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Exactly. You're not supposed to pacman -Syu without looking. Part of your duty when you choose to install Arch is to take a few minutes every week to keep on top of what's new. Cal…

When I was an undergrad, I found very early issues of Dr. Dobb's in the medical library of my university, the name of the magazine having fooled the librarians. I remember spending…

I think control-L should be "^L", not "^+L", and so on.

Canceling a pledge is possible as long as the project is live (click on "manage my pledges", the cancel button is at the bottom).

Interesting. I don't get this at all from his message (that he is depressed and frustrated). I understand that this is painful for an entrepreneur to read, but Notch doesn't seem i…

University administrators, mostly. They outnumber faculty at many universities, and their salaries are rising fast.

Heh: "Achievement unlocked: Refresh Prince of Bel Air".

So they spent a lot of time and money learning to crack buggy whips very well. Too bad there are automobiles now.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. -- Kipling

That keyboard is wrong on so many levels.

Those of us old enough to remember the early days of the Macintosh know that this is nothing new. Apple programs used undocumented calls to QuickDraw and did all kinds of yucky stu…

This feels exactly like the kind of thing we will look at in a few years and say "How 2014."

That could well be it. My bank enforces similar short passwords, but they're not such a big security risk since they lock the account after three mistakes, and require you to visit…

To continue the author's music analogy, what do you think music class would be like if it were taught by teachers who have never listened to an orchestra in their life, are barely …

Seconding this: the killer app of Arch Linux is its community support.

Is there a country where it is usual to put the percent sign before the number? I sometimes see things like "%100 performance increase" on English web sites, and I wonder where tha…

Chinese writing does not encode sounds. It encodes meaning. If you write Chinese in pinyin, all you do is write down the sounds, not the meaning. Said differently: why do we keep w…

Eye no.

Your wife seems to be affected by the recently discovered vulnerability. It would be advisable to upgrade her firmware to the latest version.

As any French person will tell you, it should be "Ze fish in la river".

Is there more to the site than the five small PostIt-like paragraphs on a green background? Perhaps I'm missing something.

I'm not so sure the majority of developers / hackers (the target market for this device) are used to Ctrl on the bottom left. I know several (myself included) who remap their keybo…

Love at first sight. The only thing left is deciding whether to buy the desktop or the laptop version.

He did not throw away $50k/day. He walked away from it because he had enough money already and did not need any more of it (especially since he did not particularly enjoy all the a…

Only France, hm? Let me google that for you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=language+academies&l=1 Just because English borrows words more easily than most other languages ("We don't just bo…