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Re:Transform Data by Example [video] on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:51AM (#14367164)
the addon supports "excel online"
skype still has the best echo cancellation (that i've tried). you don't even need to wear headphones. according to a Tox developer: there aren't any comparable open source libraries.
Re:A native code to C/C++ decompiler on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:26PM (#8430170)
"The standalone decompiler runs fine under Wine."
Re:Slow is not a dirty word on Tuesday October 07, 2014 @01:02PM (#8422322)
i'd say it depends on how important a project you are working on. if it's another run of the mill CRUD app, that only get's used internally by a few people, then you'd want cheap/fast, low quality. if it's mission critical, air plane software, you take your time and get it right.

but the author is hinting in the right direction: today "slow" get's undervalued. i've been told i work slow, and yea it had a negative meaning. i interpret it as good: i take my time and do it right. maybe i was just working in the wrong company, where the software quality isn't that important versus churning out more.

machanical keyboards are still around. Cherry MX switches are the most common.

http://deskthority.net/ http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/buying_guid...

Re:Show HN: thedaywefightback.js on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @01:34PM (#7185721)
use Apache or BSD or MIT. simple
Re:Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure) on Wednesday December 26, 2012 @08:53AM (#4969199)
awesome, thanks for replying :)
Re:Riemann, a distributed systems monitor (built in Clojure) on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @03:35PM (#4967044)
hi, this project looks really neat! i'm evaluating icinga web + pnp4nagios at work, but this could be a viable alternative. cheers and glad you put this out there :-)

i see that you use Protocol Buffers. from google's page, it seems like they only work with C++, Java or Python. now this could be a problem for us. what if i want to pull events from a bash script, a delphi gui app, SNMP, Dell idrac interface, or any other event? do they have to interface over Protocol Buffers, or am i missing something here? would i have to write a glue layer?

and what about, if you have two seperate networks, and want one server to forward data for its entire lan to the other server, to process and graph them?

Re:Steam goes down on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @12:22PM (#4966429)
looks up to me?
Re:10,000,000,000,000,000 bytes archived on Saturday October 27, 2012 @01:05PM (#4706577)
i'm interested in their server setup: DIY or vendor?
Re:Raspberry Pi Colocation on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @02:52PM (#4637649)
xen: you can install any kernel openvz: only the host kernel gets shared amoung guests and less isolation. also in the past there was no swap support, seems to work now.
Re:Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007) on Thursday September 27, 2012 @02:55PM (#4582194)
use case for crappy crypto: performance. even google uses RC4 for gmail.
Re:I Google everything on Monday August 20, 2012 @02:42PM (#4409106)
"Now I wish people online would put a huge disclaimer saying "I'm only interested in arguing for the fun of it, not in finding an actual solution" before their posts. That would have saved countless hours of online typing wasted for nothing."

there's many things that get expressed "between the lines". arguing for the fun of it has benefits. for one, ideas get exchanged, validated and who knows: maybe something useful comes out of it.

Re:Gnome: Staring into the abyss on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:48PM (#4302294)
Sane defaults is fine. Hidden options limits its capabilities which are sometimes essential.
Re:Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS" on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @02:04PM (#4261996)
I dont get why your QA is better than red hats. They have a much longer experience with their product.
Re:Magnet-hashes for all torrents on The Pirate Bay: 164 MB on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @05:53PM (#3568968)
68MB with "xz -9 --extreme" :P
Re:Tell HN: RAM Requirements are going through the roof on Saturday January 28, 2012 @11:33AM (#3522444)
for the open source chromium, there's a command line option to set how quickly it should release memory to the OS:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium_Tips_and_Tweak...

i once built a clojure web app and used a startssl free certificate. it worked fine after i imported it into the java keystore. i was using OpenJDK under linux. were you using Oracle's java?
when you sign up they install a certificate in your browser. without that, there's no way to login to your startssl account! so make sure to make a backup of it. i lost my account because i didn't realize this...
you'd want to revoke it if someone steals your private key.
Re:FreeBSD 9.0-Release Announcement on Thursday January 12, 2012 @06:16PM (#3458409)
ZFS supports deduplication with this release.
Re:Fear and Loathing in Debian/Ubuntu (or: who needs /etc/motd) on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:18PM (#3331657)
yep. why make it complicated when one could, for example, the admin can simply overwrite the motd from /etc/rc.local, instead of this symlink + motd.tail + regenerate at login/boot?
Re:ISPmail Tutorial for Debian Squeeze on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @07:27AM (#3269805)
nice. been looking for something like this.
Re:Neo4j 1.4 M01 "Kiruna Stol" released on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:36PM (#2498206)
looks like they switched their license from AGPL to GPL3! didn't know until now. great news!
Re:Collect HN: Aprils Fools on Friday April 01, 2011 @09:58AM (#2396226)
(in German) Netbook review: Compaq Aero 4/33C http://www.golem.de/1104/82381.html
similar situation here. except i picked Common LISP.

for a couple of reasons: speed of your app; SLIME is great; more documentation (books); a long history :)