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by botker 15y ago
We don't need more Continental philosophers. We need all the Analytic philosophers we can get. A curriculum that emphasizes rigorous thinking skills and logic is an invaluable foundation for CS as well as every other valuable human ende
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by botker 15y ago
She answered that question already, in paragraph #3: "I idolized Archimedes, Galileo, da Vinci, Faraday, Newton, Maxwell, Tesla, Pasteur, and Darwin. I couldn’t believe they were all dead, and that I would never get to meet them and hear th
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by botker 15y ago
See the shell script in the top comment here: http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ticket/2100 I tested it, and it works as advertised. For firefox integration, in about:config create a new boolean as: network.protocol-handler.expose.magnet
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by botker 15y ago
I agree. I want to support fellow HNers, so I hesitated a moment before closing the tab. But in the end I'm not going to give away my email address just to find out what this thing does.
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by botker 15y ago
I have a hunch that you might be absolutely right. But it's unclear to me whether following this advice would improve my quality of life. Right now I'm productive, working whenever I can without respect to the clock. Limiting my productivit
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by botker 15y ago
The word "hacker" has a highly negative connotation to the mass media. This site may as well be called "Terrorist News" from their POV. The last thing our SOPA opposition needs is to be associated with "hackers" in the popular press. For th
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by botker 15y ago
While I'm a big fan of naps, I'm not a big fan of government. It's not their job to legislate when we sleep, and the Law of Unintended Consequences assures that it would be a disaster. A better approach is to start your own business, and in
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by botker 15y ago
Same here. I've been allowing myself to sleep pretty much whenever I feel like it for the past several months, and I don't appear to have any sleep pattern. Sometimes I sleep 3 or 4 hours, and wake up feeling well-rested and ready to get ba
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by botker 15y ago
:h new-omni-completion :h compl-omni :h compl-generic
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by botker 15y ago
Painters were copying paintings long before digital film made the practice easy. Musicians were covering other musicians long before the advent of mechanical sound recording. Copying is an inherent facet of the arts. It's our natural way of
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by botker 15y ago
While you're right, that's why I wrote "somewhat more likely". Republicans may not favor limited government today, but on average they are still less likely than Democrats to support regulation. The OP's link demonstrates this tendency.
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by botker 15y ago
Democrats tend to favor government regulations of any kind, while Republicans are somewhat more likely to oppose them in general. So it doesn't surprise me at all.
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by botker 15y ago
It's interesting to me in part because I tend to think of the SOPA battle as being rooted in the age-old war between North and South -- Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood. Attempting to cripple our industry is just a standard war practice. But to
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by botker 15y ago
What a great video. It gives me a lot more respect for the guy. After watching it I'm surprised that he's made it this long without learning how to code.
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by botker 15y ago
http://www.craigryder.com/linux-ubuntudebetc/x11-forwarding-...
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by botker 15y ago
That's a funny requirement. Requiring uniques reduces password strength.
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by botker 15y ago
From your second link: Samuel Mudd is sometimes given as the origin of the phrase "your name is mud", as in, for example, the 2007 film National Treasure: Book of Secrets. However, according to an online etymology dictionary, this phrase h
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by botker 15y ago
Ditto.
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by botker 15y ago
I believe that award goes to ed, the standard UNIX text editor.
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by botker 15y ago
You'd have been working half-days if the only browser you supported was anything other than MSIE6.
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by botker 15y ago
Sure there was. IE6 support always required 2 to 3 times as much effort to support, compared with any other browser.
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by botker 15y ago
This is the headline that so many of us fantasized about just a few years ago. The demise has been so slow that this barely feels like news. But with so many man-hours wasted on MSIE6 support, the headline's a legitimate cause for celebrati
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by botker 15y ago
What are you, an ex-girlfriend? This is Hacker News; let's maintain a higher level of conversation than that.
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by botker 15y ago
Yeah, I do, although I think most people would answer "No". Culturally, in the US at least, there's a distinct tendency toward Individualism in rural areas and Collectivism in urban areas. But the distinction is cultural, not inherent.
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by botker 15y ago
Yes, I live in SF.
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by botker 15y ago
It's ironic that my anti-dogmatic stance ( None of us has the right to dictate the behavior of strangers ) came across as being dogmatic ( Thou shalt not dictate the behavior of strangers ). Of course you're right that this is how the world
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by botker 15y ago
All government regulation is bad because none of us has the moral right to dictate the behavior of strangers. The aggregate gain in a quieter society that you describe is not an aggregate gain in happiness. It's a society in which we're sil
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by botker 15y ago
You're not alone. If I want a place free of visual clutter then I head outside the city. But advertising is a form of speech, and without it I would feel silenced. Corporate propaganda is similar political graffiti: sure you can make a case
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by botker 15y ago
Several years ago I was prepared to purchase ¹ swear.by so I could use foo.to.swear.by for a variety of foo. After receiving a printed application from the government of Belarus, I decided to quickly educate myself about life there. I'm gl
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by botker 15y ago
It's only anecdotal counter-evidence, but my cousin, who's a non-technical owner of a kite surfing business, has expressed concern about SOPA on facebook. He doesn't normally post about anything political, but he's worried it will destroy t

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