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Nosferaxon Network with fellow Hacker LinkedIn Users

Joining should be moderated by how long you have been on Hacker News, not karma :)

Nosferaxon Network with fellow Hacker LinkedIn Users

Well, one use is you can access the contacts of your contacts, so it helps you get information about (and get in contact with) a lot of people...

But I agree it seems weird to add 50 'strangers' to your list... We don't know anything about each other really.

EDIT: Although I have seen a few people do it on LinkedIn already, they post message in groups and tell people that they want everyone to add them. They gather thousands of contacts that way, I wonder if it does them any good tho.

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He did have a point about the drunk dial app though :D

Nosferaxon Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go

Whatever you do, don't work too much on side jobs while writing your mémoire/thesis. I have seen many people get a part-time or full-time job when they were done with their project, alas not with their writing. It takes them years to finish the whole thing.. (I've seen 4 years for a master's)

Nosferaxon Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don't Go

I hope so ! I'm still pondering whether to do a Ph.D. or not myself. Almost done with M.Sc...

Nosferaxon The world’s hardest (for native English speakers) languages

Finnish and Hungarian definitely have their place amongst the hardest languages to learn. If I'm not mistaken, Hungarian has 22 cases of declension.

Nosferaxon GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project

HackerNews->SlashDot->Pwnage->Real gnome dev message

Nosferaxon Ridiculous User Interfaces In Film, and the Man Who Designs Them

A much more interesting user interface used in a movie was developed by Oblong (see John Underkoffler). I am talking about Minority Report ;) They are making it into a real UI.

Check it out : www.oblong.com

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All in all this affair is fishy.

However, it's not the first time we hear from google cancelling adsense accounts and cut all communication. I know it's the user's responsibility to make sure his stuff is clean, but most the time the user has no f*ing clue what stuff he did/does wrong.

Nosferaxon Debian – The Universal Operating System

Found the original article by Paul Graham :

http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Nosferaxon Debian – The Universal Operating System

What is the blub problem?

Nosferaxon Flixel: flash game framework

Isn't there something better than flash out there? Flash sucks for linux.

Nosferaxon The flaws of thinking "Just use Unicode"

I use three languages commonly : French, English and Russian. I can set the language for non-Unicode programs only once, which means I can't display all programs written with a different encoding properly.

Please just use Unicode.

Nosferaxon Early adopters bloodied by Ubuntu's Karmic Koala

The concept or way to upgrade it is ok... it's just that it almost always causes a lot more trouble than a clean install.

My experiences so far : 6->7 : System failure, unable to boot 8.04 -> 8.10 : Alright overall, a few bugs to fix (most concerned X) 8.10 -> 9.04 : Better, still a few bugs (info tooltips, graphic card drivers)

Nosferaxon Bye Bye Linux (Ubuntu), Hi Again Windows

The command line really is hard to make up for, without a lot of hassle, that is. When I'm running windows it's the thing I miss the most.

Other than that, it sucks that Firefox is not nearly as polished under Linux as it is under Windows. Same goes for adobe's flash player.

Nosferaxon Using TeX to control a Mars rover (see page 5)

I don't understand how a language designed for document programming can be a good choice for controlling a rover..

Is it a joke, is he really serious about this?

Nosferaxon Music to Hack to: Nintendo Mixtape

That is one fugly slow website.

Nosferaxon Music to Hack to: Nintendo Mixtape

Minibosses - my favorite video game music band so far.

http://www.minibosses.com/

One full album available for free on their website, check it out!