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by wickedchicken 16y ago
I realize that 'personal DRM' is this idea taken to the extreme but I am not promoting this. I am promoting something akin to "deleting a post off my blog will probably take it off google search and out of the public eye, even if someone ma
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
One thing often overlooked is the social aspect of getting a degree (CS or otherwise) -- getting a CS degree will give you more opportunities to meet/get to know CS people. This has a soft benefit -- the people around you start to talk prog
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
One thing I've been trying to figure out about Diaspora is the implication of deleting a photo or redacting a comment. As far as I can tell this is done by "revoking a user's encryption keys at the seed" but this means that a user must conn
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
Well, those were claims that Linux copied from original UNIX code. Since that was rejected and new code added to Linux is most definitely not from a 30-year-old codebase, I would imagine Linux is safe.
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
What do you mean "easily handle the desktop running on a different machine than the OS?" The Windows and OSX driver model seems pretty tied to a specific machine, both require 'remote desktop' software which merely simulates sitting in fron
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
A few of the more modern window managers use XCB internally (awesomeWM touts this on its front page). It's always exciting to see new X development (including replacing X altogether :) ) -- there are a lot of interesting things that have ye
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
You see this in a lot of industries for various reasons -- space hardware especially (in part due to rad-hard requirements but also due to programmer reluctance to move away from old architecture).
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
EEs are taught C with Matlab as a distant second
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
I wonder if landlords will go after this like the hotel industry went after AirBnB. Any accurate information a potential renter has about other apartments in the area can only hurt the landlord.
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
Damn... awesome is right. I'd be curious how they crawl all this data (especially the craigslist listings).
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
And then what? Does the voting system prevent repeated links from getting noticed much? Right now it sounds like I should fire-and-forget links without bothering to check if they've been posted; I don't want to waste people's time if it's a
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
I always worry about posting 'repeated' links (as you can tell I'm a bit new to HN). Is there an accepted way to lessen this?
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The 'UNIX' system in Jurassic Park was, in fact, UNIX(web.archive.org)
14 points by wickedchicken 16y ago|8 comments
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
Awesome is great partly because it's small, nimble and fast. It's one of those rare pieces of software that manages to feel infinitely useful while combating bloat at the same time.
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The Spammers' Compendium(virusbtn.com)
1 points by wickedchicken 16y ago|0 comments
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by wickedchicken 16y ago
A lot of these are (as drallison mentioned) either syntactic sugar or 'missing the point of C.' The author would like an exponent operator but this is something complex enough to require a true library function. Almost every C operator can
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One Half a Manifesto (thoughts on the singularity)(edge.org)
5 points by wickedchicken 16y ago|0 comments