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by omail 17y ago
By selling their services to others. Musicians can sell live performances. Authors can ghost write, edit, etc. This isn't a big leap of imagination.
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by omail 17y ago
I wasn't referring to desktop systems exclusively, but if I were then you'd have been right.
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by omail 17y ago
Being the defacto windowing system for the most popular operating system family is a great success. And if you believe Windows is the most popular OS family, then being the defacto windowing system for the second most popular OS family is s
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by omail 17y ago
The title mislead me. I thought he was going to argue that Google Wave is like X-Windows. He seems to be saying Google Wave can be used as the transport layer for a display service. There does not appear to be any reason why it can't be X11
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by omail 17y ago
I'm not sure why they decided the display should be the server and the programs be the clients. It might be because the other way around is to have one client, the display, access many servers, the programs. That seems even less right to me
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by omail 17y ago
When a company does something stupid, its competitors stand ready to benefit. I love this tweet: http://twitter.com/CJAhearn/status/2822810506
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by omail 17y ago
Oops. Too late to edit it now.
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by omail 17y ago
It seems to calculate the image's width to construct indentation. I think it would be easier to just enclose the comments with <dt></dt> and the child trees with <dd></dd>.
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Ask HN: Why are images used to indent comments?
14 points by omail 17y ago|21 comments
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by omail 17y ago
cut -d ' ' -f 2
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by omail 17y ago
casual vs ambitious? The first could always turn into the second.
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by omail 17y ago
Marry a native speaker. Failing that get friends who are willing to converse with you exclusively in that language. Since it's Spanish, that shouldn't be very hard.
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by omail 17y ago
At my university, Intro to Prog. is in C and C++ (yes, both), and the course that immediately follows is in Scheme, some made up language (we had to build an interpreter for that language in Scheme) and Haskell (for the motivated students).
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by omail 17y ago
This article is difficult to understand because it is written as a flamebait rather than an objective critique. Here is what I understand so far. His primary point is that for a FOSS project it is not easy to have it economically self-susta
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by omail 17y ago
pcof's point still stands. Freedom is about lowering barriers, barriers which cost money to otherwise bypass. FOSS provides off-the-shelf parts for software engineers. Even Microsoft has used FOSS code in Windows.
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by omail 17y ago
http://or.ly has been taken. sniff
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Pwnie Award Winners(pwnie-awards.org)
1 points by omail 17y ago|0 comments
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by omail 17y ago
I am also a Linux user and have a few questions. > there is no sensitive data to steal What would I use this for? Is it simply a system to propagate programs to users? (Collaborative software development?) Will my data be on the WikiOS
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by omail 17y ago
A slight inaccuracy, 4chan is moderated, even the "unmoderated" parts. Linky: http://www.4chan.org/rules
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by omail 17y ago
"Do not fuck with us." So that's why you guys are still virgins. ;) Flaming a legitimate question does not make you friends.
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by omail 17y ago
You echo Bruce Schneier's sentiments. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/md6.html
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by omail 17y ago
The word on the street is 4chan was being hit by a SYN attack. The ACKs were directed to various ISPs, one of whom was AT&T, who all blocked 4chan in response.
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by omail 17y ago
The full DSLReports thread is at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22769947 . In a later post apeface, an AT&T employee, wrote: "Well, I didn't see 207.126.64.182 or 207.126.64.181 in any block lists in the uverse routers , but t
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by omail 17y ago
For those of you on AT&T's network who want to test this, turn off images in your browser and access http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html This is a very NSFW website. Only part of it is said to be blocked. 4chan.org should still be
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by omail 17y ago
I'd like to see how 4chan responds. They are not the type to take things like this lightly.
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by omail 17y ago
I count 16, Chinese citizenship: Wong Kwong Yu, Zhang Li, Zhang Jindong, Chu Mang Yee, Zhang Cheng Fei, Guo Guangchang, Liu Yongxing, Xu Jiayin, Liu Yonghao, Lu Guanqiu, William Ding, Zong Qinghou, Li Wei, Song Weiping, Liang Wengen, Chen F
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by omail 17y ago
IIRC that proof is from India around 900 C.E.
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by omail 17y ago
Except, company A's modification is a port to a platform with secret specifications. Neither you nor I have the time to reverse engineer it.
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by omail 17y ago
Earlier discussion on this event: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=698744
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by omail 17y ago
It means a terrorist could easily perform a denial of service attack with much fewer resources.

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