petsos

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by petsos 16y ago
Being cruel to people is cruel. You can accomplish that by telling the truth too ("Yes you are fat", "Santa does not exist"). Lying is a tool, it can be used for good or bad.
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by petsos 16y ago
To quote Dr. Gregory House, everybody lies (and hides the truth). Especially during dates. Why do you think the cliché advice for dating is "be yourself"? For an amusing view of how the world would be without the lying, watch the movie The
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by petsos 16y ago
Because many people reveal their real identities here. What if someone started posting malicious stuff from their accounts? Even you, who only log in to post snarky comments, have posted links to your personal blog and projects.
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by petsos 16y ago
How about being both right and wrong and having other options in the middle too? (like most things in life)
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by petsos 16y ago
It wouldn't be cheaper for Apple. They would need a lot more employes to handle these hard drives.
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by petsos 16y ago
During the latest keynote Jobs said that this is not going to happen. It is kind of obvious too, just do the following experiment: Pretend your laptop or desktop screen is multitouch and start touching and "moving" things just for 1 minute
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by petsos 16y ago
How come they didn't test a WebKit nightly as well? All other browsers are either latest betas or alpha(!).
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by petsos 16y ago
"Here we have one of many incidents where a uniformed representative of the United States government is giving the clear impression that they perceive Islamic beliefs is inherently suspect." As an outsider (neither Muslim nor Americ
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by petsos 16y ago
The problem is that they are indeed just doing terrorism related things. They are not actually preventing terrorism. How ignorant do you have to be to think that bringing back Osama Bin Laden candy is suspicious?
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by petsos 16y ago
That is assuming you have an infinite amount of time to master programming. What would you choose if you had, say, a year?
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by petsos 16y ago
These quotes from PHP's creator are very enlightening: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf
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by petsos 16y ago
Downloading compiled binaries from someone is what you usually do on Mac and Windows.
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by petsos 16y ago
I don't think the average is an appropriate metric. The author assumes that everyone found the article interesting, but some people were more lazy than others. In reality many people could have just followed a link (perhaps because of a cat
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by petsos 16y ago
Here's how it works. There is a small number of experts that crack games. Then there is a large number of non-experts that download cracked games. Unless the DRM can somehow stop everyone from the first group (in this case it won't), the se
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by petsos 16y ago
Not if the well-commented blog entry is 99% viagra comments.
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by petsos 16y ago
So, iPod classic is OK but iPod touch is not? What about a TV? A TV that can play youtube viedos? A car? The kindle? The drobo? Are they all multi-purpose computing devices? The distinction is actually not as very very clear as you think.
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by petsos 16y ago
Personally I would call weaker the laws that don't allow you to produce a video like this.
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by petsos 16y ago
To be fair, TextMate hasn't evolved much in the last 5 years.
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by petsos 16y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wikipedia+jwz Additionally: "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by petsos 17y ago
And they also don't provide hosting, credit card transactions and millions of users that can buy your app with one click. I too don't like what Apple did, but you are comparing different things.
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by petsos 17y ago
Personally I rarely look at the actual gcc error messages, because most of the time they are useless. I just note the line number and directly look at the code.
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by petsos 17y ago
Judging from the comments, people leave Python to do toy projects in functional languages. My guess is that after using functional languages in real projects, most of them will go back to Python.
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by petsos 17y ago
Because if Google actually managed to kill the iPhone, it wouldn't be like all the iPhones would just disappear. They would be replaced by Androids.
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by petsos 17y ago
As a Greek I can assure you that only G is an insult. Judging from this I would guess there are more mistakes there.
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by petsos 17y ago
Because then the sites would not be able to generate the hash themselves.
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by petsos 17y ago
What's the meaning of "open letter" in this context?
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by petsos 17y ago
Well, I would hope so that exploiting techniques written 13 years ago won't always work on modern distros.
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by petsos 17y ago
This paper was written 7 years before SELinux was merged.
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by petsos 17y ago
"Oh, I've been saturated with Unix-peanut-gallery effluvia for so long that it no longer even surprises me when every question -- no matter how simple -- results in someone suggestion that you either A) patch your kernel or B) change distro
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by petsos 17y ago
Yes, but that's like hiding behind your finger. It is so easy to de-obfuscate that it is just a matter of time.

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