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by skyfaller 7y ago
Is Linux Journal's website closed source? Looks like it's running Drupal to me, a quick scan of the HTML reveals <meta name="Generator" content="Drupal 8 ( https://www.drupal.org)" />. Dru
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by skyfaller 8y ago
Quinn Norton had some pretty damning things to say about libpurple and its lack of security in 2014: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1 It's possible libpurple's security has improve
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by skyfaller 8y ago
I'm reminded of this interview with someone dealing with the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide: http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/179425163901/there-was-a... When crimes are perpetrated by extremely large n
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by skyfaller 8y ago
Where on earth are you going? Chrome? There are no other independent browser engines left besides Firefox, web browsers are a duopoly now and if you think Google is better on data collection and ads than Mozilla, I have a bridge to sell you
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by skyfaller 8y ago
It feels like you're missing the point, which is that our current level of air travel is unsustainable (just like the rest of our way of life in the USA). Any increase in fuel consumption is unforgivable, no matter how small. Current c
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by skyfaller 10y ago
I'd have to say that it is situational. What we're really discussing here is the old proposition that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". If Pence denounced Trump's action and detailed what he was going to do abou
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by skyfaller 10y ago
In other words, the individuals I met are human beings, but in large numbers they are merely a statistic, and I'm OK with Muslims dying because my (questionable) economic analysis says they are a net negative for the bottom line of the
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by skyfaller 10y ago
Did he win straight and fair? According to Trump there was massive voting fraud. If massive fraud against him is possible, as he asserts, then massive fraud in his favor is also possible. Perhaps we should run the election again, just to ma
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by skyfaller 10y ago
Isn't Trump a wildcard? It was pretty hard to predict his electoral victory at any point before he actually won.
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by skyfaller 12y ago
One thing that was special about Earbits was the quality control. My band submitted our music to Earbits and was rejected, but I have aspired since then to record something objectively good enough they would have to accept it :) I'm sa
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by skyfaller 14y ago
OpenRA launches fine and plays multiplayer fine except for a persistent synchronization bug that will occasionally crash large multiplayer games. The developers are currently vigorously hunting that bug.
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by skyfaller 14y ago
This isn't an HTML5 game, but OpenRA is an open source clone of Command & Conquer: Red Alert which also supports the original Command & Conquer and Dune2000. http://open-ra.org If you get tired of playing in a browser, check OpenR
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by skyfaller 16y ago
Good point. I guess I was hoping to avoid violent revolution.
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by skyfaller 16y ago
I would tend to agree with you about China, but Singapore? Citation needed.
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by skyfaller 16y ago
To have new founding fathers, you need to found a new country. Although I admire the Free State Project ( http://freestateproject.org/ ), and I find the concept of charter cities fascinating (see http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive
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by skyfaller 17y ago
I'll be in town to work on my Shotput Ventures startup, I'll see if I can make it ^_^
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by skyfaller 18y ago
I could see this having a correlation with not finding your schoolwork interesting and wasting your time surfing Facebook. It's not that Facebook makes you stupid, it's that Facebook usage is a good metric for failing to pay attention to s
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by skyfaller 18y ago
I'll believe that the Volt will come out first when I see it. As far as I'm concerned it's vaporware (designed to scare other people out of the market) until I can actually buy one from a local showroom.
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by skyfaller 18y ago
On the other hand, their About page at http://www.alphalab.org/about.aspx says "As Innovation Works utilizes funds from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, each company receiving funding is expected to maintain a significant presence in Pen
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by skyfaller 18y ago
Their FAQ at http://www.alphalab.org/faqs.aspx suggests you have to stay in Pittsburgh , which is smaller than Pennsylvania. Even the option to move to Philadelphia would make this more attractive.
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by skyfaller 18y ago
If you just make up numbers you can justify just about anything. Let us add in some more external costs to these imaginary numbers. What does it cost to get the petroleum used to manufacture the pesticides, chemical fertilizer, etc. used in
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by skyfaller 18y ago
One minor but significant difference between these two programs is that Lightspeed requires that you have an engineering student on your team, while Summer@Highland will accept any student. If I am a law student and my hacker co-founders
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by skyfaller 18y ago
So how are Menlo Park, CA and Lexington, MA as locations? I know that Paul Graham places great weight on the location of your startup, and each of these Y Combinator competitors requires you to move to a different town. Should that be a s
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by skyfaller 18y ago
Perhaps it is because many less savvy users fail to grasp the concept of a URL serving as their identity, and find the whole OpenID system to be extremely confusing. This may result in lots of support tickets / complaints, complaints lead