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by adamo 3mo ago
Akritai were locals who were to be used as the defenders of the borders instead of deploying regular Army or mercenaries. For this reason they were given land (so as to have skin in the game) and tax breaks. When the tax breaks stopped the
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by adamo 3mo ago
To be fair, the Akritai was the Byzantine Empire's effort to use the local population to defend the land, instead of having to deploy regular Army or mercenaries. It happened to be Muslim states that was the border. It bears no anti-
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by adamo 3mo ago
This is a very simplified and uninformed view of what the Akritai were. The name choice is so wrong, it cannot even be called out as cultural appropriation, because it is far worse than that. LF just stick with languages you understand.
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Twitter revoked cree.py's API keys(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by adamo 15y ago|0 comments
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Mod_rewrite plays tic-tac-toe(material5.tumblr.com)
2 points by adamo 16y ago|1 comments
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What constitutes a security incident?(blog.postmaster.gr)
1 points by adamo 16y ago|0 comments
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by adamo 16y ago
Not yet, but it is in my wishlist :)
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by adamo 16y ago
I wrote the blog post just to expand a bit on the reply I gave on twitter because of the excerpt from "The Roots of Lisp". I never really expected to see on the HackerNews first page.
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The Fatal Choice (Who killed Prolog - part 2)(vanemden.wordpress.com)
7 points by adamo 16y ago|0 comments
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by adamo 16y ago
Easier link http://wambook.sf.net/
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Who killed Prolog?(vanemden.wordpress.com)
93 points by adamo 16y ago|55 comments
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by adamo 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_sta...
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An amazing line (about music) from a very old SF novel (nextbit.blogspot.com)
2 points by adamo 16y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Optimization Methods for Logical Inference
2 points by adamo 16y ago|0 comments
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KHOBE – 8.0 earthquake for Windows desktop security software(matousec.com)
3 points by adamo 16y ago|0 comments
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Q: What is an incident?(blog.postmaster.gr)
1 points by adamo 16y ago|0 comments
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StackExchange to shut down www.or-exchange.com ?(or-exchange.com)
3 points by adamo 16y ago|1 comments
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FireWire Reference Tutorial(commonsense4commonpeople.net)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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Am I alone in believing that one should not send subject-less emails?(blog.postmaster.gr)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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by adamo 17y ago
Although I agree with the arguments, I cannot (yet?) agree with the final outcome.
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Bright people fooling themselves ?(financialcryptography.com)
19 points by adamo 17y ago|7 comments
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When in doubt, just keep going(blog.sugarenia.com)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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by adamo 17y ago
You would because you are Greek and understand it. But what if it was Cyrillic or Chinese instead?
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Would you click on a link that contains Punycode?
3 points by adamo 17y ago|4 comments
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Sed(1) one-liners(sed.sourceforge.net)
50 points by adamo 17y ago|13 comments
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Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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How to Get a Glowing Recommendation Letter(spinellis.gr)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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Greenspun's Tenth Rule - Prolog version(twitter.com)
2 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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Google public DNS: these guys scare me.(vrypan.net)
3 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments
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"Death March" projects(yourdonreport.com)
1 points by adamo 17y ago|0 comments

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