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apage43

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About apage43

apage43 at ninjawhale dot com

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    Comment #1543108

    Except that's always the case. You mean if Clojure crashes before it queues up 50 docs and sends them, the docs in the queue are lost. Durability is a concern when it means the int…

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    Comment #692689

    I had tried using SBCL to generate excutables before myself, using SDL as an external lib. Worked, but they were ENORMOUS (20mb). Not sure what I did wrong.

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    Comment #567541

    Actually AdBlock+'s element hiding rules can filter facebook ads. In fact I think a recent version has a subscription for filters that include facebook ad blocking.

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    Comment #561511

    I'm personally fresh out of high school, still 18 in fact. If your price point is so high that your target audience will actually -look- for a pirated version before they even cons…

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    Comment #560394

    If you use -any- sort of DRM, it will be extremely restrictive to the end user. Personally, I think really what is needed is for it to be convenient for the end user. This is what …

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    Comment #556075

    The thing is, greater anonymity via encryption etc. is not easy to use for the general public. Sure, you can hack around it but not everyone is a hacker. And of course, darknets et…

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    Comment #497635

    Wow. I've been trying to justify buying a dev G1 for a while now and this -seriously- isn't helping.

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    Comment #475292

    If you don't care about connection dropping, indeed just set up key authentication and run ssh in a loop as described above, instead of a complicated VPN, which will only really pa…

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    Comment #475174

    To fix constantly re-logging in to ssh: - set up key authentication and run ssh user@host with your favorite parameters in a loop (shell script) so it reconnects when disconnected.…

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    Comment #471356

    Is there a difference between IoC and callbacks? In any case, I don't think it can be said to be -quite- that recent.

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    Comment #469080

    amazon mp3, lastfm; that's about it here.

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    Comment #450984

    Certainly not the time to quit your day job and then try a start-up, but i don't see why you couldn't throw together your startup in your spare time. Is there a reason you need the…

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    Comment #443511

    I think the sci-fi version of this in Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is about the best -sounding- version of this sort of scheme. You regularly make 'backups' of your…