TheEskimo

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by TheEskimo 13y ago
In regards to the 180 degree spin, this demonstration shows exactly the opposite of what you say. At about 1:34 (elevator in portal 2) he performs a 180 with a single swipe from left to right.
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
That is not true. The people who contributed the original Shunway code own the copyright to it. They are choosing to license it under Apache. You cannot change that since you do not own the copyright. They may choose to "relicense&quot
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
Doubtlessly he's bemoaning the lack of support for linux. I would also like linux support, but it still looks like an impressive suite regardless.
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
> I don't fully understand why It's pretty simple - Apple owns the hardware and software they're pushing updates for. Sure, they don't own the carriers, but that's not the problem. In Google's case they neit
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
If you trust distrowatch's pagehits then yes, it's significantly beating/overtaking ubuntu. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
SpiderOak does have one problem. It has no arm build for linux (and they apparently have no plans to make one soon). If you frequently use a Raspberry Pi or linux on an arm Chromebook then you'll be out of luck on syncing your files. I
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
I personally use keepass and keepassx (the alpha compatible with keepass2.x) and sync my passwords with SpiderOak. That's worked pretty well for me, and I don't actually have to trust a website with my passwords. Even if there&#x2
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
https://github.com/clvv/fasd I used to use z, but I've since switched to fasd. It's much like z, but also so much better. In addition to being able to do "z <part of directory>" you can do &qu
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
Vertical space on linux? That's simply not true. Exhibit 1: The default firefox and chromium running on my linux (ubuntu, i3wm). http://i.imgur.com/paE173H.png . 6 pixels by default in favour of firefox . The real pro
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
I've always felt ghostery is the poor-man's noscript. If he wants to know about all external calls (which he presumably does) then noscript will actually do that while ghostery will let 'good' ones by untouched.
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
I believe that there is an even more important practical issue. What if someone manages to embed something very much like the EICER string[0] in it? How many people do you think would use the bitcoin client on windows if their AV automatica
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
This is a bad idea. I believe that hn actually will weight every comment you make based on your total karma to a degree. I've certainly heard people make anecdotal claims that if they have a lot of karma their comment, even if not heavily u
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
Well, the "Featured Systems" tab conveniently lists the GPU. It happens to be a GeForce GTX 645 on the cheap end and a GTX 660 on the high end. A 660 costs roughly $200. In addition, if your 'scientific computing' includes hashing or any of
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
This is windows 7. Notice that neither of them are maximized. The behavior you talk about only occurs when you maximize the window, not when it is "half-maximized" as shown.
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by TheEskimo 13y ago
Chrome's UI is also completely and totally inflexible. As you can see in this screenshot, http://i.imgur.com/D8rMRBa.png , my firefox's UI takes up less space and is only two rows. Chrome has three rows (the close/max/min buttons, tabs, a
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
The article's title is misleading. I read the linked study (pdf and prweb summary of results) and found nothing to support that they are the "Most Trusted Internet Company"... In fact, Amazon, eBay, WebMD, and Microsoft are all above it on
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
They also give you +1GB per referral which is quite big. It's a little unethical, but you could invite yourself a couple times to double the storage space. Or get actual referrals.
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
I do hope this is a joke. "some fancy acronym like AES"... I can't tell if this is a failed attempt to be funny through saying something so ridiculously stupid or if you're serious. There are lots of acronyms that are BS, but AES isn't one
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
Use SpiderOak[0] then. They assure strong zero-knowledge privacy and, while the client isn't technically open source, much of it is completely unobfuscated python. I definitely trust SpiderOak with my data. It also has more features than Dr
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
Not at all. This offers a completely different solution than java. With java, you write once and run on everything. This lets you write C# on OS X, but it won't compile and run on Windows or Linux. Windows software can't be as easily ported
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
Honestly, bubble sort isn't that bad. Couple years ago I had a fairly simple program which collected some data into a linked list and displayed it at the end. It took about 2 seconds to load and process the data from disk. I realized it m
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
>MU was the hub of piracy on the net I'd like a source for that. I believe TPB is and was in that position. I also believe that rapidshare and all those other sites had a similar amount of pirated content. In general you'd have a mirror
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
>If apple not patenting things, someone other does... No, not at all. Patents are only granted if there's no prior art and as such if apple uses anything (such as slide to unlock) in one of their devices without patenting it that also r
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
You are incorrect. It does not bypass adblock on firefox. Yes, the ad shows, but that's because it does not trigger any of firefox's blocking rules (assuming Fanboy's list. I didn't check the others). He triggers chrome's by the element of
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by TheEskimo 14y ago
That is not at all the question. The point of patents is supposedly to protect inventors and innovators. There is no question that it will (short term at least) hurt consumers; a limited monopoly means a higher price and fewer competing pro
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by TheEskimo 15y ago
It's a little more in depth than the shop lifting analogy. I like to use the following: "A person tells the government that they saw a TV in the local pawn shop which is really theirs. They never asked the pawn shop owner for it back and th
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by TheEskimo 15y ago
Sorry, if you read the page linked you'd see that that is not the case. It is open to SELECT, UPDATE, and INSERT. if it were SELECT only that would be read-only. As it is, that's just stupid as any user can wantonly edit anything. I could t
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by TheEskimo 15y ago
Ah, you are technically incorrect in saying there are an infinite number of "nicetry"+i hashes. There are an infinite number of "nicetry"+i passwords, but eventually there will be collisions as the hash set stays a constant size and the pas
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by TheEskimo 15y ago
It's unlikely they stored plaintext passwords. That doesn't mean that the attacker couldn't crack the hash. More importantly, if the hacker modified the ssh binary then they could make it retransmit passwords before hashing them. Once the a
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by TheEskimo 15y ago
There are many valid reasons. For one, Apple computers are overpriced. The Air is a good deal and the MacBooks themselves aren't too overpriced, but the actual Mac computers are extraordinarily overpriced. They also offer hardware beyond wh

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