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Re:Show HN: Easily add a NSA backdoor to your Rails app on Saturday June 08, 2013 @02:17PM (#5845709)
"I think they `are` `a` `terrorist`." NSA is not happy with the grammar. :P
Re:Ask HN: Is NodeJS stable enough to build the next Twitter? on Saturday May 25, 2013 @04:32AM (#5766715)
Why'd anyone want to build something like Twitter again?
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone being able to use Django+MongoDB in production su... on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @06:30AM (#5749872)
Drop Django-nonrel. It has issues of it's own. You can stop using Django's ORM and use Mongoengine[1] ODM which is actively under development and awesome. You might have to make some extra effort, but it'll at least keep you away from problems of some stale 3rd party app.

[1]: http://docs.mongoengine.org/en/latest/django.html

Re:Linus as one of the top 14% most vulgar users on GitHub on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @05:54AM (#5749762)
Seems the site does't cache results. And just hit the rate limit.
Re:CDN vs S3 on Saturday May 18, 2013 @05:39PM (#5730574)
Who said s3 is a CDN at the first place!?
Re:Poll: Male or female or other on Thursday April 11, 2013 @04:34AM (#5530692)
Couldn't have put it better.
Re:Worst CAPTCHA Ever on Saturday March 30, 2013 @12:30PM (#5465862)
Somebody is gonna get fired.
Re:Why is Ubuntu not Linux and Mint is? on Monday March 25, 2013 @04:59PM (#5439653)
I know Linux is a kernel. But the thing is, on the article "What is Linux" at linux.org[1], it says, "Linux is an operating system that evolved from a kernel created by Linus Torvalds when he was a student at the University of Helsinki. ... To say that Linux is an operating system means that it's meant to be used as an alternative to other operating systems, Windows, Mac OS, MS-DOS, Solaris and others."

How does this fit into things?

[1]: http://www.linux.org/article/view/what-is-linux

Why is Ubuntu not Linux and Mint is?

Posted by iambibhas on Monday March 25, 2013 @04:06PM
from the self-post dept.

I came across this blog post where the author suggests that if someone wants to start using Linux, s/he should go for Linux Mint, and not Ubuntu. Because Ubuntu is not Linux. Ok. I hear that a lot. But I want to know exactly why it isn't and why Mint is. Need a good explanation.

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Re:An apology to open source on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:16AM (#5400147)
They have already lost Nick. It's just matter of time now.
Re:The Impact of the Megaupload Shutdown on Movie Sales on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:11AM (#5366937)
6-10% increase should be the normal sales amount variation, right? Any given month/week, this much of variation can occur without any reason.
Re:Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your f... on Monday January 21, 2013 @04:26AM (#5090670)
HTTP calls for client side validation? That's a great idea!
Re:Basecamp Breeze officially launched on Thursday January 10, 2013 @11:46AM (#5037965)
Mailing list for dummies.
Re:Facebook’s New (Evil) Plan to Grab New Users on Saturday August 18, 2012 @01:08PM (#4401614)
You really don't get the point? Friendship request is an action From one user(say B) to another user(say A). Person A got sms because B sent a friend request to A only! Why the hell would I or @rish404 get a friend request from person B is we click that link? The link is a notification sms of an event, it should not contain an action that says "Send friend request to anyone who clicks this link from person B". Do you now understand my point?
Re:Facebook’s New (Evil) Plan to Grab New Users on Saturday August 18, 2012 @12:04PM (#4401450)
Was out of reach of a laptop the whole time my site got HN-ed. Thanks for posting this. Will get the site fixed and future proof right now. :)
Re:GIT is the new FTP on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @02:20AM (#4259614)
I feel, Your exact method might be useful for Test servers. I won't want all my git pushes reflect on the live server. For deployment, I think it's better if one maintains the post-commit-hook to a certain branch, named, say, "Deploy". Any push to Deploy branch would make it deploy maybe?
Re:HackerRank aims to build a fun place for programmers to hang out on Saturday June 30, 2012 @06:28AM (#4181292)
And just found a bug. I started from 2000 and it got stuck at 378. It is miscalculating and thus going into an infinite loop. http://paste.ubuntu.com/1067434/ I mean come on, mathematical miscalculation for a game like this?

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