mjgoins

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by mjgoins 17y ago
It's kind of amazing that it wasn't like this from the start. Unsecured coffe shop wifi + http = everyone in the room can grab your password.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
New definitions of words creep into usage all the time, and this is one I've been noticing. Folks are using "pirate" to mean "intercept" or "surreptitiously copy", rather than the traditional usage (leaving aside the even older meaning, of
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by mjgoins 17y ago
from the page: "Please also note that the USB ports only draw power when something is physically connected to the port. We didn't want a vampire port that continually sucks and wastes power when not in use so this was one of the features on
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Steve Albini needs to write more. His few bits of essay floating around the 'net are classics. This one features excellent use of blinking text, too...
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by mjgoins 17y ago
He was significantly less deranged prior to 9-11-2001.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Are you slamming the people of the island state of Java, or the programming language, or both?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
news.ycombinator.com is written in a new lisp dialect.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Mozilla was a product people had already used for years without realizing it (Netscape), so when they were faced with the reality of using it, none of their expectations were disappointed, but there were useful new features (tabs, popup blo
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Help the best-funded and least accountable military on the globe with some free intelligence work. How exciting.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
It crashed on me (or rather, became totally unresponsive) when I deleted the whole buffer with a "dG" command. running iceweasel 3.0.6
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Incidentally, this is why Donald Knuth stopped sending people his famous checks for $2.56
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by mjgoins 17y ago
The only answer I can see is a boycott, but people's lives are now essentially based around copyrighted content. Culture is a human need, so you'd be asking people to give up something they biologically can't. In other words, if you care ab
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I use a keyboard with Control where Caps Lock would be on most keyboards (a sun unix keyboard). That combined with the fact that Control-H is backspace in a standard unix environment means I don't have to reach for the backspace key.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Choosing separate usernames and passwords for each site allows you to form only bilateral trust relationships with all those sites. OpenID requires multilateral trust, which is more complicated.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Maybe the people in Canada have intellectual property freedoms to a greater degree than in the Congo. What could be worse for Amazon and the publishers than customers that expect to have rights? I wish I lived in a country with no Kindles.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
It almost sounds like you're wishing for an Apple version of the ratpoison window manager, which was my primary working environment until recently: http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ Of course, that was in gnu/linux, but copying the style w
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by mjgoins 17y ago
The title is a wild exaggeration. The article itself points out many UI gripes that every user of git runs into. Fixing those gripes would absolutely not constitute the creation of a new UI.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
What you're describing is not like a library. Libraries deal in scarce resources (physical copies of books). The point of a (public) library is to provide free information. If you apply that principal to e-books, which cost almost nothing t
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I think drupal is cleverly and elegantly designed, given two assumptions: 1. We can only use the LAMP stack. (perhaps with other operating sytems instead of GNU/Linux, but you get the idea). 2. We can't use php's object and class system, we
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Unfortunately, while drupal ostensibly supports other database backends, the reality is that it doesn't support other database backends.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Mapreduce, Mapreuse, Maprecycle! Not bad.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Link mildly NSFW. (Article too depressing to keep reading).
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Our brains already do this for us. It's called the bullshit detector (technical term).
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by mjgoins 17y ago
It's not, and I seem to remember that this exact problem (the technical problem, but also the one you mention) was pointed out when the script was introduced.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
That kind of interface is one of those things I've always thought would be awesome but never bothered to try out, and haven't seen in action until now.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
So now the movie industry's profits should skyrocket right? Better start buying that stock before all those suburban teenagers start buying up Blu Ray discs and going to the movies every night.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
I think you are correct in identifying a conflation of eula with copyright. In fact I don't understand why the link to djb is there at all, even given that conflation.
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Seriously? Are tuh-mey-tohs and tuh-mah-tohs completely different fruits?
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by mjgoins 17y ago
fetchmail -> procmail -> mutt -> vim -> gpg -> ssmtp
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by mjgoins 17y ago
Biggie was right. Mo' money, mo' problems. I'm sticking with a slightly below-average income, and living simply. Happiness is elusive, and in no way linked to money. (I think I might be the most un-YCHN person on YCHN)

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