lordgilman

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by lordgilman 8y ago
Where does this system of distributed objects improve from what CORBA did?
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From Homeless, Single Mom to Software Engineer: The Story of Brittney Ball(skookum.com)
2 points by lordgilman 8y ago|0 comments
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Eight day Cisco chat service outage caused by automated deletion of cloud VMs(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by lordgilman 8y ago|0 comments
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Tell HN: Cisco's hosted chat service, WebEx Teams, is in a 15 hour long outage(status.ciscospark.com)
5 points by lordgilman 8y ago|0 comments
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by lordgilman 8y ago
The license file is new and the other distributions probably aren't as scrupulous as Debian is about licensing. The license itself seems pretty clear: 3. "You will not, and will not allow any third party to" (iii) "use o
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by lordgilman 11y ago
http://simplikation.com/why-sealioning-is-bad/
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by lordgilman 11y ago
What a small world! I work in the cable billing side of the business in Omaha, NE. Only been here for around a year but CSG has been great to me so far and I would definitely recommend it to HNers. If any of you have questions feel free
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by lordgilman 12y ago
The N64 development manual and SDK leaked a few years ago. Here's the documentation for the curious: http://level42.ca/projects/ultra64/Documentation/man/
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by lordgilman 12y ago
One thing that nobody's mentioned in the Ethereum camp is how useful good tooling is. If you think back to the past year of Bitcoin history there are a lot of high-profile sites that could have and should have made use of more sophist
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by lordgilman 12y ago
Yes, you have to pay taxes when repatriating that cash.
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by lordgilman 12y ago
Google searches qualified with site:news.ycombinator.com often turn up the permalink pages for individual comments rather than the original post itself. Could you set rel="canonical" on comment permalink pages to point back to th
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by lordgilman 13y ago
I guess I phrased it wrong, I was referring to the bug fix that stopped systemd from all of the spam and not internal rate limiting.
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by lordgilman 13y ago
The kernel has a debug option that can be specified at boot time to increase its logging verbosity. systemd looks at the kernel command line to do the same and starts writing its own verbose logging out to the kernel's message buffer.
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by lordgilman 13y ago
Property tax is subtle, but here's what it looks like in a nutshell: The article talks about treating it as property vs currency. If the IRS chose currency, all realized[1] gains/losses on BTC get treated as ordinary income (lump
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by lordgilman 13y ago
I'd appreciate an invite.
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by lordgilman 13y ago
There was a dedicated fanbase for using Apple's System 6 day-to-day as recently as a decade ago or so. There's still a bunch of information up on the web and many of the links to 3rd parties at the bottom still work. http:&#x2F
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by lordgilman 13y ago
I don't speak for Sumeet but I've met him several times (I live in Omaha) and he's definitely a person who loves this town. Glad to see he's starting such a cool thing here! I'm also pretty sure this is the first s
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by lordgilman 13y ago
They have at least one special chip that must be emulated - the smc. If you havent read the story of the copy protection poem you should check it out.
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Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements (1974)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by lordgilman 13y ago|0 comments
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Introduction to visualizing networks(jessefagan.com)
8 points by lordgilman 13y ago|0 comments
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by lordgilman 13y ago
Regressions can be accidental. Did you see how the parent stressed testing on your specific hardware with your specific code?
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by lordgilman 13y ago
This has come up in the past on HN. As I understand it the newspaper story is bull. As for advancements in technology the answer is likely no - producing that technology requires an entire toolchain/industry that the NSA is unlikely
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by lordgilman 13y ago
And his packages help users even more if he can get his changes into Debian or (even better) upstream. Forking is sometimes unavoidable but it's never ideal. I think the maintainer is just trying to maintain his fiefdom otherwise you
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by lordgilman 13y ago
At the same time, Stefan (the DPL) asked nicely [1] twice, a year ago, for the owner to transfer the domain to Debian. He even had the foresight to point out the renewal race condition which Debian lost recently resulting in the press rele
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by lordgilman 13y ago
> The majority of MtGox customers trading USD are non-americans So why does their volume drop off after the 17th? That's the reason why I brought that up - only Americans are effected by the Dwolla closure.
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by lordgilman 13y ago
> the US market, wich is a tiny fraction of the worldwide Bitcoin market How do you come to this conclusion? Take a look at the volume on bitcoincharts. mtgoxUSD is beating the pants off everything in terms of volume. It also loses t
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by lordgilman 13y ago
I think this is the story that the parent was referencing. Here's the story from 2005 and a kernel module loadable at runtime that gets around the problem. https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/mac_os_x_and_the http://landonf.bikemonkey.or
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by lordgilman 13y ago
The UTXO acronym stands for unspent transaction output. Think of it as the total number of Bitcoin bank accounts. Pruning past transactions doesn't shrink this size at all. These UTXOs have to stick around and can never[1] be pruned as t
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by lordgilman 13y ago
As I understand it a large amount of sewer overflow in the US comes from old combined sewers. Replacing them is already in action but it's a slow and expensive process as many of the sewers built before the 60s/70s were combined. My point
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by lordgilman 14y ago
They've changed the name, it is officially MtGox with no official acronym.

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