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Trying to visit this on my phone, all I get is a poorly formatted “one more step” page that asks me to complete a captcha that loads mostly off the side of the screen so I have to …

I get a SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER on that site.

That link says the ISO goes to 409,600, not 4,096,000.

I don't think the corewars assembly is available outside of the game.

A little while ago, someone used Facebook's last active time to track their friends' sleep: https://medium.com/life-tips/how-you-can-use-facebook-to-tra...

It's a mistake to think we can't improve on something because someone smart built it. In my academic community, everyone fights with LaTeX and I can only say with confidence that o…

If the connection between you and DDG is over SSL, what does it matter that they've scraped your encrypted packets?

I hadn't heard of the dyslexic font situation. After a little searching, I found: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121004/18530620612/font-... I assume that's the legal situatio…

There was a nice post about Atlassian's choice of Mercurial over Git on their blog: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mer... Their argument about a windows v…

Encrypting data certainly increases the barrier to entry for spying.

It always amuses me when this gets posted on HN. As a link, it appears as medium grey on slightly lighter grey.

http://html5rocks.com seems to be a wealth of resources. What in particular did you find useful?

The unbalanced paren at the end of your comment really irks my OCD.

It's more than 400 now and has been for some time.

> By design, it does not handle the following tasks: > ... > Obtaining libraries (use clbuild, LibCL, cl-librarian, asdf-install, etc. for that) I imagine one could also use QuickL…

In my defense: it's a very stable prerelease copy.

Am using FF4.0b6 with FlashBlock 1.5.14.2 and it correctly fell back to standard html.

Odd, I'm using "GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.2.0, NS apple-appkit-1038.25) of 2010-03-27 on gallifrey.local" and it still has the dashes on the modeline.

I don't think SV is SV _because_ it's in CA. I think SV is SV _despite_ being in CA.

Which important respects?

If you agree, would you care to point out what is badly written about that quote?