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by wtracy 10y ago
This depends a lot on which distribution you go with. Gentoo is notorious for regularly breaking things. Debian has a reputation for constantly being two years out of date because because of their QA process. Ubuntu is somewhere in betwee
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by wtracy 10y ago
I second that suggestion, and recommend Patrick's article on the subject: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/validatin...
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by wtracy 10y ago
The README says the code is published without any build scripts "for reference only", so I expected this to be another "shared source" thing. It turns out that the code is offered under the (very permissive) MIT license.
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by wtracy 10y ago
First, I'm impressed that you were brave enough to post that under your regular account. Kudos. Second, here's an idea for you off the top of my head, so take it for what its worth: You are in the middle of an area that most techi
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Designing in the Material Style Without Just Copying Google (2015)(blog.invisionapp.com)
1 points by wtracy 10y ago|0 comments
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by wtracy 10y ago
To top it off, most of the author's complaints about drop-down menus apply doubly so to radio buttons. Selecting with the keyboard? My browser lets me select a menu, type a letter, and jump to the first entry starting with that lette
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by wtracy 10y ago
Out of the three sections that TFA is broken down into, two of them deal exclusively with how (and why) to improve your negotiation skills, and the third one is roughly 50 percent dedicated to the topic. If dedicating 83 percent of your e
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by wtracy 10y ago
Actually, never trade in your existing car at the dealer where you make your new purchase (unless you are a skilled negotiator). Typically, whatever discounts you ask for on the new car, they will quietly subtract from their "evaluatio
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by wtracy 11y ago
What sort of structured data are we talking about? If you format an XML or JSON file with one field per line (or just use YAML) git itself should fit the bill perfectly. Now, I do see lots of room for a git-like tool targeted at specific ex
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by wtracy 11y ago
As my sibling poster mentioned, 64 (or 16) cores is for the coprocessor. The coprocessor has an architecture halfway between a traditional CPU and a GPU. Linux does not run on the coprocessor itself, so your coprocessor code runs on the bar
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by wtracy 11y ago
Maybe it's not what you're looking for, but it would be easy to just write a cron job that runs wget and emails you if the error output is non-empty.
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by wtracy 11y ago
http://www.linuxonaposter.com/ A wall poster featuring Tux and Linux kernel code. I haven't sold any yet. I'm not sure whether I'm advertising it wrong, or if it's just not something people are intereste
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by wtracy 11y ago
Am I understanding correctly that Amazon is only monetizing Underground through interstitials at app launch time? If so, I'm impressed.
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by wtracy 11y ago
> Apps with ads in them. Easy enough to churn out, but decreasing revenues and most of the high earning adverts are the scummiest. Low value and of low moral usefulness. I assume that by apps you mean native mobile apps. Anyone know ho
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by wtracy 11y ago
> Also, it's a complete myth that San Francisco is expensive to live in. Cool. Can you point me to where I can get an apartment in SF for less that $1k/month?
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by wtracy 11y ago
Nope, nothing.
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by wtracy 11y ago
The main thing that surprised me in this article was learning that the Saturn had eight processors. Was that an outlier for consoles at the time?
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by wtracy 11y ago
On the system browser on my phone (a Kyocera Rise running Android 4.0.4) all I see on that page is the header and footer, no content. :-( I get the same result if I hit it with Firefox with Javascript disabled, but Javascript is very much e
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by wtracy 11y ago
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around why the H-2 program exists at all. The H-1B program I can understand: You need talent now, and can't just wait four years for someone to complete the relevant degree. But for unskilled la
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by wtracy 11y ago
TFA bad-mouths CGI, so let me ask: The only server-side technologies widely available on shared-hosting providers seem to be CGI and mod_php. What else are people supposed to use? Are you simply not worthy anymore unless you're willing
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by wtracy 11y ago
I once looked into getting a .kz domain. (I wanted to host comics on a site named "comi.kz".) It turns out that one of the requirements for getting a .kz is that the website be physically hosted inside Kazakhstan. (And yes, Kazakh
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by wtracy 11y ago
And the Android build shipped with your phone is provided by your telecom provider, which presumably cooperates with your favorite Three Letter Agency. So, you flash the phone with your own build? Most phones on the market rely on proprieta
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by wtracy 11y ago
http://mobile.geek.com/latest/256898-penis-detection-deraile... Lego can't even allow an open world MMO with the risk of players building penises. They would never risk someone selling penis kits through their web
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by wtracy 11y ago
CONTRIBUTING.md is important because it provides an easy entry point for new developers. Out of COPYING, INSTALL, README, and TODO, where do you go to answer that question? Except for TODO, all those files are targeted at end users, not con
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by wtracy 11y ago
The Honda Fit EV was only available for lease, never for purchase. http://www.plugincars.com/honda-fit-ev
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by wtracy 11y ago
This is my first attempt to start a business. The poster design was generated by my own little program. Given a set of text with pre-formatted line endings (like you get with source code) and an area to fit it into, it solves for the font s
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Show HN: Linux on a Poster(linuxonaposter.com)
9 points by wtracy 11y ago|4 comments
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by wtracy 11y ago
It would be interesting if it was possible to have an order shipped to the store for you to pick up. Like the existing Amazon Locker service, but with a retail outlet folded in.
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by wtracy 11y ago
CenturyLink has gone so far as to tell customers who cancel their DSL service that they will not be able to start it up again, Brems said. That seems awfully abusive.
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by wtracy 11y ago
Putting your password in plaintext is unacceptable because exposes it to anyone who may be sniffing your traffic. Your search history is already visible to anyone sniffing your traffic, so it's presence in the URI is moot. I guess my p

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