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Re:Commander Keen source code released on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @10:00PM (#8328112)
There is already someone porting Keen5 to C https://github.com/sulix/omnispeak
Re:Game about squares on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:31AM (#8092990)
This would probably be the issue I have on my desktop then. For some reason, chrome thinks I have a touchscreen...
Re:The MIT Lockpicking Guide on Monday April 14, 2014 @05:59AM (#7585318)
Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite keyboard for programming? on Friday March 14, 2014 @06:42AM (#7397896)
I have an old Mitsubishi Diamond Touch. To me it feels perfect for typing for long periods, and has media controls which are always needed.
Not sysadmin specifically, but when I was working as a computer technician, questions we would ask to scope out the skills of people were along the lines of:

Q: "Something you have no experience with has broken and won't do a basic function, how will you go about fixing it?" A: Research, ask someone else etc.

Q: "X is missing their password for a system we have no admin rights on. How are you going to fix this?" A: Recovery Tools. Format device and set it up again. Use JS/Developer tools to get it in plain text from the browser.

Chrome uses the OS API for text rendering afaict.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/rendering-bug-crashes-o...

Re:Ask HN: If you have had a FTTN broadband rollout, how is it? on Sunday September 15, 2013 @10:04AM (#6389118)
I haven't experienced FTTH yet, but reports from people who do have it seem really good.

I have however worked supporting both FTTP and FTTH on a private network. In my experience, FTTH was so much simpler to diagnose. If there was an issue you would check the exchange, and their house. The Fiber converters we had where tiny compared to the ones NBNCo offers too.

The FTTN users where a lot harder to deal with. All the network equipment is still fairly young (under 10 years iirc), but we would still get cables from the pits that needed to be rerun. Our nodes supported 4 houses at most. Though most of them only had 1 or 2 users attached to them.

Ask HN: Intellectual Property Ownership For Free Work

Hey HN,For one of my university subjects we are given a real world client with a real world problem to solve. The only major issue I have hit with this client is to do with the intellectual property ownership of the final product. Our university policy states that we own the IP for everything we make for university. The client wishes to own all the IP for everything we create to do with this...

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Re:July startup sprint - who's with me? on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:21AM (#5965520)
I am up for this. I've been working on Admin Job Log (http://www.adminjoblog.com) on and off for just over a year now. Having someone else trying to get a product out would be great motivation.
Re:Craigslist now asks for exclusive license when posting on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @03:41AM (#4321631)
Standard move I'd say. Stops people from making services that pull information from Craigslist and advertise it elsewhere.
Re:PHP Tips and Tricks - Codular on Sunday July 29, 2012 @09:12PM (#4310426)
Using Ternary Operators you can make a fizzbuzz program in 2 lines or less.

This post reminded me of them and it'll help me neaten up some of my code. Thanks!

Re:Dwolla's SSL certificate has been revoked on Sunday July 22, 2012 @12:07AM (#4276416)
Cert looks valid on my phone. Or am I missing something?
Re:How to find that perfect husband in college on Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:03PM (#4237873)
Contingency Plan. All that comes to mind when I read this. Very nice writing and summarises the world it seems.
http://www.elpamsoft.com/ Currently only has one product on sale (SSD Tweaker), and the second (TrackIT) will come out once I finish the front end.
SaaS. Friend of mine is making a living off of eCommerce.
Re:Dotcom info not 'physical' on Thursday June 07, 2012 @12:58AM (#4077679)
So because data is not physical, I can not be sued for copying data?

Ask HN: Continue University or get Dev Job

I'm only young and am just about to finish my first semester of university. I really dislike the Computer Science course and a couple of posts here have made me want to drop it completely. I've been working in IT for 3.5yrs (mostly part time) and coding for myself and freelance developing for just as long. I was just looking at some full time programming jobs and I fit some of the lower salary...

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Re:Ask HN: Coding speed on Sunday May 20, 2012 @11:41AM (#3999048)
I'd suggest this to help increase coding typing speed. http://wwwtyro.github.com/keyzen/
Re:Ask HN: music for hackers? on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:13PM (#3982646)
I find musicForProgramming(); is good for when ever I'm using a computer or doing tech work. Otherwise I just throw on a radio for background noise.

Link: http://musicforprogramming.net/