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by threedaymonk 14y ago
OK, the experiment isn't exactly the same, but it tests the same hypothesis: that the presence of DRM does not affect the dissemination of the content. In fact, I'm not sure that performing DrJokepu's experiment as stated would prove anythi
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
The experiment's already been done. House of Cards was only released with web DRM, and yet it was available via the usual unauthorised channels almost immediately. Even when no non-DRM alternatives are available, DRM is still useless in pre
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I suspect you're just trying to be a smartarse, but it hides an important point. It's not that HaikuOS can't watch Netflix, but that in the platform-specific DRM world, no new system that comes along can ever be a viable desktop without t
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
Note: 2.0.8 was a brown paper bag release that was never announced, but some mirrors may have picked it up. Please do not use it. I'm a native speaker of English, but I don't understand the idiom of "brown paper bag release".
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I suspect that the fact that it's the last release that runs on 32-bit processors might have something to do with it. There's not much wrong with a 2+ GHz Core Duo for most people's needs.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
> Nitpick alert: since everything is curried in Haskell, it's actually more like `foo takes an argument a and returns a function that takes one b and returns one c`. Whilst that's true, and is important to the way in which Haskell opera
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The Copper programming language(tibleiz.net)
3 points by threedaymonk 14y ago|0 comments
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
This is a sensible decision. I work with Ruby daily, so using RubyGems to install a package is easy for me . On the other hand, when I find the installation instructions for a tool written in Python, I'm often confused: there will be a cou
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I've not heard of anyone using IronRuby in earnest, and it doesn't seem to have been updated in a couple of years. Is it a realistic option?
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
Salaries in the UK are lower than the Bay Area, but I wouldn't say they're "horrendously low". I can see why that ad would make you think that, though: it really is absurdly low for London, but I don't think it's representative.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I just check for /.@./, which catches obvious errors like leaving out the email, or typing something in the wrong field. Beyond that, there's no point making assumptions (like "all domains have a dot").
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I've never seen the value in joining LinkedIn, but the endless requests used to annoy me, so I tried to unsubscribe. But you can't. In the end, I wrote to them and told them to put me on their Do Not Contact list. That's worked pretty well:
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
It exists! (And it's not bad, either.) http://www.dafont.com/hvd-comic-serif.font
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
That was my first thought too. Setting up a Bitcoin client currently requires the download of around 7GB of historical data, as I recall. The four-minute proof of work also worries me: do I have to toast my laptop for four minutes every tim
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
> I hope you realize that the main audience of layervault and designer news is designers. That statement disturbs me a bit, because it seems to imply that contrast and readability aren't important to designers, and that designers are gr
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
> It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot. That sounds just like the MacBook Pro I was issued at my old job. The problem was to some degree mitigated by the fact that it wa
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
No, you're not the only one. I'd been forewarned of the awfulness of pulse, but didn't even notice its installation until later, when I discovered all the useful things I could do with it: play music over the office Apple airplay thingy; us
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
Generally, I'm merging to master frequently (several times an hour). Things like upgrading Rails can be multi-day odysseys, however (even though there's sometimes an opportunity to make compatibility changes in master). However, I don't see
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
There probably ought to be some general principle of web design here: don't get fancy with stuff you can't support. If you don't have a wide range of devices for browser testing, that's OK: just stick to the standard fonts that work everywh
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
Rather than normalising the rather risky behaviour of "push -f"ing all the time, I think it's probably better to treat WIP branches as linear and refrain from reorganising/reordering/squashing until you're ready to merge them into a shared
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I frequently push work-in-progress branches as insurance. If my SSD dies, or I get mugged on the way home, I'll still have the code tomorrow.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
In your scenario, it sounds like you'd be better served by pushing the incomplete work to temporary branches. At least, if I were working with you, I'd rather have working code in master than a bunch of "git commit -am Hometime" dumps.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
You can always do "git rebase --abort" if you're stuck in the middle of a rebase, or, if you've rebased and don't like it, "git reflog" to find the previous state followed by "git reset --hard <hash>" to get back to where you were.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
> Scotch Bonnet peppers [...] are almost, but not quite, as hot as as Habaneros, but they taste MUCH better. I'd been disappointed about the fact that habaneros are hard to find in London, whereas Scotch bonnets are everywhere. Perhaps
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
My understanding is that it's relatively common. You commonly find sulphites as preservatives in wines (more of it in whites: reds get some protection from the tannins). A family member is slightly allergic, and drinking wine with sulphites
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
Ah, that brings back fond memories of tabehoudai (all-you-can-eat) at Shakey's Pizza back in my student days in Osaka. Always with the Tabasco, and eating all the pizza until there was nothing left but the weird corn-and-mayo one.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
I just calculated that I'd have to saturate my (normal-for-UK) ADSL uplink for 7 months to upload a terabyte. I envy anyone who can actually make use of that.
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by threedaymonk 14y ago
It might be worth trying to run it through trickle to limit the allowed upload bandwidth. http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle [Edit] I see someone else has linked to trickle above.
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Samsung Copy and Paste Bug(shkspr.mobi)
68 points by threedaymonk 14y ago|37 comments
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Experimental rubygems-openpgp Certificate Authority(rubygems-openpgp-ca.org)
1 points by threedaymonk 14y ago|0 comments

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