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"At the present time, pre-built binaries are not available for Tarsnap — it must be compiled from the source code." https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html

In Canada, the slope is very slippery. Hate speech, under the Canadian Human Rights Act, is anything "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt". For better or wor…

Yes. And they're not shy about it either. "The way in which the J-20 was unveiled also reflects China’s use and control of information technology to support national interests. The…

"extremely complete library" I'm interested in how the completeness is defined, as the standards available are loose at best. I couldn't see by what measure they considered this wo…

It was the sentence before that which caught my eye: "The cost of a move, in terms of training, hiring experts, rewriting entire application and tool suites, rounds of testing, and…

The Bureaucracy won't give up paper easily. Please tell me the iPad will kill (at least that part) of The Bureaucracy? Maybe a paperless society is happening closer to the center o…

Yes, there's a lot of inertia in infrastructure. And the Internet's infrastructure isn't as centralized as, say, the power infrastructure. There's a lot of links in the DNS chain t…

It's not obvious to an outsider that "Hacker News" is Paul Graham's playground and that he is the one "you are having a problem with". As an outsider, I would have assumed as the p…

And the Macintosh project at Apple; complete with pirate flags!

It's emotionally draining to wade through all the crap being spewed around (I'm not blameless!). But in a "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" kind of way, I'm hopeful thi…

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. I often fall into the trap of visualizing "entrepreneurs" as the stereotypical lone wolf, jack of all trades type. I remind myself that …

I apologize if I've distracted anyone with the "industrial" reference. I'm much more interested in the science behind the climate change [insert synonym for industry here]. I am ve…

You're referring to the dataset that is the basis of enormous de-industrialization projects. Is it too much to ask to have it properly designed with sufficient documentation? ~A Je…

2.7 was the first CD set I purchased. Haven't regretted it. It was their 'man' pages that sold me. Complete and helpful. Their great documentation is one of their unsung accomplish…

Specialization would be my first guess. But then the problem is, how do you identify a niche that stays under Google's radar long enough to exploit any advantage? So, you just have…

This isn't suprising when teachers are required to ignore "teaching moments".

reminded me of the line in "Roxanne": "Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high p…

Acard (acard.com) sells battery backed RAM/CFcard solutions for well under $500. There are compromises. It will fit your budget, but may not fit your needs.

Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to this co-development project because they are getting a good deal; as in, no being charged 10x because they're chinese…

Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to the co-development

Construction will happen in China (Qingdao), with project management and components(?) split between China and Europe offices. And not that funny; I know of heavy manufacturing com…

That and... "Your parseLinks() and processDocument() methods must complete within a total 10 seconds per document processed" ... as a limit on processing leaves room for competitio…

"You can organize it [what people are saying about you] by highlighting the good stuff and rationally responding to the not-so-good stuff" Of the example links, only Trader Joe's h…

It's great to see multiple open data formats being supported. But I expected more "meaty" data, such as: http://crimemapping.edmontonpolice.ca The cynic in me believes that the pol…

So... I'm unnatural, and should be put down?