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by spatulon 16y ago
The frequent posters on this site end up being boiled down to bullet-point caricatures based on what I remember from their posts. I guess yours would be: * Knows lots of technical details about security and cryptosystems. * Voice of reason
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by spatulon 16y ago
You don't cook? I'm surprised tptacek doesn't bug you every day about starting.
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by spatulon 16y ago
Change the title to "HN Berkeley Meetup" and I don't think we have a problem.
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by spatulon 16y ago
It's not necessarily intrusive just because it's running. I bet it's just swapped to disk and using ~0% of the CPU most of the time.
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by spatulon 16y ago
This was posted yesterday and received a lot of commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1820561
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by spatulon 16y ago
A gay man with a presentation throwing up a sculpted chest to make a point would not tell me that I'm not the expected audience. What if you were the only straight person in the room? Wouldn't you feel uncomfortable attending a Ruby talk
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by spatulon 16y ago
BTW, if anyone's interested in the whole topic of privilege, I strongly recommend taking a look at the "Helpful Resources" section over at the Border House: http://borderhouseblog.com/?page_id=54 I tick pretty much every privilege box the
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by spatulon 16y ago
Showing a nice ass on a slide is not a sign of male privilege. I strongly disagree. Seeing that image immediately tells any straight women or gay mean in the room that she or he is not the expected audience for the talk. The ideal audienc
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by spatulon 16y ago
* Matt Aimonetti gives a talk entitled "Perform like a pr0n star." * This upsets a lot of people, not least because it served to make women feel excluded from the Ruby community. * Presumably as a way of diffusing the tension, somebody send
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Design Without Designers(core77.com)
4 points by spatulon 16y ago|0 comments
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by spatulon 16y ago
Generally and traditionally, no. You're probably right about the requirements for getting into the various digital distribution outlets, but it seems that gamers are willing to forgive a lot of problems and missing polish for the chance to
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by spatulon 16y ago
Pocket Computer is the term that sprang to mind as well. Eventually we can drop the 'pocket' part when it becomes redundant. Alternatively, shorten it to PC.
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by spatulon 16y ago
Here's a link showing that the images are almost certainly fake: http://trueslant.com/KashmirHill/2010/01/27/tsa-scanner-porn...
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by spatulon 16y ago
My experience is that companies generally have the intention of playing fair and paying for all the licenses they need, but without any license protection enforcing it, nobody is going to keep an eye on how many people are actually using th
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by spatulon 16y ago
Something similar solved the problem for me too. I used to spend most of the day reading HN, reddit and other sites. I even remember a week last year where I sat at work for the required 40 hours and didn't get a single thing done. Now I so
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by spatulon 16y ago
That's certainly one way of looking at it. Last time I tried, I had no problem building x264 on Windows with Cygwin. The problem with Visual Studio is that it doesn't support C99, which x264 uses heavily. That suggests to me less of a hatre
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Announcing commercial licensing for x264(mailman.videolan.org)
49 points by spatulon 16y ago|10 comments
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by spatulon 16y ago
If, like I did for several years, you rely on using the arrow keys instead of hjkl, disable the arrow keys in your vimrc. It found it incredibly painful for maybe a couple of days, but now using hjkl is like second nature. The efficiency im
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by spatulon 16y ago
It's been long enough since I regularly wrote C that I spent more time figuring out the old "struct vs typedef struct" issue than I did writing the reversing algorithm.
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by spatulon 16y ago
This is something I've noticed before, and I'm not the only one - it's number 22 on pg's list of "Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" from a couple of years back: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
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by spatulon 16y ago
So you have a preference for removing distracting cosmetic (non-functional) features. So do I. I probably will turn the background image off, but I could comfortably live with it. Maybe I'm inferring too much, but your use of "crappy" and c
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by spatulon 16y ago
I've noticed a pattern every time any website launches a redesign: users immediately and vehemently dislike it; a couple of months pass; everyone looks back and wonders what the fuss was and would hate to go back to the old design. I seem t
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by spatulon 16y ago
I find that, for the first few seconds or minutes after waking up, I'm not even capable of rationalising that I'd rather get up and deal with the consequences of being tired. This is far longer than the time it actually takes me to fall bac
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by spatulon 16y ago
Agreed, but it seems unlikely that Google will actually care. Namco might, though.
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by spatulon 16y ago
My reddit experience improved dramatically once I started to discover the smaller subreddits that relate to my interests and unsubscribed from the most popular default ones that have low signal:noise (/r/pics, /r/politics and /r/reddit.com
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by spatulon 17y ago
Interestingly, the article's author is the programmer/maintainer of the Linux Flash port. Not that I wish to suggest the performance problems are his fault.
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by spatulon 17y ago
Surely making the codec open source isn't in itself that interesting, considering that x264 and FFmpeg form a high quality, open source codec for H.264? It's not the code, but the spec that matters in spreading adoption of VP8. (Of course,
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by spatulon 17y ago
FWIW, not all parts of England are in counties either, so don't feel like you're being singled out. York isn't in Yorkshire, for example. It is its own unitary authority. Even Amazon demands a county, so I put North Yorkshire. Close enough.
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by spatulon 17y ago
This was discussed here previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164161 It was also posted and killed yesterday.
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by spatulon 17y ago
The distinction can be important. For example, are you one of the less intelligent members of HN, or one of the fewer intelligent members of HN?

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