apostlion

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by apostlion 13y ago
The pirate station equipment is not so expensive, and in fact, petty phreakers use it pretty frequently to do basic SMS frauds in heavily populated areas. Maidan protesters have found themselves on a receiving end of false-station SMS fraud
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by apostlion 13y ago
What do you mean by “military attention”?
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by apostlion 13y ago
This specific instance might or might not have been. I'm just telling you that the pirate base stations have been operating in the Maidan area and have been used for nefarious purposes since November at least. Knowing some of the petty
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by apostlion 13y ago
It's amazing people don't understand this is an elaborate mass prank. Pirate base stations have been present in the area since the disturbances began, already being used for nefarious purposes before (SMS/money transfer fraud
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by apostlion 13y ago
Mail.app has these issues consistently, across versions. Which is a real shame, because UX-wise it is a really fine mail client. Also, threading algorithm changed slightly in Mavericks, leading to many more mistakes than ever before.
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by apostlion 13y ago
At this point, I would be actually happy for Disney IP to be in copyright forever, as long as they leave the copyright law alone and works start entering public domain again.
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by apostlion 13y ago
For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.
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by apostlion 13y ago
Just to clarify – there are 108 distinct licenses used. So apart from Apache, BSD, GPL v2, GPL v3, LGPL, there are 103 _different_ license terms used. IP law, as currently used, is something really overcomplicated.
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by apostlion 13y ago
Orange wouldn't. By this logic, many oddities in color naming can be abstracted over languages, see for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer...
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by apostlion 13y ago
I've seen somewhere a test for how many color words are there in the language - only color-words which do not correspond to a specific material or plant which color is emulated are accepted. So “red” or “blue” is fine, as is “piros” or
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by apostlion 13y ago
Fuzzy buckets are wonderful for exactly this kind of case. If you're alone, it doesn't matter whether there are 5 or 50 wolves - you're fucked anyway. On the other hand, if you're a scout for an armed band of hunters, 5
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by apostlion 13y ago
That's lovely. The DSL for defining custom blocks seems unnecessarily verbose, though.
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by apostlion 13y ago
Why would a culture that has no trade need numbers? Approximate buckets are good enough for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. After all, it were Sumerian traders and bureaucrats who gave us both figures -and- numbers -and- a way to write them
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by apostlion 13y ago
Can you do headings with Sir Trevor? If so, I didn't find a way.
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Email Kanban(cherevko.net)
1 points by apostlion 13y ago|0 comments
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by apostlion 13y ago
P word? Which one?
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by apostlion 13y ago
It's obvious — the terrorists that hate your freedoms! Your skin is brown? DROP A BOMB. You're a Muslim? DROP A BOMB, AND ONE MORE, TO BE SURE. You're a goddamn Ruski commie? BOMB, BOMB, BOMB.
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by apostlion 14y ago
MacBook Airs don't support two ACDs, at all.
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Living With a Computer [1982](theatlantic.com)
2 points by apostlion 14y ago|0 comments
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by apostlion 15y ago
Android is essentially GNU-less.
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by apostlion 15y ago
Given that VC-backed startups are obviously receiving far more press than bootstrapped ones, is there any statistics on how widespread are former and latter, and how successful they are, in consumer Web?
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by apostlion 15y ago
Amazing, thanks!
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by apostlion 15y ago
As a bit of a shameless plug (I work for one of the organizers of the event), would really recommend you to tweak the schedule a bit to be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 25-26 — Investors' Day Central and Eastern Europe will be undergoing, wi
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by apostlion 15y ago
Can we please keep the spam out of HN?
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by apostlion 15y ago
Did you package it yourself or used some package/library?
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by apostlion 15y ago
Soylent Green is people. Seriously though, an idea of a fake meat modified to taste like human meat is both troubling and intriguing.
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by apostlion 15y ago
Not all of the pig/cow energy is spent on producing muscle mass/fat, essentially, it is eliminated with industrial production. Initially, it probably will be quite expensive, but it is most certainly _potentially_ cheaper than real meat due
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by apostlion 15y ago
Simple static typing is not, actually, static code is easier to write than dynamic in many cases. Powerful typing system, like the one Scala or Haskell have, is brutal as much as it is magical.
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by apostlion 15y ago
That's odd, since “overtime is bad, more time is not more productivity” seems to be all the mantra. The thing is, that for a young, smart person, mechanically giving up 50, 60, heck, 100 hours per week is not that hard, but it gives the nic