mikevm

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   by mikevm 13y ago

   I've been out of the webdev loop for years so I've never used Vagrant, but I've read a bit about it and I see it mentioned all the time. I understand that Vagrant is used to quickly set up virtual machines (and all the requir
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   > It's all Just Worked. Try making the fonts pretty on non-Ubuntu distros. Good luck making it "just work".
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   This is a good time to remind everyone of a decent eBook PDF version of SICP: http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Make sure to include a tl;dr, 'cause ain't nobody got time for that.
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   I always giggle whenever I read it as Expert-sex-change.
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   I've been thinking of taking it. Is it a rigorous crypto course at college level?
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Even if the professor is a thought leader in his field, that doesn't mean he can teach well (and from experience, not many of them can).
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   > Anyone who has come into personal contact with an inspiring professor at the top of his or her field knows that the experience can't be reproduced by remote control; my own entire graduate school experience was made worthwhile by
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   by mikevm 13y ago

   Has LibreOffice reached parity with MS Office 97 yet?
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    > 538 is awash with numbers but the algorithms used to generate them are the very definition of "eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients". I agree. I much prefer the (simpler) work of Sam Wang from the Princeton Election Conso
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I've been using the older Powerline technology for a couple of years now, I think the adapter is rated 200Mb/s, but I only get about 26Mb/s on the other machine. Anyway, the latest generation of Powerline is called G.hn: htt
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I think XenForo uses bcrypt: http://xenforo.com/
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Yes, but people mistake a threshold response for a dose-dependent response. Maybe certain vitamins (and pseudo-vitamins like vitamin D3) have a threshold response, that is, you only need a certain amount of it in your body for it to functio
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    A few notes on Backupsy from their website: >Will you backup my Backup VPS? > Unfortunately, no. Even though we use a RAID protected setup, there is still a slight chance of data loss due to RAID controller failure. For extreme redund
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I'd never heard of Backupsy before, looks very cool! What is special about their VPS offering that makes it so cheap? I mean, from what I can see for an extra $2/month they let you host websites and install anything you want (exce
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I google myself all the time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbk4Bvic5jA
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    There is absolutely no reason any service should ever email you back your password.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    So why not use Gmail with PGP?
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I agree. If you forget about gaming, I think that Office (and possibly Photoshop) are Windows' killer apps. Although for those of us that don't pirate movies, a Bluray movie player app would also help...
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I agree. Like most other typical creationists she only knows caricatures of the scientific theories she doesn't "believe" in. A scientific theory is not something one believes in, it's something you either accept or don&
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    This goofy comment made me lol: > I want a dead man's switch that deletes all my porn.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    I've been using an ad blocker for years. Sometimes when it has a false positive I have to disable it and refresh the page to see what went wrong. It is during these brief moments that I realize how much I would've hated the web if
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    It seems that people mistook the "tone" of my post. I didn't post it in an attempt to say that OS X is somehow superior, I just thought that people might find it interesting that this is the same feature that was shown in th
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Mac OS X Mavericks (the upcoming version) has it enabled by default.
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Given the recent NSA revelations, and the various posts discussing software and hardware backdoors, this vulnerability sent me into full-blown paranoia mode. You can't trust web service providers, you can't trust your ISP, you can
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Zswap looks very interesting. It seems that a similar feature is included (and enabled by default) on the new OS X Mavericks ( http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/advanced-technologies.html -- called "Compressed
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Dvorak's article is a regurgitation of previous HN discussions on this topic. I have said in the previous HN post and I will say it again here: don't pile on Microsoft alone. These spying policies make every US-based services comp
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Well, people look for exploits in popular software, so pretty much anything that is being exploited is being used by people. It's Google's job to secure Chrome, not the people out there that are looking for exploits. Why would you
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    Let's play devil's advocate for a moment. Why should selling exploits be illegal? If I spend many weeks looking for an exploit and I find one, what do I get by disclosing it, to say, Google? The Chrome project does pay a little, b
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    by mikevm 13y ago

    >However you won't notice the difference between a 30Hz display and a 60Hz display unless playing video games. This is absolute rubbish. I have an HTPC, and I played with the refresh rate settings on the TV. You can definitely notic