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mahcuz

Re:Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982 on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:37PM (#4449918)
:-)
Re:Emacs packages for programmers on Sunday July 22, 2012 @02:09PM (#4278022)
The way people typically do this is by VCing their configurations in a "dotfiles" repository. New machine? Pull your dotfiles, and create the symlinks in your homedir.
Re:Why email is broken and what we can do to fix it on Monday July 16, 2012 @01:50PM (#4251730)
This again...
Re:JavaScript Prototypes Made Easy on Saturday June 30, 2012 @06:11PM (#4182967)
What on earth are you talking about, man?
That would only evaluate the original [true] key, though, right?
Filled mine, too. Firefox 11.
Are you really against (re)introducing woolly mammoths?! I, for one, think they would be lovely pets!
Re:Poll: Do you touch-type? on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @06:43AM (#3566172)
I found GTypist helpful. http://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
Re:$50,000 to keep Symantec source code private on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @01:23PM (#3563035)
I don't think it's theft. It definitely is extortion.
Re:Php 5.4 vs 5.3: is really fast and with less memory leaks on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @09:52AM (#3561947)
Less grass. Fewer blades of grass. Boom! Grammar.
Re:Perceptons in Lisp/Racket (simple machine learning) on Sunday February 05, 2012 @01:23PM (#3554703)
Valde interesting lectu. Gratuita usum Latine. Optimum.
Re:Year of the storm on Thursday February 02, 2012 @05:36AM (#3542190)
Off-topic: tell me about it! We get it... you're a pythonista. Now quote like a normal person.
Re:Liberating software - interview with Richard Stallman on Saturday December 17, 2011 @02:07PM (#3364852)
The authors of proprietary software control what you do with that software.

Quite clearly Free Software as a source of income works. Sell the support for the software which you have written, software you will be most familiar with. This is the model for countless companies writing Free Software.

People are malicious (I enjoy your cynicism, BTW). The difference between proprietary software and free software is that you're free to find those malicious "features" (mind the quotes) by reading the code that is available to you under Free Software. If you can't find it (the evil - not the code), you can assume that the massive community will (eventually). This is impossible in proprietary software. You don't control the software - it controls you.

Re:Linux Mint 12 “Lisa” released on Sunday November 27, 2011 @06:40AM (#3282248)
Citation needed.
Re:Ask HN: Open-source alternatives of Gmail? on Thursday October 20, 2011 @09:54AM (#3134815)
Because it's PHP. Duh.

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Re:GitLab - an open source clone of GitHub on Saturday October 15, 2011 @10:30AM (#3114867)
Can somebody explain what "All for what you so love github" means? My brain is refusing to make sense of that sentence.
Re:Chocolatey - Windows Package Manager on Monday October 10, 2011 @03:05AM (#3092565)
CoApp is also backed by Microsoft, IIRC.
Re:What planes are flying over you right now? on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:15AM (#3051837)
Does this work for anybody in the UK? I'm using FF and always get 0 results (even though I can see planes above me).
Re:Evolutionary Algorithm: Evolving "Hello, World" on Thursday September 29, 2011 @03:53AM (#3051548)
Regarding the squaring - would it be enough to take the absolute value of the distance? (abs -5) + (abs 5) = 10.
Re:Web Vi on Saturday September 17, 2011 @07:40AM (#3007824)
I can't live without pentadactyl.
Isn't Knuth 150 years old though?
Re:Show HN: Final Touch on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @10:30AM (#2991595)
Is the ® necessary?
Re:Notifo (YC W10) Will be Shutting Down on Friday September 09, 2011 @06:32AM (#2977590)
I was just thinking this. It seems incredibly selfish to put software into its grave simply because the current developer can't afford to continue working.
Re:DEF CON: The event that scares hackers on Sunday August 07, 2011 @04:49AM (#2856218)
Solid, dude.