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by jfmercer 5y ago
This is brilliant work! I hope that Apple doesn't hit you with a takedown order.
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by jfmercer 6y ago
This is the best thing I've seen on HN in a long, long time.
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by jfmercer 6y ago
Isn't "securing lasting freedoms for all" a hyperbolic title for this issue?
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What Is SpaceX? (In Latin)(youtube.com)
1 points by jfmercer 6y ago|0 comments
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IRCCloud's Extended Outage Response(blog.irccloud.com)
3 points by jfmercer 7y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 7y ago
Happy New Year's
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My dudes, it is New Year's
2 points by jfmercer 7y ago|3 comments
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ProtonMail and VPN Are Down(protonstatus.com)
6 points by jfmercer 7y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 7y ago
This looks like a very promising resource.
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by jfmercer 7y ago
I paid 100EUR for VIP.
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Webpack 2 Official Release(github.com)
5 points by jfmercer 10y ago|0 comments
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Webpack 2, RC 7(github.com)
41 points by jfmercer 10y ago|22 comments
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Volkswagen: force your tests to pass(github.com)
2 points by jfmercer 10y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 10y ago
According to sokra, this ought to be the final rc. From the release notes: "This is probably the last RC. We released it as final test. If no critial bugs are discovered, we release 2.2.0 in < 10 days."
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Webpack 2, RC 4(github.com)
64 points by jfmercer 10y ago|20 comments
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by jfmercer 10y ago
"The English and Their History" by Robert Tombs. This isn't simply another "here's what happened" history book. Rather, it focuses not simply on what happened and why it happened, but more so on the storie
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by jfmercer 10y ago
Dear Facebook, Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
IME, breathless superlatives such as "all x should be y" are almost never true. That said, the author did go to great lengths to support his argument.
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Douglas Crockford: Amazon Book Reviews(amazon.com)
1 points by jfmercer 11y ago|0 comments
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PhpStorm 10 Released(jetbrains.com)
2 points by jfmercer 11y ago|0 comments
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by jfmercer 11y ago
This brilliant. And great fun.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Regarding this discovery, I would argue that debates about the quality of the KJV translation are beside the point. This is a tremendous historical discovery, especially for historians of the early English Reformation. The KJV formed the
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by jfmercer 11y ago
I know a woman in her mid-60s who has been programming since the late 1960s. She's much more than an "experienced dev": she is a sage, a teacher, and a grand-master of the art of computer programming: a true engineer in the v
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by jfmercer 11y ago
This is a remarkable innovation. I wish Ogo Tech the best of success.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Your mention of "little fiefdoms" reminded me of a piece that Bruce Schneier wrote called "Feudal Security": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht... .
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Unless I am mistaken, that is exactly the case.
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Of particular interest to me was how pedigree collapse transforms our family trees from exponentially growing binary trees into directed acyclic graphs. We are accustomed to thinking that, because we have four unique grandparents, we must h
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Pedigree Collapse(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by jfmercer 11y ago|3 comments
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by jfmercer 11y ago
That fact alone--that, out of all of the characters, Tom alone has power of the Ring--is enough to captivate the reader's attention. Add to that the whole business of being "Oldest" and "Fatherless", yet being neith
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by jfmercer 11y ago
Tom Bombadil is undoubtably one of Tolkien's most popular--and fascinating--characters. The author, km-515, seems not to understand this.

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