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by mooism2 13y ago
Article title is “Top 5 tools every Linux server should have” . Why has it been posted here as “Top 5 tools every serious Linux user should have” ?
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6% of online American adults are Reddit users... TFA gets it right, why do you have to change the title and get it wrong?
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You've reinvented polynomials. 1 x + 1 x² + 2x + 1 x³ + 3x² + 3x + 1 ... You can think of Pascal's triangle as repeated multiplication by (x + 1).
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I'm suggesting X. X would be inadequate for people who have a hundred windows open. Y would be a possible solution for them (but I'm aware there is a lot of experimentation occurring in this area). But I was trying to emphasise th
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> Problem: Computers are vulnerable to eavesdropping via power lines How much of a problem is this? Is this a merely theoretical possibility, is it actively being exploited? What are the information leakage risks as compared to e.g. in
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I expect their robots.txt blocks it because (a) Reader was useless if you didn't have an account, and (b) Reader was useless without the server-side components. Why do people ascribe malice to everything?
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Is this supposed to be a joke?
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My problem with tabs is that it groups all shell sessions together in one window, all the web pages I'm looking at in another window, all the files I'm editing in a further window of their own. Suppose I am editing two files (A an
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by mooism2 13y ago
Although that's the website of the holding company. c.f. the website of one of the companies they own: http://www.geico.com/
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Not every comment on HN is intended to eventually make it unscathed onto Wikipedia. I intended to spark discussion around the question “Why do so many people want applications to provide tabbed windows?” . I can see that people might have
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by mooism2 13y ago
Tabs are evidence of poor window management capabilities on the part of the host windowing environment, which is why they are ubiquitous in PC web browsers.
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You're right, the first alternative is disgustingly long-winded. Let's automate it. Create a new shell script called `empty` somewhere on your PATH: #!/bin/bash set -e exec >"$1" printf '#!&#x
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Or you could stick the command in a shell script. #!/bin/sh find . -iname '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 php -l Save it to ~/bin/phplint (you do have ~/bin in your PATH, right?), chmod +x it, chec
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Facts are not copyrightable.
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> gays have their special rainbow input when you do search with phrase "gay" It will probably go away soon; the decorations Google puts on its search pages to mark events always have before. > I think it violates my heter
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Charged, not (yet?) convicted.
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We are not those sorts of hackers.
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I am not an American.
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$ HEAD http://1phads.com/%C3%B2%C3%9ANI%15%C2%B5%C2%81y%1E?%82%98%AA*P%FF%CC%E4\%A3%A4%D7%E4%B4%F6%C0%87%A4%BC%85TF 404 Not Found Connection: close Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:52:46 GMT Server: nginx Content-Leng
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“Secure your data in layers of tar.” What does that even mean? They're obviously not talking about tar(1). “Use the most advanced access control to stop digital thieves.” What does that have to do with tar? If this has been posted
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by mooism2 13y ago
Article title: “Google artificially removing SunSpider Javascript Test from search results” Current link text: “Google manipulating SunSpider search results after forking WebKit” Evidence provided: Bing links to SunSpider, but Google do
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by mooism2 13y ago
There are some in the UK (and some of them write for the Telegraph) who have yet to realise Britain's supremacy is over (as the article notes, that was over a century ago).
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I believe it used to be recommended that applications accept ; to separate query string parameters so that if a url containing query string parameters was double-html-escaped for some reason... e.g. a link to http://example.co
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I shall repeat the comment I made on the other post before you deleted it: Yes. It would be good to see a news aggregator that automatically grouped obviously related links like these.
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Yes. It would be good to see a news aggregator that automatically grouped obviously related links like these.
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The author includes a perfect (if unintentional) example of why Haskell programs shouldn't use `error`. (If you're writing a quick-and-dirty program? Fair enough. But not in larger programs.) He defines a `Lattice` class, and ex
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You are in the USA, so asking whether the US government should run a web search engine? I have visions of a search engine that only indexes US websites, doesn't return links to abortion providers or gun shops, and only supports English
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5 (variation B - current default). If a player is sent to a mini-square that has already been won, or in which all the cells are already filled, then the player may next place his mark in any unfilled cell in any other mini-board.
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Link is to a 2012 article discussing protests against the proposed US SOPA law. Link does not mention France, link does not mention any web sites shutting down except temporarily as a form of protest.
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"Plants seen exploiting quantum physics" or "Quantum physics seen operating on plants" might be more accurate but less attention-seeking.

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