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by machrider 14y ago
It's a criticism of the article for speaking over-generally based on a narrow experience, not of the author's lifestyle.
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by machrider 14y ago
This has been a long thread, but I've only seen S3 mentioned as an alternative. Is there anything else that makes sense for hosting open source packages? I was considering Dropbox, but I think Dropbox download links look sort of suspiciou
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by machrider 14y ago
Damn, it wants to install a thousand i386 packages on my system. Too much to ask for an x86-64 build? :D
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by machrider 14y ago
It doesn't actually do much good to "crush" this company, right? They started this company around one set of patents. They can start other companies for other patents. The act of incorporating shields them from losing much in the case of h
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Pearson takes down 1.5 million teacher/student blogs with a single DMCA notice(techdirt.com)
192 points by machrider 14y ago|91 comments
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by machrider 14y ago
<sarcasm>Thanks Ubuntu for sending this update so quickly!</sarcasm> I never really thought of Ubuntu as a bleeding-edge distribution, but it seems more and more like one lately. It used to be the distro that "just works".
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by machrider 14y ago
Yeah, I can't stand infinite scroll pages. It becomes impossible to pass a link to someone to a specific section of entries. It generally breaks the back button -- when I click a link and then go back to an infinite scroll page, it has dro
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by machrider 14y ago
I was surprised to see the article mention that they'll be going for flight testing later this year, given that the only picture accompanying the article is a rendering. However, if you go to their site, they have photos and videos[1] of w
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by machrider 14y ago
I still can't write a blurb about myself. I'd really like to see that, since (for a lot of people) Github is starting to be the geek resume.
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by machrider 14y ago
When you switch from US to Global, the lifespans all stay roughly the same, or go up a bit. Yet the deaths per 100,000 in practically all categories go way up. How does this make sense?
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by machrider 14y ago
What do you want to make?
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by machrider 14y ago
Speaking of crappy user interfaces, his blog breaks the Alt+Left keystroke to go back. It takes me to previous blog entries, rather than back to HN. Grrr.
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by machrider 14y ago
T-Mobile also capitalized my password on me, once. It was fine for a couple years and then one day it stopped working. I got the site to text it to me (why do they even have it in plain text?) and all the letters had been capitalized some
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by machrider 14y ago
Apple does this, too. Not just on password change forms, but on login forms. Drives me nuts, as I use a password manager and my passwords are 24 characters of garbage. Edit: Apparently I can't reply to the next comment, but keepassx also h
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by machrider 14y ago
Not sure about criminal charges, but at the very least, it seems like a negligent act resulting in real damages to many people. I don't think a class-action lawsuit is out of the question.
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by machrider 14y ago
Realistically, a few static PNGs would exceed 100KB in a lot of cases. Any image-heavy page is going to have a few hundred KB of data. I wouldn't hold it against them.
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by machrider 14y ago
Regardless of which step in the pipeline is the problem, Google needs to figure this out. It shouldn't be the case that Nexus phones are special either, in that they stay up to date (normally) while everyone else languishes. I don't know
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by machrider 14y ago
> Simply put, when your computer turns on, the wireless radio sends out probe requests. These requests say "Is such-and-such wireless network around?" Wait, really? This is news to me. Is this to handle the case where the router isn't
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Every issue of New Scientist from 1956 to 1989(books.google.com)
72 points by machrider 14y ago|7 comments
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by machrider 14y ago
Both approaches have value. I value Facebook's closed nature, as it gives me a place to communicate with close friends and family. I live across the country from most of my family, but I see their photos and keep up with them all the time
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by machrider 14y ago
Actually I'm on a nVidia Quadro card with the Nouveau driver.
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by machrider 14y ago
Hah, this is the one thing I remember from that trailer (aside from Scarlett Johansson) - the Hulk's ridiculous jump. Great beanplating in this article.
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by machrider 14y ago
Not seeing anything (totally white browser) in both Firefox 12 and Chromium 18 on Ubuntu.
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by machrider 15y ago
Dropbox is running on top of S3. If you look at the S3 pricing per GB for storage and bandwidth, it's not exactly cheap. Back of the envelope, I'm guessing a 50GB account costs Dropbox something like $3-$4 per month. Their $9.99 plan can
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by machrider 15y ago
Yes, but the specific problem with Google is they have practically zero customer support. There is no one you can call to get help, and they apparently feel no obligation to respond to problems in a timely fashion.
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by machrider 15y ago
...and Ask MetaFilter quietly carries on being fantastic.
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by machrider 15y ago
Is it possible to be a "white hat" hacker if you weren't actually contracted by the target for penetration testing?
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by machrider 15y ago
In other words, terrible headline on this post. I imagine Arch and Gentoo are the most likely to be affected, as they tend to run bleeding edge projects. Most Linux users are unaffected.
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by machrider 15y ago
Fascinating approach. I would be interested to see benchmarks on the n-Queens solution in translated C vs hand-written C.
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by machrider 15y ago
You may want to link to http (rather than https), since this site has a bad certificate. Big scary warnings on Firefox here.

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