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by maw 15y ago
Yeah, it'd have been better had he written "The answer is no; people who say yes are right."
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by maw 15y ago
It is, but where does the idea that Forbes is respectable come from? It's not; maybe it was once, but it hasn't been so for years.
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by maw 15y ago
What bitops and noahc said. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dys-&allowed_in... and http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dis-&allowed_in... .
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OS.js (JavaScript Operating System)(anderse.wordpress.com)
193 points by maw 15y ago|33 comments
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by maw 15y ago
I searched for "layout" and found nothing. These are not docs I always wish I had.
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by maw 15y ago
Some empathy for those of us who don't like reading grey text over a black background wouldn't go astray.
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by maw 15y ago
I think GP meant that they hide that info even in their headers, such that you can't just see what's in Server:.
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Birth of Virgin Atlantic(ravithesun.wordpress.com)
3 points by maw 15y ago|0 comments
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by maw 15y ago
Heh, I noticed that too. My guess: a non-native English speaker trying to say "All of what you love about github".
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by maw 15y ago
I don't remember what LSB says, but in my experience it's neither uncommon nor unreasonable for packages not provided by your OS vendor to install into into /opt.
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by maw 15y ago
Was the iPad a Kindle killer? It doesn't seem to have been, but no few people were predicting that it would be. When in doubt, I take what people who are paid to write about the tech industry say and assume the opposite.
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by maw 15y ago
No, we didn't, but I got some funny looks when I said one time, in Nuremberg, that Red Hat 7.3 was the Best Distro Ever. :)
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by maw 15y ago
Now for the unintended consequences: I became a bore at cocktail parties. I dunno, I think it'd be more interesting to talk with you than to talk with people about what they drank at the last party they went to--especially since "what" us
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by maw 15y ago
No, but the plural of datum is. Datum: Buffett has done rather well for himself. Doesn't show much by itself, but then neither does trotting out an old saw.
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by maw 15y ago
The choice of C-a as the Magic Screen Key Combo is unfortunate. I start my screen sessions thus: screen -e'^\\\'. This makes C-\ the Magic Screen Key Combo. C-\ has other meanings in some contexts, but in practice I've never used it. On
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by maw 15y ago
It's adequate to work remotely, at least if you don't need to upload large amounts of data often. As to cost of living in general, that's the kind of question that sounds very simple but turns out to have a rather complex answer. Get in to
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by maw 15y ago
I live in a relatively wealthy part of Mexico City. I don't know my neighbors, and, for the most part, I don't think that they know each other either. Nobody here has air conditioning or proper heating. The climate is very benign, rarely
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by maw 15y ago
See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , first section. It may not have been news to you, but some of it was news to me. And definitely interesting.
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by maw 15y ago
If your interpretation is correct, how about "When trying to use compression with old versions of openssl, return/throw an error"? Or, if no error happens, maybe "Make trying to use compression with old versions of openssl a no-op" would d
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by maw 15y ago
#1087 Disabling SSL compression disabled with early OpenSSLs. Why didn't they use no triple negatives neither?
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by maw 15y ago
For more on rms and POSIX, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#512-_vs_1024-byte_blocks . Edit: better link: http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_intervi... , last question.
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by maw 15y ago
For the modern adult, nothing signifies self-confidence, street credibility and authenticity like one simple confession: “I was such a nerd in high school.” Really? Credibility, of the street variety or otherwise, and authenticity? I th
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by maw 15y ago
Good question. No solid answers here, but my guess would be some combination of more redundancy, better and more active lawyers, and the large players not talking about it when it does go down.
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America's fittest cities(theatlantic.com)
1 points by maw 15y ago|0 comments
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by maw 15y ago
I think I'd go with ad negotium . Otherwise, I agree.
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by maw 15y ago
I like quotation dashes for dialogue. The French style can be somewhat ambiguous (although it rarely results in a problem). The style commonly used in some other languages is both elegant and easy to read. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by maw 15y ago
Never use the passive voice I have never heard this from anyone except Microsoft Word Grammar Check. An English teacher told my class that it's often used to lie. I think she was right. Maybe it'd be better to say that it is often used
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by maw 15y ago
In this case the boundaries aren't artificial, they're historic. They can be both, actually. The world will move to laws which are unified (or at least close enough) and allow day and date releases and true international markets but it's
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by maw 15y ago
Not sure I agree. The two mala can overlap; in the realm of unauthorized copying, I think that they sometimes, but not always, do. It's complicated. What's clear, though, and where I'm pretty sure we'd agree, is that rhetoric conflating u
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by maw 15y ago
If you count working days, maybe he does! Take http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=weekdays+in+three+month... , assume two official holidays for every three months, and Bob's your uncle.

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