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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Oh great, now we have the Hacker News startup brigade stirring up trouble amidst all the Wikipedia politics that is already taking place.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="init=/usr/bin/tail" Maximum savings!
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OS/2: Heir to the DOS Throne(youtube.com)
9 points by le_lenny_face 12y ago|0 comments
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Supposedly this? https://github.com/jgeboski/bitlbee-facebook I think this one already uses the Graph API directly.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Because this is Hacker News. Because doing ${things that exists} in ${current trendy programming language} is somehow gauged as a Good Thing™ in your portfolio by the startup mindset. Because posting this Good Thing™ on Hacker News is basic
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Saying that using NoScript means disabling Javascript wholesale is like saying using SELinux or AppArmor means disabling filesystem access wholesale. It's a disingenuous and silly argument.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Welcome to Hacker News in 2015, where the community mindset has changed from the old school Slashdot's reverence for software freedom and ideology to modern Reddit's mantra of "Who cares? It works! Get real!"
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Jesus Christ. Why do we even allow this sort of pseudo-scientific "race realist" (read: racist) rubbish on Hacker News? Japan is one of the most racist first-world countries in the world. Have you even seen their incessant xenop
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Help Fedora Find a Diversity Advisor(fedoramagazine.org)
2 points by le_lenny_face 12y ago|0 comments
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>change the meaning of the poem What? Those lines are the poem!
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Congrats to the PDF.js team for the adoption. I'm curious as to how the pdf2htmlEX project [0] compares to PDF.js. Instead of client-side conversion this is a server-side one-time conversion from PDF to HTML5. [0] https://g
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
I hate the "invention" of Gifv with every ounce of my soul. If it's a Webm or a MP4 file then say so. There are HTML5 tags for them and their looping. The least the Internet needs is a redundant file extension for what has
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Anything to discourage a GitHub monoculture is a good thing, IMO.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>a wide variety of nutters and pseudoscientists that have wrecked their brand For those who aren't aware of this plague of bad quality TEDx talks, Sam Hyde's "2070 Paradigm Shift"[0] is a very entertaining, self-consc
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>Swift is still very new, crashes in the language and in the IDE will not surprise anyone who calls himself a software engineer. And yet Rust is reliable as fuck even in its current shape. Swift has no excuse to be so unpredictable, espe
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>this is the stupidest thing I've ever seen Lol obligatory XKCD! http://xkcd.com/1497/
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Spotted the GitHub fanboy. GitLab is objectively better. They even list their reasons on the page. If you disagree you could, you know, refute those points instead of dismissing the whole thing in a petty manner.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
>Why is this getting down voted? This isn't Reddit. Stop caring about Muh Internet Pointz.
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by le_lenny_face 12y ago
Wow, so are we going to force him to resign as well?