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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice article! If you're nostalgic for the magazine, definitely check out the Best of 2600 anthology that came out a few years ago: http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-2600-Hacker-Odyssey/dp/047029... It's h
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by tdicola 12y ago
Why did the title change on HN to remove the money? The blog post still has the dollar amount in the title. Just curious, seems like a weird edit.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Why not run inside a virtualization environment like Virtual Box, Parrallels, etc. so you have everything working without any pain?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Surface revenue includes all the other Surfaces like the 2 pro and non-pro/RT though right?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yeah Carlin's WW1 series has been outstanding. I really had no idea just how hellacious things were in the trenches during WW1. History lessons in school really didn't get across the shear terror of being shelled by gigantic art
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by tdicola 12y ago
I could sort of understand it if the driver refused to work and popped up some dialog that said "You're using a counterfeit FTDI device, here's how to get an official device. Sorry this driver is not compatible with unoffici
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by tdicola 12y ago
That's a pretty narrow view of things IMHO. Smartphones are much more usable than they were 2-3 years ago and lightyears beyond what they were 7-8 years ago. Phone web browsers are just as fast as real computers, and fast LTE connect
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by tdicola 12y ago
Ouch, something tells me the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. forums are going to be full of people that are confused why they can't talk to their device anymore. IMHO it's pretty bad to target the consumers who probably don't ev
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by tdicola 12y ago
There's a version of Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda, but Coke Zero is sweetened with aspartame just like regular Diet Coke. The Splenda Diet Coke isn't bad, but it does taste a little different than normal Diet Coke or Coke Zer
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow this looks really cool, will it be in the US eShop? I would have loved something like this when I was a teenager playing with QBASIC back in the day.
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by tdicola 12y ago
There were also some pretty big gaffes with the lottery process to allow the first stores to open. There was very little vetting of the participants and as a result many of the people who got picked were completely unprepared to open and r
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by tdicola 12y ago
Anyone have tips on how to secure their Linux VPS? I just set one up and disabled SSH password login, locked down all the ports with iptables (using ufw), and enabled fail2ban. Anything else I should install or configure to make myself a
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow that is a really high quality and nice list of interesting technology trends. Saw some very interesting service related tools that I want to look at it in more details. Thanks!
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by tdicola 12y ago
Same here, I am super confused but also kind of intrigued.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I'm impressed this is even lighter than the current iPad air (although it remains to be seen what happens with Apple's announcement tomorrow), and not by a trivial amount--almost 50 grams lighter. I've been a happy Nexus 7 u
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow, $500M is a huge investment. How many people work there right now and how many hundreds/thousands do they expect to hire with that much money?
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by tdicola 12y ago
Sadly this is the last year that Toyota is making the FJ Cruiser, so if you want a new one now is the time to act.
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by tdicola 12y ago
There were crossovers and small sport utilities for many years before the Aztek, so it certainly wasn't a timing problem. Look at the Toyota RAV4 (came out in '94), Honda CR-V ('95), Isuzu VehiCROSS ('97), and even orig
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by tdicola 12y ago
Nice! I love little focused Python libraries like this. Will have to keep it in mind if I ever do audio stuff in the future.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Sadly many of the recent layoffs from MS have been in their QA and SDET/test engineering teams. The days of a strong testing discipline might be over for the company.
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by tdicola 12y ago
If you really want the window manager to handle your browser windows then just open new windows instead of opening tabs. All of your window manager's fancy window switching features, etc. will work.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Yep that's what I was thinking. If he's annoyed that students are wasting too much time setting up software, they should hire some folks to build a nice repository of packages and maintain them.
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by tdicola 12y ago
I've been on both sides of the fence, I remember being a frustrated student who couldn't get libraries, tools, etc. to work, and now I have some years of experience and know the ropes of working in a Linux environment. My best ad
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by tdicola 12y ago
No its not out of context, a better article here has more details: http://readwrite.com/2014/10/09/nadella-women-dont-ask-for-r... For what its worth he walked back the statement on twitter, "Was inartic
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by tdicola 12y ago
Wow very cool--also check out Werner Herzog's documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams for a fantastic look at the Chauvet cave in France. It's a typical Herzog documentary that dives into the cave and the emotions it creates with pe
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by tdicola 12y ago
Came to post this too--it's funny but will surely be DMCA taken down.
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by tdicola 12y ago
Google Now tells me the population of New York city, which is probably what most people want to know. If I wanted to know New York state I ask it again what is the population of New York state and it tells me. This is far better than ever
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by tdicola 12y ago
When you're looking for the answer to something quickly why would you want to have a back and forth game vs. just getting the answer immediately?
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by tdicola 12y ago
This is from FUSE labs which is a little team inside MS who do research on new experiences and such. They don't really produce 'products' like Office, OneDrive, etc. They make neat demos and if they get enough traction try
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by tdicola 12y ago
Do you carry a cell phone? The baseband networking stacks deep in the phone (below even the operating system) can and have been remotely controlled by law enforcement on many occasions. The FBI used these attacks to turn on the microphone

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