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Re:Why I won't get a Google+ Custom URL
on Friday November 08, 2013 @05:04PM (#6699444)
Does anybody know if Google plans to allow claiming a deleted account... ever? I'm hoping that since I was granted +MyName in G+ I will be allowed to recover (long story) [email protected]... (It was [email protected] and I wasn't happy... and let it expire...)
Re:How Geniuses Think
on Sunday April 29, 2012 @07:17PM (#3907433)
"The best part: whether or not you apply yourself is under your control."
That assumes free will... It may seem an absurd topic, but it's far from closed [1].
[1] http://philpapers.org/surveys/results.pl (search "free will")
Re:DNS Tutorial For Beginners
on Monday April 23, 2012 @06:08AM (#3878066)
I think it becomes a relative path without the final/root dot. That is, "example.net" in the zone file "mydomain.com" will be understood as "example.net.mydomain.com.".
Re:PHP: A fractal of bad design
on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @04:31AM (#3821315)
Do you have this in audio/video? It would be nice to hear/see this exchange.
Re:EU: Possession/distribution of hacking tools to be made a criminal ...
on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @04:33PM (#3799695)
That was my first thought. Will downloading tcpdump get you in trouble? What if it's "homemade"? Compilers will be next, since the enable the creation of these tools...
Re:Run chrome in linux with root login
on Saturday March 31, 2012 @08:26PM (#3782054)
Why would you want to run a browser as root?
Re:7 Years Of YouTube Scalability Lessons In 30 Minutes
on Monday March 26, 2012 @03:44PM (#3758318)
"Dummer code is easier to grep for and easier to maintain.
The more magical the code is the harder is to figure out how it works."
A nice formulation of the kind of advice I keep reading here in HN.
Re:Ask HN: Hard caps on AWS spending?
on Saturday March 24, 2012 @07:21AM (#3749084)
It turns out Amazon (or somebody there) said [1] this feature would be coming up soon... in 2006!
[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=10532
Re:Multi-Region Latency Based Routing now Available for AWS
on Saturday March 24, 2012 @07:19AM (#3749080)
Update for those interested: it looks [1] like it'll never happen...
[1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=249000
Re:Multi-Region Latency Based Routing now Available for AWS
on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @11:36PM (#3738237)
I don't think Amazon is being dishonest, but you can see that, regardless the individual degree of paranoia, there are quite a few small developers who don't try AWS just to be safe.
My point is that it makes business sense for Amazon to lure this old-fashioned crowd, and it could do so by implementing a simple feauture such as spending control.
Re:Multi-Region Latency Based Routing now Available for AWS
on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:16PM (#3737818)
Sorry for bringing this off-topic issue on AWS: is it possible to set hard caps on monthly spending in AWS? I just asked this [1] but didn't receive a single upvote =S. Thanks.
Ask HN: Hard caps on AWS spending?
Hello! I want to try out AWS, but am always afraid of potentially getting an unexpectedly high bill.I'm the kind of guy who pays some extra for unmetered hosting, just in case, even though I know it's not necessary. It looks like I'm not alone, though [1].I was wondering, since AWS is big in HN, if any of you knew of a way to instruct AWS to, say, not exceed by any means $100 monthly.Thanks in...
Re:How One Response to a Reddit Query Became a Big Budget Flick
on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @09:59AM (#3734394)
When we entered graduate school, the program director gave us this piece of advice:
Success ∝ Ability * (Hard Work)^2 * Sqrt(Luck)
Re:Linus Torvalds: The King of Geeks (And Dad of 3)
on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @09:43PM (#3732670)
Interesting... if anything, I see hints (no proof!) of the reverse implication: success => genuine interest.
Re:Help, Linux ate my RAM
on Tuesday March 13, 2012 @04:11PM (#3700167)
I found this page because I was pretty confused about these issues, and still am...
Question for the crowd: In this site the example given says that in reality there are 869MB of used RAM. I'm comparing this with my VPS values, and would like to know if this is the sum of some column in top. Is it? It looks like it's pretty close to the sum of the SHR column. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance.
Help, Linux ate my RAM
Re:Bash Shell Scripting in 10 seconds
on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:32PM (#3669255)
I replied to a specific comment, not to the article. In particular, nescafe said this was "an OK intro to pre-POSIX bourne shell scripting". I took this to mean that he would provide POSIX-endorsed suggestions. The double brackets, at least, are not "post-POSIX".
Re:Stephen Wolfram does an AMA
on Monday March 05, 2012 @08:10PM (#3669205)
Interesting link provided by Wolfram, and funded by his company: http://www.computerbasedmath.org/
Re:People Aren't Smart Enough for Democracy to Flourish, Scientists Say
on Monday March 05, 2012 @12:03PM (#3667198)
It is anarchy that requires real smarts, not democracy.
As New iPad Debut Nears, Some See Decline of PCs
Ask HN: Will Ubuntu for Android also run undoked?
Greetings! I'm extremely excited about the newly announced Ubuntu for Android [1] [2]. However, to me it would be critical to be able to access Ubuntu also when the phone is not docked... or at the very least the terminal portions, with the ability of apt-getting any relevant package on the go.Could somebody shed some light on this? Thank you very much in advance.Cheers.[1]...
Re:Bash Shell Scripting in 10 seconds
on Monday February 27, 2012 @03:23PM (#3640460)
Actually POSIX does not recognize double brackets [1]:
"The KornShell-derived conditional command (double bracket [[]]) was removed from the shell command language description in an early proposal. Objections were raised that the real problem is misuse of the test command ( [), and putting it into the shell is the wrong way to fix the problem. Instead, proper documentation and a new shell reserved word ( !) are sufficient."
The entire section on test is full of advice on the proper use of test(1).
[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/te...
Re:Bash Shell Scripting in 10 seconds
on Monday February 27, 2012 @10:58AM (#3639371)
Quoting typo:
echo $IFS | od -bc
echo "$IFS" | od -bc
Re:YouPorn passwords available for download, thousands of users exposed
on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @07:12PM (#3623181)
How does that work? Who assigns the DNS values for chat.youporn.com? Moreover, youporn.com and chat.youporn.com actually point to the same IP address, namely 31.192.116.24.
There must be some level of affiliation then, right?
Re:Ubuntu for Android
on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @04:22PM (#3618144)
It sounds great, but I'm confused: Are they planning to give this away as a free download? They seem to be targeting manufacturers only.
Re:Elsevier = Evil
on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @03:44AM (#3474238)
Please change title to "Elsevier == Evil".
Re:Schlep Blindness
on Saturday January 14, 2012 @09:41PM (#3466138)
"One of the many things we do at Y Combinator is teach hackers about the inevitability of schleps."
Or, as somebody wisely put it, "All good planning eventually degenerates into work."
ICANN Stands Ready for New gTLD Launch
Re:Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor
on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @04:06PM (#3425896)
In case anybody is interested, here is the link to the 1999 interview: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/349/