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Single Point of Failure: The Day Google Forgot To Check Passwords(youtube.com)
2 points by mvalle 12y ago|0 comments
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by mvalle 13y ago
Not necessarily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen#Northwest_Passag...
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by mvalle 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_Algorithm_X
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The race never ends in Formula 1 (bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mvalle 13y ago|0 comments
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by mvalle 13y ago
Here in the Faroes (at least in the capital), we have the best of both worlds. Free, and plenty of space. In 2007, the fare for municipal busses was removes, and at the same time, more frequent trips were introduced (by 50% at day time). Th
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Monad is not difficult [2010](john-millikin.com)
2 points by mvalle 13y ago|0 comments
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by mvalle 13y ago
when visiting some of their internal sites( http://www.cloudflare.com/overview , http://www.cloudflare.com/people ), I get this message: "Sorry, cdnjs.cloudflare.com is currently unavailable. Please try again soon." That was when I started
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Agile DSL Development in Ruby (2007)(infoq.com)
1 points by mvalle 13y ago|0 comments
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Computer Science vs. IT(cs.york.ac.uk)
1 points by mvalle 14y ago|0 comments
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by mvalle 14y ago
Sorry for going off-topic, but is there any explanation why InfoQ does not have an entry on Wikipedia? Is it just because no one has bothered to do it yet, or is there some other reason why this quite big, and frequently cited, site is not
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by mvalle 14y ago
For previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350238
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by mvalle 15y ago
Indeed, as the second time you run it, you have visited all those sites, and some of those images are in the cache. The first time, I had one 'visited', the second time about half were 'visited'. I'm surprised not all of them were, though..
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by mvalle 15y ago
teh guide has lots of typos.
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by mvalle 15y ago
The point is that the "couple of OSes" does not include Windows 7 / Vista / XP.
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by mvalle 15y ago
In an article called "Learning Unix", I think recommending (I assume proprietary) Windows/Mac software, is a bit silly.
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by mvalle 15y ago
Huh, so it isn't just me...
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by mvalle 15y ago
If it will damage your freedom, then, by definition, you don't have freedom. The effect this might have, if any, is to show who pretends to have/give freedom and who really has/gives it.
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by mvalle 15y ago
I like this bit from the article: "Smaller companies that held patents worried that if Microsoft prevailed, it could lower the standard of proof for invalidating a patent, crippling small companies that depend on patent protection, legal ex
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by mvalle 15y ago
I suspect this might be the work of Cory Docterow, I believe I heard him mentioning that the did a deal with Amazon where they would publish his books without DRM. But I might be wrong.
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by mvalle 15y ago
No.
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by mvalle 15y ago
When I first started university, I didn't realise how important pen and paper is. In my course, we use pen and paper more than we do computers.
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by mvalle 15y ago
It will reduce SMS volume by the same amount as it will reduce the Email volume. My friend has an iPhone. I have an Android. My friend wants to send a short message to me. Will she use iMessage? No. Email or SMS.
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by mvalle 15y ago
The UK has a similar system. You borrow money to pay for the tuition and living costs. The repayment is then, like in the article, a fraction on the post-graduation salary. The difference is that it is not time base. You have to pay it all
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by mvalle 15y ago
That's pretty much what viewtext.org does on my Android HN app.
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by mvalle 15y ago
That's what I was thinking. He could even have FJ host it for him. win-win.
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by mvalle 15y ago
Next step: Make it illegal to share ebooks.
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by mvalle 15y ago
From the article: '"I don't know enough about that legislation, but if it's combating that issue, I would be in favor of it," [Governor Bill] Haslam said.' Scary.
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by mvalle 15y ago
Coke?
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by mvalle 15y ago
What about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD? The point isn't that Linux isn't useful -- it's just that the claim that Linux is so important it should be included as a mandatory suffix any time anyone mentions "GNU" in a context that is not kernel exclus
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by mvalle 15y ago
Can the customer compile the source?

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