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hectorhector

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About hectorhector

Embedded C programmer

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31697030

    Has Aerc added support for email threads yet? I tried it when it first came out and that was my biggest disappointment.

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    Comment #26554378

    You can put a signal handler in your program to catch the SIGSTOP and run some code before it gets killed.

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    Comment #19208214

    And honestly, the user's suggestion wasn't bad.

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    Comment #19107425

    Ah, thanks!

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    Comment #19107384

    What's the purpose of this code in the original decompressor? Assuming c is an uchar, aren't EOF and 0xFF equal? if (c == 0xFF) { len = getchar(); c = getchar(); while (len--) emit…

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    Comment #16588565

    Anyone remember the old Buzzfeed links that were on the kottke front page? They were there before "Buzzfeed" was "Buzzfeed". I always thought that was strange since back then the d…

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    Comment #13951495

    Here's the blog post from the hack's author: https://www.avidhacker.com/2016/02/29/catchMeIfYouCan/

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    Comment #2423620

    A lot of these are laughable, but I think Tron: Legacy did a really good job of mixing something realistic as well as futuristic.

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    Comment #2365212

    bitcoin is just p2p paypal

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    Comment #259813

    for crying out loud CUIL doesn't show up on cuil. it sucks. we get it.

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    Comment #257663

    digg died several months ago when their comments slowly started looking a lot like youtube's

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    Comment #256052

    i agree, as many problems as it may have today, one only has to look at some 3rd world countries to see how radically good governance can change things and how important it is. i'm…

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    Comment #253851

    Why are ads on social sites so hard? They know my age, location, favorite bands and movies! It just seems like it should be really easy.

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    Comment #253842

    yea, but those properties weren't that big to begin with. digg has already "gone somewhere"

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    Comment #253841

    rtfa - 3 years