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by nathanb 16y ago
For those too lazy to read the comment thread, here's a sample: > It could be some other trojan... No reason to think that it is Zeus really... >> "Ma'am, we've reason to believe you've a wooden horse in your home" >>&#6
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by nathanb 16y ago
Skype have completely ignored Linux users for years now. That their attitude toward Mac users is similar doesn't come as a big surprise.
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by nathanb 16y ago
I think the title of this post is incorrect; they're not abolishing DST, they're permanently moving to DST.
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by nathanb 16y ago
I have the Samsung Intercept, which is also offered by Virgin Mobile for the same plan. It's about $100 more expensive, and while I can't vouch for whether it's $100 better since I've never used the LG phone, I can say that you get what you
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by nathanb 16y ago
Interesting...in the old days, those phone numbers would go to the news desk of some major media corporation. The fact that (at least purportedly) Egyptians would consider getting their tidbits on Twitter--and the fact that Twitter scales b
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by nathanb 16y ago
Maybe when you're mentioning your projects, mention which languages you used. That way interviewers can see what sorts of things you've done with the language. Haven't done anything cool with it? Probably not worth putting on your resume.
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by nathanb 16y ago
This is telling in and of itself...
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A test should require a student to synthesize and apply information he or she has learned to solve a problem. If the students truly did not know that they were looking at the actual test they would be taking, all they have proven is that th
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by nathanb 16y ago
I found this exchange in the reddit comments to be interesting: karlr42: The only way you beat crackers is to set your site up securely and maintain it. Nothing else, including this post, will help. MrWeiner: No argument here. I could expla
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by nathanb 16y ago
Java has been on life support for a while now. The majority of the "innovation" over the last few major(!) releases has been playing catchup with other languages, other virtual machines, and other bytecodes. If C# hadn't played the Firefox
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by nathanb 16y ago
I am obsessively punctual, and I find that I only very rarely have to send the "sorry, I'm late" text. Much like the poor woman at the end of the article, I view it as a respect issue. It's not difficult to be on time so long as I leave at
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by nathanb 16y ago
If it matters that much to you, just say "no" when they ask if you support IE6. However, I agree with the article: it's a good strategy which seems to have worked for at least one person.
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by nathanb 16y ago
I guess the answer would depend on how important your boss is to your job. If you can't trust your boss but he's just some line manager in a ten-deep chain who doesn't really affect what you do on a day-to-day basis, maybe it doesn't impact
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by nathanb 16y ago
What does it look like when a nation becomes insolvient? How does it affect its citizens? Its public services?
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by nathanb 16y ago
I only use the CDT package, but it appears to be completely stagnating. Helios ships with CDT version 7.0, which is a new major version of the C/C++ development tools. But as far as I can see, there's barely enough in there to justify a new
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by nathanb 16y ago
I'm assuming that the computer is running Windows and that you don't have something useful like an sshd, telnetd, or VNC client running on it. The IP address is only useful if you can connect to the computer in some way. The one thing you k
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by nathanb 16y ago
Seems like they apologized to the four users involved. I don't know that they owe the public in general an apology. They basically explained why this is less scary than the headlines (including the one here on HN) makes it look and said tha
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by nathanb 17y ago
Yes, let's slam systems-level programming language Go for not catering to application developers...because what people writing operating system components and utilities really want is an e-mail address as a first-class language feature.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Perhaps what would be more useful is an RSS feed. That way you get standard newsreader features like mark-as-read and show-unread and sort-by-newest for free. Of course you don't get the sorting, but them's the breaks.
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by nathanb 17y ago
Unfortunately, 'Sony' and 'open' are rarely related... I tried YDL, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE on my PS3, and with the relatively small amount of memory, the slow disk, and the locked-down graphics subsystem I found that I couldn't really do many
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by nathanb 17y ago
Aw, man, I thought this post had the potential to be interesting. Why'd you have to go and Godwin's Law it?
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by nathanb 17y ago
Nintendo no doubt knew that they had to establish itself in the minds of parents as kid-friendly (though ironically, these days it seems like they're trying to shake the image of the 'kiddy console'). I wonder if a similar statement extends
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by nathanb 17y ago
cat filename | filter > newfile
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I don't understand this article. Saying "Replacing the contents of a file on the UNIX command line using the standard cp/mv commands is surprisingly tricky" is like saying "driving a car using only your ass is surprisingly tricky". That's t
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by nathanb 17y ago
Definitely +1 for LapLink. Sure it required a null modem cable, but at least it beat sneakernet! QBASIC that came with DOS. The built-in context-sensitive help is how I taught myself how to "program". Also, Norton Commander and Norton Disk
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by nathanb 17y ago
Wow. Of all these "must-have" apps for Linux, four are proprietary, almost all are specialized, and only one (Thunderbird) is something I actually use on a daily basis (even that one isn't a "must have", as plenty of people have had great s
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by nathanb 17y ago
I've used everything from pthreads to goroutines to Those Things That Ruby 1.8 Calls Threads Even Though They're Not Really. It's not that multithreaded code is inherently hard, it's just that it increases the number of interactions you hav
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by nathanb 17y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that with many companies, testers do as much (if not more!) programming as programmers do. I know in our company we have a metric that tracks what percentage of tests are automated, and guess who writes the a
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by nathanb 17y ago
Seems like this is similar to the universities which require computer science majors to take some electrical engineering classes. Sure it can be nice to know where the hardware came from, but wouldn't it be more useful to focus on what you
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by nathanb 17y ago
Very interesting...I feel like I understand the Amish culture and mindset a lot better. I can respect their views a lot more now that I know where they're coming from.

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