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aurora72··on Internet hyperlinks do not infringe copyright, EU court advised
The same page says that it would be detrimental to the Internet if hyperlinks were fallen under such restrictive laws
aurora72··on Erdogan’s Attempt to Suppress German Satire Has the Opposite Effect
Putin does not take orders from America or EU, Erdogan does. Putin's got a PhD, Erdogan's got nothin and can't speak any English. So it's ridiculous comparing them two.
aurora72··on GoDaddy launches AWS-style servers and apps
On the question of whether GoDaddy is reliable; well AFAIK they are the biggest domain name registrar, so they should be reliable. And they seem to apply the .NET Framework quite successfully on their website.
aurora72··on Open Source is losing, SaaS is leading, APIs will win…
What does Microsoft do these days? Open source many of its software! And OSS is preferred not because it's free & open, because it works and it gets things done!
aurora72··on Why the German language has so many great words
The german frequently employs the letter 's' to glue the words together, for instance: Nutzungsgebühr, which is made up of words Nutzung (usage) and Gebühr (fee). Or as in BedienungSanleitung. Actually, they are so much accustomed to the use of 's' if you speak them in English, when they make a mistake, they tend to mistake on the 's', for instance I did hear a German say "it doesn't workS" .)
aurora72··on How I could have hacked any Facebook account
Using a tool 'Burb' spendin time searching "what might be vulnerable" can be worth atmost 15 grands, not a $100.000+ job.
aurora72··on MSYS2: Arch Linux on Microsoft Windows
Cygwin's got some issues about portability, IMHO. When a Cygwin application is run from a shell & terminal emulator other then Cygwin's defaults it throws up an error like:

"cygheap base mismatch detected - 0x612F7400/0x612FB400 This problem is probably due to using incompatible versions of the cygwin DLL. Search for cygwin1.dll using the Windows Start->Find/Search facility and delete all but the most recent version. The most recent version should reside in x:\cygwin\bin, where 'x' is the drive on which you have installed the cygwin distribution. Rebooting is also suggested if you are unable to find another cygwin DLL. Segmentation fault"

It's almost like they're coupled to some particular shell and some particularly configured terminal emulator (Mintty). Cygwin is the historical leader of Linux on Windows but that limitation is never desirable.

MSYS and MSYS2 don't seem to have such a limitation and that's nice.

aurora72··on The Silicon Valley Hustle
I noticed that too, almost all are Macbooks and the remaining few Dell. Well it's not the case when all the people used a PDP-7. I've hated that thing called Hackathon anyway, it gives a false sense of victory or achievement. It's no wonder we're having terrifying news from the tech startups.
aurora72··on Introduction to the Autotools (2012)
CMake is just another automatic build tool like the Autotools but without the Bourne shell requirement and the one which easily produces XCode / Visual Studio project files like the QMake. So as far as the CMake is concerned, it's not particularly useful nor more time saving than Autotools really.
aurora72··on Introduction to the Autotools (2012)
CMake and GNU Make have only the word 'Make' in common, CMake is an automatic build tool while the GNU Make is just a GNU version of plain old make tool. CMake is there to prepare a proper Makefile for the "GNU Make" to consume.
aurora72··on How to Set Up a Common Lisp Web Environment
Hint for OSX users: CMUCL works best on 64bit OSX versions. The other Lisps such as Clozure CL and SBCL sooner or later cause some incompatibility problems.
aurora72··on A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
Without further ado: phkillscancer.com
aurora72··on Alex King, an original Wordpress developer, has died
http://phkillscancer.com/
aurora72··on Autosetup – a replacement for autoconf
Well if can't be made to work on Windows then it's not a worthwhile replacement for autoconf because autoconf does every job on all environments except Windows already, why need a replacement?

To do the job on Windows, I use CMake and CMake is my autoconf replacement on Windows. Actually, if I was willing to spend some time to configure MinGW & MSYS to make autoconf work on Windows, I wouldn't need to use the CMake either .)

aurora72··on Ask HN: Books with a high signal to noise ratio?
Why nobody mentioned Paul Graham's ANSI Common Lisp book? It 's got almost zero "noise" and full of signals .)
aurora72··on Soylent 2.0
According to Loren Cordain, soy contains lectin and lectin is no good for us.
aurora72··on Modus Operandi: Poses as an investor to be wined and dined, then disappears
So you imply that the website claiming Cecile is a scammer, is a scammer, too. That's possible but the suspicions you talked about are not conclusive.

Last week I've come across a website called tinnitusmiracle.com and a person called Duane claimed that that website was a scammer by presenting convincing evidences; see (http://fixedgear808.blogspot.com.tr/2015/03/tinnitus-miracle...)

aurora72··on Gluten intolerance may really be immune dysfunction
IMHO that nytimes article seems to dream of a world in which we could enjoy breads and all other wheat products with no health concerns. A nice dream but it annot be applied to real world.
aurora72··on Jshell: The Java Shell (REPL)
Several months ago I wanted to have an REPL for C and couldn't find anything satisfactory and I had the similar thought: Why weren't there any decent REPL for C ?
aurora72··on Apple Open Source Site
It's an indispensable source for those who build opensource projects on their Macs (such as I .)

For instance the Apple build of gcc is still needed to build some OSS projects, and they are probably found only at this site.

aurora72··on Why did Borland fail?
These days Torrent activities are extremely effective thanks to computers like Raspberry Pi and whenever an application appears which is useful but must be paid to be used, a reverse engineered and cracked version of it joins the Torrent network soon.

I think, business of software as a downloadable application is dead. See what Microsoft is doing.

aurora72··on Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
According to Loren Cordain, autoimmune diseases such as MS are triggered by eating certain kinds of food such as legume and milk.
aurora72··on Amiga oriented alternative OS MorphOS 3.8 for PowerPC released
You're correct. But that was about 2-3 years ago when I tried it. That might have been fixed by this new release, perhaps.
aurora72··on Amiga oriented alternative OS MorphOS 3.8 for PowerPC released
MorphOS has got the best graphics driver for PowerPC's. I once tried to play a 720p movie on a Mac mini G4 and only with the MorphOS did it play smoothly albeit with the audio going asynchronous after 4-5 minutes.
aurora72··on Berlin 1945 and Today
Perfectly works with FF35 on WinXP
aurora72··on Show HN: FumbleBrag – Learn from Others' Failures
Nice one. But have you noticed that while the stories change, < title / > stays put as 'Fumblebrag' ? That's a problem when bookmarking because it takes the title as the bookmark name.
aurora72··on The Disremembered
I'm 43 and for the last and a half year I started to have difficulty in learning new subjects. And one day in last February after I finished lunch which included 2 slices of bread, I decided to solve that problem and began an intensive search on Internet. I read dozens of articles talkin about the bread's bad effects on brain and finally came across Perlmutter's videos on youtube. He was telling not to eat any bread even on breakfast! So the day after I ate no bread even on breakfast and guess what, starting from that day I started to learn new subjects again.

I know, not eating any bread leaves a feeling of hunger, it's almost as if I haven't eaten any food. But thats only because I've been eating bread all my life every single day and so the body got very accustomed to it. But after 3 months I also realized that body doesn't need it to feel full.

Friends in my vicinity get also disturbed by my saying bread is harmful to the body. But I am myself the evidence that bread is no good for the body.

aurora72··on The Disremembered
Well my claim is no way a tactic but a scientific discovery made by many independent MD's, scientist and thinkers. Google and Youtube is laden with videos talking about the connection between bread and brain health. Just check this one: youtube v = oirJqAtqOq4 title = "BREAD HEAD Documentary Crowdfunding Teaser"

Oversimplify? Actually that's correct but only the "simple" part of it. It as simple as refraining from certain foods.

aurora72··on The Disremembered
Dementia is caused by eating bread as staple food. David Perlmutter, MD shows in his book Grain Brain how gluten gradually wreaks havoc on brain cells. Because people born in between 1920 and 1970 didn't know this fact, many of them caught that horrible disease.
aurora72··on Simple Rules for Healthy Eating
Well, both Perlmutter and Davis say to avoid all kinds of grains at all costs and Hyman says to avoid all kinds of dairy products (butter, yoghurt, milk) with a possible exception of white cheese and they are all based on science. So I propose based on science. My claims about the restaurants and beverages are based on economic/profitability, restaurants and supermarkets offer decent priced and good tasting meal at the expense of health. If I'm able to get cheap and good tasting chicken at a fried chicken restaurant, I do it at the expense of health, need no science to see that.
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