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randylahey

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    Comment #27690005

    Cliff, reading `The Cuckoo's Egg` in the 90's when I was in my early teens was a watershed moment in my life. Set me up upon a path of discovery and fascination with technology of …

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    Comment #27110438

    I too thought of this video and it is what introduced me to this particular form of "art". It's a good critique.

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    Comment #26891407

    Not the person you're asking, but the book is over 80 years old and one of the best selling books of all time. Not exactly the same, but it's like asking where they heard about the…

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    Comment #25959950

    When someone does this it means both the things you asked are being answered in the affirmative.

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    Comment #25848716

    People who hold reprehensible ideas or support those who do, should be held to task, no matter how many of them there are.

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    Comment #25677475

    I don't disagree, however... human beings can be lazy, short-sighted or take short-cuts. I wouldn't put it past someone to keep something where it shouldn't be, intentionally or by…

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    Comment #25677438

    Your recollection does not comport with my own. A lot of sensitive classified information was leaked, a good deal of it having nothing to do with warrant-less wire-tapping, etc.

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    Comment #25650080

    Only three? I'm pretty sure I can already count at least 3 UI fads that have come and gone in my Windows 10 install. Somehow it's gotten worse each time... I'm trying not to sound …

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    Comment #25632753

    I'm the opposite. Back when in my early teens, friends and I would attempt to hijack opposing groups' channels via takeovers during net-splits (and ofcourse having the same done to…

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    Comment #25632700

    Could just be sloppy, inaccurate writing. But yeah that would be pretty bad.

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    Comment #25444177

    I've been using tig a lot recently; I've always just used git from the command line, but if you're working with a number of files, tig is hard to beat when you learn a few of the h…

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    Comment #25418668

    Search has always been absolutely terrible... it's nearly 2021... how can a billion dollar outfit still have terrible search?

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    Comment #24934630

    I could not be happier that wearing a mask is more or less societally acceptable now.

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    Comment #24355481

    Definitely a password-less, Internet facing MongoDB instance.

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    Comment #23772174

    This isn't Digg

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    Comment #23685397

    I prefer Gitlab for private installs, but the community edition lacks many critical features that are only present in the paid version (export/import of issues, I'm looking at you)…

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    Comment #23563583

    Wow, I'm so happy to see this is the first result (the reason I came to comment.) I've tried and failed many times to pick up a fundamental, from the ground-up understanding of ele…

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    Comment #23468344

    Choice of editor is subject to taste, but I find VI/Vim keybindings and modal editing an absolute must-have for productivity.

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    Comment #23361325

    Why don't you organize a study and let us know?

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    Comment #23012594

    A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video. https://…

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    Comment #21205515

    Can you elaborate?

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    Comment #20299420

    It says so in the article: > And that’s why I am excited to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading the Series B financing in Superhuman.

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    Comment #20116860

    Ryan Dahl created Node.js prior to being hired at Joyent, and then sold them the rights to it.

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    Comment #20116681

    https://techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-split-a...