trebuch3t

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by trebuch3t 13y ago
Thanks for the contrarian perspective. Sure, there's the pain of dealing with drivers and settings and tweaks with Windows, even with Win7, but it's certainly not any worse than getting Linux to work.
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by trebuch3t 13y ago
> What if the nightmare imagined by George Orwell in 1984 were real? What if you had to live in a country where radio dials were fixed to a single government station? Where the surroundings were entirely black-and-white except for the re
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Writing a book on Modern Perl is nuts. As the author of this post points out, there have been about twenty releases since Perl 5.6, when the book was published. Features like the "switch" and "state" keywords have been introduced. If you lo
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Agreed. I assume this is font ligature magic, like when you type "Zapfino" in Zapfino?
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
The issue is less about the UN trying to take control of Internet authority, it is more about what seems to be growing discontent with the US having all of the control. See the Chinese RFC about "internal internets" mentioned yesterday. Thi
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
I'm always amazed that a country which refuses to properly educate its people in math and science is able to pull off technological feats such as jamming GPS and distributing malware.
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Agreed. I tried for a few days before giving up. Unless you're happy with Chosen's default options you'll spend days trying to customize it.
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
I was going to get details from status.heroku.com but that's down too.
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
That's it. This thread sold me. Installing zsh now!
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Agreed. Facebook has turned into a stream of blabber and pictures of people's kids (no offence). What is NOT noisy is: * Path (just my close friends) * Pair (just my girlfriend) * Google+ (the "what's hot" news feed is actually pretty inter
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Backbone has pretty much changed the way I write JavaScript apps.
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
It's not soviet but if you're interested in this you should also see all of the programs used in the Apollo and Gemeni missions: http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/links.html
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
I think it's impressive that an algorithm can crack the CAPTCHAs. I get them wrong most of the time.
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by trebuch3t 14y ago
Smart. Facebook nailed photos and now they need to nail mobile. No wonder they bought Instagram.