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blackman··on Unpacking my knapsack: the privileges of a Hispanic male in tech
This is one of the discussed problems of philosophy and it gets a bit complicated when you start on quantum physics and relativity.

Some info.

http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1210/in-which-...

blackman··on Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers
they probably found the place where windows stores the passwords. All 8 character passwords under the unsalted scheme (NTLM) used by Microsoft can be cracked within minutes via use of rainbow tables. Even easier if LANMAN passwords are enabled.
blackman··on The Worst
sounds like they are both optimising for value
blackman··on IAmA a malware coder and botnet operator, AMA
I know that the criminals probably haven't caught up and this technology may not be widespread (so your argument holds) but...

chip and pin is definitely broken (defcon presentation) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY

blackman··on Netherlands first country in Europe with net neutrality
actually the third country after chile and norway

http://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&#...

blackman··on I Make Dreams Come True
I think this is explained here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
blackman··on Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
i'm sure it was helpful. the first skill in learning how to code is little details, like making sure all the text is the same as the listing, and that you pressed enter after every line ... ;-)
blackman··on How to seem good at everything: Stop doing stupid shit
i think really what he wants to say is to drill the fundamentals. getting the basics right is important.

don't do stupid shit means nothing. why would anyone want to do stupid shit? This kind of the same meaningless wording that everyone thinks applies to them in horoscopes how many times have you read "doesn't suffer fools gladly"?

blackman··on Zed Shaw: The wonderful Rob Sobers did a great job translating LPTHW to Ruby
I really like the idea behind these books, it reminds me of how I learnt originally, typing BASIC programs into my zx spectrum from the back of computer magazines.
blackman··on Winamp creator releases REAPER v4 digital audio workstation software
official site - http://reaper.fm/

I've been using reaper for a couple of weeks now and cannot believe that anyone would want to go back to insert $500+ big name daw after using it.

blackman··on John Siracusa's Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Review
As far as I can remember I had problems when I compiled it to a universal binary so if anyone else does try compiling it directly to your architecture.
blackman··on William Gibson's cyberpunk classic 'Neuromancer' may finally get to screens
yes! i'd love to see a sin city meets bladerunner kind of thing but I'm gonna be pessimistic and expect demolition man...
blackman··on Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t
I think you have not seen the latest Asp.net MVC 3, it is pretty much something like rails.
blackman··on Why Startups Could Use .NET, But Don’t
It hasn't changed much. some syntactic sugar and influence from functional languages has helped C# but the IDE is not as good as eclipse IMO. You can however add a lot of the refactorings and features from eclipse by using jetbrains ReSharper. (I believe they also make a Java IDE too).
blackman··on TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
Looks really good (haven't tried it yet though). The concept is great. I'd like to see some TextMate/CommandT style functionality for file and path completion (I've been thinking cd'ing around in shells has been cumbersome ever since trying commandT).

Some other inspiration could be taken from zsh autocomplete.

blackman··on Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser.
now I'm wondering how hard it would be to write a commodore 64 or nes emulator in javascript to embed games in webpages?
blackman··on Why I use git and puppet to manage my dotfiles
interesting, as an alternative to this how about how janus does it with a .local file?

https://github.com/carlhuda/janus/blob/master/vimrc#L147

blackman··on Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance
I agree somewhat (although I do feel that debuggers are useful) in that IDEs can influence the design of your program by encouraging a debug first development style similar to "programming by coincidence"
blackman··on Reasons To Give The Vim Text Editor A Chance
There is no reason you can't use both. I tend to structure my projects using an IDE but do most of my text editing in vim.

Nothing beats vim for grunting through a pile of code that needs cleaning up. Just set up your IDE and vim to autoload when it detects changes.

My workflow generally goes Edit in vim -> check IDE for syntax errors -> Run/Debug -> repeat.

blackman··on Dress.me: Because Guys Hate to Shop
I would totally use this. I buy clothing online all the time and have had great success but I do tend to stick to big name brands (birkenstock, levis, converse, ben sherman) that have easy to use size charts online or I have bought in shops before anyway.

If they had a way of matching your favourite clothes to others and making recommendations based on style and fit I think it could be great.

blackman··on Vim Recipes
this is how i learnt vim by using this site. i think doing vimtutor and this is all you need.
blackman··on Vim Recipes
sometimes its hard to know what you need to look up in help to reach your solution though (I mean before you know the general vim subsystem you need).
blackman··on Best of Vim Tips
between (book)mark a and b find fred then search the line and replace any occurrence of dick with joe with a confirmation. there a couple of modifiers on there I don't know but I think that's pretty much it.
blackman··on Vim Recipes
I've posted this before, but i found the best way to learn some vim is by example. you soon get the idea.

http://rayninfo.co.uk/vimtips.html

I've found it quite an efficient editor with MacVim+Ruby and Jamis Buck's FuzzyFinder TextMate.

blackman··on How to Be Persuasive
honesty is always the best policy, but how you present your honesty can be the deciding factor in whether your ideas are taken on board.

i enjoyed influence by cialdini, it helped a lot in getting my ideas across in my job.

blackman··on Ask HN: Tomato or DD-WRT for my router?
tomato has a simple ajax interface and really good QoS functionality which is what attracted me to it. I haven't tried the others.
blackman··on The Best Programming Fonts
I like triskweline http://www.netalive.org/tinkering/triskweline/
blackman··on Why Time and Newsweek Will Never Be The Economist
I like the economist but find the density of information in there is overwhelming (I can't seem to find the time to read the whole thing in a week). Additionally, I feel the stories hold more importance than from other news sources.
blackman··on Simulated brain closer to thought
dualism is also the core of the age of enlightenment and scientific philosophy. funny that.
blackman··on Good programmers are not lazy
they are lazy, and that is why they work hard to engineer the best solution so that in the future they won't have to do so much maintenance to the system and scope changes and future additions will be easier.
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