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by nsmartt 13y ago
Change within the government and legal system is necessary, so I'm more inclined to think being quietly vocal will help, rather than social changes outside those systems. I actually complained to a friend, as I posted it, that it'
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by nsmartt 13y ago
> I'd like to dissent from this echo chamber of constantly advocating promiscuous systems, that tend to do things for us without asking us first, and promote biased decisions in favor of permissiveness. This is a decent argument (
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Change comes with perseverance and reason. Violence is far from the only way to effect political change.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gra
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by nsmartt 13y ago
No, status quo means "the existing state" (i.e. how things are right now ).
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I refuse, and so should you.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
While it's true that there's no guarantee Brown will get the maximum sentence, it's also true that he's publicly threatened the FBI and has made high-profile enemies.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I responded to a post about the common tendency to speed when deemed prudent.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
First, the law in the OP is an American law. Second, I find it difficult to believe that there are countries where driving slightly faster than a number printed on a road sign can result in prison time. If I've made an error, it's
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Driving over the speed limit isn't a felony.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Somewhat off-topic: What are some alternatives to XMPP? I haven't found much about messaging protocols.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
The principle behind the Betteridge's law of headlines is sound. It's definitely reasonable to exercise skepticism when a journalist is unable to support a claim with evidence. However, it's absurd to suggest that a failure t
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I infinitely prefer reading a physical book at home, but I love being able to access my Kindle library when I'm out and about. I want to be able to read every book on my shelf at home while I'm not there, and I'm loving this
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by nsmartt 13y ago
> On-Topic:Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. This ab
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by nsmartt 13y ago
As mentioned by others, the documentation for zip explicitly mentions this as a Python idiom: http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#zip
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by nsmartt 13y ago
You didn't find a solution that met your precise needs, so you started building one. Don't let the fact that other solutions exist get you down.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I use a Nokia C3-00, and I get a couple of weeks between charges. I'm highly interested in the promise of 38 days because three or four weeks is still fantastic.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I suspect people get used to cp, mv, etc, and then aren't interested in longer versions anymore. I'd still say it'd be a good default.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
To be fair, it's entirely possible to create aliases with more intuitive names and dump a "you can type ____ for short" message on each run.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Midori (the elementary OS browser) offers several default options for search, including DDG.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Why would storing personal information be necessary (not beneficial) to improve a service? There are plenty of ways to improve user experience, including actually communicating with users.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
> I'm not sure it's right to say that it's not clear how to charge for FOSS. I said this because many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of open-source, and insist that open-source software cannot be sold. Your r
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by nsmartt 13y ago
There are many nuances that change when it comes to selling an open-source license. How am I to ensure that users can't simply offer my product, with a slight modification, for free? It's not as simple as providing the license on
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by nsmartt 13y ago
FOSS doesn't have to be free. It's entirely possible to sell software and provide the source. The real problem is that it's not clear how to charge for FOSS.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Developers with a budding interest in cryptography should certainly be using this, even if they shouldn't be asking users to trust their work. Your mentality excludes a rather large set of users who may not realize what they've fo
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by nsmartt 13y ago
This could lead to a rise in services offering client-side encryption. A 'better' homepage might help.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
> No-one is "forced" to hire because of the Civil Rights Act, they are simply prevented from using race as a reason to not hire. Investors are in the business of gauging likelihood of success. As an extreme example, conside
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by nsmartt 13y ago
For mobile, FirefoxOS is around the corner. For desktops, there's Linux.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I'm told that no one cares whether Apple is shady because they build quality products, but I really want to see a shift away from Apple products in protest of said shadiness. edit: clarity
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by nsmartt 13y ago
http://screenleap.com

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