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by sdfjkl 13y ago
While Google does shut down services all the time, they do typically give a few months warning first.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
High time, if you value privacy (use ZRTP). Or open standards.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Most likely just messed up timezones. It's the season for that (we're in the magical 3 week or so period where DST is applied in the US but not yet in Europe).
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Google Apps Status Dashboard: https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=3&iid=9c...
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Google Talk, Hangout and XMPP services are down(news.cnet.com)
3 points by sdfjkl 13y ago|1 comments
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Now make a web version of the terminal version.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
> Black Friday the WalMart servers didn’t go over 1% CPU utilisation So they massively overprovisioned? Hopefully they didn't buy all that hardware.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
I've been experimenting with home hydro/aeroponics the last few months and learnt a lot. It is amazing when you bite into your first self-grown tomato[0]. I am however surprised that grow lamps, even if LED based, are economical f
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
You mean it uses Silverlight to encourage piracy.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Unlike Netflix, it doesn't want me to install dodgy clones[1] of a dying technology[2] for no good reason[3]. [1] Silverlight [2] Flash [3] My browser can play several modern video formats natively.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
I think this might be a viral advert for the next Back To The Future movie. A film studio would have access to special effects, the car, the actors and celebrities and the financial backing for such an elaborate fake.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
It was also extremely repairable compared to modern computers. Everything was modular and upgradeable, including the CPU board, which just slid out of the machine on a lovely tray.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
I'm also using `ag` over `ack` and `grep` as it seems to combine the speed of grep with the features of ack. In fact, the author used `git grep` to benchmark against: http://geoff.greer.fm/2011/12/27/the-
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Postgres-XC: multi-master, read and write-scalable shared-nothing cluster(postgres-xc.sourceforge.net)
9 points by sdfjkl 13y ago|0 comments
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
This seems to do the trick.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
> moved on to NetBSD (and FreeBSD, still not sure with which one I'll go) Generally, FreeBSD will perform better for servers and offers a larger feature set than the other two. NetBSD aims for maximum portability, and OpenBSD for se
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
No fix for iOS 6.x on devices capable of iOS 7 either. So now I have the choice of no SSL or destroying my phone's UX by upgrading to iOS 7.x :-(
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Wow, so much extra plastic. And are those compression connectors? Last I've seen those was in SGI computers, and they were notorious for failing to contact properly after being exposed for a while (rubbing with a soft cloth and alcohol
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
I felt the same. When I was a PFY, I hung out with the then middle aged mainframe technicians, and they had lots of fantastic stories like this from the early days of computing. Stories about unbalanced hard disk units wandering around the
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Apparently you would not have died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halomethane#Fire_extinguishing
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
And now you can use tmux in Cygwin.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
Interesting. Seems this is a recent GNUism, where -b (strip leading blanks) is implied although not stated so in the manpage. I see this in "sort (GNU coreutils) 8.13" but not in "sort (GNU coreutils) 5.93" or BSD sort.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
My wc right-aligned the line counts, and it looks like yours does too - so no -n required.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
git clone https://github.com/Prithvirajbilla/helloworld && wc -l helloworld/* | sort
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
"You have one point left on your license. Have a good day." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
No. But I'm astonished they're doing this so shortly after making everyone hate them.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-open-source-everything
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
ZRTP actually, XMPP is used only to set up the calls (using Jingle) and for ICE discovery.
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by sdfjkl 13y ago
F-Script was actually how I discovered the beauty of Smalltalk :)

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