hnisnotreddit

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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Paid $75 (in 1987 money!) for The Legend of Zelda for the NES at a Toys "R" Us in Colma, CA. Sold all my Series 1 Voltron (with the toxic paint) at a garage sale to finance it. Still the most I've ever spent for a game, and i
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Hallucinogens have done wnders for my PTSD and depression issues. Please do not confuse them with Amphetamines or other non-hallucinogens. That said, if you are on MAOI's or SSRI's, you would do well to end their use before attem
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Kijiji, the classifieds leader over Craigslist in Canada, is an eBay property. If the US has competition for eBay, the rest of the world seems to be sorely lacking in it.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
In Canada, this would be grounds for "Malicious Prosecution", which is pretty much the only way to oust a prosecutor. I've seen it done only once with my own eyes; Lawyer was disbarred, and the now-former lawyer "settled
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
> schadenfreude Epicaricacy. because you're speaking english.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Epicaricacy. because you speak english.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Fun food for thought: NCSA Mosaic started in 1992, and ended in 1997. Netscape 4.0, the last user of this engine, stopped development in 1998. Gecko, the core of Mozilla, started in 1998, and is still in development 16 years later. So, the
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Here's two: Kaillera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaillera GGPO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GGPO
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
The Seamonkey Project [1] is the current state of the Mozilla Application Suite[2], which Netscape 6 and 7 were branched from[3][4]. Written in C++ mostly. Some of us have been using Gecko as their renderer for almost sixteen years now. See
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Please go back to reddit, thanks.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Just goes to show you, if a cop finds a reason to arrest you, you an be detained for up to 72 hours without charges being laid upon you. This story is what a typical arrest feels like in 2014. All the stuff you see on movies? forget it. it
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Just for a bit of perspective, Alex St. John is the "Father of DirectX", and created the first video game company that streamed games over a web browser.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
I, for one, miss spending 10 hours fully compiling GNOME 0.99.8 and Englightenment 0.15 from CVS every week on my Pentium 133 running Linux Mandrake. Over the past 17 or so years I've been using linux full-time, I've experienced 3
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
KDE 1.0 did have Konqueror/KTHML built-in, so maybe this was the example the grandparent was looking for.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
>> Did you even use Netscape in the 90's? While most of the non tech loved it's bloated and "friendly" interface, the tech crowd I ran in used IE because it was lean, fast and didn't try to be some sort of &qu
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
your comparison to Tor completely glosses over Hidden Services, which are less complimentary to Avatar.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
Android has been using mainlined for a few kernel revisions now.
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
I'll just leave this[1] here as evidence. I still celebrate his work, just not his character. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7134774#up_7135480
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
This right here is why Steve Ballmer left a family vacation to attempt to interrupt the Munich linux switch [1]. Free Software is steadily destroying every market Microsoft attempts to dominate (including home entertainment [2]). It's
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by hnisnotreddit 13y ago
congrats. you compelled me to create an account. https://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/q/image/1365/86/13...