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Favorite Perl snippet (from Joseph Hall's EPP book) [$x => $y]->[$x Holy shit - just realized I first touched Perl 15 years ago!

> When it becomes illegal to stage mass protests about anything? As long as you're in a "free speech zone". > When the media is directly owned by the state, as it is in many places…

I would have thought a client side encryption plugin that will seamlessly encrypt/decrypt all your Gmail sent between yourself and any other user running said plugin would be a sim…

I clicked through after seeing original headline. It made sense. This means nothing to me at all. Aren't editors meant to make things more readable?

That is a really good read, and very sane. So, obviously, it has to get pulled.

It's called "NoScript". I have yet to see the solution on the site :D

Where has the link's site gone?

These days, the important thing is to know the right question. Once you get that far, the rest is easy. eg, you want to extract a date from a sentence. If you don't know the questi…

DIGG killed Digg. The week after V 3.0 launched was a mess. Tons of corporate sponsored posts (AKA intrusive adverts), often multiple submissions by the same person on the front pa…

Trying to work out why this is on HN. What next, "Google's Bathrooms"?

When I heard Schneier had been invited I actually thought the government was going to take this seriously. Obviously this is now going to be just another whitewash. sigh

I just got an email from Amazon stating that "On or about February 20, 2012, Amazon PayPhrase will no longer be available as a way to checkout at Amazon.com". A quick search doesn'…

I would have just pointed out that the phrase "Libertarian community" is an oxymoron, heh.

If I was driving in the desert, of course I would learn how to fix a car. You might as well have said, "if you go scuba diving don't whine if you get decompression sickness while s…

I don't care how cars work, I trust the mechanic to fix the problem. I don't care how the financial markets work - I trust my 401k to pay for my retirement. Life is far too short f…

"I have little compassion for people who store their files in the cloud only." That's all well and good, but what about the other 95% of the population that just want to pay someon…

And they were so close. If only they could have worked out the missing piece... HINT: SD Card support.

I think for the people in general to respect copyright, they need to have something to respect. 100 years is ridiculous. And it's unrealistic. Basically it gives certain companies …

Windows 7, but with Ubuntu running on Virtualbox so I can actually get some work done.

Do you really think that was an accident? Heh.

In related news, when I'm on a non essential site that requires a password, forces a weird restriction ("Your password must contain at least one number and one non word character) …

You post a large update in a place where you value your integrity stating that the goal you were going to achieve will be accomplished by a certain date (that appears reasonable). …

Do you have to pay "hoisting bills" to pull the replacement images into place? ;-)

You were texting while driving?

And let's not get into "intelligent pressure pads". The number of times I've had to run a red light at night because the pad doesn't register my bicycle...