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by zorked 15y ago
It still amuses me to no end that I can buy DVDs and CDs at Amazon but I can't buy a MP3 or stream video. Which is why I think this situation is less about contracts and more about pure technophobia.
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by zorked 15y ago
Same in Brazil, where free ISPs owned by small telcos in the then-recently deregulated market were incredibly important in making the Internet popular during the 90's. The free ISPs became so good that they started competing with for-pay IS
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by zorked 15y ago
Exactly. Managing hardware sucks.
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by zorked 15y ago
São Paulo is one of the ugliest cities ever created by man. Being a Stalinesque ghost town is a huge step up from what they were before. (and you only thought it looked like a ghost town because the pictures didn't include people in them)
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by zorked 15y ago
Well, who cares, pretty much the only market where Linux lost was the desktop, which is the most boring, stale market to be in right now. Linux is everywhere from my company's cloud provider to my phone and my TV.
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by zorked 15y ago
Yes, I had to fill a form for a an American corporation once that asked me about my ethnicity and it was very weird. It was the first time I saw anyone do that, much less in an official form - I was wondering all the time if that was legal
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by zorked 15y ago
Considering the fact that Google has had such easter eggs for years* I don't think getting this one through was that hard. * "ascii art", "what is the answer to life the universe and everything", "tilt", etc.
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by zorked 15y ago
I happen to be re-reading Aldous Huxley's Island now. It's a utopia, and it isn't creepy at all: it's warm, tropical, physical, intentionally low-tech, productivity isn't a priority and technology (where it's accepted) actually serves to in
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by zorked 15y ago
The big question is, if you don't trust it, why use it at all?
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by zorked 15y ago
Huge focus on digital stuff. You have to use a drop-down menu to get to physical goods... And this used to be a bookstore.
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by zorked 15y ago
I find it amazing that the geekiest of all books ever written gets put aside in the geek canon in favor or space robots shooting lasers...
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by zorked 15y ago
It's something like the Big Mac Index. You can't derive the entire state of the economy from it but it sure helps put some things in perspective. It's certainly easier to visualize than saying "the net reproduction rate of Hong Kong is 0.54
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by zorked 15y ago
I suggest that you read the whole sequence of articles, particularly the ones where he tries to implement Pac Man in a purely functional way. Keep in mind that he is an Erlang fan, and he is not trying to "debunk" functional programming. He
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by zorked 15y ago
I don't think it's ignoring robots.txt, it's probably just cached at another thread/machine/datacenter. It will pick up the new robots.txt eventually. This behavior is well-known.
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by zorked 15y ago
Yup, the fact that he didn't share anything about how the server was hacked is a bit suspicious.
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by zorked 15y ago
The definition is obviously about potential: the last healthy Tasmanian Tiger could mate with another healthy Tasmanian Tiger and have baby Tasmanian Tigers. A healthy mule can't mate with another healthy mule and have baby mules. People wh
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by zorked 15y ago
Around 2000 or so Microsoft had a Windows Media Player binary for Linux and other Unix systems (Solaris, and HP/UX at least). It used to crash a lot but could play some .asf files. If I am not mistaken it was a Motif application. But MPlaye
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by zorked 15y ago
I think that comment of theirs was meant as irony. The Dreamcast is known for its radical fanboy community, so they made a comical reference to that by mentioning the Dreamcast and "aligning" themselves to Sega.
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by zorked 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheDraw TheDraw was used mostly in the BBS scene to create ASCII/ANSI art for the BBS's log in screen and menus. There was an entire sub-community of artists back then. To be fair, the website is a diagram too
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by zorked 15y ago
AirBNB for offshore medical services. That could be a billion-dollar business in fact.
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by zorked 15y ago
Minor countries aside (like North Korea) the part of the map that looks really really wrong is Africa.
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by zorked 15y ago
I think this was written under the assumption that only children are smart enough to use electronic equipment. This was a common theme in the 80s and early 90s when talking about computers and videogames and setting the clock on your VCR to
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by zorked 15y ago
You can disable overcommit globally (/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory). At the application level, you can allocate as much memory as you want and then write to it all. You are not guaranteed not to die of OOM while doing this, but at least yo
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by zorked 16y ago
Well, I think there is some impedance mismatch here. He kind-of suggested resetting the stack "to remove left-over items". He also mentioned something about forgetting to pop an item. These kinds of comments are really... weird. I mean, wha
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by zorked 16y ago
Unfortunately they only ship to India...
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by zorked 16y ago
I think there's a confusion here between the copy-on-write system that makes fork() so fast under Unix and Linux's overcommiting memory, which allows malloc() to return success for memory allocation that will in fact only be allocated as ne
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by zorked 16y ago
Actually, I managed a reasonably large scale free email operation and spammers DO spend money solving captchas. We had this issue with spammers where after sending 50 emails a day we would ask users to solve a captcha after each email sent.
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by zorked 16y ago
` as backtick is rare? I thought it was the standard.
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by zorked 16y ago
I don't think nginx has support for websockets yet.
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by zorked 16y ago
Sokoban in sed: http://aurelio.net/soft/sedsokoban/

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