend it unreservedly to anyone thinking of starting out with vim.
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by koralatov 14y ago
Thanks for the answer.
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by koralatov 14y ago
I don't know a lick of Python, so I can't check properly, but does the CLI client[1] work entirely offline, or does it also send the password to the server for processing? I think I already know the answer (it does), but maybe someone can c
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by koralatov 14y ago
That's something I didn't like about it either -- my tin-foil hat clamped on a little tighter when I realised that your entry is fed into the server, mangled, then your new password pops out. That seems like a possible insecurity.
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by koralatov 14y ago
It is pretty astounding that they're so open about the reasoning behind it. This boxset reminds me of ashcan copies[1], which I read about a while ago. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcan_copy
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by koralatov 14y ago
I'd agree with that. It's a classic negotiating tactic, like when you ask for a pay-rise: you want 10%, so you ask for 20%; they baulk at your `insane' demand, then you `settle' for a more reasonable 10%.
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by koralatov 14y ago
Definitely not; I'm now panicking about the same. The advice is greatly appreciated by those paranoid about losing out eyesight.
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by koralatov 14y ago
I'm planning to learn Perl for a combination of its ubiquity, the cheap O'Reillys I came across recently, and contrarianism. Kamaal's answer also covers it really well.
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by koralatov 14y ago
1. sed and awk; 2. To use vim competently; 3. To touch-type; 4. Perl; 5. Polish; 6. To stay offline on Xmas day.
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by koralatov 14y ago
Not that I'm defending grumblers, but I think a lot of the upset and anger comes from the fact that the opportunities aren't as readily available as they once were. The developed world is a much more regimented place than it once was, with
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by koralatov 14y ago
Based on talking with Norwegians, who are quite numerous in my part of the UK, the relative health of their social welfare schemes compared with the UK's mostly due to a much, much higher level of taxation, and a huge cultural difference
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by koralatov 14y ago
As an enthusiastic-but-incompetent vim user, I concur. Reading through that laughably brief introduction is going to scare off a lot of people, and makes the whole exercise much harder than it needs to be.
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by koralatov 14y ago
Beat me to it; I was going to suggest exactly that. Keeping everything in one place, accessible via the shell, would be perfect, and this looks less awkward than maintaining a separate aliases file.