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by wwortiz 16y ago
Actually there is no real used game market for pc games and it has been that way for a very long time, starcraft one was only allowed 1 copy to be on battlenet at a time the only difference now is that games are online so much of the time t
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Personally I find them hard to read without any padding and it is much easier to read tables when they have alternating colors (I think some people like to call them zebra tables). That is about it though, just a nitpick with my tastes.
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I have a couple issues with that kind of software, right now I have two calculators that I use on a regular basis as an engineering student an HP35s for most calculations (RPN is crazy fast, and I need buttons so I don't think I'd like phon
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I admire tarsnap's design it is clean and rather functional (except for maybe the tables for usage). I don't mind websites trading style for functionality
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by wwortiz 16y ago
They took it down because people were defacing it
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by wwortiz 16y ago
First off these people need to change their passwords for their email accounts, I don't really know what virus it is but this would be the most likely culprit is a hacked email account (by bruteforce or maybe a virus as you say). Second of
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I am curious what you find wrong with FreeBSD's package management, or is it in reference to packages and does not include ports?
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by wwortiz 16y ago
It is because it is the first time you have visited the site, you can click the crossbones to see what the warnings are, not exactly user friendly though.
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by wwortiz 16y ago
First off I have a VPS from both prgmr and linode, and recommend both of them, though linode is probably the more user friendly of the two. When choosing between shared and vps you really need to figure out how much control you really need,
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Because it is high rated articles from hacker news and as you probably have noticed, a major part of this crowd likes to vote up startup and other articles which are relevant to their interests. Besides hacking isn't limited to programming
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Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf](hackermonthly.com)
185 points by wwortiz 16y ago|49 comments
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I had a toshiba laptop for a while where the windows key was at the top right of the keyboard, probably why I prefer stumpwm/ratpoison.
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by wwortiz 16y ago
As someone who dislikes all the facebook posts and apple and whatnots that aren't really hacking, this is an amazingly awesome post and I wish there were more of these things on HN. You can say the site is going downhill or that it is in a
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Ask HN: Resources to learn more about cryptography
4 points by wwortiz 16y ago|4 comments
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I have a kindle and buy most of my books through the local used bookstore but the kindle is great for all those free classics that I haven't read.
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Man security(freebsd.org)
4 points by wwortiz 16y ago|0 comments
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by wwortiz 16y ago
You are much better of using an IDE with java unless you want to write everything yourself using barebones and then do lookups for obscure bits and pieces that are only a simple completion away in an IDE. Enjoy your elite way of doing it th
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Well I'm not optimistic enough to think that this will be the last oil spoil to ever occur, so even though it may not help with this spill hopefully it would be useful in the future. BP wouldn't be collecting the prize for money either cons
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Someone will suggest duckduckgo I'm sure but it doesn't really work well for me and my usually obscure searches I must agree however that google is getting harder and harder to find what I want and more often than not searches are returning
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Looks like they do it with javascript + YUI which is pretty cool: http://showmetheheaders.com/static/showme.js You can do it with curl too for all those who don't know curl -I example.com works with multiple domains as well
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Something I want to address regarding return rates and complaint rates that I see on this all the time. Perhaps return rates are so low because people like the phone and do not want a different smartphone enough that the antenna issues are
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by wwortiz 16y ago
You'll find it is still not really the same, they took quite a bit out of the UI and old.thesixtyone.com sadly isn't quite right. But it is better than the new UI
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I don't know any good collections but di.fm has a radio station for it now http://www.di.fm/chiptunes/
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by wwortiz 16y ago
di.fm has jpop now too http://www.sky.fm/jpop/ I usually just listen to chillout or minimal
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by wwortiz 16y ago
That actually sounds like a fun concept.
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by wwortiz 16y ago
I think it ranks, or at least it did when the feature was added, items only by people who have had accounts for at least a year. (I may be wrong or it may have been longer than a year)
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by wwortiz 16y ago
The worst case scenario is the blink is able to do enough damage such as shutting off the computer and a hard drive being destroyed in the process, or even a power surge and the server being destroyed. (Though power surge equipment may be a
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by wwortiz 16y ago
There a plenty of people who use hydrogen in the gas balloons, even in places where helium is cheaper Here's some info: http://www.balloonfiesta.com/gas-balloons/gas-ballooning-faq... but there is more to be found.
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by wwortiz 16y ago
Not really on topic but: Insanely cool google custom search implementation :)
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by wwortiz 16y ago
My mom runs a facebook page not for her self but for an organization and she didn't know how to stop getting email notifications , she was reporting them as spam to no avail, and it was as simple as her not seeing the notification tab in op

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