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IWentToTheWoods

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    Comment #15342128

    Electronics and robotics aside, the directions for building simple mechanical structures like hinges and joints in that book are pretty good for children, too.

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    Comment #5189005

    >Some will say if you supply object files so that the end user can relink, that's fine. It's not "some will say"; supplying object files for your code and source for the LGPL libra…

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    Comment #5183076

    I think you could use something like https://github.com/adoxa/ansicon to get it up and running pretty easily.

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    Comment #5173716

    Yes, it uses googledrive.com, but not for anything user-identifiable . The threat is that a user logs in to googledrive.com and receives an authentication cookie tied to their Goog…

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    Comment #5171742

    There seems to be some case law that suggests that domain names are at least similar to property, but I imagine that in most cases the user agreement strips most of that away in th…

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    Comment #5171636

    As a Namecheap customer considering a move to Gandi, I'm curious what it was that Namecheap did in the past that you don't like?

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    Comment #5105504

    It's interesting to me how negative most of the comments are here, compared to how positive they were for a very similar idea last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5081053…

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    Comment #5081741

    I think chc's point is that it takes less time to google "Cornyn Guantanamo" and "Cornyn wiretapping" than it does to post the question here, and will produce a better answer to bo…

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    Comment #4953350

    I used Clang 3.1 to compile some small C programs on Windows, and the only problem I ran into was Clang defaulting the search paths based on the compiler used to build Clang itself…

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    Comment #4943130

    I've always thought that this, rather than any misunderstanding of what makes up an OS, is why "GNU/Linux" never caught on.

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    Comment #4911482

    That's some horrible selection bias. What about all the people who built something without asking anyone and it was a complete flop? What about all the successful products that did…

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    Comment #4763837

    I think this is an intriguing idea, and I know this is a silly nitpick, but the all caps function names make me feel like I'm reading HTML from 1995.

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    Comment #3443429

    Alternately, use any competent DNS provider.