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by magpi3 9y ago
Thank you.
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by magpi3 9y ago
> What even is the market? A democracy where people vote with their money. Since their is significant risk involved, said people are assumed to do at least some due diligence/research before placing their "votes." And for
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by magpi3 9y ago
I think the point is that he is not famous outside of english speaking countries
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by magpi3 9y ago
I used DSSSL straight out of college. It wasn't the parens. Scheme just takes time to wrap your mind around and it seems so opaque when you are coming from the world of C and Java as I was. I was incredibly intimidated by it, and so we
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by magpi3 9y ago
For those like myself who have never heard of the term: https://reproducible-builds.org
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by magpi3 9y ago
There is a similar exercise in "Linux Device Drivers." The first driver they ask you to write is a char device that runs in memory called "scull." Here is a link to the free book (warning it's a pdf): http:/&#
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by magpi3 9y ago
> It's easy to identify, it's easy to break up into smaller units or consolidate into larger ones, easy to form into coins. It has a global distribution,it's relatively inert so you don't need to worry about degradati
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by magpi3 9y ago
I am aware of that of course, but gold jewelry itself generally has very little intrinsic value (it's only valuable because people agree it is, just like bitcoin), and most elements (such as silicon) in electric components are much che
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by magpi3 9y ago
Honest question: why does gold have intrinsic value? My understanding is that it's scarcity is the prime driver of its value, at least in monetary terms, and bitcoin shares that quality. Of course gold does have physical qualities that
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by magpi3 9y ago
Interesting paper, but as a former basketball but, I disagree with the premise that free throws have anything to do with a "hot hand." To me a hot hand is only something that can exist in the flow of the game. It is not about maki
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by magpi3 9y ago
> I now think they did amazing work in the 1980s and 1990s which got later overshadowed by the ugly "browser wars" and antitrust lawsuit. When Windows 95 first came out, it crashed daily on my computer and friends of mine had t
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by magpi3 9y ago
I follow the debian devel list and yes they are moving away from alioth
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by magpi3 9y ago
Click on his username to read his profile which includes a link to his website http://techspot.zzzeek.org
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by magpi3 9y ago
The attempt was not that subtle. IMO the author spends a considerable amount of time openly mocking Laufer, with the clear implication being that if you cannot take the man seriously how can you do the same for his ideas.
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by magpi3 9y ago
By law in the U.S. electric bikes cannot provide assistance over 20mph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_bicycle_laws#Federal_...
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by magpi3 9y ago
> What on earth does this have to do with clojure? Programmers will do this in any language, there's nothing special about clojure here. I haven't programmed in Java in over ten years, but one if its "advantages" (at
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by magpi3 10y ago
Nintendo likes to keep it's IP on it's own hardware, but Square Enix (for one) has released several of it's most famous RPGs on Android (most of the Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, etc.). Updates do have to be made to suppor
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by magpi3 10y ago
They have no bylines and cite no sources. It's the combination of the two that bothers me. Still I generally find it an entertaining read.
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by magpi3 10y ago
It was a combination of both. I still remember my dad coming home from a talk that he considered the "best yet" on the Y2K issue. The speaker warned that traffic lights would stop working. Maybe someone more techno-literate than m
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by magpi3 10y ago
I grew up in a suburb where everyone was expected to have their lawns properly manicured and treated to prevent dandelions and other weeds. For about two years recently I lived in an intentional community, and discovered two things. First,
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by magpi3 10y ago
Hacking, 2nd Edition is a great introduction. https://www.nostarch.com/hacking2.htm
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by magpi3 10y ago
You could use Google Alerts, which will send you an email every time the author name appears in a news item.
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by magpi3 10y ago
Interesting link but definitely needs a [1999] qualifier in the title.
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by magpi3 10y ago
She is not being charged with trespassing. The charge is "riot," although I don't know what that means exactly.
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by magpi3 11y ago
I think the large header takes up valuable screen space. The thin headers on Hacker News and Reddit are the right way to go IMO.
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by magpi3 11y ago
ReactOS uses some of WINE's code: http://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE
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by magpi3 11y ago
I wonder if programming should be taught the same way. Not with writing programs. But reading real ones that you use every day. You'd have to be careful about what programs you start a beginner with, but I think their might be value to
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by magpi3 11y ago
Nanotechnology
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by magpi3 12y ago
The "Brick 2.0" version number says otherwise. I agree with the parent post. Version numbers say a lot about waht a user can expect. They should change this to 0.2.
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by magpi3 12y ago
Can the bug be avoided just by setting the default shell for your webserver's user (generally www-data in debian) to /bin/dash? At least from the perspective of Apache users?

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