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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Growing up, my best friend was always one of the smartest and successful kids in the class. But he also had an annoying habit of going around making offhand remarks about how he hadn't cracked a book until 10 minutes before the finals and s
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
It's funny feeling like the doc has you open in gdb or something. I had my aortic root and a valve replaced a few years ago. However, I had been monitored for years prior, so I avoided the surprise you got. Anyways, glad you came through ok
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
you gotta wonder how difficult it was to convince each and every person in the dorm to agree to this...
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
I haven't tried it since upgrading to OSX 10.5 but http://trac.kismac-ng.org/ always just worked with the AirPort built into the MBP. With an idiotproof Mac GUI to boot.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Not sure I understand the question, you mean could they install Windows on the same machine? It was running XPsp2 prior to Ubuntu 9.04.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Keep beating that strawman, you're sure to make a point eventually. The argument isn't whether or not Linux is useful to a bunch of nerds, myself included, or whether or not I should kiss rms for bestowing this gift unto humanity for free.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
and therein lies the predictable attitude that will keep linux a distant 3rd on the desktop.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
As a dude who just tried Ubuntu for the first time in 5 years to see how far they've come, but couldn't because the fucking liveCD didn't have a driver for my cdrom, this rings true. But for what it's worth, after a few grueling days gettin
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
It has as much to do with the community it attracts as the articles themselves. Every social news site has it's unspoken core values that can't be parsed out (easily :) with a script. HN has it's libertarians, reddit has it's contrarian onl
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Was hoping it would also convert the images...nope.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
I know I'm missing the point, but my main reaction to this is naive admiration that Zed can complain about a language in a blog post and get flamed by the freakin' creator of said language.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
This could be revolutionary, however email is the way it is because that's just how we've communicated as a species for eons, all the way from letters to tablets to cave paintings. You think carefully about your message, create something re
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
I am drooling with hacker nerdocity. A beautifully organic 45 year old still-working box passed on from a protohacker connected to a defcon-stickered terminal browsing the web on a cli....I need to look away
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
not sure if I'm more annoyed by the dumbass crackers or webmasters...
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
you must support terrorism _and_ love Windows.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
indeed. grep -P is your friend. (except older grep versions seem to segfault on me constantly with various -P regexes)
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
That is true...I'm not too sure at all. I guess my plan is just to see what's out there and what sounds cool to me. If you know of a few internships or jobs, I'd love to hear about them, 0xdefec8 at gmail dot com Much appreciated, thank yo
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
That's actually an option I hadn't considered...taking time off to work on something myself, as opposed to an internship. I know a lot of people around here can operate on 5 hours of sleep and pick up their personal project immediately afte
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Because that's what I find interesting I guess. Having a living, active product is just sort of fascinating to me. But I'm sure there's non-web stuff out there that I would dig too. The question was more about the internship thing.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Not sure on specifics honestly, but it would probably be a web based business (facebook, reddit, amazon) and use python. But maybe it's naive to narrow my search by what language they use.
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Ask HN: Are internships mainly for college grads?
5 points by 0xdefec8 17y ago|9 comments
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
sounds like an appeal to authority just got countered with a tu quoque
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
Whether they'll admit it or not, that comment is probably the #1 issue holding back more hackers from switching to a Mac. Hackers :: Linux as Hipsters :: ObscureIndieRock. Switching to a Mac is like admitting you listen to Nickleback.
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by 0xdefec8 17y ago
For me, TV is the opiate of the masses that numbs my brain after a long day quicker than booze, god, or exercise. Replacing it with a second job is about as likely as giving up weekends and vacations.
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
hrm that post was a good BUI (browsing under the influence) test...it took me about 3 paragraphs before I had to check the date on the article. time for bed I think.
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
I can't say firsthand whether this is true or not since I was in diapers during it's heyday, but I'm told that when DEC died, it's unwieldy, monolithic culture leaked all over the northeast. With 150,000 employees, it was basically the anti
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
Valid points. I guess I just get hung up on the relationship between things society values economically, and things of intrinsic value to society. Personally I believe the relationship between the two is too loosely coupled to let the marke
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
What part of my comment says I like the public sector? While it does seem to be a money burning machine nowadays, it has made unmatched contributions to mankind in the past; that's also just a fact. It thus does not inherently "retard the f
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
The parasitic public sector also put us on the moon and built the bomb.
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by 0xdefec8 18y ago
True, but is it better for a paper to be afraid of its sponsors and popular opinion than to be afraid of the government? The need to appeal to the lowest common denominator to maximize profit is what's brought us such gems like USAToday and

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