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by naner 15y ago
The thing I use lsof for most often these days is watching Flash videos with mplayer (or VLC if you prefer). This allows me to pause/rewind/fullscreen easier. Or sometimes I save the file to watch later. You still have to start the video fr
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by naner 15y ago
Tons of stuff in Java is infested with hard coded URIs and you will never find them all. If they all start with http:// it shouldn't be too difficult to search for them.
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by naner 15y ago
So this app trains people with presbyopia to recognize blurry shapes as the corresponding text. Am I understanding this right? This doesn't improve your eyesight, it just trains people to decipher certain types of blurry text.
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by naner 15y ago
Several, unfortunately. I'd rather not talk about my personal experiences here, though. Here's some social networking examples: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/322857/The_new_employ... A lot of these projects are hardly used and ha
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by naner 15y ago
This isn't unusual, a number of larger companies have created internal social network clones. Big companies seem to have a bunch of little pet projects that get started because somebody important is trying to look good and be noticed. A lo
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by naner 15y ago
Kevin Rose also posted a full copy of the letter a couple days ago: http://twitter.com/#!/kevinrose/status/121724449551687680 http://twitpic.com/6vp80w/full
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by naner 15y ago
There is definitely some high level shit going on right here. Such as: they discovered and disabled the virus but are still sending fake info over the virus's communication channel and want the Chinese/Iran/whoever to think it is still wo
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by naner 15y ago
It is kind of hard to oust a figurehead if he is also the founding father. Perhaps the FSF likes his uncompromising views. (Think of PETA and their crazy-ass leadership.) Also this isn't new behavior. Stallman has been like this his whole l
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by naner 15y ago
Stallman and the FSF are approaching this from an philosophical standpoint (closed source is harmful, free software is liberating, etc.) so their efforts aren't often very strategic or even practical to most of us. And when trying to provid
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by naner 15y ago
Thinkpads are considered really well-built laptops and typically work very well with Linux. Just double check the video card and wifi/3G cards for compatibility before you order one. Stay within the T and X (and W?) series, some of the new
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by naner 15y ago
shell command line history roll your own: fn history {grep '^term%' /mnt/wsys/text|sed -e 's/^term%//'} oh yes that is so elegant...
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by naner 15y ago
Right, at which point you'll send them to a private school. Even better, maybe you could decide to take a more active role in their education. Also there's the possibility that your kid might be one of the dumb ones.
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by naner 15y ago
He hasn't deleted his Hacker News Account yet. I don't believe you can delete an HN account.
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by naner 15y ago
This is creepy not because I think Google is malicious, but because they aren't smart enough to handle privacy well. Also this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/30/us-internet-securi...
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by naner 15y ago
I am (was) a very heavy delicious user. Luckily, I backed up my delicious bookmarks a few weeks ago. The export function on the new site doesn't seem to work and if it does, I doubt all my bookmarks will be there. I started typing out a lon
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by naner 15y ago
Amazon started doing this about a year ago, too. I think search engines are now catering more to people who aren't extremely adept at using search engines.
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by naner 15y ago
Unfortunately, not everyone is fortunate enough to have access to a good library. I happen to have a good branch nearby and a beautiful main branch that isn't too far that I also use once a week when my local branch is closed. Oh, that's an
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by naner 15y ago
How many domain registrars and hosting providers are there? As long as a lot of people are using Django, there is plenty of room for competition.
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by naner 15y ago
Google also has a massive network of distributed servers and a couple browsers. I wonder if they'll start doing this for the Android browser and maybe even as an option for faster browsing on Chome.
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by naner 15y ago
While it's a nice design, it's been done. So what? It sounds like it will greatly improve the browsing experience on a under-powered small-screen tablet. And it sounds like they have improved upon the Opera and RIMs implementations. like
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by naner 15y ago
Speaking of caching, are browsers already doing all the caching that is practical on modern machines? I vaguely remember years ago downloading a special program that sped up the internet by performing more aggressive caching than the browse
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by naner 15y ago
Redesign aside, I've had nothing but trouble trying to use the website and their browser plugins since they relaunched. I am not a happy camper.
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by naner 15y ago
Why should kids be taught programming instead of reading, writing, language and maths? If the curriculum was changed to include programming, it would almost certainly reduce the funding and time put into other, more important subjects. Th
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by naner 15y ago
I have one. They are cool because they can write on almost any surface at any angle. The writing isn't remarkable, though, and the pressurized refills are too much for how fast I would go through them.
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by naner 15y ago
It is a pen snob thing. Apparently, there's these Pilot G-Tec-C gel roller ball pens that write really well and are available in really fine points (down to 0.25mm). The pens themselves are cheap plastic and are also not available in most r
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by naner 15y ago
Pen Type-A is a stainless steel replacement for the Hi-Tec-C's cheap plastic housing. To us, the Hi-Tec-C cartridges deserve a more durable home. This is kind of funny, I sort of did the same thing -- though my solution was much cheaper.
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by naner 15y ago
If he had no license whatsoever on his site, would that stop business insider? I don't think quoting some copyrighted content from other websites is illegal as long as you link back.
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by naner 15y ago
So far, though, Wayland currently can’t do much more than this: (video) What the hell was that? We've been seeing much more impressive videos than that since last year... e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R3n7W_wfzM http://www.youtu
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by naner 15y ago
They changed how they punish infringing accounts and then Schmidt said that they have to have real identities in order for planned future products built on top of Google+ to work.
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by naner 15y ago
The whole "real names" fiasco[1] diminished my excitement for the platform. 1: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-na...

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