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by mbubb 14y ago
I was going to reply with something like 'The NYTimes is a waste of time (2013)' - but that is a really good short piece.
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by mbubb 14y ago
yeah - just like that Knuth guy - total waste...
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by mbubb 14y ago
There is independent information to support that NK is this bad and worse. No question about that.
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by mbubb 14y ago
Obviously I don't mean both Koreas - North Korea is significantly worse than Haiti. And yes more than one commenter referred to Koreans as being warlike (speeder, etc). And the piece is cited in the Unification Church alumni website - not t
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by mbubb 14y ago
hacker news - this really bums me out. Last week HN was rightly all over Atlantic for shilling for Scientology. This article is written by the unification church - right up in the same bat shit crazy neighborhood as LR Hubbard and his pals.
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by mbubb 14y ago
Wow - did not know it had come to this. OT but I felt like Frontline 'softballed' the piece on Michelle Rhee the other day. Not that I disagreed with the piece just left feeling that I did not get a critique - which is what I am used to fro
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by mbubb 14y ago
Zencast podcast. Find lectures bu Gils Fronsdahl. He is a Buddhist practitioner and I have found him to be an excellent resource.
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by mbubb 14y ago
'Devian' Linux? Never heard of it. Sci Linux: "As the name suggest, the distribution is geared towards scientists doing scientific stuff (I wouldn’t know)." No it is no more (or less) scientific than CentOS. Dreadful article.
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by mbubb 14y ago
Yes - exactly. It does not have 'special science sauce' added.
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by mbubb 14y ago
Me too - I have had to explain a few off-color words from their viewing of fan videos on youtube. "Dad is 'fucking retarded' a bad thing to say...?"
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by mbubb 14y ago
I thought you were coining a neologism in the title. "cloudy + flesheating?!?!?" Clicked just for that and was disappointed.
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by mbubb 14y ago
Asians are just as impatient - I am not sure what your frame of reference is. I am no expert but lived and worked in Asia for 3 yrs. When things are properly organized here lines work fine. This is an interesting subject for me. I am mildly
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by mbubb 14y ago
Made me think of something that I havent in years. Kant's 'purposeful purposelessness' - a definition of the aesthetic purpose. Buying 20 sets of cutlery is most definately hyperbole (or no tit doesnt matter) - I think mapgrep is mistaken t
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by mbubb 14y ago
Reminds me of a children's joke - which i didn't even think was funny at the time - but enjoyed anyway: "Dr, Dr! Every time I drink a cup of coffee, I get a stabbing pain in my right eye..." (google it if you don't remember) Exhibits, the s
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by mbubb 14y ago
I can imagine it as I am building out a 30 node hdfs cluster with 10g BNT switches. How do you design 40 nodes to a rack? Just curious...
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by mbubb 14y ago
One small example but dreadful to see this. Idly thought "too bad he didn't use kickstarter rather than USgovt..."
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by mbubb 15y ago
"I'd be happy if my iPad would be $549 (instead of $499) AND those workers were receiving more money for their hard work." I have thought that for years.
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by mbubb 15y ago
Also on the tldp site is a 'beginner's BASH guide' - in fact there are a number of guides: http://tldp.org/guides.html Unfortunately a lot of the stuff has not been updated in 5 yrs or so - but it is still fun to read through from time to
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by mbubb 15y ago
Thanks for the link to Gregg's BASH guide. Useful information.
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by mbubb 15y ago
Much milder - but I always got a chuckle over the pornview program - a nice little program to view whole directories of photos under Debian. Quite possibly not the best for the job but a name stuck in memory.
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by mbubb 15y ago
thanks for this. My condolences to his family.
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by mbubb 15y ago
Hah - learned something. Thought it was part of the joke.
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by mbubb 15y ago
He forgot one that I use all the time: http://xkcd.com/221/
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by mbubb 15y ago
Anyone know where I can get #!/usr/dt/bin/dtksh? I NEED xmanagerstat. Thanks!
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by mbubb 15y ago
Combine it with a piezo-electric setup in your hiking boots and you may have a sustainable power supply. Serioulsy that sounds idyllic. Hiking and writing. You make me imagine a modern day Wordsworth,
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by mbubb 15y ago
This article is better than most on the subject. I thought the analogy to communism weak but some of other points good. This was very true: What have you done? Sure, very few users are software engineers, but that doesn’t mean they can
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by mbubb 15y ago
Funny - I get drawn in too, especially on HN. I think I might learn something or figure out a new way of doing things. But usually turns out to be 'whining about wine...' and other such topics that are not really that useful. Think I will t
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by mbubb 15y ago
I've recently started using a Linux desktop again ... I'm currently back to using a Mac laptop So which is it? It sounds like you switched under some compulsion (corporate policy etc). I have seen this attitude. It is not so muc
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by mbubb 15y ago
No - not true. There are glitches but none of them a dealbreaker. I am not a masochist - if it caused me pain I would have stopped using Linux on my laptop years ago. Much of what I do is commandline. So a not atypical work setup is to hav
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by mbubb 15y ago
Good point. I have used it since 2005 (when my MacBook pro mobo cracked). And it works. I load up on ram and use virtualbox for those few things... Using HP business grade laptops I have never had an insurmountable problem.

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