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A lot of questions being asked here are already covered in this thread from a day ago: http://dd.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/uc1o9/why_linux_doesnt...

It's not a secret that Microsoft's hiring practices are somewhat subpar and their internal organization is a mess. Am I surprised that a product got rushed out with major issues? O…

Are there any idiosyncrasies besides the ones detailed here: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/MATLAB_Programming/Differences_... I say this because I'm learning Octave mainly to get fa…

That's the only way to get started in areas of copyright monopoly. Think of it like any startup not checking if there are patents they infringe. If you think there's nothing wrong …

A few posts about and bringing up Plan 9 have been around HN recently, but I haven't seen a single person bring up Inferno. Is it because it isn't well known? Or is there some obvi…

About MacVim vs vim and 'color scheme support' and 'solarize': Actually the issue is with Terminal.app which has some weird setup where changing the background is either impossible…

Xbox 0 * 360 Xbox 1 * 360 Xbox 2 * 360 ...etc

Well said. I was about to tack on "questions on the other hand..." to my comment but was already in bed when I thought of it.

As soon as philosophy gets to even a fraction of the use mathematics has, then maybe it will be worth looking to for answers.

Is this .emacs file on a github somewhere? :)

There's this magical license you may not have heard of that does just that called the LGPL. The LGPL's entire existence is about compromise. Why are you intentionally ignoring it?

Not every project treats version numbers the same way. It's irresponsible of anyone paid to know this kind of thing to not be aware of how a project handles version numbers. Linus …

It could be 'serverside' rather than 'clientside'. As in, sure you can connect the AIM and MSN chat networks, but you yourself have to run a server to connect the two. Currently on…

Non-slideshare link: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws... Edit: Warning. Actually seems to cut off some of the slides.

This is a good start. I don't know ruby but if I did I'd change the sha256 stuff to GPG. Could support searching for local GPG keys with URL and/or the username out of the github U…

http://kernelnewbies.org/ "Kernelnewbies are a community of people that improve or update their Kernels and of aspiring Linux kernel developers and more experienced developers will…

Depending on how thorough you want to be, don't forget evercookies http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/evercookies.ht... http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/10/it-i…

"two planets"? Is he is writing from the perspective of a future event of life being discovered on another planet besides Earth, or is there some underground news about life being …