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by elehack 13y ago
If you want similar backup capabilities to your own server, check out obnam or bup. Both do de-duplicated remote backups with differing tradeoffs and capabilities in security, efficiency, etc.
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by elehack 13y ago
The FSF is happy to consider projects under permissive free licenses (MIT, BSD, APL, MPL) to be free software. Perhaps not ideally-licensed software, but they have no problem calling them free software.
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by elehack 13y ago
I wish this perspective were more widespread. Systemd takes the cool stuff that's been getting into Linux under the hood and makes actually usable to everyday users and administrators. And it's far easier to write a systemd unit t
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by elehack 13y ago
The problem I have with this approach - keep everything compatible and portable - is that it holds back development and puts the effort in other parts of the stack to waste. What is the point of awesome ‘new’ kernel features like cgroups if
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by elehack 13y ago
I'm not a fan of the lab books — they don't lie flat enough for me — but I do like my gridded notebook (high-quality company swag notebook courtesy of ipHouse). When that notebook fills, I'm not sure what I'll use to re
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by elehack 13y ago
The thing I found particularly fascinating about this one is the mining of public data, and the occasional slip, to come up with a defensible, if not plausible, estimate of Google's capacity.
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by elehack 13y ago
A lot of stuff: Asimov's Foundation (I only recommend the trilogy, though; Foundation's Edge is good but will make you want to read Foundation and Earth , which does severe damage to the universe. Haven't read the preque
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by elehack 13y ago
They use the standard file open dialog, which in turn supports shell extensions.
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by elehack 13y ago
Is there a way to receive news updates w/o registering or subscribing via e-mail? I don't see a Twitter feed, or even an RSS feed for the blog.
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by elehack 13y ago
In the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, there is. There are a lot of Share the Road signs, window stickers, etc., as well as other things that are either intended to raise visibility or have the effect of doing so (e.g. the bright green Nice
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by elehack 13y ago
There is one thing that anyone can do to help fix this situation. Bicycle. 1, increased numbers of cyclists aid awareness among drivers and others. 2, increased demand helps justify building bike lanes, etc. Yeah, it's a vicious/v
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by elehack 13y ago
Does anyone know how feasible it is to use a Firefox OS phone with no data plan? Using GSM for voice calls and SMS, but forcing it to only do data over wifi?
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by elehack 13y ago
There is also the excellent Diceware: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
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by elehack 13y ago
Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
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by elehack 13y ago
Yeah, Java's enums are very powerful and useful. But in the context of a C-style language, I can understand the "what? these are enums. why do they have methods? and subclassing ?" It might be good if they had a different name.
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by elehack 13y ago
Mildly unrelated, but when I think of the opposite ("imaginative" enums), the first thing that comes to mind is this amusing vignette on the design process of Java's enums: http://blog.des.no/2009/01/no-silly-its-enum/
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by elehack 13y ago
There's the civil vs. criminal issue, as others have already pointed out. Also, in the order leading to the Prenda attorneys pleading the 5th, the judge basically said "I have drawn these inferences. Tell me why I'm wrong.", and they declin
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by elehack 13y ago
Yes, strictly speaking, Turing completeness implies a certain formal equivalence between the two programming languages. But does this does not an equivalence between systems make, for at least two reasons: 1. Different languages encourage,
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by elehack 13y ago
It doesn't speak well that the first item of their FAQ is patently false. > Q. What is Mozilla doing that is causing concern? > A. On February 25, 2013, Mozilla announced intentions to block all third-party cookies by default in upc
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by elehack 13y ago
Modern Yum does track explicit vs. dependency installs, though this is not very visible in the UI. There are ways to query the Yum database for it, though. Yum also has an option (disabled by default) to remove unneeded auto-installed depe
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DRM Chair only works 8 times(hackaday.com)
11 points by elehack 14y ago|3 comments
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by elehack 14y ago
This EFF article on the state of DMCA and cell phone unlocking does not mention any case law validating the idea that unlocking is actually a violation: https://www.eff.org/is-it-illegal-to-unlock-a-phone It does cite case law that points
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by elehack 14y ago
The carriers claim it is illegal, and there is no longer a DMCA exemption stating that it is not a violation of the DMCA. That does not make it illegal to unlock a phone. Is there any case law supporting the notion that unlocking a phone ac
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by elehack 14y ago
Logging in to services like Disqus, for one thing.
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The nuances of implementing a resizing vector efficienctly(github.com)
2 points by elehack 14y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 14y ago
Is the first group SEOs, or information architects? Good information navigation design will consider searchability and, more importantly, human accessibility (a large part of which will be searchability, but search serves the primary need o
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by elehack 14y ago
Reason #1: it runs on my platform. Reason #2: open source, so lock-in is (in theory) a non-problem so long as there are people who find it useful.
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Brevity is the Soul of Relevance(linkedin.com)
2 points by elehack 14y ago|0 comments
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by elehack 14y ago
> Well, I'd be careful with that. The open source project I contribute to (KDE) has quite a bit of GPL'ed code, but it also has quite a bit of other licenses in use, so it is certainly possible to have arbitrary licenses that make up a
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by elehack 14y ago
It doesn't seem that WordPress wants to make an exception. That is, the license without exceptions is functioning exactly as they intend, and they think ThemeForest is doing something wrong, not should-be-right-but-is-technically-wrong.

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