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Comment #3967534
I'm not a bitcoin user, but I'll have to agree with ewillbefull. Not trying to take value of our contribution to bitcoin (I don't know much about it to be honest) but, as an outsid…
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Comment #3967500
It's rather difficult to make money these days without notifying a shitload of institutionalized entities. I'm not saying that I disagree with taxpaying, but things got to a ridicu…
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Comment #3960821
Each time I see such showing off I get more convinced that such reports are mostly fake and done by script kiddies. Personally I wouldn't go through the hassle of doing this. I mea…
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Comment #3912292
Not to be too sarcastic. But what's wrong with opening multiple chrome windows?
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Comment #3912245
I don't know how many ipods he fixed, but to sum up to $65k, he surely was very busy. If he charged an average of $30 per fix, he would have to fix 2000+ ipods. Where does one get …
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Comment #3905620
my only 'complain' with that setup, which I also use, is that gnome-do or the deskbar applet don't play nice with it. gmrun is a possibility, but it's too stripped down,
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Comment #3905617
openbox+tint2?
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Comment #3877939
Looks good. Futon has always been a strong reason for picking couchdb. This is indeed a good match for Futon.
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Comment #3876125
Well... hacker news' design looks 2001-ish. I like it. No clutter.
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Comment #3871303
I for one like GPL's philosophy but to be honest I mostly use MIT on my small projects because I don't care. If credit gets attributed rightfully that's really all I care about. I …
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Comment #3866951
Because every pseudo-hacker feels a desperate need to make i clear that (s)he is not associated with supposedly uncool languages. You might want to notice that the topic is more re…
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Comment #3849083
The first thing you need: a podcast rss feed. No way I'm putting my email address in there.
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Comment #3843431
The part that is broken is between the chair and the keyboard. There are simple ways to prevent junk email to get to you. I open my gmail acount every day and I read pretty much ev…
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Comment #3843405
Facebook and twitter fill a niche were email was being used in a way that it was not supposed to. It's electronic mail, you want to send a message to a friend that he/she checks wh…
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Comment #3835653
Not the same thing, at all. There's no encryption in hashify.me. No hashing either, despite the name.
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Comment #3834410
Who? Zobzou or all the folks who downvoted him?
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Comment #3827724
This is what I've waiting for. Knockout, backbone, spine et al gave a glimpse of what html frontend development would be in the future. The future is here now. Cool. I'll drink a b…
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Comment #3818789
Why? For the love of god... why? To be honest none of the principles you list convince me that you really need a new language. I don't see any significant paradigm coming into scen…
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Comment #3818078
A sum of animalistic urges that we HAVE control over. Just because you have an animalistic urge doesn't mean that you don't control it with reason.
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Comment #3817136
You nailed it. That is so true. Though it's hard to discuss that openly. For example, how would you have that discussion in front of your girlfriend and your best female friend? Th…
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Comment #3814507
You're doing it wrong. HTTP is a stateless protocol. The very same reasons why it is so, should also enlighten you of why you shouldn't do what you're possibly implying. EDIT: ops,…
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Comment #3793210
Confused, did this guy just figured out the advantages and disadvantages of plain text? What's the news here?
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Comment #3791207
Am I the only one that thinks that thinks that github community is too focused on the looks? Sure, a proper site design is something of value. why would anyone want this instead of…
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Comment #3748920
Meh... this childish vote again... Still surprised that python is the most popular. I would expect (nothing against those two fine languages) coffeescript and ruby fanboys to flood…
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Comment #3730529
I'm surprised that this is not the obvious reply. The author puts it a bit as if setting up a working documentation website is the difficult part. Building up good content is the r…