mitosis

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by mitosis 11y ago
Exactly. You're not supposed to pacman -Syu without looking. Part of your duty when you choose to install Arch is to take a few minutes every week to keep on top of what's new. Call it basic hygiene.
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by mitosis 12y ago
When I was an undergrad, I found very early issues of Dr. Dobb's in the medical library of my university, the name of the magazine having fooled the librarians. I remember spending many happy afternoons there reading about 6502 single-
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by mitosis 12y ago
I think control-L should be "^L", not "^+L", and so on.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Canceling a pledge is possible as long as the project is live (click on "manage my pledges", the cancel button is at the bottom).
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by mitosis 12y ago
Interesting. I don't get this at all from his message (that he is depressed and frustrated). I understand that this is painful for an entrepreneur to read, but Notch doesn't seem interested in using his fame to project his vision,
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by mitosis 12y ago
University administrators, mostly. They outnumber faculty at many universities, and their salaries are rising fast.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Heh: "Achievement unlocked: Refresh Prince of Bel Air".
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by mitosis 12y ago
So they spent a lot of time and money learning to crack buggy whips very well. Too bad there are automobiles now.
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by mitosis 12y ago
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. -- Kipling
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by mitosis 12y ago
That keyboard is wrong on so many levels.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Those of us old enough to remember the early days of the Macintosh know that this is nothing new. Apple programs used undocumented calls to QuickDraw and did all kinds of yucky stuff with the upper 8 bits of the address (in the early days,
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by mitosis 12y ago
This feels exactly like the kind of thing we will look at in a few years and say "How 2014."
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by mitosis 12y ago
That could well be it. My bank enforces similar short passwords, but they're not such a big security risk since they lock the account after three mistakes, and require you to visit a branch in person to reactivate it. I guess that mean
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by mitosis 12y ago
To continue the author's music analogy, what do you think music class would be like if it were taught by teachers who have never listened to an orchestra in their life, are barely aware of the existence of different music styles, and c
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by mitosis 12y ago
Seconding this: the killer app of Arch Linux is its community support.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Is there a country where it is usual to put the percent sign before the number? I sometimes see things like "%100 performance increase" on English web sites, and I wonder where that comes from.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Chinese writing does not encode sounds. It encodes meaning. If you write Chinese in pinyin, all you do is write down the sounds, not the meaning. Said differently: why do we keep writing English like this, instead of using a phonetic alphab
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by mitosis 12y ago
Eye no.
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by mitosis 12y ago
Your wife seems to be affected by the recently discovered vulnerability. It would be advisable to upgrade her firmware to the latest version.
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by mitosis 12y ago
As any French person will tell you, it should be "Ze fish in la river".
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by mitosis 12y ago
Is there more to the site than the five small PostIt-like paragraphs on a green background? Perhaps I'm missing something.
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by mitosis 12y ago
I'm not so sure the majority of developers / hackers (the target market for this device) are used to Ctrl on the bottom left. I know several (myself included) who remap their keyboard so it sits left of "A".
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by mitosis 12y ago
Love at first sight. The only thing left is deciding whether to buy the desktop or the laptop version.
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by mitosis 13y ago
He did not throw away $50k/day. He walked away from it because he had enough money already and did not need any more of it (especially since he did not particularly enjoy all the attention that came with the money, but even if he did n
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by mitosis 13y ago
Only France, hm? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=language+academies&l=1 Just because English borrows words more easily than most other languages ("We don't just borrow words; on occasion, Engl
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by mitosis 13y ago
News flash: different languages use different words!
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by mitosis 13y ago
Do consumers really control their devices anymore? Maybe they still can, but in the industry, there's no doubt that this is viewed as a problem that needs solving.
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by mitosis 13y ago
After trying Ubuntu Touch on my 2012 Nexus 7, and finding it WAY too unstable for my needs (I averaged maybe 10 minutes of use between hard crashes), I installed Arch on a chroot, accessed via VNC. The specific applications I used are Linux