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Growing up, my best friend was always one of the smartest and successful kids in the class. But he also had an annoying habit of going around making offhand remarks about how he ha…

It's funny feeling like the doc has you open in gdb or something. I had my aortic root and a valve replaced a few years ago. However, I had been monitored for years prior, so I avo…

you gotta wonder how difficult it was to convince each and every person in the dorm to agree to this...

I haven't tried it since upgrading to OSX 10.5 but http://trac.kismac-ng.org/ always just worked with the AirPort built into the MBP. With an idiotproof Mac GUI to boot.

Not sure I understand the question, you mean could they install Windows on the same machine? It was running XPsp2 prior to Ubuntu 9.04.

Keep beating that strawman, you're sure to make a point eventually. The argument isn't whether or not Linux is useful to a bunch of nerds, myself included, or whether or not I shou…

and therein lies the predictable attitude that will keep linux a distant 3rd on the desktop.

As a dude who just tried Ubuntu for the first time in 5 years to see how far they've come, but couldn't because the fucking liveCD didn't have a driver for my cdrom, this rings tru…

It has as much to do with the community it attracts as the articles themselves. Every social news site has it's unspoken core values that can't be parsed out (easily :) with a scri…

Was hoping it would also convert the images...nope.

I know I'm missing the point, but my main reaction to this is naive admiration that Zed can complain about a language in a blog post and get flamed by the freakin' creator of said …

This could be revolutionary, however email is the way it is because that's just how we've communicated as a species for eons, all the way from letters to tablets to cave paintings.…

I am drooling with hacker nerdocity. A beautifully organic 45 year old still-working box passed on from a protohacker connected to a defcon-stickered terminal browsing the web on a…

not sure if I'm more annoyed by the dumbass crackers or webmasters...

you must support terrorism _and_ love Windows.

indeed. grep -P is your friend. (except older grep versions seem to segfault on me constantly with various -P regexes)

That is true...I'm not too sure at all. I guess my plan is just to see what's out there and what sounds cool to me. If you know of a few internships or jobs, I'd love to hear about…

That's actually an option I hadn't considered...taking time off to work on something myself, as opposed to an internship. I know a lot of people around here can operate on 5 hours …

Because that's what I find interesting I guess. Having a living, active product is just sort of fascinating to me. But I'm sure there's non-web stuff out there that I would dig too…

Not sure on specifics honestly, but it would probably be a web based business (facebook, reddit, amazon) and use python. But maybe it's naive to narrow my search by what language t…

I hit my 3 year first-post-college-job anniversary a few months ago, and I want out of my industry because it bores me to tears (storage, fwiw). Not sure what's next, but I've had …

sounds like an appeal to authority just got countered with a tu quoque

Whether they'll admit it or not, that comment is probably the #1 issue holding back more hackers from switching to a Mac. Hackers :: Linux as Hipsters :: ObscureIndieRock. Switchin…