limmeau

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by limmeau 16y ago
But this is no DRM-ful app store. The upgraded computer will run the same instruction set, just faster. The mechanism to disable the bigger cache until a code is entered inhibits nothing people would be doing with their Intel CPUs today. Pe
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by limmeau 16y ago
Perhaps we have different threat models regarding social networks. I'm concerned about one big company being able to analyze (within its own databases) the social network communication and friend-graph of a large part of the population. I'm
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by limmeau 16y ago
So you taught yourself 6502 assembly language while there were already internet cafes? When was that?
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by limmeau 16y ago
There is already the XP mode in Windows 7, which boots a virtualized XP for compatibility.
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by limmeau 16y ago
The key is necessary to build an HDMI sniffer, which involves special hardware. If all you have is a blu-ray drive and a blu-ray disk and a PC, it doesn't help you at all. Intel's usage of the word "affect" seems limited to "helps directly
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by limmeau 16y ago
I don't think social networks need the same architecture as file-sharing networks. I want the data I publish on my social network node to be available 24/7 to my network friends. Since neither I nor most of my friends have a server at home,
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by limmeau 16y ago
Have you also considered a mode in which the website first asks the user about his agreement with a series of political statements, and then offers the best-matching candidates? (In Germany, there's Wahl-o-Mat which operates like that)
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by limmeau 16y ago
If for every dollar you spend, you have to be aware of its history ("Oh, sorry, I can't buy cigarettes now, I only have two research-grant-dollars and three from my non-smoking mom, neither of which may be used for tobacco"), then the money
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by limmeau 16y ago
If you also introduce imaginary time (as in some models of the big bang), then you can find funny definitions for what it means to possess a certain amount of money for a certain amount of time shortly after the big bang. Perhaps something
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by limmeau 16y ago
Joking of which, complex currency would also be an interesting toy. The imaginary part could represent some orthogonal aspect of worth, e.g. consumption of scarce resources.
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by limmeau 16y ago
You'd still not know which of the incoming payments to an account is causally connected to which outgoing payment.
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by limmeau 16y ago
I have an Intel Classmate PC, 3rd generation with convertible touchscreen. It comes with a 16GB SSD (in my configuration) and runs Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 (the latter with some touchscreen driver trouble I didn't bother to fix, but others rep
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by limmeau 16y ago
Cases and prepositions both signify into which 'slot' of a verb this object goes. From that perspective, if prepositional objects correspond to keyword args, so do cases. On the other hand, a case is a form of the noun-phrase which can be c
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by limmeau 16y ago
What about newEmployee.join(department) ?
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by limmeau 16y ago
Just curious: How much memory does your system use in practice?
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by limmeau 16y ago
Do you mean direct/indirect objects as in French grammar: Le père donne la clé à la voisine ("The father gives the key to the neighbour"; father: subject, key: direct object, neighbour: indirect object)? Corresponding OO code: fat
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by limmeau 16y ago
Is anyone using that here, and if, what for?
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by limmeau 16y ago
Similar in Germany, at least in my experience. I mostly hear it being called Ess Kuh Ell.
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by limmeau 16y ago
I don't quite understand what this is for: I understand that I can look up that fartappreview.com is at say +3, which means that it is either rated good by at least two people (and perhaps unavailable to a third one), or bad by at least two
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by limmeau 16y ago
I used to have a Sandisk Sansa e270, which was supposed to have a LiquidMetal backplate. I wasn't impressed; to me, it appeared to be just another dull grey metal alloy. But then, I'm not a metallurgist.
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by limmeau 16y ago
I enjoy taking good podcasts along with me on my walks because then, streets get associated with topics. The corner next to the ugly second-hand store is now all about planning the European high-voltage power grid, and the flower shop at th
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by limmeau 16y ago
Probably less hesitation, yes.
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by limmeau 16y ago
A screencast is better than nothing, but for me, nothing beats being able to toy around with your user interface to get a first-hand impression of how fun it is to use, especially if the webapp is some wiki-todo-crossover. Perhaps you could
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by limmeau 16y ago
And the service is just a convenient abbreviation for having http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andymoe permanently open in a separate browser window.
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by limmeau 16y ago
Have you thought about adding a mode in which anonymous users can just start using the service (but their edits are lost when they forget the URL), like Etherpad used to have? When I read that I had to subscribe just to try it out (just to
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by limmeau 16y ago
Also, the JED editor has an extension language of that name. It was my editor of choice during the late 90s, and I also used Slang as a scripting language in my youthful attempts at adventure games. http://www.jedsoft.org/jed/
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by limmeau 16y ago
I gather from the FAQ that this software consists of a client and servers (both closed-source). The servers are operated by the Haystack people in safe countries. The client appears like an HTTP proxy to the user's web browser, but then it
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by limmeau 16y ago
In Freiburg, you can only take them along in trains, not buses or tramways, and it costs an unreduced adult ticket most of the time on most of the lines. You can't even buy your bike its own monthly pass. So while the city itself is bike-fr
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by limmeau 16y ago
What's the U-Bahn's policy on taking along bikes?
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by limmeau 16y ago
Speaking of the Netherlands, one of their contributions to cycling are the Rainmates overtrousers: http://www.rainmates.nl/?ln=en I've got a pair of those and they are really convenient: I can put them on quickly, even while wearing shoes

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