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by naner 14y ago
I'm also a long-time Linux user and while I have seen Linux destroy hardware (X11 was misconfigured and fried an LCD back in the day), it is certainly not common and pretty difficult to do these days. I don't think the risk is high enough t
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by naner 14y ago
I have had my side view mirrors setup like this for years and it isn't always better. The first problem is that you cannot see your car in the side view mirror. This doesn't seem like a big deal, but it can be difficult to judge where every
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by naner 14y ago
We already have proven, well defined method of DNT already: private browsing. You are still being tracked with private browsing. You IP, user agent, OS, screen resolution, etc. are enough to connect the dots in most situations. This is a
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by naner 14y ago
This has to do with Medicare specifically, not out of pocket costs for a self-pay patient or regular insurance. It is robbery and also probably a large part of the reason procedures are so expensive for the rest of us. Regular insurance rei
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by naner 14y ago
FYI Metafilter does the same thing.
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by naner 14y ago
I don't care if it is bad UX, I prefer it. I also turn off all the different types of preloading in Chrome, but that's another story. The loading of a page hardly takes any time at all, and I generally have to reload the page when I finally
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by naner 14y ago
Reddit has some siloing as well, but they don't prohibit memes, which is why the content looks the way it does. Reddit hardly prohibits anything. Individual subreddits do filter a lot of content, including memes. This doesn't really fix e
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by naner 14y ago
Perhaps this was a well-intentioned gesture, but it was carried out poorly. This reminded me of a great article on how to provide thoughtful and useful analysis. Perhaps read that instead: "This is What Real Analysis Looks Like" http://www
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by naner 14y ago
How does ext* move files around to reduce fragmentation if the disk is full? I'm glad you asked. Take a look at your filesystem properties: # tune2fs -l /dev/blah In there you'll see a property called "Reserved Block Count". That is
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by naner 14y ago
I was just indicating that "License with AGPL at your peril" is an overreaction.
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by naner 14y ago
On the HN frontpage not far from this thread, there is a story about 10gen raising $42M with their AGPL licensed MongoDB.
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by naner 14y ago
Or simply health-care decoupled from your job.
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by naner 14y ago
Opera Software also owns Fastmail.fm and AdMarvel. It would be kind of sad to see Fastmail go to Facebook. Though I doubt there's much truth to this rumor.
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by naner 14y ago
No, it is not the 4HWW Tim Ferriss. He spells his last name differently and is not a programmer (look at tferris's submission history).
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by naner 14y ago
So when is someone going to start a company offering small startups patent troll insurance? Obviously, Congress isn't going to fix anything. Other solutions need to be explored.
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by naner 14y ago
You indicate that the DMCA isn't powerful enough when in fact it also happens to be too powerful. It is a bit of a blunt instrument and is frequently used incorrectly for censorship and not just rights protection. A good "technical" solut
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by naner 14y ago
Cool gadget, dumb sales pitch.
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by naner 14y ago
The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. This is misleading. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the rat
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by naner 14y ago
We are not using this option, and it is probably there by mistake. Aww, sweet innocence.
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by naner 14y ago
I actually think this is a very useful idea. I'm hoping it goes even further. I'd like my toilet to tell me what is wrong with my diet and if I need to go to a doctor when I'm exhibiting warning signs for some illness (I realize this sort o
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by naner 14y ago
I don't know if this is still the case, but I know a couple years ago Chrome ignored desktop hinting (on Linux specifically, not sure about other OSes) and handled its own font rendering independently.
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by naner 14y ago
At a glance it seems to be a correlation so it could just be that people who live longer also tend to drink more coffee for whatever reason (maybe as you suggest they are driven, competitive, and use it to stay alert longer). I think the sa
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by naner 14y ago
Basically, every time you visit a site that has a follow button, a “tweet this” button, or a hovercard, Twitter is recording your behavior. It is transparently watching your movements and storing them somewhere for later use. Of course. T
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by naner 14y ago
The highest-rated answer doens't explain anything... he just says that IBM's punch cards had 80 colums. What does that have to do with conventions for entering text in an editor?
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by naner 14y ago
Network transparency is not a "crucial" feature. 90% of Linux desktop users do not use network transparency. The other 10% can (assuming Wayland is successful) use Xorg, do without, or use VNC (yes, I know it is not the same thing).
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by naner 14y ago
This is just as bad as companies forcing me to “like” something on Facebook before I can view whatever it is they want me to “like.” I don't think it is "just as bad" but it is quite obnoxious.
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by naner 14y ago
Yes they do, though I don't think that was what he was referring to.
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by naner 14y ago
There should not be any similarities between an encrypted file and the same file encrypted again after some changes are made to the file. Even if you just change one character in a text file. I'm sure the rync delta transfer algorithm still
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by naner 14y ago
The hinting looks fine and freetype2 is currently capable of emulating everything OSX or Windows does. The fonts look like (I'm no expert here) they are from the Liberation family that Red Hat created, and I'd agree that they are somewhat u
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by naner 14y ago
The comparisons he made reminded me of something I read not too long ago: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/hes_just_not_that_int... In other words, online porn isn't a drug, it isn't an addiction, it isn't a sign of deviancy or a t

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