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by srl 14y ago
> You can use Github purely as a git remote, and nothing else And then you start receiving pull requests. Github, purely as a git remote, adds no value over self-hosting, and is significantly slower. (Seriously - try self-hosting and no
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by srl 14y ago
In theory, nothing. In practice, most github users don't know how to use `git am`, and won't accept contributions but through github pull requests (or at least will get very annoyed). In general, open-source projects place the onus on the c
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Statement for President Nixon to Read in Event of Disaster on Moon Landing(archives.gov)
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Leaving Github(bytbox.net)
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Persuade xor Discover(paulgraham.com)
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9th Circuit Dismisses Al Haramain (Warantless Wiretapping) Case(eff.org)
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An Open Letter to The Economist(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Git Tricks: Find Most Recent Occurrence (bytbox.net)
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by srl 14y ago
Yup. It's often hard to test that change if the rest of the working copy is borked, though.
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Git tricks: stash(bytbox.net)
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Australian Government Moves to Expand Surveillance Powers(eff.org)
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A "Bat Signal" for the Internet(eff.org)
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Why Object-Oriented Programming Is Great - From an FP Fanatic(bytbox.net)
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Space Weather Forecasted by South Pole Neutron Detectors(news.sciencemag.org)
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by srl 14y ago
IIRC, scientific linux is maintained by CERN itself.
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Will Sudan Pull a Mubarak?(eff.org)
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Malloc_info(bytbox.net)
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The Sokal Affair(en.wikipedia.org)
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by srl 14y ago
I think the "relatively" may refer to evolutionary timescales, in which case - maybe. It would surprise me, though, especially given that psychoactive drug use has been observed in the animal kingdom (source: wikipedia - what else?). Certai
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SSH - A Miniature VPN(bytbox.net)
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The Simplest Recursive Function(bytbox.net)
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Inverted Scrolling in Linux(bytbox.net)
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by srl 14y ago
> Get a reminder app for everything While I agree with the thrust of this suggestion (that if you leave everything up to memory, you'll miss out on some important opportunities), I've found I'm most productive if I let my subconscious p
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Flexible Format Strings in Haskell(bytbox.net)
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by srl 14y ago
More detail for the politics side in my reply to lhnn, perhaps. My contention is that corporations are simply not designed to accomplish the same things as governments, and expecting them to do so is naive. But you said some other interesti
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by srl 14y ago
This is getting uncomfortably political. I can tell because I think you misunderstood what I said, and everytime I try to reply, I feel like I'm misinterpreting your viewpoint as well. Yuck. (The Heinlein I meant to reference was "Red Plane
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by srl 14y ago
Get your pitchforks, everybody! He criticized the internet! (For the record: at the time of writing, this comment is -1 or -2, judging by the color.) I've become genuinely disturbed recently by how many people simply cannot stop using their
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by srl 14y ago
there's this guy from Africa doing something extraordinary ... Today we saw one guy's insane vision becoming reality. What happened today is only different because it was not government-funded[0]. I'm not allergic to the idea of governm
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by srl 14y ago
I too find the enthusiasm, displayed here and on reddit and everywhere in between, for this to be patently ridiculous, although not for the same reasons. I'm a great fan of space exploration, in all forms - observation, robotic, and human -
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The Age of the Essay (2004)(paulgraham.com)
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