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Does anybody know if Google plans to allow claiming a deleted account... ever? I'm hoping that since I was granted +MyName in G+ I will be allowed to recover (long story) MyName@gm…

"The best part: whether or not you apply yourself is under your control." That assumes free will... It may seem an absurd topic, but it's far from closed [1]. [1] http://philpapers…

I think it becomes a relative path without the final/root dot. That is, "example.net" in the zone file "mydomain.com" will be understood as "example.net.mydomain.com.".

Do you have this in audio/video? It would be nice to hear/see this exchange.

That was my first thought. Will downloading tcpdump get you in trouble? What if it's "homemade"? Compilers will be next, since the enable the creation of these tools...

Why would you want to run a browser as root?

"Dummer code is easier to grep for and easier to maintain. The more magical the code is the harder is to figure out how it works." A nice formulation of the kind of advice I keep r…

It turns out Amazon (or somebody there) said [1] this feature would be coming up soon... in 2006! [1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=10532

Update for those interested: it looks [1] like it'll never happen... [1] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=249000

I don't think Amazon is being dishonest, but you can see that, regardless the individual degree of paranoia, there are quite a few small developers who don't try AWS just to be saf…

Sorry for bringing this off-topic issue on AWS: is it possible to set hard caps on monthly spending in AWS? I just asked this [1] but didn't receive a single upvote =S. Thanks. [1]…

Hello! I want to try out AWS, but am always afraid of potentially getting an unexpectedly high bill. I'm the kind of guy who pays some extra for unmetered hosting, just in case, ev…

When we entered graduate school, the program director gave us this piece of advice: Success ∝ Ability * (Hard Work)^2 * Sqrt(Luck) I think he was right.

Interesting... if anything, I see hints (no proof!) of the reverse implication: success => genuine interest.

I found this page because I was pretty confused about these issues, and still am... Question for the crowd: In this site the example given says that in reality there are 869MB of u…

I replied to a specific comment, not to the article. In particular, nescafe said this was "an OK intro to pre-POSIX bourne shell scripting". I took this to mean that he would provi…

Interesting link provided by Wolfram, and funded by his company: http://www.computerbasedmath.org/

It is anarchy that requires real smarts, not democracy.

Greetings! I'm extremely excited about the newly announced Ubuntu for Android [1] [2]. However, to me it would be critical to be able to access Ubuntu also when the phone is not do…

Actually POSIX does not recognize double brackets [1]: "The KornShell-derived conditional command (double bracket [[]]) was removed from the shell command language description in a…

Quoting typo: echo $IFS | od -bc only makes sense as echo "$IFS" | od -bc