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Re:Unpacking my knapsack: the privileges of a Hispanic male in tech on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @02:19AM (#5175302)
This is one of the discussed problems of philosophy and it gets a bit complicated when you start on quantum physics and relativity.

Some info.

http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-...

Re:Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers on Thursday January 31, 2013 @12:06AM (#5143564)
they probably found the place where windows stores the passwords. All 8 character passwords under the unsalted scheme (NTLM) used by Microsoft can be cracked within minutes via use of rainbow tables. Even easier if LANMAN passwords are enabled.
Re:The Worst on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @07:11PM (#4840125)
sounds like they are both optimising for value
Re:IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA on Sunday May 13, 2012 @09:13AM (#3966896)
I know that the criminals probably haven't caught up and this technology may not be widespread (so your argument holds) but...

chip and pin is definitely broken (defcon presentation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY

Re:Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @11:47PM (#3951770)
actually the third country after chile and norway

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&#...

Re:I Make Dreams Come True on Sunday October 30, 2011 @09:53PM (#3176045)
i'm sure it was helpful. the first skill in learning how to code is little details, like making sure all the text is the same as the listing, and that you pressed enter after every line ... ;-)
Re:How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit on Friday August 05, 2011 @12:04AM (#2848925)
i think really what he wants to say is to drill the fundamentals. getting the basics right is important.

don't do stupid shit means nothing. why would anyone want to do stupid shit? This kind of the same meaningless wording that everyone thinks applies to them in horoscopes how many times have you read "doesn't suffer fools gladly"?

I really like the idea behind these books, it reminds me of how I learnt originally, typing BASIC programs into my zx spectrum from the back of computer magazines.
official site - http://reaper.fm/

I've been using reaper for a couple of weeks now and cannot believe that anyone would want to go back to insert $500+ big name daw after using it.

Re:John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review on Thursday July 21, 2011 @01:52AM (#2788641)
As far as I can remember I had problems when I compiled it to a universal binary so if anyone else does try compiling it directly to your architecture.
yes! i'd love to see a sin city meets bladerunner kind of thing but I'm gonna be pessimistic and expect demolition man...
Re:Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t on Thursday May 19, 2011 @02:36AM (#2563089)
I think you have not seen the latest Asp.net MVC 3, it is pretty much something like rails.
Re:Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t on Thursday May 19, 2011 @02:33AM (#2563085)
It hasn't changed much. some syntactic sugar and influence from functional languages has helped C# but the IDE is not as good as eclipse IMO. You can however add a lot of the refactorings and features from eclipse by using jetbrains ReSharper. (I believe they also make a Java IDE too).
Re:TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement on Thursday May 19, 2011 @01:27AM (#2562982)
Looks really good (haven't tried it yet though). The concept is great. I'd like to see some TextMate/CommandT style functionality for file and path completion (I've been thinking cd'ing around in shells has been cumbersome ever since trying commandT).

Some other inspiration could be taken from zsh autocomplete.

Re:Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @11:14PM (#2558913)
now I'm wondering how hard it would be to write a commodore 64 or nes emulator in javascript to embed games in webpages?
Re:Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles on Monday May 16, 2011 @10:13PM (#2555022)
interesting, as an alternative to this how about how janus does it with a .local file?

https://github.com/carlhuda/janus/blob/master/vimrc#L147

Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance on Monday May 16, 2011 @12:08AM (#2551607)
I agree somewhat (although I do feel that debuggers are useful) in that IDEs can influence the design of your program by encouraging a debug first development style similar to "programming by coincidence"
Re:Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance on Sunday May 15, 2011 @11:54PM (#2551586)
There is no reason you can't use both. I tend to structure my projects using an IDE but do most of my text editing in vim.

Nothing beats vim for grunting through a pile of code that needs cleaning up. Just set up your IDE and vim to autoload when it detects changes.

My workflow generally goes Edit in vim -> check IDE for syntax errors -> Run/Debug -> repeat.

Re:Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop on Monday March 21, 2011 @11:06PM (#2352889)
I would totally use this. I buy clothing online all the time and have had great success but I do tend to stick to big name brands (birkenstock, levis, converse, ben sherman) that have easy to use size charts online or I have bought in shops before anyway.

If they had a way of matching your favourite clothes to others and making recommendations based on style and fit I think it could be great.

Re:Vim Recipes on Saturday January 08, 2011 @12:35AM (#2082375)
this is how i learnt vim by using this site. i think doing vimtutor and this is all you need.
Re:Vim Recipes on Saturday January 08, 2011 @12:32AM (#2082367)
sometimes its hard to know what you need to look up in help to reach your solution though (I mean before you know the general vim subsystem you need).
Re:Best of Vim Tips on Friday January 08, 2010 @06:10AM (#1039278)
between (book)mark a and b find fred then search the line and replace any occurrence of dick with joe with a confirmation. there a couple of modifiers on there I don't know but I think that's pretty much it.
Re:Vim Recipes on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:33AM (#618267)
I've posted this before, but i found the best way to learn some vim is by example. you soon get the idea.

http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html

I've found it quite an efficient editor with MacVim+Ruby and Jamis Buck's FuzzyFinder TextMate.

Re:How to Be Persuasive on Monday May 18, 2009 @01:39AM (#614445)
honesty is always the best policy, but how you present your honesty can be the deciding factor in whether your ideas are taken on board.

i enjoyed influence by cialdini, it helped a lot in getting my ideas across in my job.

Re:Ask HN: Tomato or DD-WRT for my router? on Saturday May 02, 2009 @11:37PM (#590496)
tomato has a simple ajax interface and really good QoS functionality which is what attracted me to it. I haven't tried the others.
Re:The Best Programming Fonts on Friday May 01, 2009 @12:06PM (#588672)
Re:Why Time and Newsweek Will Never Be The Economist on Friday April 24, 2009 @01:36AM (#577033)
I like the economist but find the density of information in there is overwhelming (I can't seem to find the time to read the whole thing in a week). Additionally, I feel the stories hold more importance than from other news sources.
Re:Simulated brain closer to thought on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @11:39PM (#575033)
dualism is also the core of the age of enlightenment and scientific philosophy. funny that.

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