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Not necessarily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen#Northwest_Passag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth's_Algorithm_X

Here in the Faroes (at least in the capital), we have the best of both worlds. Free, and plenty of space. In 2007, the fare for municipal busses was removes, and at the same time, …

when visiting some of their internal sites( http://www.cloudflare.com/overview , http://www.cloudflare.com/people ), I get this message: "Sorry, cdnjs.cloudflare.com is currently u…

Sorry for going off-topic, but is there any explanation why InfoQ does not have an entry on Wikipedia? Is it just because no one has bothered to do it yet, or is there some other r…

For previous discussions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350238

Indeed, as the second time you run it, you have visited all those sites, and some of those images are in the cache. The first time, I had one 'visited', the second time about half …

teh guide has lots of typos.

The point is that the "couple of OSes" does not include Windows 7 / Vista / XP.

In an article called "Learning Unix", I think recommending (I assume proprietary) Windows/Mac software, is a bit silly.

Huh, so it isn't just me...

If it will damage your freedom, then, by definition, you don't have freedom. The effect this might have, if any, is to show who pretends to have/give freedom and who really has/giv…

I like this bit from the article: "Smaller companies that held patents worried that if Microsoft prevailed, it could lower the standard of proof for invalidating a patent, cripplin…

I suspect this might be the work of Cory Docterow, I believe I heard him mentioning that the did a deal with Amazon where they would publish his books without DRM. But I might be w…

No.

When I first started university, I didn't realise how important pen and paper is. In my course, we use pen and paper more than we do computers.

It will reduce SMS volume by the same amount as it will reduce the Email volume. My friend has an iPhone. I have an Android. My friend wants to send a short message to me. Will she…

The UK has a similar system. You borrow money to pay for the tuition and living costs. The repayment is then, like in the article, a fraction on the post-graduation salary. The dif…

That's pretty much what viewtext.org does on my Android HN app.

That's what I was thinking. He could even have FJ host it for him. win-win.