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by mindstab 13y ago
Ironic that GNU/HURD is also on the front page of HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953737
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by mindstab 13y ago
As time goes on GNU HURD becomes sadder and sadder :/ They can't even seem to be consistently settled on their basics like what micro kernel they are using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurd#Other_microkernels
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by mindstab 13y ago
And so in a small part the MSIE team is back to "creating" new "standards" for the web because they were the first on board so the get more input to the final product. I hate to say it (in part because I'm not 100%
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Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11(thenextweb.com)
216 points by mindstab 13y ago|144 comments
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Nairobi Dev School(indiegogo.com)
5 points by mindstab 13y ago|1 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
So we should stop saying X country should stop violating it's citizen’s civil rights with torture, imprisonment for protesting etc? The US (and the rest of us) may need to start keeping a lot quieter then... Didn't the US invade
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by mindstab 13y ago
Sadly that's not how your legal system works any more. I don't have the link handy but it came up here recently with that environmental activist who just got out of jail for breaking up an illegal auction of land. He thought he&#
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by mindstab 13y ago
You are aware rape usually occurs in private settings. Just because some one has decided to go to a private place with you does not mean they've given consent. And this kind of behavioural priming will gear men to steam roll over someo
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Shia LaBeouf: phone surveillance whistleblower? (cbc.ca)
132 points by mindstab 13y ago|16 comments
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Arkyd kickstarter adds 5 selfie photo pack(youtube.com)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
Obama: "And I think it’s interesting that there are some folks on the left, but also some folks on the right who are now worried about it who weren’t very worried about it when it was a Republican president. I think that’s good that we
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Orwellian vs Huxleyian(johndcook.com)
3 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
More anecdotal evidence that the value of America arts degrees is far less than their over inflated cost
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by mindstab 13y ago
I pay for dropbox for dedicated storage. it will be there. How long until the first stories of people not being able to get their files back out of BT Sync. Also they don't talk about the hidden cost, that I assume you have to use a lot mor
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by mindstab 13y ago
Well off to a great start with Yahoo in charge.
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by mindstab 13y ago
http://www.ouya.tv/ It's a dev kit itself as well and its android and yeah, they'll publish all indie stuff. :)
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by mindstab 13y ago
Why was this flagged? 123pts at 2 hours should not place 39th?
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by mindstab 13y ago
Personally as a 20 something first worlder earning decent money in tech I am interested in this. So part of me wishes they'd kept the advertising focused on that. Because claiming to be able to tackle world hunger with this "long shelf lif
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A new look at the newly official Nvidia Shield(androidcentral.com)
1 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
So below the federal recommendation and worse, not uniformly but more often on lights with cameras leading to non standard light behaviour. Because we really want unpredictable behaviour from our traffic system... that can only lead to safe
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by mindstab 13y ago
Serious Sam 3 from Croteam :)
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by mindstab 13y ago
I hate to say it, but remember the giant outrage and making fun of Microsoft everyone did over Surface Tablets with over half their HD taken up by the OS? Less than a year later now it's quite noticeable in Android space... :/ Either we nee
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Portal Released For Steam On Linux(phoronix.com)
302 points by mindstab 13y ago|146 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
yes actually, I'd think about donating except that what would the US gov think of people donating money to a bomber? we all might get a check in our files for supporting terrorism... :(
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by mindstab 13y ago
I imagine arresting teenagers and throwing them in jail for practising chemistry will continue to help the US's already stellar rankings in science compared to other nations...
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by mindstab 13y ago
Is there any irony this game appears like a complete "remake" of Game Dev Story which I have bought and played a ton of? I do agree piracy is bad but I hope if they don't do well they don't just blame pirates. It's incredibly complicated a
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Google officially acquires news summary app Wavii, immediately shuts it down(theverge.com)
2 points by mindstab 13y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 13y ago
They are releasing steady updates for it. 4.1 came out Nov 2012. That's hardly 2 years. That's after the last Ubuntu release. And it's fully supported for the platform. What are you talking about?
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by mindstab 13y ago
How high resolution? My laptop looks great and works perfectly with Ubuntu @ 1920 x 1080. What doesn't work?
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by mindstab 13y ago
"Actually, having a workaround by definition lessens the severity, as if someone wants to still run Skype, they can." I don't think everyone is on the same page about Ubuntu being a consumer distro and not a hacker's only distro... I have

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