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by nir 14y ago
Reading the comments in this thread one can only wonder why more manufacturers aren't targeting the Linux user market. They're missing out on so many cleverly snarky comments and discerning I-actually-prefer-ctrl-in-light-grey users that mu
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by nir 14y ago
To be fair some subreddits have great comment threads, its just that politics & news seem to attract all the loud fanatics. Here too..
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by nir 14y ago
And most comments are about as juvenile as the ones on Reddit.
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by nir 14y ago
The part where PHP files are essentially HTML files (ie you can start with a file consisting of "<b>hello world</b>" and add some code as you go) is where the made-for-web really shows. While obviously a bad practice, it als
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by nir 14y ago
clickable: JavaScript is the New Punk Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN8Eg1K9xjE
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Ask HN: Favorite talks on 2012?
5 points by nir 14y ago|1 comments
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by nir 14y ago
I know Hevra Kadisha, I've lived in Israel all my life :) In reality, they're not too interested in inflicting religious laws on those who don't follow them, and the occasional overzealous rabbi is easily dismissed by going to another provi
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by nir 14y ago
As an Israeli, it's news to me I live under permanent martial law. You might want to read up on this.
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by nir 14y ago
That's in fact exactly what happened (but not because of the religious reason - that's only really applicable the orthodox, who don't serve in the IDF to begin with)
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by nir 14y ago
I'm Israeli, former IDF soldier and unfortunately had a family member KIA a few years back. I feel I have some idea of how the IDF treats families of KIA and have followed the story since Barak Ravid's first report. Here's my feeble attempt
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Electric City 2012: graphic highlights from LSE's conference on the urban age(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by nir 14y ago|0 comments
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by nir 14y ago
Anyone up for posting a list of recommended tracks for Brubeck newbs to listen to?
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by nir 14y ago
I wonder what caused them to do that. It doesn't seem like the regime's been pulling any punches so far, and the various YouTube evidence etc didn't seem to cause any increase in outside pressure. Why do it now?
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by nir 14y ago
Actually I don't disagree with your general sentiment - if I understand it correctly - that (a) cutting off the Internet is relatively minor compared to war's true atrocities and (b) the UNHRC is basically an impressive-looking name to a dy
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by nir 14y ago
So, what did you learn from doing that exercise? Did your perception of that issue improve or just get diluted?
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by nir 14y ago
Is there a point to this? Since the situation is vastly different in all the three places you mention, isn't this just empty relativism?
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by nir 14y ago
Just to note, any discussion of the issue that does not mention Talladega Nights is incomplete.
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by nir 14y ago
Some of my friends served in the IDF engineering corps and cleared mines in the Golan as part of their service, I assure you they're not goats :) (Many mines are also designed to be triggered under a certain weight, so goats can walk freely
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by nir 14y ago
Actually it's surprisingly underwhelming. Anonymous hit some small personal sites (a psychologist, some non-profits, a real estate agency, alternative medicine college) - most of which were back online within 30 mins. The only government si
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by nir 14y ago
You know, IIRC the first Rails demo actually used building a blog app as example. 8 years later and still no one has come up with a real Wordpress/Drupal/Mediawiki alternative - or at least none that's gained any significant userbase. I oft
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Proust Wasn’t a Neuroscientist. Neither was Jonah Lehrer(nymag.com)
47 points by nir 14y ago|50 comments
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Rivo Case - The world’s slimmest iPhone charging case(kickstarter.com)
1 points by nir 14y ago|0 comments
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by nir 14y ago
It was a joke, as commenters here observed. Generally if I see a comment I don't like the best signal/noise strategy is to just ignore it (unless its offensive. Didn't mean to offend).
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by nir 14y ago
"That makes it all the more telling that Apple’s press release contains no quote from Tim Cook offering kind words or thanks to Forstall." Indeed, this has been expected since Jony Ive was observed standing immediately to Tim Cook's right a
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Super-Cheap Health Tests(technologyreview.com)
29 points by nir 14y ago|1 comments
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by nir 14y ago
While getting you great PR!
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by nir 14y ago
$1.5T isn't a solution, it's the problem. Hackers succeed because they have scant resources, and defense contractors fail because they have nearly unlimited ones. Huge budget => massive feature creep => massive manpower => h
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Stuxnet Tricks Copied by Computer Criminals(m.technologyreview.com)
1 points by nir 14y ago|0 comments
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by nir 14y ago
That legislation would only apply to entities following the law, though.
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by nir 14y ago
Very cool. Reminds me of John Britten, the Kiwi who almost single handedly created one of the best and most innovative motorcycles of the '90s (including the engine!) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Britten http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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