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by unhammer 13y ago
That's a great article :-) Regarding traps, I struggled for a while with getting a robust and simple way to kill backgrounded scripts on exit. I would have a script do stuff like "sort bigfile & pid=$!; runlongtask; wait $pid&
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by unhammer 13y ago
I tend to think of colouring and debug output as standard shell script boilerplate. I typically switch to Python (or similar) when I need something like multidimensional arrays / dicts (not portable in awk), or in general want to run m
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by unhammer 13y ago
Also, there's no reason to use uppercase for all variables, it's just that environment variables are by convention uppercase so people seem to think their local vars need to be uppercase too.
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by unhammer 13y ago
Note that some of those long arguments don't work on OS X or BSD, so do some tests if you want to be portable.
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by unhammer 13y ago
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide is the ultimate bash guide, along with http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ For learning the differences between POSIX sh and bash (which can trip you up if you want to ru
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by unhammer 13y ago
A whole lot of seemingly useless science does end up being useful later on in ways we don't imagine. I doubt Mersenne and Fermat envisioned their work being used to secure banking transactions. However, mathematics is typically harmles
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by unhammer 13y ago
sigh … I already have email clients that do PGP on my email that is hosted on Someone Else's Computer. It doesn't seem like Mailpile moves me a single step away from the dragnet. When I saw the "pagekite" username on g
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by unhammer 13y ago
Fastmail is nice. I'd love to host my email on my home server, but from what I can tell, to send SMTP I either need to get a static IP (costly / impossible) or use some smpt routing service, in which case not that much is gained f
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by unhammer 13y ago
I like the idea of trying to combine good looks and usability with secure communications. But with no source code, and no mention of OTR, nor of free-choice-of-server, I'm not very hopeful. Perhaps they should just create pretty skins
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by unhammer 13y ago
S/MIME suffers from the same problem as SSL/TLS: everyone puts their trust in CA's, and CA's regularly get hacked, tricked, controlled by governments, etc. etc. It does not matter that you created your own private key if
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by unhammer 13y ago
http://www.mailvelope.com/ is chrome-release, firefox-alpha – slightly less useless?
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by unhammer 13y ago
Can't wait for a Firefox release!
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by unhammer 13y ago
So use alternative services for mundane things, all the time. Make it less of an anomaly that you're using less-trackable services, and make the haystack bigger for other leakers. (I'm reminded of a talk about Tor where it was men
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by unhammer 13y ago
It's not arbitrary to draw the line there, although it may be hard to argue for making it a line. I eat meat, but I do feel it would be more ethically right to avoid it. In the same manner, it would probably be more ethically right to not b
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by unhammer 13y ago
If you have trouble with Facebook and Twitter, how is Amazon/Google better? They all have great engineering teams, but they also all make money on data mining – not the best feature of a login provider (2013-05-30: jrandomhacker successfull
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by unhammer 13y ago
I do this all the time when I'm signing contracts, I just lie to the paper and sign my name even though I don't agree with it. Right.
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by unhammer 13y ago
> Lastly, for now wanted to dodge anonymous signups Well, the only way I would log in with facebook is with a freshly created "anonymous" fb account for this purpose only. How about supporting https://login.persona.org/ ?
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by unhammer 13y ago
You don't have to spend very _much_ money. I pay Fastmail $40 a year for 10GB ad-free IMAP+webmail (+2GB file storage that I never use, but I guess that's nice too), I find that very reasonable. It works great with K9-mail on Android (and a
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by unhammer 13y ago
Reader's demise has really been great for those of us preferring open source feed readers ;-)
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by unhammer 13y ago
It's still about words that are part of a language, not about sounds made by one baby. The universality was about the sounds becoming part of the language. The process of creating a new word in language is not the same as the process of int
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by unhammer 13y ago
> the onion URL given isn't using ssl either doesn't need that hacky ssl stuff, it's end-to-end encrypted within the tor network. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/11727/does-tor-h... they could print the onion url in their
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by unhammer 13y ago
But the hypothesis is that the word for mother _in a certain language_ comes from that situation. Those breast-deprived babies you observe would not be creating their own language (unless you do more than just observe :-/), so what would yo
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by unhammer 13y ago
Because they start with D? They sound so completely different …
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by unhammer 13y ago
North Sámi = eadni
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by unhammer 13y ago
You didn't look well enough: http://translate.google.com/#en/ka/mom%0Amother%0Adad%0Afath... (Though for some reason, GT translates English "mama" into Georgian "mama", meaning 'father'. But then, one should really not use GT for linguist
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by unhammer 13y ago
I follow a lot of software mailing lists. I used to use Gmail with labels for them, but it still took a lot of time sifting through to the important stuff, and subscribing/unsubscribing felt like a pain. Also, I would end up never actually
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by unhammer 13y ago
You don't necessarily need knowledge to distinguish a topic from a subject though. It's a grammatical distinction. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic%E2%80%93comment#Definitio... e.g. in the sentence (3) As for the little girl, t
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by unhammer 14y ago
nitpicking: the extension of pragmatic is a subset of the extension of opinionated. The word pragmatic is a hyponym of opinionated.
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by unhammer 14y ago
Can you run it without it communicating with Firebase? (If not, how is that better than having it under your own control?)
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by unhammer 14y ago
Good thing email != gmail, then.

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