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alpswdon Anonymous threatens net blackout over SOPA

The proposed "OpBlackOut front page kit" for those who dont feel like downloading it --

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/115/anonymousq.png

alpswdon What really happened aboard Air France 447

From the article, it seems like the plane had a downward velocity of 10,000 fpm (~110mph) upon crashing.

Would passengers have died instantly upon impact with the water? (It appears not)

alpswdon Software philosophy: Release early, release often vs polished releases

The Release Early/Often example describes a situation of releasing a product that does not have all the features of its competitors: "The Windows Operating System, in the initial version (1.0) did not support overlapping windows which was a breakthrough feature on the then contemporary Macintosh."

Identically, the Polished Release example also describes a situation of releasing a product that does not have all the features of its competitors: The first version of iOS "(then called as iPhone OS), did not even have MMS"

Seems like the author didn't pick a great example to demonstrate a Polished Release.

alpswdon Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully.

I've been using it for ~6 months and have never encountered any limits, file size or bandwidth. It is open source too: https://github.com/glenmurphy/dropmocks

alpswdon Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully.

Any reason why I would use this instead of http://www.dropmocks.com? Dropmocks seems to upload significantly faster for me as well.

alpswdon Ask HN: Hacker in need of ideas?

cmplma, please contact me when you have a chance -- alpswd (at*) gmail.com