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by ordinary 15y ago
You're right. Labeling the Dalai Lama as a terrorist, without trial, is just as bad as labeling Osama Bin Laden as a terrorist, without trial. As for the truth in it, I've already hinted at my answer to that: applying the label "terrorist"
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by ordinary 15y ago
Incorrect: http://www.gnu.org/software/#allgnupkgs
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by ordinary 15y ago
This was the second thing that came to mind for me. In addition to that, it seems reasonable to assume that people who bothered getting your app in the first place are most likely the people who spend more time on your website. But the firs
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by ordinary 15y ago
> Of course. You resent what you see as his spiritual purity in rejecting Trojan horse DRMed products that lock you in because you know you aren't capable of going without something you want now for greater gain in the future. > You
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by ordinary 15y ago
When a user installs Linux and can't get her brand new graphics card to work, she doesn't care whose fault that is. When the brightness adjustment keys don't work, all I think is "crap, my computer does not work". The vast majority of peopl
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by ordinary 15y ago
I think the people now in Wall Street are doing exactly that. :) Not all change for the better comes about by buckling down and getting a second job.
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by ordinary 15y ago
I'm inclined to agree. I don't think there's anything wrong with the death of someone like Steve Jobs taking up room on the front page of HackerNews. Look at the the current top 5 stories: Steve Jobs has passed away. (apple.com): 2393 point
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by ordinary 15y ago
"Six Reasons for Sudden Drop in [My Son's] Math Grade".
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by ordinary 15y ago
I don't think math needs to be relevant to people's daily lives to be interesting. It just needs to be interesting, not pre-chewed a hundred times and then rehashed another hundred times. If you haven't already, I heartily recommend Lockhar
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by ordinary 15y ago
> It was my understanding that it is included because many people taking headache pills don't actually realize that they are caffeine addicts and don't recognize the withdrawal symptoms for what they are. If true, I would find that rath
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by ordinary 15y ago
This doesn't restore my faith in the CA architecture behind SSL (by this point, I'm not sure anything can), because there isn't a doubt on my mind that it could only happen to a small CA like Diginotar. Considering that about 86% of the mar
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by ordinary 15y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that applications which use the idea of hovering will not work well on a tablet. That is not a flaw that's inherent of Flash, though. It's as true of Flash as it is of HTML5/js and native applications. Hovering can th
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by ordinary 15y ago
Though it is indeed very annoying that Flash grabs all keyboard input, I don't think that has anything to do with the matter at hand, considering that touch interfaces are infinitely more like mice than keyboards. I just don't see the same
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by ordinary 15y ago
Why? What is it about Flash that makes you feel it couldn't work well with a touch interface?
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by ordinary 15y ago
I'm pretty sure uTorrent was never open source. The mainline client was, though.
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by ordinary 15y ago
Better yet, faster physics. :)
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by ordinary 15y ago
I don't use Deft, so YMMV, but it sounds like you're looking for visual-line-mode. Interactively: M-x visual-line-mode Or in your .emacs: (add-hook 'deft-mode-hook 'enable-visual-line-mode) You'll probably need to set deft-lin
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by ordinary 15y ago
Why pleasantly surprising?
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by ordinary 15y ago
Faster typing is more code is better. Seems pretty straightforward to me. Now, does doubling your typing speed also double your productivity? No, of course not, you spend time thinking, looking through code, reading specs, searching for sol
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by ordinary 15y ago
> If it remains hard to do, she'll stick to the default config, which is what she does already. The problem with the CA system is that the default config is already unsafe , let alone robust , as evidenced by major browsers hastily re
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by ordinary 15y ago
In the blog entry, you say you compared the "very best GUIs" to the "very best CLIs". At the risk of triggering a holy war, which GUIs and CLIs do you feel fit those categories? It's hard to say anything sensible when we don't know the spec
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by ordinary 15y ago
What makes you think this is a purely biological issue?
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by ordinary 15y ago
I don't think you'd be doing people a favour by teaching them to accept things that won't make them happy. Do you think that people who don't worry about not being beautiful are less happy than people who do, considering that many (most?) p
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by ordinary 15y ago
When I was 16, I wrote an essay on quantum physics for my Dutch class. It was 10 pages long and then I discovered the instructions were to write a 2 page essay. Desperate not to lose any of the interesting stuff, I took every 10 sentence pa
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by ordinary 15y ago
Yes. In Starcraft, it is not uncommon for players to attempt to force a win by going for an all-in strategy that sacrifices long-term income for lots of first-tier combat units. The chance aspect is that there are more starting locations th
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by ordinary 15y ago
For Firefox, RequestPolicy adds a whitelist for requests to third-party websites. It's a hassle to set up, but it works. I don't know if an equivalent exists for Chrome.
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by ordinary 15y ago
> After I started using NoScript, I was amazed at how many sites load Javascript from other sites. Not only that, but I was surprised how much paranoia-induced plugins like NoScript and RequestPolicy induce paranoia themselves. And not
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by ordinary 15y ago
Is it just a ban on sale, or also a ban on ownership?
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by ordinary 15y ago
You might like this, then: http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7784/emacss.png
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by ordinary 15y ago
Here's a more recent version, though it lacks the early history that your image has: http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/11.07/gldt1107.pn... It's important to understand that the kernel and the distribution aren't the same thing.

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